OSTI.gov Newsletter | OSTI, US Dept of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information

"The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has collected, preserved, and disseminated scientific and technical information (STI) emanating from research and development (R&D) performed by DOE and its predecessor agencies for nearly 70 years.  DOE today conducts more than $10 billion a year in R&D, and OSTI helps ensure a return on those investments by making DOE-sponsored R&D results available in web-based searchable databases.  To date, these databases have included electronic full-text research reports; energy citations going back to the Manhattan Project era; e-prints (journal article pre-publication drafts, scholarly papers, and more); DOE patents; energy science and technology software; multimedia videos about DOE and other science research; DOE non-text data collections; and DOE R&D accomplishments.  Now, OSTI has begun collecting, archiving, and making publicly accessible at no charge to users the scholarly journal publications resulting from DOE research funding – through a new public access portal and search engine.  On August 4, 2014, DOE launched the Department of Energy Public Access Gateway for Energy and ScienceBeta (DOE PAGESBeta), which, when fully operational, will offer free public access to the best available full-text version of DOE-affiliated scholarly publications – either the peer-reviewed, accepted manuscript or the published scientific journal article – after an administrative interval of 12 months.  When a publisher provides a publicly-accessible article about DOE R&D results, DOE PAGESBeta will link to that article; if the article is not available, DOE PAGESBeta will provide access to the corresponding accepted manuscript obtained through the DOE Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP) ..."