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

7 During the processing of subject literature of problems of science organization, the documentation of science organization, as a particular branch of scientific information, emerges. On the next pages, setting out from the problems of science organization, we shall make an attempt to outline briefly the scope and systematization of its documentation. II. Scope and Systematization of the Documentation of Science Organization Theoretical and practical problems of science organization determine, more or less, those of the documentation of science organization as well. In contrast with some branches of science already developed historically (e. g. agriculture, industry), science organization — as an eventual new discipline — is in the phase of its ever accelerating development. However, this is not the only, nor the most essential distinction to be drawn between the documentation of science organization and that of the specialized branches of science. Real innovation in the documentation of science organization appears much more in its development, affected by every branch of science essentially connected with it. This qualitatively different character of the documentation of science organization, as contrasted with the documentation of specialized fields of science, lies in its universality and complexity. Developing of a new compound in a research institute or at an industrial plant and registering of the related subject literature does not enter the documentation of science organization, but, on the other hand, a paper analysing a new type of collaboration in a research institute or at a plant, describing the proper organizational forms of a new constructive collaboration which aims at the developing of this new compound, should become a subject of the documentation. Taking another example, documentation of literature relating to a new diagnostical treatment worked out at a clinic may be the matter of a specifically medical documentation. But the registering of a work on the financial implications of the research work performed at the clinic and its budgetary relation to the plan of medical researches as a whole, and to the national plan of scientific research, is the particular task of the documentation of science organization. The latter example is significant, because the medical researches (planning of research and its budget) appear, for the most part, closely interwoven with the training of physicians (questions of planning and budget of higher education), and with the healing itself (questions of planning and budget of medical supply in general). Complexity of the documentation of science organization is the other main aspect in two senses: giving information on the non-technical subject literature on the managing and planning of researches affecting several branches of science or promoting the science in its entirety (e. g. space research or nuclear energy), and further, reporting on the appearance of new branches of science which emerged during the development of productive forces and of science — in the first sense. In the second sense: revealing the manifold correlation of research activities involving the systematical (different levels, basic-, applied research, development and technology), methodological, organizational, and economical aspects as well as their relation to the scientific