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

35 institutes. Research organizations, by field of activity, may be science in general (e.g. National Science Foundation, United States), social science in general (e.g. Maison des Sciences de l 'Homme, France), economics in general (e.g. Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences); branch specific within an economic field (study of finance, foreign trade); interdisciplinary with an economic aspect (economic geography) or research organizations in fields other than economics (e.g. technological, agricultural research organizations). In addition to the aforementioned academic research organizations (ministries and other high government bodies), statistical organizations, social organizations and organs (e.g. political parties, foundations, trade unions), business and managerial organizations, as well as economic information services, all play a considerable role in economic research. There is no strict dividing line between the academic and non-academic research organizations; in many cases their activities overlap and they frequently use one another's output. Therefore, from the viewpoint of a given research project, information service from both categories should be taken into account. The academic and non-academic aspects based on uniform principles also apply to other categories in the typology of economic information sources, i.e. to the reference sources of economics, to periodicals and information services in the field of economics. Thus, economic information sources will include among other things, commodity and price lists, business directories, periodicals, press cuttings from daily and weekly newspapers, etc. In general, it would seem that the systematization of the research apparatus by type can be applied to different categories in the typology of economic information sources (cf. Synoptic Tables A. II. and С. IV.). In its present general form and through the example of economic research, this article attempts to contribute to ongoing endeavours

4 in the field of the systematization, classification, etc., of social science information. For this method to be applicable to other areas of social science research the typology as outlined above should be developed by providing greater details, and the systematization of the individual categories should be further improved. NOTES 1. A preliminary elaboration of this topic can be found in the following studies of the author; Some Ideas on a UNISIST Sub-system for Social Sciences, Unesco, 10 September 1973,12 p. (mimeo.); "Efficiency of Scientific Information with Special Reference to Social Sciences", On the Effectiveness of Scientific Information Activities, p. 36-46, Moscow, VINITI, 1976. (FID/R1 Series of Collected Articles, 527.) 2. Cf. Typologia Dokumentow; referaty II. Miedzynarodowego Spotkania Ekspertów Krajów Socjalistyczny d/s Biezajec Bibliografii Narodowej. Warszawa, 21-26 kwiecieri 1975. Warszawa, 1976. 104 p. (Bibliotéka Narodowa, Prace Instytutu Bibliograficznego, 21.)