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Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait of Isaac NewtonAs Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Newton was not alone on those shoulders. Everyone in science, from his day to ours, draws on the work of others.

Science is all about the flow of knowledge:  New methods, instruments, techniques, concepts, results, questions, data, etc.  The flows are endless, complex and in all directions.  It is rightly called a diffusion process.  This concept is reflected in a host of statutes that form the legislative basis for OSTI.

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If I had to describe the OSTI revolution in ten words or less it would be "OSTI is making the Web work for science."

It is a colossal irony that the Web does not work for science. The World Wide Web was developed by high energy physicists at CERN, for the purpose of sharing scientific papers. HTML is basically very simple, with features that were specifically designed to display scientific writings.[Read More]