International Atomic Energy Agency 1 International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Nuclear Energy Department, IAEA [email protected]

International Atomic Energy Agency

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International Nuclear Information System(INIS)

Nuclear Energy Department, [email protected]

http://www.iaea.org/inis

Head, INIS UnitNIS Section

Taghrid ATIEH

ICSTI, Rome, Italy 17-18 May 2012


International Nuclear Information System

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Benefits to Members

What is INIS

Products & Services



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IAEA’s Statute:

… to foster the exchange of scientific &

technical information on the peaceful

uses of atomic energy

Article III.A.3



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I N I SEstablished in 1970

The leading information system on peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology

INIS Secretariat at IAEA Vienna – Austria



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INIS Mission

To collect, preserve and disseminate:

Bibliographic data of the world’s nuclear literature

Full texts of Non-Conventional Literature (NCL)



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INIS Membership

International Cooperation

127 Member States and 24 International Organizations

Every INIS Member is represented by a Liaison Officer



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Decentralized

National INIS Centres

Centralized

INIS Secretariat

Decentralized

National INIS Centres

Input preparation

User / Producer

UtilizationCollection

Products

Overview of INIS Operation



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INIS reports the world literature on all aspects of the peaceful applications of

nuclear science and technologythereby

Reflects the activities and interests of all IAEA Members States

Subject Scope:



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On the Internet

INIS Database / INIS Collection from 1970Over 3.3 million indexed references

English abstract

Over 100 000 annual increase

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Weekly update

Full texts

Main Products and Services:



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INIS Non-Conventional (grey) literature (NCL):2.

Over 600 000 full texts (reports, conference proceedings, etc..)

Definition: scientific and technical reports, conference papers, theses and patent documents, Laws and legislations,etc which are not readily available through commercial channels

INIS is a pioneer in nuclear knowledge preservation


Digitization



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INIS Thesaurus:3.


Arabic - Chinese - English - French - German - Russian - Spanish

INIS Multilingual Thesaurus: (~ 30,000 terms)4.

A major tool for describing nuclear information and knowledge in structured form and for information retrieval



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Staff at the national INIS centres:

Classroom training

On-the job training

TrainingA.

Technical assistance to national INIS centres

B.


Capacity Building:5.



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Development

Open Nuclear Information eXchange System (ONIXS): Redesign INIS input model, while ensuring high quality of

INIS Collection Respect the Open Access policy and principles

Expand existing input model to support various data providers Accept data from Open Access digital repositories

Improve coverage, and full texts Increased usage

Outcomes

Objectives



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Benefits to Member States

Free access to all products and services

HR development in information processing and capacity building of national INIS Centres

Provide reliable information services to support national nuclear programme

Access of other Member States’ literature

Preserve the country’s literature

Worldwide visibility of national literature



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Thank you

http://www.iaea.org/INIS/INIS-contacts/

http://www.iaea.org/INIS/



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INIS Input by Country 2009 - 2011

Documents

International Atomic Energy Agency 1 International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Nuclear Energy Department, IAEA [email protected]