Rózsa, George: The Documentation of Science Organization as an Emerging New Branch of Scientific Information (A MTAK kiadványai 32. Budapest, 1962)
1 9 In capitalist countries, beside the government budget and decrees, resolutions of responsible government agencies of science policy, attention should be paid to the reports and accounts of big industrial organizations, to the reports of foundations, etc., which are but parts, "reflections" of science policy. Documents of science policy contain the summary of the status of science in a country, its concrete relation to other social activities, the trends and proportions of research as well as its development projects. 3. International Collaboration in Scientific Work Maintaining international relations and setting up international collaboration in scientific work, organizing coopérative researches covering several countries — all these are parts of science policy, mainly in socialist countries. Cooperative researches cause a qualitative change in the international relations by which — beside the traditional forms of these, such as organizing international scientific conferences, study trips, international exchange of publications, working out research projects, etc. — a definite international scientific cooperation and specialization make possible that the participant countries would conduct researches of a kind being most appropriate to their conditions. This chapter of the documentation of science organization embodies the literature of traditional forms of international relations (foreign scholarships, study trips, literature on the activities of international scientific organizations and agencies with special reference to their science organizing activities, etc.). 4. Planning, Management and Organization of Scientific Work Planning, management and organization of scientific work is taking place essentially at two levels: public administration and national economy, and industry (research institutes) respectively. Both levels have their peculiar methods and problems. Thus, no flexible boundary can be drawn between these two levels in respect of problems to be solved or from the methodological standpoint, since the levels are in continuous interaction and their mutual existence is the prerequisite of their individual existence, just as planning, management and organization of scientific work appear in close interaction. At the same time not only these interactions manifest themselves, but also the fruitful effects coming chiefly from the production (industry, agriculture communication, transport, etc.) in two ways: production as a process continuously demanding research achievements in an ever growing degree, and, on the other hand, as a process continuously rendering experiences, impulses, and achievements necessary for research. The scope of planning scientific work covers the following fields —without attempting to give a complete enumeration — : survey of research capacity of the country; its coordinations with the research needs of the national economy (including the social, cultural, and hygienic branches as well as all branches of sciences of problems of theoretical nature, concerning their majority.) Within the national thematic plan , a short- and a long-range plan is worked out in order to realize the goals set forth by science policy, by determining the
