During the last decade the RDI system in the Republic of Moldova faces the topical issues of Open Access to information. Due to the expansion of free access to scientific information and its presentation in online format, the areas focused on measuring the impact of scientifi c achievements such as infometrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics, cyber-metrics complemented only recently by altmetrics, were supplemented by various digital submetrics: blogometrics, wikimetrics, sitemetrics, tagometrics, email metrics etc. All of these will become increasin-gly important in the knowledge economy enabled by information technologies.