Science news became valuable part of science communications landscape in recent years. Science news aggregation can be vital part of activities for scienti?c and technical libraries being natural for them as one of the forms of authoring and preserving of information collections. News stories database can be used as a source for analytical research in the ?eld of science communications. The paper is devoted to brief description of Siberian science news project and discussion of metrics and indicators proposed to measure and describe the eciency and impact of science communications on the institutional and personal level.