34th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers3 – 5 November 2008

Vienna - Austria

INIS User Needs Study(Summary of Japan’s study)

Junichi KURAKAMI

Director, Intellectual Resources Department　 Japan Atomic Energy Agency

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Contents

1. About the Japan Atomic Energy

Agency

2. JAEA’s Contribution to INIS

3. Results of our study on user needs

4. Summary

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Disposal technology of high-level　 radioactive waste

Disposal technology of high-level　 radioactive waste

Fusion research &

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Fusion research &

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Quantum beam technologyQuantum beam technology

1. About the Japan Atomic Energy Agency

JAEA’s Four Important Missions

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency – was established in 2005 by merging former

JAERI and JNC.– has 4,157 employees as of March 31, 2008.– has JP\200billion (US$ 1.8 billion) as an

annual budget.

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2. JAEA’s Contribution to INIS2.1 Our achievements

JAEA – has been the national center in Japan since 1970.– sends 5,000 items to IAEA every year.– stands the 4th rank among member countries in 2007.

Input to the INIS DB by Japan

Russia 4%

IAEA 48%

J apan 4%

the rest12%

Canada 1%Ukraine 2%

France 4%

China 4%

Brazil 3%

Korea 3%

Poland 2%

India 2%

U.S.A. 5%Germany6%

Input from Member

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Complimentary access in Japan

Promotional materials

Brochure

Japan is now at the top of INIS member countries (356 universities) in the use of complementary access .

Poster

2.2 Promotional activities

Home page for domestic users

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3. Results of our study on user needs3.1 Background

• The 33rd consultative meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 30 Oct. – 1 Nov. 2006– Discussed the importance to learn about user

needs in relation to the coverage of content in the INIS Database

– Recommended INIS National Centers to conduct studies of user needs in their countries

• INIS Technical Note No. 189, 16 Apr. 2008– Encourages INIS National Centers to conduct

studies of user needs

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3.2 Users surveyed

• Approx. 400 JAEA users and 57 universities.• Not sent to users of CD-ROM, STN.• Questionnaire is distributed to users of

INIS database on the Internet.

• 155 responses– 123 JAEA users – 37 users from 17 universities

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3.3 Questions to INIS users

• Q1. What is your main purpose of using INIS Database?

• Q2. What kind of information resources do you use to search for literature in the field of nuclear science and technology?

• Q3. Which INIS subjects are of interest to you?

• Q4. Which is more desirable coverage policy for INIS Database?

• Q5. Which type of literature do you want us to include in the INIS Database?

• Q6. To what extent is complimentary access allowed to the INIS database on the Internet?

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3.4 Q1: Purpose to use INIS Database

Survey of thelatest trends of

the specificresearch subject

47%

Management ofthe research

results / Makinga bibliographical

list9%

Survey ofpreceding studies

39%

Other purpose5%

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3.5 Q2: Other resources used to search

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journals (ScienceDirect etc.)

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Google Scholar Bibliographicdatabases

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3.6 Q3: Subjects of interest

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3.7 Q4: Coverage policy

only coresubject area.

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surroudingarea as well as

core subjectarea.87%

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policy

economy

non-nuclear energy

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3.8 Q5: Type of literature to be covered

J ournal articles51%

Books5%

Reports26%

Patents2%

Audio-visualmaterials

1%Laws and standards

1%

Conference papers14%

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3.9 Q6: Expansion of complimentary access

Should be available toall users (no limits).

26%

Same as it is now (onlyuniversities/ academic

institutes).25%

Extend its service tocover non-profitorganizations

49%

The result should be carefully interpreted because the questionnaireswere sent to only JAEA users and users now enjoying complimentaryaccess, not sent to pay users and potential users.

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• Very useful, but not so many up-to-date information, timeliness be improved.

• Search for laws, regulations are difficult by INIS.

• Difficult to analyze search results because of inconsistency of subject category code.

• Convenient if all full texts can be downloaded.

• Proposes expansion of users by increasing complimentary service.

3.10 Comments from users

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• Comprehensiveness and timeliness is considered as important.

• NCL is important type of literature.

• Advantages of other resources (esp. search engines) must be investigated.

• Make the most of this users needs study.

4. Summary

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Thank you for your attention

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