Domsa Károlyné, Fekete Gézáné, Kovács Mária (szerk.): Gondolatok a könyvtárban / Thoughts in the Library (A MTAK közleményei 30. Budapest, 1992)

An academic library as an integrated information centre: the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Gy. Rózsa Figure 1: LHAS information galaxy CASSIS: Information on North American Patents DAO: Dissertation Abstracts Ondisk FIRST: European Patent Applications on CD-ROM INIS: International Nuclear Information System LOC: Library of Congress Catalogue SCI: Science Citation Index SSCI: Social Science Citation Index The computerized database, established within the framework of MISON (Insti­tute of Scientific Information in Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences) and operated at INION (Institute of Scientific Information in Social Sciences) in Moscow, is the result of cooperation in these subjects by academies of science in Central and East European countries." This database functions with a decentralized input and is large, containing nearly one million records. However, it struggles with the organizational and technical difficulties that are common in the region. Progress is expected in the exchange of social science databases within the framework of European Co-operation in Social Science Information and Docu­mentation (ECSSID); 1 2 the recent changes in Eastern and Central Europe already point the way towards integrated information services. This is the target of the 36 „ Thoughts in the library "

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