BARC
INIS Activities - India
Dr K. Bhanumurthy
INIS Liaison Officer
Scientific Information Resource Division
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, INDIA
E-mail: headsird@barc.gov.in
Outline
• Activities
• Experiences
• Challenges &
Concerns
• Future prospects
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BARC
INIS Database centers
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BARC
INIS Activities
Working Staff
5 fulltime and 1 part-time
Sources
60 Indian journals
(20 regularly scanned core journals)
98 conference proceedings
Average input per year
1850 records
Indian input
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BARC
INIS Activities
Indian Core Journals
Indian inputs: subject-wise
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Pramana
Radiation-Protection-and-Environment
Journal-of-Medical-Physics
Indian-Journal-of-Radiation-Research
Indian-Journal-of-Physics-and-Proceedings-ofthe-Indian-Association-for-the-Cultivation-ofScience
Environmental-Geochemistry
Exploration-and-Research-for-Atomic-Minerals
Journal-of-Nuclear-Agriculture-and-Biology
Current-Science-Bangalore
Bulletin-of-Materials-Science
Indian-Journal-of-Pure-and-Applied-Physics
Journal-of-the-Geological-Society-of-India
Chemical-and-Environmental-Research
Indian-Journal-of-Power-and-River-ValleyDevelopment
Indian-Journal-of-Theoretical-Physics
Journal-of-the-Indian-Chemical-Society
Indian-Journal-of-Chemistry.-Section-A:Inorganic,-Bio-inorganic,-Physical,-Theoreticaland-Analytical-Chemistry
Indian-Journal-of-Environmental-Protection
Indian-Journal-of-Engineering-and-MaterialsSciences
Proceedings-National-Academy-of-Sciences,India.-Section-A,-Physical-Sciences
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BARC
Promotional programmes
• INIS DVDs are made available to scientists & engineers of BARC through
‘Saraswati’, the campus-wide Local Area Network.
• Demo-Cum-Training on INIS Database to BARC Scientists and Engineers.
• Distribution of INIS Brochures and promotional materials at conferences.
• Arranging INIS DB demonstration at various conferences.
• Nita Bhaskar, INIS Section, India had
been deputed as instructor for training
programmes
on
setting
up
INIS
Inputting Centers held at NECSA, South
Africa in 2009.
INIS Trainees from Kenya with INIS staff, India
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BARC
R&D Activities using INIS Database
Areas of scientometric studies
using INIS Database
Top 20 Highly Productive Countries in
Nuclear Science and Technology
Neutron Activation Analysis
Fuel cells
Mass spectrometry
Web resources
India’s rank among Asian countries is 4
Analytical chemistry
Bhabha scattering
Vacuum science
Cobalt-60
Waste Management
Seismology
Thorium
Timeliness of the INIS
Database
Among the Indian nuclear scientists & engineers working on thorium, 64.63% are DAE Community
and rest of them are from IITs, Universities, Colleges and other scientific institutions.
Timeliness is a big concern on Indian inputs. An extensive study on the Timeliness of the whole
INIS Database is carried out. The paper is in press of International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge
Management .
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BARC
R&D Activities using INIS Database
Publications on Thorium in INIS Database
Indian Publications on Thorium in Journals
• The period between 1980-89 saw leap in publications world over.
• India’s contribution in this decade is an impressive 17.9% of the world contribution
• In recent years, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in the use of thorium for a
modernized version of the nuclear fuel cycle hence a climb in publications.
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BARC
R&D Activities using INIS Database
Year-wise average records inputting time-lag INIS
database during 1970-2008
The overall average time-lag of INIS Database is 19.23 months
Inputting country
Total
input
Denmark
Hungary
Germany
Japan
USSR
Belgium
Israel
Germany
Switzerland
Australia
Netherlands
Finland
United-Kingdom
United-States
Czech-Republic
Ukraine
Italy
Pakistan
India
12416
27609
23976
170426
213710
7198
7172
216460
28315
26249
299692
5084
250123
898418
7979
21343
24784
5369
45222
Percentage of inputs
Average
time-lag (in
without
with
time-lag
time-lag months)
39.83
60.17
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41.86
58.14
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42.41
57.59
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23.21
76.79
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13.06
86.94
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9.18
90.82
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20.75
79.25
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46.77
53.23
17
42.50
57.50
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19.63
80.37
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35.69
64.31
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26.12
73.88
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44.60
55.40
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24.37
75.63
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28.66
71.34
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13.49
86.51
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24.26
75.74
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20.34
79.66
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18.21
81.79
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Papers presented by BARC scientists and engineers
Year of
conference
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Total
international
conferences
77
91
86
207
344
805
national
conferences
775
372
550
478
293
2468
Total
852
463
636
685
637
3273
Proposal for study using records in INIS
database on:
o ITER Project
o Nuclear Fuels
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BARC
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Challenges and Concerns
Collection of literature
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Conferences
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Journal (print/online/open sources)
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Books/Monographs
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Technical reports
Timeliness
28.56 % of India’s last 10 years inputs are sent in the same year of their publication year
and rest of the 52.57% have only a maximum of 12 months delay
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Accuracy
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Database Usage Statistics
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Staff training is needed especially assigning several categories and
keywords
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DVD v/s On-Line version of the database
(Confidence level 99.0%)
(Data from Local Intranet Servers)
Records with partial information is found in DVD version but is available in On-Line version
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Document delivery and requests
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Future Prospects
• Expand avenues
Promotional programmes at various research centers, universities etc.
• Selective Dissemination of Information
Senior scientists & engineers working on reactor engineering, waste
management, materials production and development etc.
• INIS DB Demo at conferences/symposia
• INIS DB Usage Survey – questionnaire
• Advertisements in various conferences proceedings (DAEBRNS)/journals/magazines
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