Rózsa, George: The Documentation of Science Organization as an Emerging New Branch of Scientific Information (A MTAK kiadványai 32. Budapest, 1962)

I. Science Organization — Documentation of Science Organization It is a theorem practically unanimously accepted that in our age — especially in the second part of the XXth century — a scientific-technical revolution is taking place. The essential character of which was thus defined in the columns of the theoretical journal of the communist and worker's parties in a discussion under the title "The crises and the workers": "Its main components are: the automatization and the complex mechanization of production, electrification and chemization of industry, increasing use of atomic energy for peaceful ends. The scientific revolution manifests itself in utilizing new kinds of raw-materials, mainly synthetic and plastics; by the appearence of new consumer goods; by improving machinery at an accelerated pace; by the emergence of new branches of industry; and by the rapid increase in the labour productivity." 1 The interaction of social progress and the scientific-technical revolution was one of the chief topics of the international East-West meeting of scientists named "What future holds for mankind" held at Royaumont and at the Sor­bonne in May, 1961, in which a number of well-known scientists and scho­lars of various nationalities and ideology took part, like the Nobel-prize winner Academician N. N. SEMYONOV, Professor BERNAL, Josue de CASTRO, Alfred SAUVY, etc. representing a wide-range of natural and social sciences. 2 The main idea of the discussion relating to the progress of science лгав outlined by Professor LAUGIER : "That time vanished forever, ivhen society could permit individual discoveries and innovations spontaneously intrude upon human life. In our age, it is increasingly valid that social progress does not so much depend on the scientific discoveries themselves as on a reasonably organized utilization of these discoveries for the benefit of mankind". On the development of the scientific-technical revolution in socialism, one of the most important documents of our age, The Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet U nion, points out: "Mankind enters the epoch of one of the greatest scientific and technical revolutions that manifests itself in utilization of atomic energy, conquest of space, rapid growth of chemistry and the automatization of production and in many other magnificent achievements of science and technology. The capitalist relations of production, however, are 1 Béke és Szocializmus. (International Marxist Review) 1961. 7. no. 128. p. B AREL , Ives — MENSHIKOV, Stanislav: Mi van a vildgciklussal? (What about the business cycle?) Discussion. From (he part „Rectification of the scientific-technical revolution." 2 Quel avenir attend l'homme? Rencontre internationale do Royaumont (17—20 mai 1961). Paris, 1961, Presse Univ. 330 p.

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