“GATEWAY
CELEBRATION” SET FOR
SCIENCE.GOV ON NOVEMBER 7
Oak Ridge Road To Be Renamed
“Science.gov Way”
November 5, 2003
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – The Department
of Energy’s Office of Science, the Oak Ridge Chamber
of Commerce and the City of Oak Ridge are planning a
“Gateway Celebration” for Friday, November
7, to commemorate Science.gov, the Internet portal hosted
in Oak Ridge by DOE’s Office of Scientific and
Technical Information (OSTI), as the first government
portal established for multi-agency science information.
The event, which will begin at 12:00 noon,
will be held outside the OSTI facility located at 175
Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, TN.
Oak Ridge Mayor David Bradshaw, Dr. Raymond
L. Orbach, Director of DOE’s Office of Science,
senior DOE and Oak Ridge National Laboratory management,
other agency partners of Science.gov, and additional
local dignitaries are scheduled to participate in activities
that will include the renaming of Athens Road located
adjacent to OSTI to “Science.gov Way.” OSTI’s
address will become 1 Science.gov Way.
“This street re-naming ceremony
is a wonderful way to highlight Oak Ridge’s transformation
from the ‘secret city’ of the 1940s into
the hub it has become today for information about all
federal government research and development results,”
said Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham.
“OSTI has been the gateway for DOE’s
scientific and technical information for more than 50
years,” Secretary Abraham said, “and now,
as the home of Science.gov, OSTI continues to expand
and provide this free service via the Web portal open
to all science-attentive citizens. The government partnership
that created Science.gov is making our nation’s
science knowledge base more openly available than ever
before.”
From Science.gov, users can find over
1,700 government information resources about science.
These include technical reports, journal citations,
databases, Federal Web sites, and fact sheets. The information
is all free and no registration is required.
Science.gov is for the educational and
library communities, as well as business people, entrepreneurs,
agency scientists, and anyone with an interest in science.
Support for building the Science.gov gateway came from
an interagency committee of senior managers of Federal
science and technology information programs.
The agencies participating in Science.gov
are the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense,
Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, and Interior;
the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration; the National Science Foundation;
the Government Printing Office; and the National Archives
and Records Administration.
OSTI houses the world’s most comprehensive
collection of energy-related information. This vast
national resource, most of it managed electronically,
is available to industry, academia, and the general
public through the Internet.
OSTI was established in the mid-1940s
by the Atomic Energy Commission, the predecessor agency
to DOE, to manage and provide access to nuclear information
generated during the Manhattan Project. Over the years,
the scope has expanded along with the missions of the
Energy Research and Development Administration and the
current Energy Department. Under DOE, the office has
been responsible for the Department-wide scientific
and technical information program and covers the various
science disciplines of interest. Today, OSTI represents
a valuable national resource, hosting a vast collection
of worldwide scientific research results and providing
Web-based tools and capabilities to make information
easily accessible and usable.
OSTI hosts the Science.gov
Web site, partnering with 11 other federal agencies
to make much of the government’s science information
accessible through the site. This includes more than
400 DOE information collections. A distributed Deep
Web search capability for the site, also developed by
OSTI, allows users to search and navigate the content
of multiple databases with a single query, regardless
of which agency hosts the databases or how the data
is stored.
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NEWS MEDIA CONTACTS:
Sharon Jordan, OSTI, (865) 576-1194
Frank Juan, DOE, (865) 576-0885
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