Karen J. Spence
Library Operations Working Group (LOWG)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
October 2005
Slide 2: Administrative News
Slide 3: OSTI Becomes Law
- New law identifies OSTI as DOE entity to carry out STI program
- President signed Energy Policy Act of 2005 (H.R. 6) 8/8/05
Energy Policy Act Language
The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, shall maintain within the Department publicly available collections of scientific and technical information resulting from research, development, demonstration, and commercial applications activities supported by the Department.
Slide 4: OSTI is a component of the DOE Office of Science.
Slide 5: OSTI Leadership and Staff
Slide 6: Budget and Staffing Over Time
Slide 7: Strategic Initiative for Scientific Knowledge & Advancement
Areas of active innovations include:
- Federation of distributed collections with simultaneous, ranked, full text search.
- Modeling scientific exchange in the research process
- Grid-based and other distributed computer processing techniques to support federation of collections
- Integration of numeric data and text
- Expanding digital access to legacy documents
Slide 8: Global Discovery.
Collaborative search, enhancing knowledge, advancing science
The return on investment in science depends on the diffusion of scientific knowledge. The opportunity exists to build a global community, to massively speed up and expand the diffusion of knowledge.
Slide 9: Innovations in Scientific Knowledge and Advancement (ISKA)
Enhancing Knowledge Diffusion
Slide 10: Recognition for DOE R&D
Online search tools hold six slots in TOP 100 Science/Technology Government Information Web Sites by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
- Science.gov tops the list
- EnergyFiles, Federal R&D Project Summaries and GrayLit Network listed as top General/Portal sites
- EnergyFiles also recognized under Federal Math and Physical Sciences category
- ETDE World Energy Database listed in International category
Slide 11: OSTI Adds RSS Feed
- RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) allows users to stay up-to-date on headlines, news, events, blog entries or other content that frequently changes
- OSTI launched an RSS feed in August
- Provides Web patrons a new means for gathering information about OSTI's products and services
- RSS employs an XML-based structure, includes title, date, brief description, and link to full text of content
Slide 12: Press Acknowledgment Summary
- Over 50 press hits during FY05
- Include articles in newspapers, online magazines, university newsletters and Web logs
Slide 13: Partnerships
Slide 14: OSTI Meets Goals through a Wide Range of Information Focused Partnerships
- STIP — DOE-wide collaboration
- International — ETDEWEB
- Science.gov — Multi-agency alliance
- CENDI — Cross-agency cooperation
- GPO — Partner in access
- Google, Yahoo, MSN — Access for commercial search engines
- NSDL — Increasing access to OAI patrons
- CrossRef — DOI opportunities
- NTIS — Commercial Outlet
- OCLC — Library Connections
Slide 15: DOE has largest share of Federal STI in Science.gov*
- Department of Energy (DOE): 22%
- Department of Agriculture (USDA): 15%
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): 13%
- Department of the Interior (DOI): 12%
- Department of Commerce (DOC): 10%
- National Science Foundation (NSF): 8%
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): 7%
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): 6%
- Department of Defense (DoD): 4%
- Government Printing Office (GPO): 2%
- Department of Education (ED): 1%
*Based on number of URLs in Web site catalogue
Note: DOE also contributes over 21 percent of the 50 million pages in Science.gov search
Slide 16: In Pursuit of Fugitive Documents
- GPO continues to emphasize the "fugitive document" problem, which has been exacerbated by electronic publishing and the web
- DOE has a long history of making scientific and technical information (STI) available to the FDLP program
- New efforts are being focused on identifying other materials not traditionally included in our STI databases, but which may be relevant to the FDLP program
Slide 17: DOE Fugitive Document Project Content Guidelines
- Item must be DOE sponsored or authored by DOE or DOE contractor personnel
- Item must be publicly available (unclassified/unlimited)
- Item must report on energy or an energy related subject (consistent with DOE's R&D mission)
- Item must be located on a DOE organization website, (e.g., program office, national laboratory, etc.)
Slide 18: DOE Fugitive Document Project Content Guidelines (Cont.)
- Item must have a title and a link to full text
- Item should not be one that OSTI already has full text for in its collection
- Item should not be one that OSTI has a URL for as a part of its collection
- Item must be in a form and format that is technologically manageable by OSTI's current hardware/software configuration without inordinate level of effort or resource requirements
Slide 19: DOE Fugitive Document Project Metadata
- Required Metadata- Title
- URL to full text - Metadata Obtained When Readily Available
- Author
- Report number
- DOE contract number
- Originating research organization
- Publication date
- Language
- Country of publication code
- Sponsoring organization - Assigned Metadata- Unique Identifier Number
- Size (full text document)
Slide 20: DOE Fugitive Document Project Conceptual Approach
Slide 21: Product/Service Update
Slide 22: Usage Increases
Use of OSTI resources measurably increases based on patron transactions
In recent years, OSTI has increased information accessibility online, thus greatly increasing the number of citizens and scientists who avail themselves of DOE R&D research results
Slide 23: Costs Decrease
Efficiency and Effectiveness: By streamlining data requirements and using innovative technologies, costs and time have been reduced for the R&D tracking and deliverables reporting system.
Pre-Web
Cost per customer transaction (1995): $43.14
Cost per customer transaction via Online systems: $0.29
OSTI has reduced costs while increasing accessibility.
Slide 24: OSTI cited as the third most-visited DOE Web site
Source: Alexa.com, March 2005
Slide 25: Statistics show broad use of OSTI's Web information tools
Who uses OSTI's information Web tools? Scientists, researchers, teachers, students, managers, citizens, government agencies, businesses . . .
- Business: 14%
- Government: 15%
- Education: 6%
- International: 22%
- Internet Providers: 14%
- Unidentified: 29%
Slide 26: A Wealth of Research Material
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Slide 27: DOE Information Bridge: An Old Friend Gets New Life!
- Released April 1998
- Over 110,000 searchable full-text reports and bibliographic citations
- Over 7 million searchable pages
- From 1994 forward
- Topics include physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy
Slide 28: Legacy Additions
- 20,000 from FY1994 were added June 2005
- 30,000 from FY1993 to be added by end of December 2006
- 30,000 from FY1992 to be added by end of January 2006
Plus ad hoc titles on an ongoing basis
Slide 29: Information Bridge
Slide 30: The New Look!
Slide 31: Fielded Searching!
Slide 32: Author Searching!
Slide 33: Thesaurus Tool!
Slide 34: Thesaurus Tool! (Cont.)
Slide 35: Alerts!
Slide 36: Science Research Connection (SRC)
SRC draws together, in a single place, scientific and technical information previously contained in the DOE Information Bridge (IB), the DOE Energy Citations Database (ECD), as well as additional STI available to the DOE community.
SRC provides users access to over 6 million bibliographic citations and over 145,000 full-text documents spanning more than 6 decades of DOE research
Slide 37: Science Research Connection
Released in April 2005 and built exclusively for DOE and DOE Contractors, this Web-based product is intended for scientists and information specialists as a way to enhance their research on behalf of DOE.
Special Features Include:
- Search Result Manipulation
- Save Search Capability
- Alert Services
- Shopping cart
- Field Sorting
- Downloadable Bibliographic Data to EndNote
Basic Search and Sophisticated Search Options Are Available Including:
- Wild Card
- Proximity
- Full Text
- Author
- Taxonomy
Slide 38: SRC Search Results
Slide 39: Science Conferences
The OSTI Science Conferences portal was devised to expedite access to conference papers and proceedings in various fields of science and technology. Emphasis is on U.S. conferences hosted and/or published by scientific and professional organizations whose areas of focus relate substantially to the Department of Energy's mission.
This portal provides the capability to search for conference information on multiple web sites and databases with a single query utilizing a combination of surface web and deep web tools (specifically Distributed Explorit from Deep Web Technologies) that can reach where ordinary search engines cannot.
Slide 40: Science Conferences (Cont.)
Slide 41: Science Conferences, Ranked Results
Slide 42: Science Conferences, Ranked results for: solar
Slide 43: FY06 Activities
Slide 44: Planned FY-06 Activities
- SRC Version 2
- Patents Database
- Science Links
- Enterprise SecureNet Project
- Implementation of A-76
- E-Government Act Requirements
- Diskless Transition in LSA
