The Role of the National INIS Centre and the INIS Secretariat

International Atomic Energy Agency

The Role of the National INIS Centre and the INIS Secretariat

INIS Training Seminar7 -11 October 2013, Vienna, Austria

Taghrid ATIEH

NIS SectionDepartment of Nuclear Energy

[email protected]://www.iaea.org/inis

Head, INIS Unit

The International Nuclear Information System

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What is INIS

Role of INIS Centre

Benefits of Active Participation

Role of INIS Secretariat


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I N I S

The leading information source on peaceful uses of nuclear science and

technology

INIS Secretariat is located at theHQs of the IAEA, Vienna – Austria

Established in 1970


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INIS Mission

To collect, process and preserve, and disseminate:

Bibliographic data of the world’s nuclear literature

Full texts of non-conventional or 'grey' literature


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Reflects the activities & interests ofall IAEA Members States

Subject Scope:

All aspects of peaceful applications of nuclear sciences and technology


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INIS is based on international cooperation:

128 Member States and 24 International Organizations

INIS Member is represented by a Liaison Officer


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The INIS Secretariat

Two partners:

The INIS Centres

Centralized role

Decentralised role

Why Training

Most stages of operations are decentralized


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Input

Quality

Promotion and Outreach

Nuclear information services

Coverage

Why Training

Support to the national nuclear programmes


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a.

b.

2.

Collect, select literature, and prepare input

Send full text of NCL

Provide information services & maintain contact with users, Users needs studies

Full coverage of national literature:current and historical

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Main responsibility

The Role of National INIS Centre


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4. Promotion and Outreach; Proactive role... for universities:

Products & Services

Input a. b.

not only for identifying new users…. but also for identifying input sources

Contribute advices/recommendations for theimprovement & development of INIS

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Nuclear knowledge preservationNuclear knowledge management

A valuable opportunity to fulfil Members States need

Participate in studies & evaluations6.

Identify INIS as the source of information whendisseminating or repackaging such information5.



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Worldwide visibility of national literature

Capacity building of the national INIS Centre

Members knowledge preservation in the field

Greater recognition and support from

decision makers/government

INIS Trustworthy & Reliable

Benefits of Active Participation for the INIS Centre

Support the national nuclear programmes


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Participate at the INIS Liaison Officers meetings

Cooperate with other INIS Members

Rights and Privileges of INIS Centre

Receive assistance from the INIS Secretariat


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Receive copy of the INIS Products

Receive financial assistance to participate at INIS meetings

Rights and Privileges of INIS Centre


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Input control and computer processing

Management of INIS

Development and maintenance of standards

Products

Assistance… Capacity Building

Role of the INIS Secretariat


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Definition of Membership Arrangement for INIS

In all IAEA officia

l languages


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INIS Collection/ DB on Internet

INIS NCL

INIS Tools

Reference Manuals

Direct link to:•INIS NCL•Full texts

on DVD

Document Delivery

Training courses

Promotion & Outreach

Atomindex & Authority Files

On the job training

INIS Products and ServicesINIS Products and Services

Nuclear Science Abstracts (NSA)

INIS Multilingual Thesaurus

FIBRE

INIS Thesaurus

Taghrid ATIEH

INIS E-Learning

Capacity Building

CAI

INIS Web Site

Members’ Area


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Objective: to provide the ILO's with an easy and fast access to recent and/or valid information, and documents issued by the INIS Secretariat:

http://www.iaea.org/inis/members-area/index.html

Correspondence

Membership Agreement

Promotion & Outreach

Statistics



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Open only to staff at national INIS centres

Password = xa-inisUser ID = csu2000

Demo



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Output

Atomindex files

DecentralizedNational INIS

Centres

CentralizedINIS Secretariat

Decentralized National INIS

CentresInput

preparation

Input

control

and

Computer

processin

g

INIS Collection

NCL

•Articles•Reports•Books•Conference Proceedings•etc…

- Descriptive cataloguing- Subject analysis- NCL processing

- Acquisitions

Taghrid ATIEH

AssistanceCapacity Building

Tools Manuals

Publishers

- Users- Producers of literature

- Utilization- Collection

Feedback on Products and Services & future development

Comprehensive, Timely and High Quality INIS products

Effective use of INIS Information Resources and Services

by all who needs INISProactive… to reach all potential users & input sources

universities & research institutes

Summary

Staff at the INIS Secretariat always ready to help you



Thank you

The Role of the National INIS Centre and the INIS Secretariat

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