Russian Digital Libraries Journal (RDLJ) is the first Russian electronic journal to present up-to-date reflection of research on and use of digital libraries – distributed information systems for creation, storage, analysis, distribution, search and retrieval in various collections of digital documents (text, image, audio, video etc.) via the global networks.

RDLJ was founded in 1997 by the Autonomous non-profit organization Institute of the Information Society (www.iis.ru), 1st issue was published in 1998. The journal publishes six issues a year. RDLJ is registered by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor), a certificate of registration see here.

Since 2015 the founder, publisher and distributor of the journal became the Kazan (Volga region) Federal University.