The coordination of information and documentation in the Netherlands; the place of SWIDOC

Abstract

The role of SWIDOC, the Social Science Information and Documentation Centre of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, is presented. The Centre has been appointed by the Ministry of Education a national infrastructural facility of social sciences. SWIDOC consists of three departments: the department of current research, the documentary informatlon department, and the data archive. The documentation department contains a report centre speclalized in grey literature, an international online literature service and a reference library.