inis user needs study (summary of japan’s study)
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INIS User Needs Study (Summary of Japan’s study). 34th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers 3 – 5 November 2008 Vienna - Austria. Junichi KURAKAMI Director, Intellectual Resources Department Japan Atomic Energy Agency. Contents. About the Japan Atomic Energy Agency - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
34th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers3 – 5 November 2008
Vienna - Austria
INIS User Needs Study(Summary of Japan’s study)
Junichi KURAKAMI
Director, Intellectual Resources Department Japan Atomic Energy Agency
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Contents
1. About the Japan Atomic Energy
Agency
2. JAEA’s Contribution to INIS
3. Results of our study on user needs
4. Summary
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FBR cycle technologyFBR cycle technology
Disposal technology of high-level radioactive waste
Disposal technology of high-level radioactive waste
Fusion research &
development
Fusion research &
development
Quantum beam technologyQuantum beam technology
1. About the Japan Atomic Energy Agency
JAEA’s Four Important Missions
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency – was established in 2005 by merging former
JAERI and JNC.– has 4,157 employees as of March 31, 2008.– has JP\200billion (US$ 1.8 billion) as an
annual budget.
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2. JAEA’s Contribution to INIS2.1 Our achievements
JAEA – has been the national center in Japan since 1970.– sends 5,000 items to IAEA every year.– stands the 4th rank among member countries in 2007.
Input to the INIS DB by Japan
Russia 4%
IAEA 48%
J apan 4%
the rest12%
Canada 1%Ukraine 2%
France 4%
China 4%
Brazil 3%
Korea 3%
Poland 2%
India 2%
U.S.A. 5%Germany6%
Input from Member
Countries
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Complimentary access in Japan
Promotional materials
Brochure
Japan is now at the top of INIS member countries (356 universities) in the use of complementary access .
Poster
2.2 Promotional activities
Home page for domestic users
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3. Results of our study on user needs3.1 Background
• The 33rd consultative meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 30 Oct. – 1 Nov. 2006– Discussed the importance to learn about user
needs in relation to the coverage of content in the INIS Database
– Recommended INIS National Centers to conduct studies of user needs in their countries
• INIS Technical Note No. 189, 16 Apr. 2008– Encourages INIS National Centers to conduct
studies of user needs
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3.2 Users surveyed
• Approx. 400 JAEA users and 57 universities.• Not sent to users of CD-ROM, STN.• Questionnaire is distributed to users of
INIS database on the Internet.
• 155 responses– 123 JAEA users – 37 users from 17 universities
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3.3 Questions to INIS users
• Q1. What is your main purpose of using INIS Database?
• Q2. What kind of information resources do you use to search for literature in the field of nuclear science and technology?
• Q3. Which INIS subjects are of interest to you?
• Q4. Which is more desirable coverage policy for INIS Database?
• Q5. Which type of literature do you want us to include in the INIS Database?
• Q6. To what extent is complimentary access allowed to the INIS database on the Internet?
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3.4 Q1: Purpose to use INIS Database
Survey of thelatest trends of
the specificresearch subject
47%
Management ofthe research
results / Makinga bibliographical
list9%
Survey ofpreceding studies
39%
Other purpose5%
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3.5 Q2: Other resources used to search
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Searchinterfaces of e-
journals (ScienceDirect etc.)
Search engines(Yahoo! etc.)
Google Scholar Bibliographicdatabases
Other resources
multiple answers allowed
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3.6 Q3: Subjects of interest
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3.7 Q4: Coverage policy
only coresubject area.
13%
surroudingarea as well as
core subjectarea.87%
nuclearmatter
environment
policy
economy
non-nuclear energy
(environmental or economical aspects)
core and surrounding
legal aspect
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energy plannin
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3.8 Q5: Type of literature to be covered
J ournal articles51%
Books5%
Reports26%
Patents2%
Audio-visualmaterials
1%Laws and standards
1%
Conference papers14%
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3.9 Q6: Expansion of complimentary access
Should be available toall users (no limits).
26%
Same as it is now (onlyuniversities/ academic
institutes).25%
Extend its service tocover non-profitorganizations
49%
The result should be carefully interpreted because the questionnaireswere sent to only JAEA users and users now enjoying complimentaryaccess, not sent to pay users and potential users.
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• Very useful, but not so many up-to-date information, timeliness be improved.
• Search for laws, regulations are difficult by INIS.
• Difficult to analyze search results because of inconsistency of subject category code.
• Convenient if all full texts can be downloaded.
• Proposes expansion of users by increasing complimentary service.
3.10 Comments from users
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• Comprehensiveness and timeliness is considered as important.
• NCL is important type of literature.
• Advantages of other resources (esp. search engines) must be investigated.
• Make the most of this users needs study.
4. Summary
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Thank you for your attention
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