Technical Meeting on Topical Issues of Infrastructure Development: Nuclear Power Project Development in Emerging Nuclear Power States Vienna, Austria, 11-14 February 2013 International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Taghrid ATIEH Head, INIS Unit NIS Section Nuclear Energy Department, T.Atieh@iaea.org http://www.iaea.org/inis International Atomic Energy Agency
What is INIS Products & Services Benefits to Members 2
s Statute: Article III.A.3 to foster the exchange of scientific & technical information on the peaceful uses of atomic energy 3
I N I S Established in 1970 The leading information system on peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology INIS Secretariat at Vienna Austria 4
INIS Mission To collect, preserve and disseminate: Bibliographic data of the world s nuclear literature Full texts of Non-Conventional Literature (NCL) 5
International Cooperation INIS Membership 128 Member States and 24 International Organizations Every INIS Member is represented by a Liaison Officer 6
Overview of INIS Operation Decentralized National INIS Centres Centralized INIS Secretariat Decentralized National INIS Centres Utilization Collection Input preparation Products User / Producer 7
Subject Scope: INIS collects the world literature on all aspects of the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology thereby Reflects the activities and interests of all Members States 8
Main Products and Services: 1. INIS Collection from 1970 3.5 million indexed references English abstract Over 100 000 annual increase On the Internet Weekly updates Full texts Open Freely 9
Main Products and Services: INIS is a pioneer in preservation of nuclear literature 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..) 10
Main Products and Services: 3. INIS/ETDE Thesaurus: (~ 30,000 terms) A major tool for describing nuclear information and knowledge in structured form and for information retrieval 4. Multilingual Thesaurus: Arabic-Chinese-English-French-German-Japanese-Russian-Spanish 11
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 12
Benefits to Member States Free access to all products and services Access to literature of other Member States HR development in information processing and capacity building of national INIS Centres Provide reliable information services to support national nuclear programme Preserve the country s literature Worldwide visibility of national literature 13
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Internet Abundance, Volatile, Not controlled / Unreliable INIS Reliable Source, Selected, Evaluated, Value added High Quality, Structured Database 15
Top 20 Country: Number of INIS Input Per Year 16