International Atomic Energy Agency

INIS Database on CD-ROM and on Internet: Enhancements

34th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers3-5 November 2008, Vienna, Austria

Taghrid ATIEH

INIS & NKM Section

Leader, Capacity Building & Liaison Group

On CD-ROM

On Interent

Future Developments

INIS Database Enhancements

2006 ILO's Recommendations:

“reiterated the importance of continuing to make the INIS DB on CD/DVD ROM

available to INIS Members”

“agreed to contact lapsed subscribers within their national boundaries to

learn about the reasons for cancelling their subscriptions to the Database,

and to inform the INIS Secretariat on their findings.

The INIS Secretariat will provide the ILOs with the contact information of those

subscribers”

“commended the enhancements of the INIS DB on CD/DVD-ROM and asked

The INIS Secretariat to implement the main features developed for the INIS Database

on the Internet, in particular access to full text and speedy delivery of the monthly

updates“

INIS Database on CD-ROM

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Paid Free

Subscriptions to INIS Database on CD-ROM

Action taken:

1. Monthly updates available on IAEA FTP server within 48 hours, no additional cost

Positive feedbacks from the ILOs and other users

• 172 in 37 countries

• Information sent to ILOs for follow up

2. Lapsed subscribers:

INIS Database on CD-ROM

Information need related to nuclear industry is not fully covered by INIS

Changes in research directions / company business area

Low usage to justify subscription cost / No fund available

Feedback from some ILOs:

Subscribers moved to use services of national INIS centres

Completion of projects

Merge of institutes / Institute no longer exist

Language problem

Lapsed Subscriptions to INIS DB on CD-ROM

Lapsed Subscriptions to INIS DB on CD-ROM

3. INIS Secretariat initiated contact with lapsed subscribers:

New enhancement at no additional cost was highlighted to encourage resuming their subscriptions

10 lapsed subscribers renewed

Action taken (cont…):

Future production

Enhancements:

Monthly updates on FTP will continue

Move to DVD: Need DVD drive

4. Request for bids - Company selected

INIS Database on CD-ROM

Action taken (cont…):

“emphasized that full text PDF documents locked to external users should be hidden, or a mechanism for access clearly identified”

“recommended that the INIS Secretariat should contact countries which restricted their NCL supply to see if they can provide NCL document delivery services and, if they can, special information about this service should be added to the INIS database”

“recommended that the INIS Secretariat will contact all countries which did not reply to INIS Technical Note 166 to clarify the NCL access issue for their country”

“recommended that the INIS Secretariat give priority first to enhance access to full text via identifiers and second, to implement an export function of citations in standard formats”

2006 ILO's Recommendation:

INIS Database on Internet

Total current subscriptions: 535

Free: 520 (include 374 universities) Paid: 15

2008 marks the 10th anniversary

INIS Secretariat continues to work closely with ILOs to reach additional universities

INIS Database on Internet

User IDs > 3600IP addresses: hundreds thousands authorised users

Subscriptions to INIS Database on Internet

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Paid Free

• INIS interactive Multilingual Thesaurus with navigationcapabilities

• Locked PDF documents removed

• Quick Reference Guide

• New version released: Loading time reduced; storing queries optimised

• User Interface and User Manual in Japanese

Enhancements:

INIS Database on Internet

Open Access Pilot ….will be discussed separately

• Document Delivery Form:

- Collective

• User Interface in Arabic

• Open the access to over 50,000 NCL

• Five icons to full texts:

- Only over certain size

INIS Database on Internet

Enhancements:

Link to IAEA publications

Export format

Alert: only recent updates

Open the access to additional NCL

Saved Queries: to edit

Link to NCL analytics

INIS Database on Internet

Future Development

• To translate the Quick Reference Guide into: Arabic; German; Japanese; Portuguese; Spanish

Volunteers?

Discussion:

INIS Database on Internet

We welcome your comments and suggestions