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)

I. The socio-professional aspects of the development of the scientific information with special regard to social sciences

29 (research apparatus), sources of references, library and documentation services and periodical literature. Each of these chapters contains the state of the art, an analysis and a relevant bibliography. The state of the art are based on typology. By typology we mean not only registration and classification of relevant material on the source of references, on documentation services, etc., but analysis of all these from the point of view of their application in research. The manuals should concentrate on summarizing, describing, systematizing and characterizing all factors and elements effecting social science research (by branches), covering their research methods and institutions (scientific and practical organizations), basic periodical literature, information sources (bibliographical sources, library services, encyclopaedic publications, etc.), chronologies, statistical compilations, computer based systems, that are necessary in the given field of research. These information manuals ("propaedeutics") could give an orientation to individual researches, to research teams and also to reference institutions. They could be used in higher education and training to find the types of institutions, of reference materials, in a term, what is the infrastructure of a given study. In: On effectiveness of scientific information activities. Study Committee FID/RI. FID Publ. 527. Moscow, 1976. 36-40.p.