the international nuclear library network (inln):

Nuclear Information Section

The International Nuclear Library Network (INLN):

Doing more with less!

Thanos Giannakopoulos

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.

International Nuclear Library Network (INLN)

International Nuclear Library Network

Promote international cooperation

Focus on resource sharing and best practises for nuclear information management

Contribute to global nuclear knowledge management

Cater for comprehensivecontent sources

Strive for low-cost, high-benefit solutions, promote open access policies

Point-of-need access to services

Operate in an environment of data-

intensive science

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INLN objectives


Governance of the INLN

INLN Continual Service Improvement

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Strategic

DirectionsWeb

Coordination Group

ArgentinaMs Verónica WallingreNuclear Regulatory Authority Library

Brazil Ms Maria Betania Monte Alto Lambert CGTI/Centro de Informações Nucleares - CIN CNEN - Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear

IrelandMs Isabella BolgerRadiological Protection Institute of Ireland

MexicoMr Caludio Fernandez, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ)Centro de Información y Documentación (CID)

IAEA Library Mr Thanos Giannakopoulos

convenes online


Document delivery

Research support

Interlibrary loan

Current Awareness (alerting)

Guidance on nuclear information management

IAEA Library

INLN members

Members also exchange information, not recorded in the IAEA Lib. statistics.

INLN Information services

47%

15%

8%

2.5%

27.5%

Requests for Information by Type (2014)

Document Delivery

Research Support

Interlibrary Loan

Current Awareness

Guidance


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Requests for Information (RfIs)

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2012

Increase by Sep. 2014:

29%

Growth of RfIs 2012-2014


- 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

Challenges to digital scholarship

- 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 web-scale library systems, discoverability)

(nuclear) Library actions

THEN:Resources were scarce and time was abundant

NOW:Resources are abundant and time is scarce


INIS & INLN synergies: a case

INIS3.7 m. records

SCITEC (Information Bridge and Energy Citations) Database).

3 m. records

WorldWide Science95 databases and portals from over 70

countries

Faostat3.5 m. records

IAEA Library Catalogue

Brazil CNEN Library Catalogue

Web of Science80 m. records

Science Direct12.5 m. records

ProquestCentral70 m.

INSPEC 14 records

Academic Search Complete 5 m. records

National Technical Reports Library (US) 2.2 million

20,000 electronic Journals

Open Access (a selection) Subscriptions (a selection)

How are users expected to access content?

Web content? Blogs, vlogs, social media content etc. not included

Inconvenient information consumption patterns

example: the IAEA Library Resource Portfolio


INIS & INLN synergies

LAYER 1Searching Library Catalogues

of INLN participants

LAYER 2Searching open access

and subscribed resources of a nuclear

Library

OPEN SOURCE DISCOVERY

SYSTEM


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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

2014-2015

Practical Arrangement ratified

Web Coordination Group (INLN governing body)

INLN directory created

Work towards resource bridging

Yammer, Enterprise Network

2012-2013

Contextualising the INLN: eScience environment

Linking INLN to other Networks or Associations (SLA, LIBER)

Work towards a Practical Arrangement

2010

INLN, an open network

Web. 2.0 presence

Momentum continues

2008

INLN gains momentum

Work towards breaking the silos

INLN: history and roadmap


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

INLN Member

IAEA Member States UN Organizations

▼IAEA Lib. seeks approval

from members

IAEA Lib. communicates the decision to requester:

No

Official request (email) to the IAEA Library

INLN Member

Yes

◄ Other bodies

INLN web presence updated. Contact details of new member are distributed

to participants.

IAEA Lib. writes a story introducing the new member.


Learn more – become a member:

Contact:

4th International Nuclear Library Network (INLN) Members Meeting

Wednesday 15th October 201413:00 – 13:45

IAEA Library Training Room, F0185H (1st Floor, F-Building)

[email protected]

Tel.: +43 1 2600 22628

Visit: INLN.IAEA.ORG Thank you!

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