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SEMINAR
ON
UNISIST
UNITED 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.

MILE STONES
UNESCO /
ICSU central
committee
1967
UNISIST
study report
1970
UNISIST
inter
governmental
conference,
1971,paris

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

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