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

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-10-31

Summary:

"The road has been paved for the Department of Energy (DOE) to quickly implement public access to scholarly publications resulting from DOE funding. Three inter-related building blocks are firmly in place:  (1) the DOE Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP) is as strong as ever; (2) submissions of DOE research and development (R&D) results to the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) are at all-time highs; and (3) E-Link has been redesigned and made easier to navigate. All this is to say that a solid foundation has been laid for the upcoming DOE public access portal, the web-based tool that will make scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE research funding publicly accessible and searchable at no charge to readers (read more). OSTI spearheads the DOE STIP, a collaboration of STI managers and technical information officers from across DOE working to ensure that the results of DOE-funded R&D are identified, collected, disseminated and preserved.  OSTI also devised and manages the corporate E-Link submission system, a tool long used by Departmental organizations and researchers at universities to submit metadata and full text for technical reports, conference papers and other forms of STI. Streamlining E-Link helps ensure that DOE's multi-billion dollar annual investment in research results is preserved and available, as appropriate, on SciTech Connect. SciTech Connect provides free and convenient access to full text and bibliographic DOE R&D results. The DOE STIP network includes STI liaisons from DOE field, site and procurement offices, national laboratories and research facilities. This network was bolstered in the spring of 2012 when seven DOE program offices obliged OSTI’s request to designate representatives to the DOE STIP. OSTI sought to broaden Departmental representation in STIP in order to help improve the availability of STI. The STIP expansion, the committed efforts of all STIP representatives and the renewed recognition that dissemination of STI is an integral part of the scientific process together have yielded impressive results. OSTI took in a significantly higher volume of scientific and technical information (STI) in the fiscal year that ended September 30. STIP submissions were more than 50 percent higher at the end of FY13 than FY12, totaling more than 31,000 items representing a wide range of basic and applied research from nanotechnology to small modular reactors ..."

Link:

http://www.osti.gov/home/newsletter/issue-6-october-november-2013

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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Date tagged:

10/31/2013, 11:12

Date published:

10/31/2013, 07:12