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

41 of the Research Institute for Telecommunication) "Can success cause trouble?" (by a staff member of the Economic Information Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) "The present state and future prospects of the Swedish Social Science Research Council" (by an editorial staff member) "The history of a large institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences" (Institute of Automation and Computing, by the deputy scientific secretary of the Institute) "The scientist's personality" (by a professional translater) "Research careers and career structures" (by a psychologist) "Tsukuba Japan's new ideopolis " (by an economic researcher) "Preconditions of creative cooperation in university research " (by a senior scientific researcher of the Polytechnical University). Let me give you some references to the last review article (indicating only the title of the periodical and its place of publication): Le Monde (Paris), Das Hochschulwesen (Berlin. GDR), Research Management (New York). Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht (Berlin, GDR), Impact of Science on Society (UNESCO, Paris), Sovremennaya Vizshaya Skola (Warsaw), M. Beck: Tudomány — áltudomány (Science — pseudo-science), Budapest, Rinascita (Rome), Spektrum (Berlin, GDR), Pravda (Moscow), Előre (Bucharest), Philos (London). The contents list, the authors of this issue and the references speak for themselves. The information synthesis column of this periodical is one variant of this information type. The articles are dealing with topical problems, using selected and evaluated source materials, their elaboration is complex, comparatively concise, contain rich information, and the author is an expert in the given subject. Finally some data: in 1977, the review articles processed 280 documents. In six issues a year, counting 8 to 10 review articles in each issue, an average of 4 to 5 source material were processed in one article. Science of science, moreover, is one of those disciplines of integrative character that came into being on interdisciplinary basis. Like any other scientific special literature information, information synthesis is also based on the document collection. In this context, the carriers of "interdisciplinarity ", the integrative tendency of scientific knowledge are the large academic libraries. As against specialized libraries these large academic institutions reach beyond the information supply of ongoing research towards whatever appears as novelty in international science. And they do this not out of indulgence but as a matter of duty. One of the most important tasks of large academic libraries lies in the collection of borderline and interdisciplinary scientific literature or the collecting for those new tendencies which have not yet been organized into a discipline. In this way they can give effective help to research, and can become a basis for interdisciplinary research and information syntheses. These libraries are built on a heritage of Diderot and D'Alembert, the strivings of the 18th century French encyclopedists after the integration of knowledge In his Colombus biography, published in 1940, the Spanish philosopher Madariaga put forward the hypothesis that the discovery of America was due to the fact that in the Royal Library of Lisbon Colombus had secretly made a copy of the letter and map of "the western route" of the Italian astronomer Toscanelli. The Colombuses of contemporary science should no longer have to resort to the secret copying of documents in libraries. Immense scientific library and information organizations are working in their