The Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences was founded in 1969. Its founding was stimulated by the rapid development and growing importance of the social sciences in the Soviet Union and throughout the world. The Institute has been assigned to be the Soviet center of an integrated scientific information system in the social sciences. It provides information service to the scientific, educational, governmental, and public organizations of the country. It collects and abstracts Soviet and foreign literature. It issues abstract and bibliographic publications. It coordinates experience in the scientific information work in the social sciences and develops relations with foreign information centers. The Institute houses a social science library accommodating 7,000,000 volumes. (KB)