1. International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
ICSTI, Rome, Italy May 2012
Taghrid ATIEH
Head, INIS Unit
NIS Section
Nuclear Energy Department, IAEA

2. 
What is INIS 
Products & Services 
Benefits to Members

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

4. 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

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

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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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 full texts (reports, conference proceedings, etc..)
Digitization

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Thank you http://www.iaea.org/INIS/

16. INIS Input by Country