I'd like to share with you today our recent achievements. Until recently, the method of disseminating DOE research results was through bibliographic databases. NSA is an historic record of nuclear research from the early 1940s through June 1976. Together these databases offer more than 5 million records in energy science and technology. Then along came the Information Age.
Researchers communicate their findings in three main ways.
My office does not operate any of the preprint servers. These servers host 330,000 preprints. Much depends on the field of science. Patrons have several search options, including the ability to query multiple preprint servers and to browse by subject. One way is when the patron places a query, then PPN accesses several selected databases, causes searches to be done by their search engines, and then compiles the results for the patron.