# Presentation: 784174

## Technology Solutions        					for Enhanced 					Information 	Access

**Technology Solutions        ****	****	****	****	****	****for Enhanced ****	****	****	****	****	****Information ****	****Access**
**Karen J. Spence**
**DOE/OSTI**

- U.S. Department of Energy
- Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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

**OSTI’s Mission**

## OSTI Becomes Law

**New law identifies OSTI as DOE entity to carry out STI program**
**President signed Energy Policy Act of 2005 (H.R. 6) 8/8/05**

**OSTI Becomes Law**

## 

    “The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, shall maintain within the Department publicly available collections of scientific and technical information resulting from research, development, demonstration, and commercial applications activities supported by the Department.” 

*    “**The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, shall maintain within the Department ****publicly available collections of scientific and technical information**** resulting from research, development, demonstration, and commercial applications activities supported by the Department.” *

**Energy Policy Act Language**

## Strategic Initiative for Scientific Knowledge & Advancement

**Areas of active innovations include:**

**Strategic Initiative for Scientific Knowledge & Advancement**

**Federation of distributed collections with simultaneous, ranked, full text search. **

**Grid-based and other distributed computer processing techniques to support federation of collections. **

**Modeling scientific exchange in the research process **

**Integration of numeric data and text **

**Expanding digital access to legacy documents **

## The return on investment in science depends on the diffusion of scientific knowledge. 

**The return on investment in science depends on the diffusion of scientific knowledge. **
**The opportunity exists to build a global community, to massively speed up and expand the diffusion of knowledge.**

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## Press Acknowledgment Summary

**Over 50 press hits during FY05**
**Include articles in newspapers, online magazines, university newsletters and Web logs**

## OSTI Recognition

**Online search tools hold six slots in TOP 100 Science/Technology Government Information Web Sites by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)**
_**Science.gov**_** tops the list**
_**EnergyFiles**_**, **_**Federal R&D Project Summaries**_** and **_**GrayLit Network**_** listed as top General/Portal sites**
_**EnergyFiles**_** also recognized under Federal Math and Physical Sciences category**
_**ETDE World Energy Database**_** listed in International category**

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**OSTI Recognition**

## Usage Increases

**Use of OSTI resources measurably increases based on patron transactions**

**No. of Transactions (millions)**

**Usage Increases**

## Costs Decrease

**Efficiency and Effectiveness:  By streamlining data requirements and using innovative technologies, costs and time have been reduced for the R&D tracking and deliverables reporting system. **

**Pre-Web **
**Cost per customer transaction (1995): ****$43.14**

**$0.29**

**via Online systems**

**Costs Decrease**

## OSTI Meets Goals through a Wide Range of

**Information Focused Partnerships**

**Science.gov – Multi-agency alliance**
**CENDI – Cross-agency cooperation **
**GPO – Partner in access**
**Google, Yahoo, MSN – Access for commercial search engines**
**NSDL – Increasing access to OAI patrons**
**CrossRef – DOI opportunities**
** ****NTIS**
** ****OCLC**

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## Slide 13

## Released April 1998

Over 110,000 searchable full-text reports and bibliographic citations

Over 7 million searchable pages

From 1994 forward

Topics include physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy

**Over 110,000 searchable full-text reports and bibliographic citations**
**Over 7 million searchable pages**
**From 1994 forward**
**Topics include physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy**

**DOE Information Bridge:  An Old Friend Gets New Life!**

**www.osti.gov/bridge**

##   ~30,000 from FY1993 to be added by end of December      2006

**Legacy Additions**

** ****~20,000 from FY1994 were added June 2005**

** ****~30,000 from FY1992 to be added by end of January 2006**

**Plus ad hoc titles on an ongoing basis**

## www.osti.gov/bridge

**www.osti.gov/bridge**

## The New Look!

**The New Look!**

## Fielded Searching!

## Author Searching!

## Thesaurus Tool!

## Thesaurus Tool! (Cont.)

## Alerts!

## 

RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) allows users to stay up-to-date on headlines, news, events, blog entries or other content that frequently changes

OSTI launched an RSS feed in August

Provides Web patrons a new means for gathering information about OSTI’s products and services

RSS employs an XML-based structure, includes title, date, brief description, and  link to full text of content

**RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) allows users to stay up-to-date on headlines, news, events, blog entries or other content that frequently changes**
**OSTI launched an RSS feed in August**
**Provides Web patrons a new means for gathering information about OSTI’s products and services**
**RSS employs an XML-based structure, includes title, date, brief description, and  link to full text of content**

**OSTI Adds RSS Feed**

## Science Conferences

**The OSTI Science Conferences portal was devised to expedite access to conference papers and proceedings in various fields of science and technology. Emphasis is on U.S. conferences hosted and/or published by scientific and professional organizations whose areas of focus relate substantially to the Department of Energy's mission. This portal provides the capability to search for conference information on multiple web sites and databases with a single query utilizing a combination of surface web and deep web tools (specifically Distributed Explorit from Deep Web Technologies) that can reach where ordinary search engines cannot.**

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## Purpose
Demonstrate department’s contribution to scientific progress
Create a centralized collection
Scope and Content
All DOE patent info, historic and current
Bibliographic records, with link to full text at USPTO

**Demonstrate department’s contribution to scientific progress**
**Create a centralized collection**
**Scope and Content**
**All DOE patent info, historic and current**
**Bibliographic records, with link to full text at USPTO**

**OSTI is Developing a Patents Database**

**Source Data**
** **Imported from ***Patent Weasel***
- Analysis tool developed by PNNL
- Includes data from 1976 thru 2002

**Legacy Data**
** **Available at OSTI
-  Will be integrated into database

_***Bibliographic Data***_**:  *****Each patent record will be comprised of the following fields:***

*Patent Number*
*Patent Application Number*
*Patent Title*
*Lab*
*Abstract*
*Inventor*
*Assignee*
*Subject Categories*
*Contract Number*
*Award Year*
*Full Text Link to USPTO*

## In Pursuit of Fugitive Documents

**GPO continues to emphasize the “fugitive document” problem, which has been exacerbated by electronic publishing and the web**

**DOE has a long history of making scientific and technical information (STI) available to the FDLP program**

**New efforts are being focused on identifying other materials not traditionally included in our STI databases, but which may be relevant to the FDLP program**

## DOE Fugitive Document ProjectContent Guidelines

**Item must be DOE sponsored or authored by DOE or DOE contractor personnel**
**Item must be publicly available (unclassified/unlimited)**
**Item must report on energy or an energy related subject (consistent with DOE’s R&D mission)**
**Item must be located on a DOE organization website, (e.g., program office, national laboratory, etc.)**

## DOE Fugitive Document ProjectContent Guidelines (Cont.)

**Item must have a title and a link to full text**
**Item should not be one that OSTI already has full text for in its collection**
**Item should not be one that OSTI has a URL for as a part of its collection**
**Item must be in a form and format that is technologically manageable by OSTI’s current hardware/software configuration without inordinate level of effort or resource requirements**

## DOE Fugitive Document ProjectMetadata

**Required Metadata**
** ****Title**
** ****URL to full text**
**Metadata Obtained When Readily Available**
** ****Author**
** ****Report number**
** ****DOE contract number**
** ****Originating research organization**
** ****Publication date**
** ****Language**
** ****Country of publication code**
** ****Sponsoring organization**
**Assigned Metadata**
** ****Unique Identifier Number**
** ****Size (full text document)**

## DOE Fugitive Document ProjectConceptual Approach

## DOE/OSTI and GPO

**We are dedicated to continuing our long-standing partnership with GPO and the FDLP**

**We would like your feedback on how we are currently doing and what more we can do to make DOE’s information accessible to you and your patrons**

**Please contact me at:**
- _[spencek@osti.gov](mailto:spencek@osti.gov)_
**865-574-0295**