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Orientation Manual for INIS and AGRIS (OMINAS)

Specific information systems are developed in order to simplify life for the person in need of some specific information, and those who need to supply it. An international system involves transferring information on an international scale, and should reduce duplication of effort on the part of individual centres each trying to cope with a burden too big for them. The information thus made available should be more complete, up-to-date, accessible and economical than collections feasible at a national level. INIS, the International Nuclear Information System, announces most of the world's significant literature dealing with the various aspects of the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. AGRIS, the International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology, covers - as its name implies - a very wide range of subjects in the agricultural field. To ensure the necessary speed in data handling on such a scale, a computer-based system is required. In view of the many different languages involved, English was selected as the common carrier-language for both systems. INIS and AGRIS both operate on a work-sharing and cost-sharing principle. Each system independently pools information received from its member countries and organizations, thus establishing a 'data base'. Duplication of information collecting, cataloguing and processing is prevented by doing this work once only in and by the country where such information is produced, and then centrally merging this new information in a world file.

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