Teoretyczne aspekty tworzenia elementów dokumentacyjnych (ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem abstraktów) a ich rzeczywisty kształt. Propozycja badań w obszarze artykułów z czasopism z zakresu bibliologii

Referring to the changes taking place in modern scholarly communication and the specificity of scholarly discourse, the authors present the latest conclusions from research concerning improvement of comprehensibility of documentary analyses, summaries and abstracts. This is influenced by text readability, and the structure and cognitive value of documentary elements. The authors present a typology of such elements as well as their distinctive features. On this basis they propose a new research methodology. Thanks to this methodology it will be possible to verify: 1. whether elements attached to articles from bibliology journals are, according to recommendations, more readable (easier to comprehend) than the content of the articles themselves; 2. the current tendency in their length, which should be increased, according to recommendations; 3. whether, in accordance with recommendations, all keywords have been used in the elements, which will facilitate article indexation in databases; 4. whether the existing terminological recommendations correspond to the actual language usage. The initial results obtained by the authors show that research in this area should be continued, as the proposed hypotheses require in-depth analysis and verification.