An overview of European supply of social science information. Paper presented in ECSSID VI Conference, Canterbury, 1991

On the basis of the EUROSPES Directory of Social Sciences Data Bases, issued in 1990, this paper aims to analyze the information supply throghout the data bases created in the latin language European countries. It is divided into two parts. in the first part thc study shows thc main traits of the information contained in the data bases: kind of information offered, subjects covered, information technologics used, bibliographic rules. etc. The information diffusion is also studied: vendors, software. helping tools for users, services offered for access. The second part is devoted to thc analysi... Mehr ...