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

31 i.e. publications of various economic-business organizations. These two categories are organically connected. A set of uniform principles permits the systematization of the sources within these categories. The main criterion of such typology is that the systematization of economic information should reflect specific aspects of economic research (theoretical and practical research, grouping of research by branches). In this way organizational (institutions) and formal (i.e. forms of special literature) criteria may be linked with disciplinary (in this particular case with the economic) aspects. Hence it follows that only the "main lines" of the typology may be general (e.g. the linking up of academic and non-academic categories, or of organizational disciplinary aspects), while the typology of the individual social science branches should be carried out separately in accordance with the specific features of a given field of research. The "general" aspect of the typology, therefore, is the "method":

2 the harmonization of organizational, formal and information aspects with the specific aspects of research. With all this in mind, let us take a look at the aforementioned method as it is applied to economics. What sort of information, organizational and formal, is needed by researchers and professionals in economics or by information specialists? The first large information category relates to the "research apparatus" (Synoptic Table A) in terms of the SYNOPTIC TABLE A. Systematization of the "research apparatus" of economics I. By area International International regional National (by countries) National-regional Research organizations (learned societies; higher education; research institutes) Official organizations Statistical organizations Intergovernmental Non-governmental General (e.g. academies of sciences) General (social sciences) General (economics) Economics by branches Economics-adjacent (limitrophe) (e.g. economic history, economic law) Others concerned with economics (e.g. agricultural, industrial) International (general; economic) By national level (e.g. planning offices) By regional level Offices (international; by national level; by regional level) Associations (international-general

, by national level; by regional level; by branches) Higher education Profit organizations (e.g. Banks)