Kutatás-Fejlesztés – Tudományszervezési Tájékoztató, 1992

1-2. szám - Bibliográfia

90 SUMMARIES Are social sciences useful? Social scientists generally have no information on the utilization of their research findings. This causes disappointment among them since they think their social prestige is lower than that of physical scientists. This phenomenon is known as the effect of 'underutilization'. The greatest problem is how to clarify the term "utilization". In special literature distinction is made between 'instrumental' utilization and the 'conceptual' one but their existing definitions are inadequate. Other problems are raised by the fact that few researchers operate with advanced research techniques when analysing decision-making in organizations. Most of them have hypotheses that lack proper justification. Access to scientific and technological literature in Switzerland and the ETHICS Having offered a brief survey of information explosion the author is concerned with traditional publications promoting information search and the databases created by modern technology, especially by informatics and telecommunication, i.e. the services connected to the public telecommunication network. In the second part of the article the nation-wide role of the ETH, Zürich, in scientific and technological information and, most thoroughly, the ETHICS, the ETH's independent informatic system are studied.