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Reference Sources and Services

Notes A widely used manual of INIS is the IAEA-INIS-13 (Rev 38) 1999 - INIS: Thesaurus. Details of other

INIS manuals are available from INIS website: www.iaea.org/inis
4. INIS Web Services. The INIS web services includes maintaining of links to websites on the Internet
in various fields of interest to nuclear science and technology subject and to any other work related
to the IAEA. Besides these, INIS also offers subject access to the contents of the IAEA website and
the sites of various related international and multinational organisations in the field of nuclear
science and technology.
5. Marketing and Promotion. INIS is carrying out extensive marketing and promotion of its products
and services, which is handled by the INIS Secretariat in Vienna and the individual member states
in the respective countries. At the IAEA Secretariat, the INIS marketing and promotion activities
are carried out with the help of online/CD-ROM demonstrations, by advertisements, by publishing
articles in professional journals and by distribution of material, demo CDs, video films and other
promotional tools. INIS member states, on the other hand, are assigned the responsibility for
establishing and carrying out promotional activities in the area or regions under their domain in
order to make aware the INIS potential to the users desiring information and information services
in the field of nuclear science and technology. For this, they are assisted by the INIS Secretariat
which assists by providing general promotional and informational materials about INIS and its
databases.
6. Training. A range of training activities provided by INIS meet a number of objectives that include:
establishment and improvement of a national information infrastructure, transfer of modern
information technology, enabling exchange of scientific and technical information, ensure high
quality and coverage of the INIS Database, facilitate maximum utilisation of INIS output products
and are responsiveness to a country needs.

Alert Services
Based on the INIS products, alert services are provided usually in the form of SDI services to the
users requiring current information in field of nuclear science and technology. These services are
mostly available through the National INIS Liaison-Officer of the individual INIS member states.
Here the alert services are in the form of individual searches which are performed against individual
subject interest profiles of the users.
Document Delivery Service

For providing the document delivery services, INIS has made arrangements with several INIS
national centres which make available full-texts of INIS non-conventional literature to users in the
individual INIS member state. This service, however, is limited only to the users of the particular
INIS member state. For requests received from countries where no such facility is available, service
is available by referring to the Knowledge Preservation Group of INIS.

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