BARCINIS Activities - India

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Outline

• Activities• Experiences• Challenges &

Concerns• Future prospects

Dr K. BhanumurthyINIS Liaison OfficerScientific Information Resource DivisionBhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, INDIAE-mail: headsird@barc.gov.in

BARC INIS Database centers

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BARCINIS Activities

Working Staff 5 fulltime and 1 part-time

Sources60 Indian journals(20 regularly scanned core journals)98 conference proceedings

Average input per year 1850 records

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Indian input

BARCINIS Activities

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Indian inputs: subject-wise

Indian Core Journals• Pramana• Radiation-Protection-and-Environment• Journal-of-Medical-Physics• Indian-Journal-of-Radiation-Research• Indian-Journal-of-Physics-and-Proceedings-

of-the-Indian-Association-for-the-Cultivation-of-Science

• Environmental-Geochemistry• Exploration-and-Research-for-Atomic-

Minerals• Journal-of-Nuclear-Agriculture-and-Biology• Current-Science-Bangalore• Bulletin-of-Materials-Science• Indian-Journal-of-Pure-and-Applied-Physics• Journal-of-the-Geological-Society-of-India• Chemical-and-Environmental-Research• Indian-Journal-of-Power-and-River-Valley-

Development• Indian-Journal-of-Theoretical-Physics• Journal-of-the-Indian-Chemical-Society• Indian-Journal-of-Chemistry.-Section-A:-

Inorganic,-Bio-inorganic,-Physical,-Theoretical-and-Analytical-Chemistry

• Indian-Journal-of-Environmental-Protection• Indian-Journal-of-Engineering-and-

Materials-Sciences• Proceedings-National-Academy-of-

Sciences,-India.-Section-A,-Physical-Sciences

BARCPromotional programmes

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• INIS DVDs are made available to scientists & engineers of BARC through ‘Saraswati’, the campus-wide Local Area Network.

• Demo-Cum-Training on INIS Database to BARC Scientists and Engineers.

• Distribution of INIS Brochures and promotional materials at conferences.

• Arranging INIS DB demonstration at various conferences.• Nita Bhaskar, INIS Section, India had been deputed as instructor for training programmes on setting up INIS Inputting Centers held at NECSA, South Africa in 2009.

INIS Trainees from Kenya with INIS staff, India

BARCR&D Activities using INIS Database

Areas of scientometric studies using INIS Database

Neutron Activation AnalysisFuel cellsMass spectrometryWeb resources Analytical chemistryBhabha scatteringVacuum science Cobalt-60Waste ManagementSeismologyThoriumTimeliness of the INIS Database

Top 20 Highly Productive Countries in Nuclear Science and Technology

Among the Indian nuclear scientists & engineers working on thorium, 64.63% are DAE Community and rest of them are from IITs, Universities, Colleges and other scientific institutions.Timeliness is a big concern on Indian inputs. An extensive study on the Timeliness of the whole INIS Database is carried out. The paper is in press of International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management .

India’s rank among Asian countries is 4

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BARCR&D Activities using INIS Database

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Publications on Thorium in INIS Database Indian Publications on Thorium in Journals• The period between 1980-89 saw leap in publications world over.

• India’s contribution in this decade is an impressive 17.9% of the world contribution

• In recent years, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in the use of thorium for a modernized version of the nuclear fuel cycle hence a climb in publications.

BARCR&D Activities using INIS Database

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Year-wise average records inputting time-lag INIS database during 1970-2008

Inputting country Total input

Percentage of inputs Average

time-lag (in months)

without time-lag

with time-lag

Denmark 12416 39.83 60.17 14Hungary 27609 41.86 58.14 14Germany 23976 42.41 57.59 15Japan 170426 23.21 76.79 16USSR 213710 13.06 86.94 16Belgium 7198 9.18 90.82 16Israel 7172 20.75 79.25 16Germany 216460 46.77 53.23 17Switzerland 28315 42.50 57.50 17Australia 26249 19.63 80.37 17Netherlands 299692 35.69 64.31 17Finland 5084 26.12 73.88 18United-Kingdom 250123 44.60 55.40 18United-States 898418 24.37 75.63 18Czech-Republic 7979 28.66 71.34 18Ukraine 21343 13.49 86.51 19Italy 24784 24.26 75.74 19Pakistan 5369 20.34 79.66 19India 45222 18.21 81.79 19

The overall average time-lag of INIS Database is 19.23 months

Year of conference

international conferences

national conferences Total

2005 77 775 8522006 91 372 4632007 86 550 6362008 207 478 6852009 344 293 637Total 805 2468 3273

Papers presented by BARC scientists and engineers Proposal for study using records in INIS

database on:o ITER Projecto Nuclear Fuels

BARCChallenges and Concerns

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•Collection of literatureo Conferenceso Journal (print/online/open sources)o Books/Monographso Technical reports•Timeliness

28.56 % of India’s last 10 years inputs are sent in the same year of their publication year and rest of the 52.57% have only a maximum of 12 months delay

•Accuracy (Confidence level 99.0%)

•Database Usage Statistics (Data from Local Intranet Servers)

• Staff training is needed especially assigning several categories and keywords

•DVD v/s On-Line version of the databaseRecords with partial information is found in DVD version but is available in On-Line version

•Document delivery and requests

BARCFuture Prospects

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• Expand avenuesPromotional programmes at various research centers, universities etc.

• Selective Dissemination of InformationSenior scientists & engineers working on reactor engineering, waste management, materials production and development etc.

• INIS DB Demo at conferences/symposia• INIS DB Usage Survey – questionnaire• Advertisements in various conferences proceedings (DAE-

BRNS)/journals/magazines