# Presentation: 481879

## Office of Scientific and Technical Information As It Moves into the 21st Century

**Office of Scientific and Technical Information ****As It Moves into the 21st Century**

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## Supporting the Science		  Mission

- The public invests $7 billion annually                                                         in DOE R&D
- Principal output from department’s                                                               R&D is scientific and technical                                                       information (STI)
- Ensures overall stewardship and accessibility for unclassified STI
- Oversees the Department’s Technical Information Management Program
- Manages the world’s most comprehensive collection of classified and sensitive energy-related information
- Operating Agent and the U.S. representative to the ETDE and INIS

**Result**–information delivered to the desktop, reaching thousands                                                                                                                         	 more people–at lower cost per person served

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## “For science to rapidly advance at the frontiers, it must be open.   And shared knowledge is the enabler of scientific progress.”

**“**For science to rapidly advance at the frontiers, it must be open.   And shared knowledge is the enabler of scientific progress.**”**

**U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson**
**Fermi Awards Presentation**

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## Science Resources

- OSTI provides a comprehensive information approach that incorporates the three information sources that researchers use:

- Grey literature - **DOE Information Bridge**
- Journal literature - **PubSCIENCE**
- Preprints - the **PrePRINT** **Network**
- Digital gateway to energy sciences - **EnergyFiles**
- OSTI’s vision

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## Overview

- Released April 1998
- Includes over 55,000 full-text DOE research reports and their bibliographic records and abstracts from 1995 forward
- Provides over 4.3 million full-text pages to users in an organized, searchable format
- Enables users to access, locate, search, retrieve, and download full-text and/or bibliographic information from their desktops
- Free access provided to the public via partnership with GPO
- 14,000 full-text downloads per month

- http://www.osti.gov/bridge/

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## Enhancements – 2000/2001

- Content projected to double
- Access to full-text documents via Persistent URL's (PURL)
- Capability to search full-text documents located at remote sites where research is performed
- Multiple downloading capabilities, date-range searching, statistical reporting enhancements, search results in user defined order

- http://www.osti.gov/bridge/

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## Ribbon Cutting

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## Overview

- Released October 1, 1999
- Provides users the capability to search a large compendium of peer-reviewed journal literature with a focus on the physical sciences and other disciplines of concern to the Department of Energy’s R&D community
- 26 publisher partners participating with 1048 journal titles
- 1.8 million records accessible for search and retrieval
- 1 million accesses projected annually

- http://www.osti.gov/pubscience/

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## Enhancements - 2000/2001

- Customizable user interface
- E-mail alert service for new journal data based on user preferences
- Query a search engine or index a site with integrated results
- Bi-directional linking with selected publishers

- http://www.osti.gov/pubscience/

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## Overview

- Released January 31, 2000
- A searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE
- Provides access to over 1000 preprint sites and more than 330,000 preprints
- Allows users to search across 24 large preprint databases via a single search interface
- 200,000 accesses projected annually

- http://www.osti.gov/preprint/

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## Enhancements – 2000/2001

- Implementation of Web crawler technologies and options to improve the searching capabilities
- Enhanced searching capabilities, possibilities include additional fields, increased ability to modify searches, clustering, and reference linking
- Continued growth within each “Subject Pathways” section

- http://www.osti.gov/preprint/

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## Overview

- Released May 1997
- One-stop shopping for integrated energy, science, and technology information resources (over 500 sites)
- High quality, driven by a collection development policy
- Geographically-dispersed, resulting from collaborations and resource sharing
- Resources include bibliographic databases, full-text, journals, and preprints
- Maximizes worldwide access at no cost to users, including researchers, educators, students, public
- Utilization of modern technology, including a cutting-edge search mechanism - provides distributed searching across decentralized, heterogeneous resources maintained by various agencies and organizations

**http://www.osti.gov/energyfiles/**

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## Building on Success

- EnergyFiles is highly comparable to the National Libraries at other institutions
- DOE National Library focusing on energy, science, and technology is being proposed to address Physical Sciences
- OSTI uniquely positioned to take the lead
- 50 years experience
- Core collection of 6.5 million items, journals, technical reports, preprints, books, and full-text images
- Collaborations with 120 countries, other government agencies, journal publishers, and research organizations
- Over 1.5 million users served annually

**http://www.osti.gov/energyfiles/**

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## How Federal Agencies are Sharing  Their Information

- National Institutes of Health – National Library of Medicine
- U.S. Department of Agriculture – National Agricultural Library
- U.S. Department of Education – National Library of Education
- U.S. Department of Transportation – National Transportation Library
- National Science Foundation – National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL)
- Environmental Protection Agency – EPA National Library Network

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## Components

- Infrastructure - using Esnet
- Content - valid recorded information regardless of its source, platform or format
- Technology - exploit and develop state-of-the-art and sophisticated new tools for organizing and retrieving information
- Science for Consumers - regionally and individually to desktops of U.S. citizens
- Science Education - highlight and build on existing science education programs
- Business Information Services - profiled alert service to inform   U.S. business of recent information development and trends

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## Elements

- Advanced Information Technology Research and Development (R&D) programs at labs
- University Grants Program
- Acquisition of electronic journals
- Digitizing the DOE collection
- Science Education
- Business Information Services - alert service
- Science for Consumers - increased local presence

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## Outcomes That Will      Benefit the Users

- The DOE National Library Initiative will provide:
- Well organized, comprehensive resource not limited by traditional boundaries
- Relevant information, regardless of source
- Access to both historic and current information
- Practical information about energy use
- Education for future scientists and engineers
- Easy, fast, accurate navigation through collections and resources
- Remote access to scientific hardware and software
- Provisions to accommodate users with disabilities

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## Benefits to the Nation

- Access to a permanent and comprehensive resource for accessing and using historic STI and current R&D
- Practical information for the consumer
- Science education resources for educators and students
- Information alert mechanism to serve industry and commerce and help them to remain competitive
- Information which helps secure a healthy and comprehensive science and technology future for scientists, engineers and the nation into the 21st century
- Better knowledge and understanding of DOE’s contribution to the  U.S. taxpayer

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## Next Steps

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## http://www.osti.gov/fedrnd/