International Atomic Energy Agency
International Nuclear Information System
(INIS)
ICSTI, Rome, Italy 17-18 May 2012
Taghrid ATIEH
Head, INIS Unit
NIS Section
Nuclear Energy Department, IAEA
T.Atieh@iaea.org
http://www.iaea.org/inis
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International Nuclear Information System
 What is INIS
 Products & Services
 Benefits to Members
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International Atomic Energy Agency
International Nuclear Information System
IAEA’s Statute:
Article III.A.3
… to foster the exchange of scientific &
technical information on the peaceful uses
of atomic energy
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International Atomic Energy Agency
International Nuclear Information System
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
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International Atomic Energy Agency
International Nuclear Information System
INIS Mission
To collect, preserve and disseminate:
 Bibliographic data of the world’s nuclear literature
 Full texts of Non-Conventional Literature (NCL)
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International Cooperation
INIS Membership
127 Member States and 24 International Organizations
Every INIS Member is represented by a Liaison Officer
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Overview of INIS Operation
Decentralized
Centralized
Decentralized
National INIS Centres
INIS Secretariat
National INIS Centres
Utilization
Collection
Input
preparation
Products
User / Producer
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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
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International Nuclear Information System
Main Products and Services:
1. INIS Database / INIS Collection from 1970
 Over 3.3 million indexed references
 English abstract
 Over 100 000 annual increase
On the Internet
 Weekly update
 Full texts
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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 600 000 full texts (reports, conference proceedings, etc..)
Digitization
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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
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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
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International Nuclear Information System
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
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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
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Thank you
http://www.iaea.org/INIS/
http://www.iaea.org/INIS/INIS-contacts/
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INIS Input by Country 2009 - 2011
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