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

34 SYNOPTIC TABLE D. Systematization of "information services and supplies" in the field of economics Libraries Documentation organizations Data banks Economics in general By economic fields I. Information .General libraries Libraries _ ..... services Special libraries Social siences Economics Social sciences Economics II. Information Reading rooms supplies Loan services (including interlibrary loan) Catalogues Reference services (reading lists, literature search) EDP-services (SDI-service, data-bank services) Specialized supplies (e.g. press clippings) Special collections (manuscripts; archival materials; maps) Audio-visual materials (records, photographs) Reproduction supplies (xerox copy, micro reproductions) III. Information National bibliographies publication Special bibliographies Abstracting and indexing services Union catalogues Printed (library) catalogues Acquisitions lists Lists of translations international) or the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (international regional). The aforementioned two institutions are international in terms of both their organization and their scope of activities, fields of study. There are, however, institutions which are "international " only in term of their fields of study, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (London) or the Institute of World Economics and International Relations of the Soviet Academy of Sciences

3 being examples of this type. Moreover, international institutions may be intergovernmental or non-governmental organizations. The grouping by countries or national organizations may also have a double meaning; the work of a given research organization may reflect exclusively national economic activities, or its work may explicitly be focused on the economy of a country other than its own. These area considerations essentially apply to the grouping both of monographs and periodicals. The most characteristic grouping, however, is the systematization by type. Research organizations can be said to belong to the following main types: academic institutions; official organizations; statistical organizations; social organizations and societies; business, management or information organizations. The three main groups of academic research organizations are: learned societies, higher educational institutions and research