Command of digital literacy as a key indicator of an early-career researcher’s academic qualification
The relevance of the problem under study is due to the need for early-career researchers to master new skills in working with information in digital scientific environment. When conducting research, an early-career researcher faces the following challenges: working with big data, disseminating the concept of «Open Science», internationalization of scientific activity. It is digital literacy, in our opinion, that includes a set of skills that must be formed by early-career researchers to qualitatively perform professional tasks. The development of digital literacy can be seen as a sequential process implemented in the following stages: skills - experience - culture. The purpose of the article is to identify to what extent digital literacy skills are integrated into the qualification requirements for the professional work of early-career researcher. The article substantiates that digital literacy includes a wide range of skills: technical skills, communication skills, information management skills, and professional ethics. Despite the fact that some digital literacy skills are included into the qualification requirements for the professional activities of Russian and European early-career researchers, this is not enough to fully form digital literacy. It seems possible to solve this problem by orienting educational programs also taking into account the qualification requirements for the professional activities of early-career researchers. In this regard, it is necessary to develop specialized courses for teaching early-career researchers precisely digital literacy skills. These courses can be implemented directly in the learning process within the main educational program as well as in the framework of university libraries.