APPLICATION OF A QUALIFIED ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF OPEN SCIENCE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

The article examines the application of a qualified electronic signature for recording the status of any scientific texts in digital format in order to prepare for the possible realization of the legal right to protect these texts as intellectual property, if the copyright is violated in any way during publication them in the electronic information space. Available means for creating and verifying a qualified electronic signature in Ukraine, the complexity of the mass use of such means by scientists are considered. The possibilities of a qualified electronic signature as a future reliable irrefutable evidence that can be accepted by the Ukrainian court system as evidence for the protection of intellectual property are being investigated. The article also examines the use of qualified electronic signatures by users of the Archive of Preprints of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the prospects for the development of this electronic information resource by providing its users with a qualified electronic trust service for the creation and verification of qualified electronic signatures directly when submitting preprints to this publication. pository and providing the administrator of the Preprint Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with an effective tool for proving the time of information fixation in the submitted scientific text, confirming its integrity (immutability) and identifying the author of the preprint, which will make it possible to expose unscrupulous authors and have preventive protection against intruders who deliberately try submit texts that may contain signs of administrative or criminal responsibility, especially if it becomes the subject of an investigation by law enforcement agencies.