Axiological Vectors of Functioning of the Library Digital Repository in a Higher Education Institution

The aim of the article is to define main value orientations, according to which the institutional repository of the library in a higher education institution can develop as a socially oriented means of providing open access in the concept of open science. Research methods. In this study, general scientific methods of cognition (analysis, synthesis, abstraction), semantic analysis of the documentary flow of scientific publications, the method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete in order to determine and highlight a value component as an essential feature of the digital repository functioning, content analysis of scientific publications to identify main axiological components in functioning of the library institutional repository in a higher education institution are applied. The scientific novelty is to determine axiological vectors of functioning of the library digital repository in a higher education institution, caused by interaction with certain external factors and existence of a system of general rules for the library activities in a higher education institution in its various aspects, main value guidelines, according to which the institutional repository of the library in a higher education establishment will develop as a socially oriented means of providing open access in the concept of open science. Main conclusions. The digital repository of the library in a higher education institution is a socially oriented information product, which, additionally to outlining technological aspects, requires the definition of axiological vectors of its functioning in the context of the open science policy, the principles of the university academic community and the value orientations of the library activity in the higher education establishment and its staff. The conceptual approach in the study of digital transformations of libraries in higher education institutions should be the library humanism, as well as among the methodological approaches to its study should be the value (axiological) one, which can allow to avoid a technocratic approach to the development and use of digital repositories of libraries in higher education establishments.