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International Nuclear Information System(INIS)
Nuclear Energy Department, IAEAT.Atieh@iaea.org
http://www.iaea.org/inis
Head, INIS UnitNIS Section
Taghrid ATIEH
ICSTI, Rome, Italy 17-18 May 2012
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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
Main Products and Services:
Digitization
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INIS Thesaurus:3.
Main Products and Services:
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
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Main Products and Services:
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
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