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Federal R&D Project Summaries provides a portal to more than 750,000 Federal research projects, complete with full-text single-query searching across databases residing at different agencies. The public may use this tool to stay better informed as to how its investment in research and development is being utilized. It also provides a unique window to the Federal research community, allowing agencies to better understand the research and development efforts of their counterparts in government.
During 2004 Federal R&D Project Summaries was expanded and enhanced
- Content that could be searched via one query was expanded
- Federal agency resources were added
- Relevancy ranking with QuickRank™ was added while a By-Agency display still available
Federal R&D Project Summaries was released in early response to recommendations from a May 2000 Workshop on the concept of a Future Information Infrastructure for the Physical Sciences held at the National Academy of Sciences.
Using research summary and awards data from the Department of Energy, the
National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, and the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, OSTI has applied a unique cross-searching capability on the site.
This tool allows users to select any or all of the databases containing research information and
input key terms for the search query. It will then search complete, full-text records for matches
from all databases selected and provide results almost instantaneously. Results can then be culled,
compiled, and assimilated into useful sets of information.
