AbstractThere is increasing realization of the importance of information concepts in the development of information science. Although some research in this field has been carried out in English‐speaking countries, a much larger body of work has developed in the USSR, most of which is unknown to information scientists in the non‐socialist countries. The present paper discusses some basic aspects of this research, reviews some significant new approaches to determination of information concepts, and appends a selected bibliography to serve as a guide to the Soviet literature of information for information scie