International Atomic Energy Agency INIS Database on CD-ROM and on Internet: Enhancements 34 th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers 3-5 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

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

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: marks the 10 th anniversary INIS Secretariat continues to work closely with ILOs to reach additional universities INIS Database on Internet User IDs > 3600 IP addresses: hundreds thousands authorised users

Subscriptions to INIS Database on Internet

INIS interactive Multilingual Thesaurus with navigation capabilities 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