Read more about the collections . Read more about the collections . Physical Sciences Workshop A distinguished panel of experts in science, science policy, information science, and scientific publishing was convened at the National Academy of Sciences to consider issues related to communication, dissemination, and use of information in the physical sciences and to make recommendations for increasing the productivity of the scientific enterprise in the United States. A group of nine panelists enthusiastically endorsed a vision of a comprehensive information infrastructure for the physical sciences that benefits both the scientific community and the national good. At its time of release, links to over 250 sites housing over 215,000 documents were available.
Researchers are able to browse or search specific sites or search a selected set of sites.
To expand upon the recent distributed full text search capability, a new version of EnergyPortal Search which, through one user interface, incorporates more diverse information resources has been posted. Several subject specific databases have also been added. The heterogeneous material and the different search engines used at each site provide diverse results across many databases. The Distributed Search Tool of the EnergyFiles Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology enables searching across heterogeneous databases and Web sites. EnergyPortal provides single-query searching of entire OSTI databases as well as those of other federal agencies, and combines information residing at different locations into an integrated data set.