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Opening free access to Opening free access to the INIS DB and NCLthe INIS DB and NCL

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The 34th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers

Vienna, 3 – 5 November 2008

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• INIS Membership Arrangements (exclusive rights of ILOs, cost and price of products)

• INIS Information Letter No. 137 “Distribution Policy of full-text of INIS non-conventional literature”

• INIS Technical Note No. 166 “INIS Liaison Officer’s Authorisation for Online Access to the documents submitted by their Centre to the INIS NCL Collection”

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Current subscription rulesCurrent subscription rules

Paid1.4 Research centres, laboratories:

Paid1.3 Commercial company

Free1.2 University

Paid1.1 Single user

1.5 INIS Centres + Free

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Current subscription statisticsCurrent subscription statistics

Free subscribers including374 universities

535

Paid subscribers 15

Active users ~20,000

Individual registrations 3,676

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INIS Membership ArrangementsINIS Membership Arrangements

3.1.5.1 Cost and Price of Products

Full recovery of the entire INIS budget through the sale of products and services to Member States cannot be expected, because these Member States already contribute to the Agency budget (and hence to INIS), and additionally incur expenses themselves in providing input to the system.

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• Manual (resource consuming)

• On individual basis

• At the level of organisation (by IP address)

• No information about particular user

• No mechanism to ‘deliver’/contact each user

Current registration procedureCurrent registration procedure

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• Automatic registration of any user of particular country (if allowed by national ILO)

• IP address is used only for country recognition

• All users have to be registered

• information about particular user

• each user can be contacted directly easily

• each user can customise interface

• …

Proposed registration procedureProposed registration procedure

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• Many bibliographic databases available on the Web are free

• Number of databases with free access are growing up

• Majority of internet users prefer simple and direct registration procedure

• …

Additional prosAdditional pros

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• Discussed and recognised the imprtance of opening free access to the INIS Database on the Internet including access to NCL full-text documents which are non- restricted

• Recommended to start with a pilot project with limited number of countries to find/elaborate optimal technical and organisational model/solution

• Stated that the implementation of the free access has to be done on country by country basis, taking into account exclusive rights of ILOs

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