[Prospects for providing information services in the task force scientific center]

The paper deals with the practice of the Information Service, Moscow Research Institute of Tuberculosis, RSFSR Ministry of Health, to provide information services with regard to the actual information needs of all specialists of research institutes and dispensaries that are as part of Phthisiopulmology Task Force Research Center. The results of sociological studies made it possible to define the types of information production and services which should be developed due to the change to the new economic relations. A new approach to the information--patent provision of scientific problems is proposed within the Task Force Research Center which allows the relationships to be regulated between the information retrieval systems and the usera of economic methods.