Indexing policy for International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Yonezawa, Minoru  

International Nuclear Information System (INIS) was founded in 1970 in order to foster scientific and technical information in the field of nuclear science and technology for peaceful purpose in cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member countries and related international organizations. INIS member countries collect nuclear related literatures and prepare input records and submit them to the IAEA/INIS Secretariat, and then INIS Secretariat merges those records from member countries into INIS database. In INIS, indexing has been conducted for effective information retrieval. It is important to keep consistency of indexing among INIS members and indexing is conducted mainly for title and abstract in each document based on the indexing manual. This paper describes general principle of indexing as well as specific rules applied for several fields.