International Atomic Energy Agency 1 INIS Input Strategy The 11 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting Vienna, 6 – 8 November 2007

International Atomic Energy Agency 11 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting Vienna, 6 – 8 November INIS Input Strategy Some information gathered for INIS available from other information sources on the Web Financial constraints in many INIS national centres including INIS Secretariat Impacted volume and quality of input preparation, the comprehensiveness of the INIS database.

International Atomic Energy Agency 11 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting Vienna, 6 – 8 November INIS Input Strategy INIS DB contains 2,871,341 1,658,931 references to Journal Articles - (~58%) 876,547 NCL references (~31%).

International Atomic Energy Agency 11 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting Vienna, 6 – 8 November INIS Input Strategy miscellaneous, 12,1% journals, 72,5% films, 0,01% books, 4,8% computer medium, 0,4% reports, 10,2% patents, <0,01%

International Atomic Energy Agency 11 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting Vienna, 6 – 8 November INIS Input Strategy Total number of references Journal articles ,04654,83363% ,71974,30170% ,61977,44266% ,40187,91472% ,19168,06973%

International Atomic Energy Agency 11 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting Vienna, 6 – 8 November Many journal articles are available on the Internet directly from publishers, or through special search systems such as “Google Scholar” INIS spends a lot of resources to get information already available on the Web. Is this right direction for INIS? Is INIS able to continue the compilation of a comprehensive nuclear bibliographic database of both conventional and non-conventional literature? And what will happen if the INIS Secretariat does not have enough funds to support these activities in the near future? What is ETDE input strategy? INIS Input Strategy