International Nuclear Information System
The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) is the world's leading information system with documentary evidence and documents for the peaceful use of nuclear science and technology. INIS is operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna . It covers all aspects of the peaceful use of nuclear energy and nuclear technology , from nuclear reactors to reactor safety and nuclear fusion to applications of radiation sources and radionuclides in medicine, agriculture or industry. Many other related topics such as environmental, legal and social issues related to nuclear energy, and economic and ecological aspects of non-nuclear energy sources are also covered.
scope
INIS, in cooperation with its members, has maintained a database with currently over 3.3 million bibliographic references and a collection of 300,000 full-text publications since 1970. In 2020, 127 countries and 24 international organizations are INIS members.
On the one hand, INIS records conventional literature that is available in stores through regular distribution channels such as books and magazines. Much of the other hand, scientific and technical reports, patent documents , conference reports , theses and other documents in the category of so-called. Literature horror fall, and elsewhere hard to get.
INIS maintains a multilingual thesaurus in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish that contains translations of thousands of technical terms to aid in navigating and searching the collection.
Access
Because of the importance of unrestricted and easy access, the INIS collection has been freely available online since April 2009. Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish are offered as search languages. INIS supports the Open Access Initiative and encourages all national centers to disclose and use sources in order to increase the availability and timeliness of reliable nuclear information worldwide. The organizational framework for this is the Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) , which is financed by the governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway and the US State Department.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b International Nuclear Information System (INIS) . UNESCO . Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- ↑ Global Open Access Portal. International Nuclear Information System . UNESCO . Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- ↑ Search in the INIS repository . International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- ↑ Global Open Access Portal . UNESCO . Retrieved June 9, 2020.