 A global nuclear information and knowledge management initiative aiming to strengthen international cooperation in nuclear information resource sharing
 Working towards leveraging technology and information flows to deliver point-of-need access to information services for nuclear researchers.

INLN objectives
Operate in an environment of dataintensive science
7
Promote international cooperation
1
2
Strive for low-cost, high-benefit solutions, promote open access policies
Point-of-need access to services
6
Cater for comprehensive content sources
5
INLN
3
Focus on resource sharing and best practises for nuclear information management
4
Contribute to global nuclear knowledge management

Governance of the INLN
Web
Coordination
Group
INLN Continual
Service Improvement convenes online
Argentina
Ms Verónica Wallingre
Nuclear Regulatory Authority Library
Brazil
Ms Maria Betania Monte Alto
Lambert
CGTI/Centro de Informações Nucleares - CIN
CNEN Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear
Ireland
Ms Isabella Bolger
Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland
Mexico
Mr Caludio Fernandez,
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares
(ININ)
Centro de Información y Documentación (CID)
IAEA Library
Mr Thanos Giannakopoulos

31 countries, 2 international organisations
60
50
20
10
40
30
0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
51 nuclear libraries, documentation offices, university physics departments, institutions and nuclear regulatory authorities.
| Argentina | Australia
| Austria | Belarus
| Brazil | Canada
| China | Czech
Republic | Egypt
| France | Ghana
| India | Indonesia
| Ireland | Japan
| Kenya | Libya
| Mexico | Morocco
| New Zealand
| Nigeria | Norway
| Pakistan | Poland
| Republic of Korea
| Russian Federation
| Serbia | Thailand
| Tunisia | Turkey
| Uzbekistan
| IAEA Library
| International
Thermonuclear Reactor

INLN Information services
Document delivery
2.5%
Research
Requests for Information by Type (2014)
Interlibrary loan
27.5%
Document Delivery
Research Support
47%
Interlibrary Loan
Current Awareness
Current
Awareness
(alerting)
Guidance
8%
Guidance on
15% information management
Members also exchange information, not recorded in the
IAEA Lib. statistics.

Growth of RfIs 2012-2014
Requests for Information (RfIs)
50
40
30
70
60
20
10
0
2014
2013
2012

Challenges to digital scholarship
- Comparative and interdisciplinary nature of research – increasingly difficult to delimit the focus on nuclear topics from broader global themes (IAEA publications attest to this)
- Big data
- Rising need for evaluated and credible sources - difference between scientific activity (“good enough”) to scientific achievement
(“exploratory research”)
- Point-of-need access to content
THEN:
Resources were scarce and time was abundant
(nuclear) Library actions
Comprehensive content, semantic web
User services (data curation, new research infrastructures)
User services (online or in person training, information analysis, new library spaces)
Information services rebuilt around user work-flows (sophisticated linking technologies, interconnectedness of webscale library systems, discoverability)
NOW:
Resources are abundant and time is scarce

INIS & INLN synergies: a case
How are users expected to access content?
Inconvenient information consumption patterns example: the IAEA Library Resource Portfolio
Open Access (a selection) Subscriptions (a selection)
INIS
3.7 m. records
Web of Science
80 m. records
SCITEC (Information Bridge and
Energy Citations) Database).
3 m. records
Science Direct
12.5 m. records
WorldWide Science
95 databases and portals from over 70 countries
ProquestCentral
70 m.
INSPEC
14 records
Faostat
3.5 m. records
Academic Search Complete
5 m. records
IAEA Library Catalogue
Brazil CNEN Library Catalogue
National Technical Reports Library (US)
2.2 million
20,000 electronic Journals
Web content? Blogs, vlogs, social media content etc. not included

INIS & INLN synergies
OPEN SOURCE
DISCOVERY
SYSTEM
LAYER 1
Searching Library Catalogues of INLN participants
LAYER 2
Searching open access and subscribed resources of a nuclear
Library

INLN: history and roadmap
2005 2008 2010 2012-2013 2014-2015 2016-2017
 INLN gains momentum
 Work towards breaking the silos
 INLN, an open network
 Web. 2.0 presence
 Momentum continues
 Contextualising the INLN: eScience environment
 Linking INLN to other
Networks or
Associations
(SLA, LIBER)
 Work towards a Practical
Arrangement
 Practical
Arrangement ratified
 Web
Coordination
Group (INLN governing body)
 INLN directory created
 Work towards resource bridging
 Yammer,
Enterprise
Network
 Alignment in mission, goals and purpose across the
INLN partners
 Reconfigure nuclear information services around new user engagement
 Work towards index-based discovery across INLN collections

IAEA Member States
UN Organizations
▼
Official request
(email) to the IAEA Library
INLN web presence updated. Contact details of new member are distributed to participants.
IAEA Lib. writes a story introducing the new member.
Official request
(email) to the IAEA Library
◄ Other bodies
IAEA Lib. seeks approval from members
IAEA Lib. communicates the decision to requester:
No Yes
INLN web presence updated. Contact details of new member are distributed to participants.
IAEA Lib. writes a story introducing the new member.
INLN Member INLN Member

Learn more – become a member:
4th International Nuclear Library
Network (INLN) Members Meeting
Wednesday 15th October 2014
13:00 – 13:45
IAEA Library Training Room, F0185H
(1st Floor, F-Building)
Contact:
Visit:
A.Giannakopoulos@iaea.org
Tel.: +43 1 2600 22628
INLN.IAEA.ORG