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

32 SYNOPTIC TABLE A. (continued) II. By type Social organizations and societies (non-profit organizations, trade unions, foundations, etc.) Business organizations Business federations Banks, financial institutions Firms, multinationals Marketing institutions Public relations Managerial (profit) General organizations By branches Productivity agencies Information organizations Adjacent (limitrophe) organizations (see Table D) (e .g. labour psychology) Management consultants SYNOPTIC TABLE B. Systematization of the "reference sources" of economics By type General scientific publications, Encyclopedic works propaedeutics Propaedeutics Manuals, basic textbooks Yearbooks and serials Research methodologies Directories Bibliographies Collections of materials and Official publications, documents data (e.g. national plans, budgets) Official publications, documents of social bodies General economic descriptions, manuals Reference yearbooks and manuals (e.g. The Statesman's Yearbook

) Chronologies (e.g. Keesings Contemporary Archives) Statistics Aids of a technical character Commodity and price lists, currency lists Business directories Technical lists (e.g. on standards, on licences) Language guides Topographic guides Communication and transport guides Fair and exhibition guides Public relations materials