The current science.gov activity is building upon a foundation that DOE has been laying for the past several years. OSTI, identified by the Workshop Report as an organization within DOE that could well serve as the needed point of convergence, has been leading a collaborative effort to encompass government, academia, professional organizations, and industry. Consider the resources or foundation which are building blocks for this future gateway to the physical sciences. It has long been recognized that progress cannot be made unless knowledge is first shared. It incorporates over 60,000 full-text reports comprising almost five million pages.
Users remotely access and download the reports free of charge and in significant volume.
The DOE Information Bridge focuses on providing access to scientific and technical reports produced by DOE, DOE national laboratories, and DOE contractors. New reports received by OSTI are added routinely and legacy reports are added as resources permit. The DOE Information Bridge is made available to the public through a partnership between OSTI and GPO on GPO Access . Hyperlinks provide access to publisher servers to obtain full-text articles if the user or organization has a subscription to the journal. Without a subscription, access to the full text can be obtained by pay per view, by special arrangement with the publisher, by library access, or through commercial providers.