SEMINAR

ON

UNISISTUNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SYSTEM IN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NANDALAL T S

S2 MLISC

ROLL : O4

Kerala University

INTRODUCTION

The UNISIST model of information dissemination

was proposed in 1971 by the United Nations.

UNISIST should play in the promotion of an

international system for information covering

science and technology.

UNESCO is the parental body of UNISIST

ORIGIN

UNESCO + ICSU { International Council

of Scientific Unions }

UNESCO / ICSU central committee .

In January 1967 feasibility study for a world

science information system.

The feasibility study continued for about 4

years

1970 the report entitled UNISIST study

report on feasibility of a world science

information system.

The feasibility report was prepared by Jean

Claude Gardin.

This report and a synoptic version became

the working document of the UNISIST

inter governmental conference held in

Paris in October 1971.

UNESCO / ICSU central committee 1967

UNISIST study report 1970

UNISIST inter governmental conference, 1971,paris

MILE STONES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The ultimate goal or keynote of UNISIST are

Establishment of a flexible and loosely

connected network of information services

based on voluntary cooperation.

International cooperation and Development

of scientific information policies and structure .

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

Assistance in developing countries in the

development of scientific and technical

information infrastructure

To make strong and depth the knowledge

of experts

Strengthening the role of institutional

components of the information transfer

chain

ORGANIZATION

1. Intergovernmental conference

responsible for approving UNISIST’s

programme and reporting on their progress.

2. International scientific advisory

committee.

3. Executive office

serving as permanent secretariat of

UNISIST.

ACTIVITIES

Standards rules, principles and

techniques:

For the processing and transfer of

information are adopted and applied

internationally.

Standardization of Bibliographic

Description:

Reference manual for machine

readable bibliographic description

ACTIVITIES…

Control of Serials and Abstracting / Indexing Periodicals:

Computer based system of data bank to control over the periodical publications -International Serial Data System (ISDS).

Broad System of Ordering (BSO):

It has been conceived as a switching mechanism to link different individual classification and thesauri in the process of information transfer.

ACTIVITIES….

Handbook and Manual:

A comprehensive handbook for scientific information and documentation services in developing countries has been planned.

The handbook has been published in 1977.

National Focal Point:

Emphasis has been given to the creation of a focal point to scientific information agencies in each country.

Publications

UNISIST published their newsletter

quarterly.

India at UNISIST

The NISSAT advisory committee functions

as the national committee of UNISIST in

India.

UNISIST MODEL OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM OF

COMMUNICATION, WHICH CONSISTS OF

1) Knowledge producers

2) Intermediaries

3) Users

The social system also contains institutes such as research institutes, publishers, and libraries.

The actors and institutions perform information services such as writing, publishing, storing and retrieving documents and information.

THE UNISIST MODEL AND ITS BASIC

CONCEPTS

The UNISIST model offers an important

sociologically-oriented perspective on the

activities of scholarly communication.

It seeks to draw attention to information

communication between knowledge producer

and knowledge user

Examine communication and compare

differences between them.

THE UNISIST MODEL AND ITS BASIC

CONCEPTS

In the UNISIST model, we observe three levels

of information source services between the

knowledge producers and users:

1) primary sources

2) secondary sources

3) tertiary sources

THE FLOW OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

CONCLUSION

The UNISIST model is a fruitful model of scientific communication that help conceptualize IS.

The model is also useful for practical information work.

It is our hope that this model may stimulate further interest in scholarly communication and in documents and thus provide library and IS a much-needed theoretical inspiration.

REFERENCES

UNISIST - Study Report on the Feasibility of a World

Science Information System, By the United Nations

Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and

the International Council of Scientific Unions, Paris,

UNESCO, 1971.

Søndergaard, T. F.; Andersen, J.; Hjørland, B. (2003).

"Documents and the communication of scientific and

scholarly information: Revising and updating the

UNISIST model". Journal of Documentation 59 (3):

278

UNISIST model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia