Provision of nuclear information in Malaysia with particular reference to PUSPATI

It is the purpose of this dissertation to look into the availability of scientific and technical information sources in Malaysia; to explain the situation of data communication and telecommunications in Malaysia; to discuss the availability, utilization, hardware and software of computers in Malaysia; to show the operation and services provided by INIS to its members; to propose several methods of undertaking literature searches either by manual, online, batch processing or telex; to discuss what are the methods available to acquire the original documents; and to compare the estimate cost of each method in order to conclude upon the most economical method of obtaining nuclear information. (author)