# Presentation: 061411

## Advancing Global Discovery 	

**FLICC Meeting, November 29, 2007****Sharing Our Knowledge**

***Dr. Walter L. Warnick***
**Director**
**DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information**

**Advancing Global Discovery ****	**

## OSTI Mission:

**OSTI Mission:**
**To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people **

## Science Progresses as Knowledge Is Shared

**Science Progresses as Knowledge Is Shared**

**OSTI Corollary: **
***If the sharing of knowledge is accelerated, discovery is accelerated***

- Profound implications for all of us in the information business!

## We can accelerate the sharing of knowledge ...

**We can accelerate ****the sharing of knowledge ...**

**But first we must ****dispel the misperception ****that popular search engines are already doing the job**

## Much of Science is Non-Googleable 

**Much of Science is Non-Googleable**** **

**We in the information business need to recognize this gap between availability and need, and seize the opportunity to ...**

**Provide science information consumers with better tools**

- In fact, the vast majority of science information is in databases within the deep Web – or the non-Googleable Web – where popular search engines cannot go

## We need systems, such as federated search, that probe the deep Web

**Federated search**** drills down to the deep Web where scientific databases reside**

**We need systems, such as ****federated search****, that probe the deep Web**

**Unlike the Google solution, ****federated search**** places no burden on the database owners **

## OSTI has recognized the need to bridge this gap; our emerging solution is “federated” search

**OSTI has recognized the need to bridge this gap; our emerging solution is “federated” search**

**50 million pages of federal science information**

**Key DOE databases**

**Our most recent federated search engine is WorldWideScience.org – the global science gateway**

## International partnership kicks off global science gateway

**In January 2007, Dr. Raymond Orbach, Under Secretary for Science, and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library signed a Statement of Intent to partner in the development of a ****searchable global science gateway.**

**International partnership kicks off global science gateway**

## WorldWideScience.org was launched in June 2007 and now searches 24 portals from 17 countries of every inhabited continent

**WorldWideScience.org was launched in June 2007 and now searches 24 portals from 17 countries of every inhabited continent**

**WorldWideScience.org allows the users to search multiple data sources around the globe from a single query search box **

**Enables access to prominent as well as smaller, less well-known**
**sources of highly valuable science**

## What Is WorldWideScience.org?

**A federation of the leading science portals sponsored by the governments of 17 countries**
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**A quantity of science searched comparable to that searchable via Google, with the bulk of the science being non-Googleable**
**A breakthrough in content enabled by break-through technology**

**What Is WorldWideScience.org?**

## Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org

**Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org**

## Current WorldWideScience.org Sources

**Current WorldWideScience.org Sources**

**African Journals Online (South Africa) **
**Article@INIST (France) **
**Australian Antarctic Data Centre **
**Canada Institute for Scientific and    Technical Information **
**CSIR Research Space (South Africa) **
**Defence Research and Development Canada (Canada) **
**DEFF Global E Prints (Denmark) **
**DEFF Research Database (Denmark) **
**Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) ****(United Kingdom) **
**J-EAST (Japan) **

**J-STAGE (Japan) **
**J-STORE (Japan)**
**Journal@rchive (Japan) **
**NARCIS (Netherlands) **
**Science.gov (United States) **
**Scientific Electronic Library Online (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Spain) **
**Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961 (New Zealand) **
**UK PubMed Central (United Kingdom) **
**Vascoda (Germany)**

## LIVE DEMO

**LIVE DEMO**

## The stage is set for the future 

- The stage is set for the future

**We are ready to scale up our efforts in metasearch, or federated search.**** Simply put, we intend to make more science accessible to more people**** than anyone has done before.**