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

42 favour, bringing research and information in ever closer connection. And this is the vital part of informatics. NOTES 1. Introductory paper (manuscript) by Sándor Szalai at the MISON conference on the information supply of interdisciplinary social science research (April 11-13, 1978, Budapest, organized by the Library of the Hungarian Acadcmy of Sciences). MISON is the Russian acronym for International Social Science Information System which was set up by the academies of seven socialist countries (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, GDR, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, USSR) in June, 1976. 2. UNEP/IRS (United Nations Environment Programme (International Referral Service), ESROI IRECON (European Space Research Organization, uniting the western countries). DEVSIS (Development Science Information System), a system initiated by the Canadian International Development Research Center, CORE/IOB (Common Register of Development Activities/UNDP Inter-Organization Board of Information and Related Activities), SPINES (Science Policy Information Exchange System), initiated by UNESCO, ISORID form the international information system on informatics (UNESCO/FID). 3. György Rózsa: Scientific information and society. The Hague - Paris, 1973. Mouton. 159 p. cf. 101-202. p. 4. On the basis of a study "Analytic-synthetic review studies" (in manuscript) prepared for a textbook by Tamás Földi, director of the Economic Information Group (sort of an information analysis center) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: OECD. Scientific and Technical Information Group. Misconfrontation on information analyses centres. Paris, 1970. and Mikhailov, A. I., Cernyi, A. I., Giljarevskij, R.S.: Nauchnie kommunikatsii i informatika. Moskva, 1978. Nauka. 536 p. 5. The current volume of the periodical is the 27th in 1987. It appears in six issues annually in 900 copies. Some 120 copies are distributed abroad on subscription or exchange basis. Its columns are: Reviews (information syntheses), New and Views (minor articles on a certain subject on the basis of one document), Bibliography (partly annotated and regular bibliographies of the special literature, international and Hungarian), contents and summaries of reviews in English and Russian. Since 1983 the title of the journal has been changed into Kutatás-Fejlesztés (Research and Development) as its subtitle remained Bulletin of Science Organization. In: New trends in informatics and its terminology. Study Committee FID/RI. FID Publ. 568. Moscow, 1979. 103-110.p.