INIS Database at Turkish Atomic
Energy Authority
Present State and Future Trends
Olcay SEÇKİN
Turkish Atomic Energy Authority
Introduction
Turkish Atomic Energy Authority is the unique authority for offering nuclear
knowledge with two Nuclear Research and Training Centers in Ankara and Istanbul
Turkish Atomic Energy Authority
TAEA’s General Objective;
…promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy and nuclear technology
applications according to approved by the Turkish Government
TAEA
Research Centers,
Related Ministries and Establishments, Commercial Companies,
Hospitals,
Students and teaching staff at universities and academic institutions
What is INIS
INIS was established by the Secretariat in 1969,
IAEA’s mandate:
…to foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on
peaceful uses of atomic energy… GOV/OR-408
INIS
At the end of 2007 142 members;
119 countries
INIS
Turkey is the Member State of INIS
Subjects:
Nuclear energy, including nuclear engineering;
nuclear instrumentation and the nuclear fuel cycle
Nuclear safety
Radioactive waste management Fusion research and technology
Life sciences and environmental aspects Safeguards, non-proliferation
Isotopes and nuclear applications in earth
sciences, agriculture; biology, medicine and industry
Radiation protection Nuclear physics
INIS Members
INIS Member’s responsibilities are given by
INIS at TAEA
INIS Section was established in 2001 at TAEA.
It has changed as Nuclear
INIS at TAEA
Nuclear Documentation Section
is responsible for all activities related to INIS in Turkey with two staffs.
INIS at TAEA
Duties;
*Input preparation for INIS
*Use of INIS output products: -Literature search,
Input preparation
Nuclear Documentation Section
scans the scientific and technical literature published in Turkey
Library
5.000 books, reports 360 CDs collection
Library
417 books were borrowed in this year.
Library
Publications can be reached and searchable from:
Library
INIS has 886.410 full text NCL documents.
TAEA is one of the 61 Document Delivery Center of INIS DB.
Other Databases
*American Institute of Physics *American Nuclear Society
*Ebrary Academic Complete Electronik Book Data Base
*Health Physics: The Radiation Safety Journal
*Informaworld (Taylor & Francis)
*Institute of Physics - Electronic Journal *OECD OLISnet
*Oxford University Press Online Journal *Science Direct (+ Academic Press)
*Springer Link (+ Kluwer)
Library
From these databases electronically we have,
It is not available to have usage
statistic of INIS DB. We have only data when search made by us.
Complementary access of INIS DB
INIS DB on Internet/Complimentary access for Universities:
From 93 universities in Turkey, 53 university requested and 21 request fulfilled.
Complementary access of INIS DB
Anadolu Universiy2 Ankara University20 Bilkent University11 Cankaya University1
Eastern Mediterranean University72 Gazi University486
Gulhane Military Medical Academy9 Hacettepe University191
Istanbul Technical University7
Istanbul University Library and Documentation
Complementary access of INIS DB
Izmir Institute of Technology1
Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Rize
Faculty of Sciences and Arts7
Koc University25
Mersin University37 Nigde University16
Sabanci University456 Sakarya University32
Yildiz Technical University3 TOTAL:1804
INLN
TAEA is a Member of International Nuclear Library Network
Future Trends
Nuclear Documentation Section, major contributor to the TAEA
Future Trends
Strategic objective could be preserve, enlarge and develop the
scientific & technical information and knowledge resources.
Future Trends
To establish national nuclear database.
Thank you…
