1. 34th Consultative INIS Liaison Officers Meeting Vienna, Austria 3 November – 5 November 2008 Debbie Cutler ETDE Operating Agent Representative (DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

2. Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE)  Implementing Agreement under the International Energy Agency legal structure; formed in 1987, 16 members  Involves Cost-and Task-Sharing; managed by an Operating Agent  Executive Committee provides budget and policy guidance  Technical Working Group and input centers (many are also the INIS centers) provide input/technical guidance  Scope is all areas of energy; generally, ETDE uses same formats, standards as INIS  MOU with INIS; hold joint INIS/ETDE JTC meetings

3. Many non-ETDE INIS countries are approved for access (primarily based on economy) AlbaniaEcuador Madagascar Philippines AlgeriaEgypt Mali Senegal Armenia El Salvador Moldova Sri Lanka Azerbaijan Ethiopia Mongolia Tajikistan BangladeshGeorgia Morocco Tanzania BelarusGhana Mozambique (United Rep.) BoliviaGuatemala Myanmar Thailand Burkina Faso HaitiNamibia Tunisia Cameroon Indonesia Nicaragua Uganda Central African Iraq Niger Ukraine RepublicJordan Nigeria Uzbekistan Colombia Kenya Pakistan Vietnam Congo (Dem. Kyrgyz RepublicParaguay Yemen Republic) Macedonia (FYR) Peru (Republic of) Zambia

4. ETDE Highlights  New underlying index for ETDEWEB in 2008 – much faster!  ETDEWEB current statistics:  Passed 4 million milestone (now 4.1 million citations)  228,000 on-site full-text items  100’s of thousands more with links to where full text can be obtained (838,000 have DOI links)  New developments to raise visibility, usage: domain recognition; Site Map for search engines (snippets with links to records)  Database continues to be available on STN and Dialog – close to 5 million milestone

5. Other Highlights  Renewal process successful; agreement extended through 2013  ETDE’s newest country: South Africa; next ExCo meeting planned for Mexico  IEA NEET initiative continues dialogue with China, India, and Russia  Projects with INIS: Full text, CAI vocabulary, thesaurus and other reference publications (see JTC meeting results)  Co-operation with INIS greatly appreciated

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