# Presentation: 529003

## Institutional Repositories in the Physical Sciences: Enhancing Searchability 

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

- Institutional Repositories in the Physical Sciences: Enhancing Searchability
- Dr. Walter L. Warnick, Director
- Office of Scientific and Technical Information
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Federal Depository Library Conference
- Arlington, Virginia
- October 23, 2002

## GPO Federal Depository Library Program

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

- “My favorite people are
-  archivists and librarians”
- Stephen Ambrose, Author
- C-SPAN Interview; 2000

## Securing Our Future

**GPO Federal  ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

- Science knowledge plays an
- essential role in securing our future
- Our superior technology is the physical expression of
- scientific and technical
- knowledge
- At OSTI, our role is to project the force of knowledge

## Premiums of Encouragement

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

- The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the protection it affords against foreign power, the virtue it inculcates, the just emulation  of the distinction it confers on nations foremost in it; in short, its identification with power, morals,  order and happiness (which merits to it premiums of encouragement rather than repressive taxes), are considerations that should always be present and bear with their just weight." --Thomas Jefferson:     On the Book Duty, 1821

## A Public Good

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

**A Public Good**

## Sharing the Knowledge

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

- OSTI’s job is to use the Internet to share knowledge essential to progress and we are deploying the Internet as fast as we can.

- Harvesting

## GPO Federal Depository Library Program

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

- OSTI is a transmission route to get federal information from the producers to the users
- OSTI develops finding aids and provides through GPO Access to help users find the information they need

- OSTI is in the Business of Cognitive Production

## New Directions for Federal Information

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

- Moving from information delivery to knowledge management
- Tremendous potential for
- further application of
- Distributed Search technology
- OAI

** ****OSTI Home Page * Energy Files * Federal R&D * Graylit Network * Science.gov****  **

## A Searchable Gateway to Preprint Servers

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

- OSTI’s Preprint Network is the ultimate "one‐stop shopping" site for preprints in the scientific and technical areas
- Currently there are 10,000 isolated islands of information integrated such that they can be used like one searchable journal

**Physics ****	****	****   Materials ****	****      Chemistry ****	****	****  Biology ****	****	**** Environmental Sciences  ****	****  Nuclear Medicine**

##   OAI

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

-   OAI

-  Archiving Opportunities

- OSTI has successfully adopted OAI in a proof-of-principle exercise.
-  If  OSTI were to fully adopt OAI, we would need to make each of our relevant databases compliant with the OAI protocol.
- OSTI would want to create tools by which such data are harvested and combine with data from other agencies and other sources to become a federal service provider.
- As an OAI service provider, we would harvest DOE science knowledge free from all access barriers to be used as a basis for building value added services.
- The pipeline to bring information to the public would be immense.

**An Opportunity to Leverage Federal Resources**

## GPO Federal Depository Library Program

**GPO Federal ****Depository**** Library Program**

**DOE Office of ****Scientific**** and Technical  Information**

- A Partnership Spanning More Than Two Decades

- http://www.25yearsofenergy.gov