ICSTI and Inspec

40th Anniversary

2009

The IET (Inspec) 1898-1966

• Founded in 1898 with the first Issue of Science abstracts

• 1903 Science abstracts and Electrical Engineering launched

• 1966 – Electrical Engineering Abstracts was renamed as Electrical and Electronics Abstracts

Inspec 1967-1973

• 1967 Inspec was formed

• 1969 – introduced a computerised system

• Inspec database launched

Inspec 1974-1981

• 1974 Physics abstracts reached 1 million

• Key abstracts series was launched

• 1977 – January Inspec indexed 1 million abstracts

• 1981 – April , Electrical and Electronics abstracts indexed its 1 thousand issue

Inspec 1982-1987 continues to grow

• 1982 inspec reached 2 million abstracts

• 1983 - IT Focus was launched

• 1984 - Inspec extended coverage to IEEE standards

• 1987 – Inspec add chemical and numerical indexing

• 1987 – 3 million abstracts indexed

Inspec 1989-1995

• 1989 we introduced Inspec2

• 1993 Inspec was made available on EPIC and FirstSearch services

• 1995 – Inspec reached 5 million abstracts

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Inspec Journal Coverage

• Journals 4000 plus

• Conferences approximately 2000

• Books, Reports and Standards

ICSTI and Inspec partnership

• 1995 Brian Howes, director of Inspec meets and signs agreement with ICSTI.

• ICSTI begin translation of Russian STI journals.

• ICSTI provide data to Inspec in Word format for Bibliographic data.

ICSTI and Inspec

• 2007 ICSTI and Inspec agree a new contract

• ICSTI will use Inspec’s new production system

• October 2008 – training started in Moscow

• Moldova and Kazakhstan delegates attend training session

Production after training in Moscow

• 29 publications

• 73 publication issues

• 1323 articles

• 35% of total items produced since training completed

The IET Inspec

ICSTI and Inspec (further developments)

• 2008 Inspec and ICSTI arrange and agree consultation with additional interested parties to provide translation of bibliographic information for Inspec

• 2009 – ICSTI identify Belarus and the Ukraine as potential partners for Inspec

Inspec extends translation of articles

• Following the success of previous joint ventures with ICSTI – translations extended

• Translations to include conferences and STI journals from other member states

Additional publications

• 25 new publications from Moldova

• 20 new publications from Kazakhstan

• Additional publications from the Republic of Belarus

• Additional publications from the Ukraine

• Conferences held in Russia (non English)

What will the future bring

• Increased coverage of non-English articles.

• Faster and improved currency (perhaps with the help of SWETs.

• Further expansion and cooperation with other interested parties.

The IET Mission

Inspec 10 Millionth record