International Nuclear Information System (INIS) ICSTI, Rome, Italy 17-18 May 2012 Taghrid ATIEH Head, INIS Unit NIS Section Nuclear Energy Department, IAEA T.Atieh@iaea.org http://www.iaea.org/inis

 What is INIS  Products & Services  Benefits to Members

IAEA’s Statute: Article III.A.3 … to foster the exchange of scientific & technical information on the peaceful uses of atomic energy

I N I S Established in 1970 The leading information system on peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology INIS Secretariat at IAEA Vienna – Austria

INIS Mission To collect, preserve and disseminate: Bibliographic data of the world’s nuclear literature Full texts of Non-Conventional Literature (NCL)

International Cooperation INIS Membership 127 Member States and 24 International Organizations Every INIS Member is represented by a Liaison Officer

Overview of INIS Operation Decentralized National INIS Centres Centralized INIS Secretariat Decentralized National INIS Centres Utilization Collection Input preparation Products User / Producer

INIS reports the world literature Subject Scope: INIS reports the world literature on all aspects of the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology thereby Reflects the activities and interests of all IAEA Members States

Main Products and Services: 1. INIS Database / INIS Collection from 1970  Over 3.3 million indexed references  English abstract  Over 100 000 annual increase On the Internet  Weekly update  Full texts

Main Products and Services: INIS is a pioneer in nuclear knowledge preservation 2. INIS Non-Conventional (grey) literature (NCL): Definition: scientific and technical reports, conference papers, theses and patent documents, Laws and legislations,etc which are not readily available through commercial channels  Over 600 000 full texts (reports, conference proceedings, etc..) Digitization

Main Products and Services: 3. INIS Thesaurus: A major tool for describing nuclear information and knowledge in structured form and for information retrieval 4. INIS Multilingual Thesaurus: (~ 30,000 terms) Arabic - Chinese - English - French - German - Russian - Spanish

Main Products and Services: 5. Capacity Building: A. Training  Staff at the national INIS centres: Classroom training On-the job training B. Technical assistance to national INIS centres

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 Objectives Expand existing input model to support various data providers Accept data from Open Access digital repositories  Outcomes Improve coverage, and full texts Increased usage

Benefits to Member States  Free access to all products and services HR development in information processing and capacity building of national INIS Centres   Access of other Member States’ literature  Provide reliable information services to support national nuclear programme  Preserve the country’s literature  Worldwide visibility of national literature

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