By utilizing information age technologies, OSTI has radically changed its information services and has developed a group of award-winning Internet resources that bring science information to the desktop at no cost to the end user. These resources provide easier, faster, cheaper, more complete, and more convenient means of accessing and using global STI by scientists, researchers, academia, industry, and the public. Its search mechanism, EnergyPortal, is easy to use and integrates parallel searching across heterogeneous and geographically dispersed databases and Web sites. It includes more than 55,000 full-text reports from 1995 to the present, in over 4.3 million pages. It provides free, convenient, and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports.
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 processed by OSTI are added routinely and legacy reports are added as resources permit. Since its introduction, the content of DOE Information Bridge has more than doubled, and it has been most favorably received. The basic search option offers specific data fields and the advanced option incorporates Boolean operators to increase search precision. Full-text page images may be viewed in GIF, PDF, or TIFF formats.