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Browsing the Database

Highlight an option in the Browse picklist and click the submit button. Based on the option chosen, a title list of citations/data collections will display alphabetically. Links to either the collection citation in the database or to the data collection on its host site will be available under each title. If you wish to close the current list of titles and look at a different heading in the Browse option you are using, simply move the cursor to the new heading. Clicking it will close one list and open the new one.

For example: Highlight Content Type and click submit. On the DOE Data Explorer Browse List for Content Type page, click Scientific Images. A title list of every collection of scientific images in the database will display, with links underneath. To look at Numeric Files/Datasets, simply click it. The list of image collections will close, and a list of all numeric files or numeric datasets collections in the database will open.

The contents of the DOE Data Explorer database can be browsed six different ways.

• by Title - Alphabetically displays the title of each data collection indexed in the database
• by Content Type - Alphabetically displays the seven different content types assigned to data collections in the database. Click on a type (such as Multimedia) to open a title list of all collections in the database that are made up of that particular type. Collections with two or more types will display under each type.
• by DOE Data Center - Alphabetically displays the names of each DOE Data Center used in the database. Names of data centers are displayed only if at least one collection indexed in the database is residing at or made available by that particular Data Center. Clicking the Data Center name (such as National Nuclear Data Center) opens the list of all collections from that Center which are indexed in the database.
• by DOE Scientific User Facility - Alphabetically displays the names of each DOE Scientific User Facility utilized in the DDE database. Names of user facilities are displayed only if at least one collection indexed in the database is residing at or made available by that particular user facility. Clicking the user facility name (such as Spallation Neutron Source) opens the list of all collections from that facility which are indexed in the database.
• by Sponsor - Alphabetically displays the names of all funding organizations, both DOE and non-DOE, responsible for collections in the database. Clicking a sponsor name (such as USDOE - Office of Science) opens the list of all collections funded by that particular sponsor. Collections with two or more sponsors will display under each sponsor.
• by Subject Category - Alphabetically displays the OSTI Subject Categories (and code numbers for those Categories) used to group collections by science discipline or subject area. Click on a category name (such as Environmental Sciences) to open a title list of all collections in the database that pertain to this particular scientific field. Collections related to two or more categories will display under each category heading.

[Note: Collections will display under a DOE Data Center name or Scientific User Facility name only if they reside on that organization's Web server and/or are made available by that organization. Whether data in a collection were generated at a User Facility or processed at a Data Center may not be noted in a citation if the data collection now is maintained elsewhere.]