INIS, the International Nuclear Information System is
the world´s leading information system on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.
INIS is operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in collaboration with its Member States and co-operating international organizations. The IAEA, based in Vienna, Austria, is an autonomous organization within the United Nations System.
INIS provides a comprehensive information reference service for literature on the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. To do this, INIS processes most of the world´s scientific and technical literature that falls within its subject scope and maintains a database which currently contains over 2.7 million bibliographic references, making it the world´s most comprehensive information source on the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology.
The INIS Database is a bibliographic database compiled from the data submitted by INIS Members. All of the bibliographic references found in INIS Database have been selected, abstracted and indexed in English by INIS Members according to agreed rules and standards.
The subject scope of the INIS Database was developed to respond to the information needs of the international community in the areas of the IAEA´s interests and activities covering the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. There are central areas to the scope such as nuclear reactors, reactor safety, nuclear fusion, applications of radiation and radioisotopes in medicine, agriculture, industry and pest control as well as related fields such as nuclear chemistry, nuclear physics and materials science. Legal and social aspects associated with nuclear energy are also covered. And, from 1992, the economic and environmental aspects of all non-nuclear energy sources are included in the scope.
Additionally, INIS also maintains a unique collection of full text non-conventional (grey) literature that would be difficult to obtain elsewhere.
