1. ICSTI and Inspec 40 th Anniversary 2009

2. The IET (Inspec) 1898-1966 Founded in 1898 with the first Issue of Science abstracts 1903 Science abstracts and Electrical Engineering launched 1966 – Electrical Engineering Abstracts was renamed as Electrical and Electronics Abstracts

3. Inspec 1967-1973 1967 Inspec was formed 1969 – introduced a computerised system Inspec database launched

4. Inspec 1974-1981 1974 Physics abstracts reached 1 million Key abstracts series was launched 1977 – January Inspec indexed 1 million abstracts 1981 – April, Electrical and Electronics abstracts indexed its 1 thousand issue

5. Inspec 1982-1987 continues to grow 1982 inspec reached 2 million abstracts 1983 - IT Focus was launched 1984 - Inspec extended coverage to IEEE standards 1987 – Inspec add chemical and numerical indexing 1987 – 3 million abstracts indexed

6. Inspec 1989-1995 1989 we introduced Inspec2 1993 Inspec was made available on EPIC and FirstSearch services 1995 – Inspec reached 5 million abstracts

7. Inspec production 0 5000000 10000000 15000000 20000000 25000000 196919721975 1978198119841987199019931996199920022005 2008 2011 201420172020 Year Number ?

8. Inspec Journal Coverage Journals 4000 plus Conferences approximately 2000 Books, Reports and Standards

9. ICSTI and Inspec partnership 1995 Brian Howes, director of Inspec meets and signs agreement with ICSTI. ICSTI begin translation of Russian STI journals. ICSTI provide data to Inspec in Word format for Bibliographic data.

10. ICSTI and Inspec 2007 ICSTI and Inspec agree a new contract ICSTI will use Inspec’s new production system October 2008 – training started in Moscow Moldova and Kazakhstan delegates attend training session

11. Production after training in Moscow 29 publications 73 publication issues 1323 articles 35% of total items produced since training completed

12. The IET Inspec

13. ICSTI and Inspec (further developments) 2008 Inspec and ICSTI arrange and agree consultation with additional interested parties to provide translation of bibliographic information for Inspec 2009 – ICSTI identify Belarus and the Ukraine as potential partners for Inspec

14. Inspec extends translation of articles Following the success of previous joint ventures with ICSTI – translations extended Translations to include conferences and STI journals from other member states

15. Additional publications 25 new publications from Moldova 20 new publications from Kazakhstan Additional publications from the Republic of Belarus Additional publications from the Ukraine Conferences held in Russia (non English)

16. What will the future bring Increased coverage of non-English articles. Faster and improved currency (perhaps with the help of SWETs. Further expansion and cooperation with other interested parties.

17. The IET Mission

18. Inspec 10 Millionth record