Rózsa, George: The Documentation of Science Organization as an Emerging New Branch of Scientific Information (A MTAK kiadványai 32. Budapest, 1962)

Économique Appliquée in Paris has started publishing a series of studies in the problems of science organization. The first number of this series "

Problèmes économiques de la recherche et de Vinformation scientifique et technique" claims that research might be considered as an industry ("research industry")

12 and what is more, as a basic industry because of its product character, having the essential function of „producing" scientific and technical knowledge. The most important „products" of this „industry" are the invention and the innovation, the effect of which appears in increasing the production. The great increase in the literature on science organization — as a collective term — may be seen by the fact that the National Science Foundation in Washington has recently published three bibliographies on these problems.

13 As to the socialist countries, separate bibliographic and documentary periodicafe, giving current information of the modern literature of science organization, are published in the Soviet Union and in Hungary. In the Soviet Union two periodicals have been published since 1947 edited by the Fundamentalnaya Bibliotéka Obshehestvennyh Nauk of the Soviet Academy: Novaya Sovietskaya Literatura о Nauke i Nauchno-Issledovatelskoy Rabole v SSSR (New Soviet Literature on Science and Scientific Research in the Soviet Union) and Novaya Literatura о Nauke i Nauchno-Issledovalelskoy Rabote za Rubezhom. (New Literature on Science and Scientific Research Abroad). Published monthly, they are feting titles of books and articles of periodicals, selected and annotated. These two series cover the entire Soviet and foreign literature. In Hungary, the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has been publishing since 1961 a documentary review under the title Tájékoztató a tudományos kutatás tervezésémk, igazgatásának és szervezésének nemzetközi irodalmáról (Bulletin of international literature on the planning, management and organization of scientific research).

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4 In the process of turning science into a direct productive force, there is an emerging* new branch of organization and planning: the science organization with its complex problems. We should like to refer to some of these, regardless of the order of importance; terminology of organization of research (covering essentially content-elements of the problems), international division of scientific work, research economics, systematization of research work according to its levels (basic-, applied research, development). 1

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—ERBÈS, R.: La recherche-dévcloppcmcnt. Concepts et problèmes de base, environnement et propagation de l'information scientifique et technique. Paris, 1959. 80 p. (Cahiers de l'ISEA. Série T. no. 1.) 1

3 Л selected bibliography of research and development and its impact on the economy. (Washington, 1959, Supt. of Docs. 21 p.), Bibliography on the economic and social implications of scientific research and development. (Washington, 1959, Supt. of Docs. 52 p.), Current jumjects on economic and social implications of scientific research and development. (Washington, 1961. 124. p.) — Two other bibliographies deal definitely with the literature of science organization: BUSH, G. P.: Bibliography on research administration. Annotated (Washington, 1954, Washington Univ. Press. 146 p.) This work, giving nearly fu! informât ion of the western literature on science organization, is a continuation of the work Scientific research, its administration and organization, ed. by BUSH, G. P. and JIIATTERY, L. H. (Washington, 1950, Washington Univ. Press. 190 p.), and, in addition Bibliography on research administration, management, organization and use. (Ilouston, 1960, Science Inf. Assoc. 23 p.). 1

1 Dilta of the present article are based on documentation on science organization work conducted in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and on the material of the Bulletin.