Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information

STIP MeetingApril 20-21, 2005

Dr. Walter Warnick Director, OSTI

The Washington Perspective

Enhancing Collaboration –

The further I get into SC-33 duties and other activities,

the more I appreciate STIP!

Our Mission

To advance science and sustain technological creativity

by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers

and the American people

Focus on Results

STIP accomplishments are making a difference in the

diffusion of science

The Department of Energy Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-91) mandated DOE to “carry out the planning, coordination, support, and management of a balanced and comprehensive energy research and development program… disseminating information resulting from such programs….”

Collaboration Is Our Culture

Since 1997, collaboration has been imperative to the success of STIP

DOE is still at forefront of the Information Age

Our actions put DOE ahead of the E-gov curve

Our preferred way of doing business in STIP has prepared OSTI well for other endeavors

Roles Have Expanded!

CENDI Chairmanship

GPO Depository Library Council to the Public Printer

ICSTI Participant

Bottom Line: Increased presence in interagency and international forums, bringing new appreciation to the DOE STI Program

Collaborative Successes Abound

Science.gov – Multi-agency alliance

CENDI – Cross-agency cooperation

GPO – Partner in providing public access

Google, Yahoo, MSN – Making DOE’s STI accessible to public search engines

NSDL – Increasing access

CrossRef – First government gray literature to join

Seamless Access Through STIP

Currently OSTI provides

stewardship for almost 5M

citations and 1.5M reports

Almost 100,000 of these reports

are available online and are

fully searchable

Fully searchable through OSTI, but

25 percent are hosted by the labs!

Central Distributed

Science.gov Alliance

Department of Health and Human Services

(HHS)13%

Government Printing Office (GPO)

2%

Department of the Interior (DOI)

12%

Department of Energy (DOE)22%

Department of Commerce (DOC)

10%

Department of Agriculture (USDA)

15%

Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA)7%

Department of Education (ED)

1%

Department of Defense (DOD)

4%

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA)6%

National Science Foundation (NSF)

8%

DOE has largest share of Federal STI in Science.gov

* Based on number of urls in Web site catalogue

Note: DOE also contributes over 21 percent of total pages in Science.gov

New Alert Service feature was added in February (Try it. You’ll like it!)

Version 3.0 is in development, due in fall Version 4.0 is not far away on horizon OMB E-Government Report to Congress on

March 1, 2005, noted that Science.gov was one of two efforts, government-wide, satisfying the requirements of Section 207 of the E-Gov Act

" . . . so citizens can access the results of Federal research." 

The OSTI-GPO Partnership Continues to Thrive

Over two decades of successful partnership

DOE does more!

Alerts

Web harvesting leading to government-wide portal

Partnerships with commercial search engines continue to grow, advancing STIP mission

Increased access to deep Web information – available and searchable

Exposing our deep Web content to surface Web

NSDL Collaboration

This year we began another approach to support deep Web

searchingWhy shouldn’t DOE STI [and that

of other science agencies] be searchable through the National

Science Digital Library collection?

We believe it should – and we’re working to make that happen!

We believe it should – and we’re working to make that happen!

CrossRef Opportunity

Our membership pioneers a first-of-a-kind government-private partnership

Couples the vast gray literature available at Information Bridge with the reference-linking capabilities of CrossRef

Advances mission of making DOE research results more accessible, via a multitude of pathways

Offers an additional pathway using DOIs to increase long-term access

Currently 1,487 titles available on wide range of disciplines

Content includes current back to 1996

OSTI and SC working closely to deliver valuable resources to further enable the advancement of science

Announced June, 2004

To date a huge success

“We have a proposal”

Sharon

“We have a proposal”

Sharon

Emerging policies

NSF/NSB – Long-Lived Data Collection

NIH – Journal articles

DOE – STIAB

Public outcry for access to Federal STI is broadening scope of agencies’ view beyond traditional gray literature

Numeric Data

Text results of DOE’s R&D are consistently collected, preserved, and disseminated. Yet the underlying source data created through experimentation and testing are not readily accessible.

Ten highly specialized DOE data centers store data and provide access, but not all DOE research data is covered.

The Data Centers called for a “data management policy.”

The STI Program proposes to facilitate, coordinating among data centers to enable linking to full text and increasing access to data collections.

The report of the DOE Data Center meeting (held July 2004) was issued at the recent STIAB meeting. [Contact Sharon Jordan for a copy.]

NIH Policy Enhancing public access to archived

publications resulting from NIH-funded research

NIH-funded investigators requested to submit to the NIH National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of the author's final manuscript upon acceptance for publication

Strongly encourages authors specify posting of their final manuscripts for public accessibility as soon as possible (and within 12 months of publisher’s official publication date)

STIAB Established

And at the beginning of a fruitful partnership effort

We stand on the rim of a new era of global discovery

“Today, we stand on the rim of a new era of global discovery. STI can no longer be simply technical

reports or gray literature in the traditional form. While such documents served us well in the past, we must modify our practices just as science communication

has changed and continues to change due to the Internet, grid computing, simulation, collaboratories,

and other technological advances we can't even envision yet in our day-to-day operations.”

Dr. Orbach Chairs STIAB

Initial STIAB meeting, March 10, 2005

The Challenge

Dr. Orbach’s challenge to create a new STI policy to advance missions of the future

Ensuring that the definition of STI matches the mission

Labs and programs know the value of underlying information – STIAB will provide DOE corporate buy-in

New STI Policy on the Way

To affirm that DOE values all forms and formats of STI, the “tangible” result of R&D

To ensure STI program clearly encompasses text documents and numeric data

New Draft STI Definition

Scientific and Technical Information (STI) consists of the experimental, observational, and analytical findings and conclusions resulting from research

and development activities, as well as other relevant associated information and data.

DOE STI is the body of scientific, technical, or associated knowledge identified as having value to

accomplish DOE's missions and support the advancement of science.

Promising Future

Science progresses only if knowledge is shared

Together we are entering a new era of knowledge diffusion – GLOBAL DISCOVERY

The best is yet to come!