News/Press Releases
October 15, 2008–People's Republic of China joins WorldWideScience Alliance
The People's Republic of China has joined the WorldWideScience Alliance–the multilateral governance structure for the global science gateway, WorldWideScience.org. WorldWideScience.org is intended to accelerate international scientific progress by serving as a single, sophisticated point of access for diverse scientific resources and expertise from nations around the world. The addition of China is a notable milestone, as it is a major global contributor to scientific knowledge. Read the press release.
[Photograph by: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information]
Alliance Members (From Left to Right): Yukiko Sone (for Masayuki Mizukami,
Japan Science and Technology Agency); Kirsi Tuominen, VTT Technical
Research
Centre (Finland); Pam Bjornson, Canada Institute for Scientific
and Technical
Information; Walter L. Warnick, U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Scientific
and Technical Information (WorldWideScience.org
Operating Agent); Yang Byeong-tae,
Korea Institute of Science and
Technology Information; Richard Boulderstone, The
British Library
(United Kingdom); Jeffrey Salmon, U.S. Department of Energy,
Associate
Under Secretary for Science; Lee Gul-woo, Korean Ministry of Education,
Science, and Technology; Herbert Gruttemeier, International Council for
Scientific
and Technical Information; Eleanor Frierson, Science.gov
Alliance (United States);
Jean-François Nominé (for Raymond Duval,
Institut de l’Information Scientifique et
Technique (France); Jan Brase
[for Uwe Rosemann, German National Library of Science
and Technology (TIB)]
Not Pictured: Abel Packer, Scientific Electronic Library On-Line (SciELO);
Yvonne Halland, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
(South Africa); Susan Murray, African Journals Online; T. Mary McEntegart,
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
June 12, 2008–WorldWideScience Alliance Agreement Signed in Korea
Officials from organizations representing 38 countries gathered recently in Seoul, Korea to formalize their commitment to sustain and build upon the online gateway to the world’s science information. The Alliance (see DOE press release) was formed to establish a multilateral governance structure. WorldWideScience.org enables anyone with Internet access to launch a single-query search of 32 national scientific databases and portals from 44 countries, covering six continents and nearly half of the world’s population. Users of WorldWideScience.org can search more than 200 million pages of science and technology information not typically accessible through popular search engines. more
Video of WorldWideScience Alliance Signing Ceremony
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[Video by: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information]
April 1, 2008–Sources from Finland, Sweden and Korea
Science from Finland, Sweden and Korea can now be found at WorldWideScience.org, the global gateway to science. This brings the total to 32 sources from 44 countries that can be searched. The new sources include the VTT Publications Register and VTT Research Register (from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), the Directory of Open Access Journals (managed by Lunds University in Sweden), and KoreaScience (from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information). Visit WorldWideScience.org and click on the interactive map to view science sources from every inhabited continent.
February 5, 2008–Formative WorldWideScience Alliance Meeting
WorldWideScience Alliance Stakeholders held the formative meeting of the Alliance on February 5, 2008 in Paris, France. The meeting provided a concentrated opportunity to review and revise the Terms of Reference (ToR). A nomination and voting period for elected officer positions will take place in April.
January 8, 2008–India added to WorldWideScience.org
Four important science information sources from India have been added to WorldWideScience.org. The Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian Institute of Science Eprints, the Indian Institute of Science Theses & Dissertations and the Indian Medlars Centre are now available through the global science gateway, making a total of 28 sources from 18 countries searchable via a single query. The addition of India effectively doubled the percentage of the world's population represented in the searches of WorldWideScience.org. The goal of the gateway is to make the world’s science readily available to researchers and citizens. WorldWideScience.org is maintained by OSTI, which makes R&D findings available and useful to advance discovery.
June 22, 2007–Global Science Gateway Now Open
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the British Library, along with eight other participating countries, today opened an online global gateway to science information from 15 national portals. The gateway, WorldWideScience.org (worldwidescience.org), gives citizens, researchers and anyone interested in science the capability to search science portals not easily accessible through popular search technology such as that deployed by Google, Yahoo! and many other commercial search engines.
Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library sign
a Statement of Intent to partner in the development of a
searchable global science gateway.
January 21, 2007–Global Science Gateway Agreement Signed in London
A Statement of Intent (215-KB PDF) to partner in the development of a searchable global science gateway was signed Sunday, January 21, by Dr. Raymond Orbach, Under Secretary for Science of the U.S. Department of Energy, and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library.
