Operating at MEPhI, the Russian National Center INIS contributes greatly to the IAEA activities. About that spoke the rector of MEPhI Mikhail Strikhanov at the 40th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers that took place on May 10-12, 2021. During the meeting, more than 100 specialists from 60 countries and 6 international organizations summed up the results of the INIS activities and determined the directions for further work.

Created in 1970, the International Nuclear Information System – IAEA contains the world's largest collection of publications on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. Nowadays 132 countries host their national nuclear literature on the system, making it one of the world's largest and most complete repositories of publicly available sources of nuclear science and technology.

Russian specialists took an active part in the development of the Agreement and the system operation rules. Since 2012, MEPhI has been caring out the fulfillment of the international obligations of the Russian Federation to participate in INIS and the management of the National Center INIS activities

The IAEA has always been at the forefront in recognizing the importance of knowledge sharing and preservation. The transformation into an Open Access Repository marks the recognition and efforts to ensure free access to knowledge for all, said Dobritsa Savic, the Head of the INIS system. — The INIS system has come a long way from several thousand to millions of information storage units, from manual procedures to artificial intelligence and machine learning applications.

In his speech, rector of MEPhI Mikhail Strikhanov said: For 50 years, the Russian National INIS Center has processed and sent to the INIS Secretariat more than three hundred thousand various types of bibliographic materials published in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation on nuclear topics. Now the Center sent about three thousand materials to INIS that demonstrates a strong partnership with the IAEA. Moreover, the Center provides information services for Russian nuclear organizations and national universities and gives access to up-to-date scientific and technical information. The Center carries out a thematic search following the needs of users and generates appropriate thematic collections of information from the IAEA INIS database.

The meeting results were announced by Mikhail Chudakov, the Deputy Director-General of the IAEA and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy. He noted that INIS continues to successfully promote the exchange of scientific and technical information on the peaceful uses of atomic energy and expressed confidence that the role of INIS scientific resources will grow as an important means of information support for the Open Science concept.