György Rózsa: Information: from claims to needs (Joint edition published by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Kultura Hungarian Foreign Trading Company. Budapest, 1988)
II. International relations in the field of scientific information
115 Informatics and marketing Above all EUSIDIC is a forum for online marketers and users which makes it a colossal scientific marketing organisation. This twaining was a new phenomenon in 1978 when EUSIDIC's long term policies were determined. 3 The organisation deals directly with the development of information transfer in some and indirectly in other respects. Its main aim is to bridge the gap in information science between the US and Europe partly by linking up with US databanks and partly by intensifying European information transfer. According to the statement of perspectives, information is one of the world's resources which should be positively exploited internationally. In this connection one should recall the view by developing countries in 1979 at UNISIST II. The information is the common inheritance of the world. This is rarely acknowledged in words and never in deeds. The programme of EUSIDIC is realistic in aiming at a feasible budget by programming the services to fit the financial supplies. According to the general programme the development of databases in the so called softdisciplines is less than adequate in Europe. See paragraph B3 on databases which states that their access should not be restricted by geographical considerations and B5 which states that the databases should not contain such personal or ideologically orientated material which was not intended for common use. The programme contains statements and proposes action relating to the access and uses of telecommunications networks. In 1980 EUSIREF was formed by EUSIDIC with the cooperation of 14 countries, which is a new concentration of their information resources. There is г EUSIDIC Database Guide 4 with a monthly bulletin called Newsidic, apart from several other occasional publications which are available to members on a subsidy. The Conference at Bled On the 10th anniversary of EUSIDIC this conference staged twenty papers with question and answer sessions. There was no debate as such as some of the papers were preorientated and all of them were factually informative. The papers have been subsequently published in the 1980 plus issues of the Online Review. Summarily speaking most papers indicated the general hope that online was to be cheaper, more accessible and less problematic technically speaking - with European postal services cooperating. Databases, information agencies and international organs keep offering their services to further that aim. The present author has given an account that described three factors: his library in the context of providing primary and secondary information of multiple aspects from Mss to Scientometrics; he has also described the databases operating in his country and lastly, his country's participating potential in international information exchange. 5
