OSTI is Committed to Facilitating Science Research

OSTI is driven! We are fully committed to providing scientists and researchers with the social networking tools and services that can make it easier for them to more rapidly advance their scientific research. We have a number of exciting ongoing initiatives in support of accelerating the evolution of science. Here are ten that come to mind:

1. We are committed to forming relationships with universities, both the technical research departments and the supporting research libraries, to make sure that the university research community is aware of the many products and services that OSTI has to help them in their research endeavors.
   

2. We are committed to providing the bells and whistles for various products that make those products user friendly.
   

3. We aim to make it easy for scientists to keep up with new research efforts so we are actively investigating new and innovative ways to deliver information through RSS feeds, alert services, and other technologies.
   

4. We are investigating the use of clustering capabilities to link researchers together who may have similar projects; our intent is to promote the proliferation of new technologies.
   

5. We know that scientific and technical information comes in many forms so we are creating a distributed environment to bring together all types of multimedia documents to make entire collections easily searchable and findable.
   

6. We are increasing the visibility of DOE's R&D information collection by providing libraries with MARC records to make information accessible in every library (or at least every library that has any of the old DOE legacy collections of materials.)

7. We are also getting the word out about DOE R&D by posting information to various science blogs.
   

8. We are facilitating conversations between DOE researchers by providing a forum for document discussions on the DOE Information Bridge.
   

9. We are making OSTI products more well known by creating Wikipedia entries for each one.
   

10. We are providing opportunities for the science and science-attentive communities to sponsor digitization of legacy DOE research reports.

OSTI's never-ending commitment to finding innovative ways to bring scientists together ensures that our work will never become dull.

Karen Spence

OSTI Assistant Director

Information Systems