Frequently
Asked Questions
How can I obtain more information about Sandia's history?
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In addition to the publications produced
by the Sandia History Program, there is a variety of publicly available
information concerning the history of the national laboratories, nuclear
weapons, and the Cold War. Much of this information is accessible
through the world wide web.
Many of Sandia's recent formal technical reports (known as SAND
reports) have been made available through the Sandia
Technical Library web page. Items are listed by year and are
available in pdf format.
Unclassified Department of Energy (DOE) reports and publications
have long been available through the National
Technical Information Service (NTIS), which is the central source
for purchasing scientific, technical, and engineering information
created by the federal government. The 600,000 products available
since 1990 are searchable on the NTIS
web site, which also contains information about obtaining older
items.
The federal government has made a concerted effort in recent years
to release unclassified and declassified records held by its agencies.
For example, as part of its Openness Initiative, the Department
of Energy established OpenNet.
OpenNet lists documents that have been released to the public by
DOE and its contractors. It includes documents that were never classified,
as well as those declassified as part of DOE's Declassification
Initiative. Other information resources created in the Openness
Initiative are available from DOE.
DOE has also created a public Information
Bridge on the web. It is an electronic collection of DOE-sponsored
full-text reports and their bibliographic records. The collection
begins with records processed since January 1996. It currently includes
over 2 million searchable pages and new DOE pages are added to the
collection daily.
DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
collects, preserves, disseminates scientific and technical information
produced by the Department's researchers and entities. Multiple
databases can be searched at a single OSTI
site.
Similarly, finding aids and some pdf format documents pertaining
to the history of DOE facilities and activities can be found through
The Environment, Safety
and Health Researcher's Workstation. The workstation concentrates
on environment, safety, and health information, but some items of
historical interest on other topics are also included.
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