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New approach to knowledge and information exchange

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna, Austria) founded in 1957 as an autonomous intergovernmental organization. The Agency is authorized for exchange of technical and scientific information on peaceful uses of atomic energy. Also, applications of isotopes and nuclear power expanded rapidly during sixties of the 20th century. The output of the related scientific literature was increased by all achievements and developments. It was necessary to have an instrument for a comprehensive and systematic dissemination of all information and knowledge from these fields of science. With this goal International Nuclear Information System (INIS) was established in 1970 from International Atomic Energy Agency as an international bibliographic database in the nuclear field and in nuclear related areas. INIS becomes a big technological and science information system with 129 Members (110 countries and 19 international organizations). Expert participation from countries spread over a wide range of technological capability and infrastructure availability allowed INIS to assimilate all useful innovations in information technology into the INIS work. Countries at different levels of technological development could derive benefits from the output products but most of members are developing countries, in which the major population and economic growth is expected. A critical problem for future development is need for non-fossil and clean (in ecological sense) energy. Probably nuclear energy is not the best and only solution but it is obvious that nuclear sources of energy as a major energy sources are important for the future energy systems. Also, energy source problems should be solved according to demands for sustainable development. Nuclear energy and all application of it, including nuclear and radiation techniques, are very important for such development. Application of all techniques of interest in different areas such as medicine, agriculture, water resourse management and so on, contribute to sustainable development. The maintenance of nuclear capacity building is impossible without the maintenance of nuclear knowledge, so nuclear knowledge and information transfer become some of main IAEA activities. They are important for process of decision making on all issues connected with the full cycle of using nuclear technologies. The IAEA decided to help in systematic knowledge preservation wanting to transfer the practical experiences to the younger generation and to archive important information from this segment. Thanks to development and application of new information technologies within the IAEA’ s information management framework, the collection, production and dissemination of nuclear information became more flexible and maximal simplified. The role of every Member State (including Croatia) is still significant because decentralized information management is an operational philosophy of INIS.

INIS; IAEA; Knowledge preservation; Information

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