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Science Accelerator "checks" off another enhancement – posted November 21, 2011

Have you ever wanted to save all the items on a search results page but found checking each item a cumbersome process? With Science Accelerator, you now have a quick and easy option – to 'Select all displayed'. This selects all the results on the page that you are viewing. In addition, the search and retrieval capability for one of the Science Accelerator resources, DOE R&D Accomplishments, has been enhanced to provide an improved results list. Also, sharing your search results via e-mail now offers the capability to send a comment to the recipient. Explore these new capabilities via the basic search or the advanced search.

Explore the sciences via Science Accelerator – posted August 2, 2011

Explore the world of science via ScienceAccelerator – from renewable energy to breakthroughs in medical research, to the intricacies of the atom, to the makeup of molecules, to insights into the Big Bang theory, and much more.

Emphasis is placed on DOE scientific research and its results, complemented by scientific research and results of interest to DOE scientists and the science-attentive citizen. DOE is the single largest Federal government supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States.

Science Accelerator content now includes multimedia – posted June 8, 2011

Science Accelerator has expanded its suite of collections to include ScienceCinema, which contains videos produced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories and other research institutions. ScienceCinema utilizes state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology that provides search results such that you can easily access the exact point in the video where the words were spoken by the presenter. ScienceCinema joins a suite of Science Accelerator resources that offer a variety of science research, including electronic full-text research reports, energy citations beginning with the Manhattan project, green energy research results, ongoing research project summaries, wonderful DOE accomplishments in science, collections of DOE non-text data, e-prints, proceedings and papers from science conferences, and more.

Optimize your findings; share them with friends – posted April 7, 2011

You can send your Science Accelerator search results to yourself and colleagues in three ways:

• From the E-mail Your Results link on the results page
• From the Create an Alert link on your topic(s) of interest  
• From the share feature which offers a variety of social media options

Science Accelerator finds information from 13 key DOE databases of scientific and technical information and is developed and hosted at OSTI.

Use Clusters to Refine Your Search – posted January 31, 2011

When you search for science information at ScienceAccelerator.gov, you get lots of help homing in on the research you need. Enter your search term, such as "fuel cell," and it will automatically generate a cluster field on the left column of your search results page. Topics appear such as "fuel cell vehicle," "solid oxide fuel," "fuel stack," and many more important related subjects. Date clusters also appear. For your convenience, the number of search results found on each topic or date will show up in parentheses. You just select the topic or date and your search continues to drill down to the information you need. ScienceAccelerator.gov finds information from 13 key DOE databases of scientific and technical information and is developed and hosted at OSTI.

More results, still relevant – Science Accelerator increases the returns on your science search – posted November 15, 2010

Because of upgrades in technology, Science Accelerator now returns more results from each of the resources it searches, with the possibility of returning almost twice as many as before. While the pool of results is larger, those results are still ranked by relevancy to your search term(s). Plus, in returning these results, "exact phrase" search results are more precise because stemming of the terms in the "exact phrase" has been eliminated. Your search strategy, as well as other information, is now provided when the search results are printed, providing additional access to this information. For more results plus greater precision, try Science Accelerator, a gateway to science information from the Department of Energy, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more.

DOE Research Impacts – posted October 22, 2010

The results of Department of Energy (DOE) research is varied and far-ranging.  For instance, did you know that researchers associated with DOE have decoded 3 of the chromosomes in your DNA, developed the battery that has powered many spacecraft (including the lunar lander), built a pre-Pong video game in 1958, and won more than 100 Nobel prizes?  They have also discovered 8 of the transuranium elements that are on the Periodic Table and have advanced medicine by contributing to the development of CAT and PET scanners and by research related to MRIs.

DOE researchers discovered the path of carbon in photosynthesis, which led to solar energy research, and found a way to determine the age of plant-based artifacts utilizing the decay rate of carbon-14, which has been used to determine the age of mummies, prehistoric artifacts, and dwellings.

All this, and more, can be found at DOE R&D Accomplishments, a Science Accelerator resource.

A Window into Inventions – posted August 23, 2010

Science Accelerator provides you with a window into inventions via its resource, DOepatents which provides access to a collection of more than 24,000 patent records from the 1940s to the present. This resource gives evidence to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) considerable contribution to scientific progress in the physical sciences and a wide range of other disciplines. The DOepatents collection includes over 6,800 patents owned exclusively by DOE as well as patents sponsored and supported by DOE through a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or similar type of funding mechanism.

You can explore DOepatents through the Science Accelerator Basic or Advanced Search.

DOE scientific research data now more visible for researchers and the public – posted June 22, 2010

Computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research are now more visible to researchers and the public through the addition of the DOE Data Explorer to the Science Accelerator search engine. The DOE Data Explorer identifies and describes collections of DOE-sponsored, non-text data which reside at national laboratories, data centers, user facilities, colleges and universities, and the websites of professional organizations, consortiums, corporate institutions, and international organizations. Now users have an additional pathway to this important scientific research data through the Science Accelerator, which also searches technical reports, citations, patents, software, conference proceedings, and more.

Get the expanded widget plus more DOE R&D through the Science Accelerator – posted June 22, 2010

You can now explore multiple Science Accelerator features through the new tabbed widget. Download this tool via the 'Get Widget Options' link or by placing the inclusion code in the online location of your choice.When you use the widget search feature, a federated search provides one-stop simultaneous searching of multiple scientific resources, including the recently-added DOE Data Explorer (collections of DOE non-text data) and DOE Green Energy (results for DOE green energy R&D). Science Accelerator helps you find Department of Energy research and development reports, accomplishments, project descriptions, patents, software, e-prints, science conference proceedings and more.

Green energy portal added to Science Accelerator – posted June 11, 2010

The DOE Green Energy portal, which pools DOE technical reports, citations, and patents related to different types of renewable energy resources and energy conservation, is now visible through the Science Accelerator search engine. Science Accelerator searches DOE R&D projects and programs, descriptions of R&D projects under way or recently completed, major R&D accomplishments, and recent research of interest to DOE. The DOE Green Energy portal includes but is not limited to hydrogen, solar energy, tidal and wave power, energy storage, and direct energy conversion research results.

DOE Research in Action – posted May 19, 2010

Interested in knowing about what's happening with Department of Energy (DOE) research projects? You can find summaries about ongoing or recently-completed projects via DOE R&D Project Summaries, a Science Accelerator resource. Projects pertain to a wide array of disciplines in energy, science, and technology. They are performed by DOE laboratories or are funded by DOE through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements at universities and other research facilities. R&D Project Summaries was developed to educate and inform the public about DOE's R&D activities and its research capabilities.

You can explore R&D Project Summaries by using the Advanced Search page. Remove the check prior to 'All Resources' (by clicking on it) and check the box in front of DOE R&D Project Summaries (seventh on the list).

Getting to Know ECD – posted April 2, 2010

Energy Citations Database (ECD) is a Science Accelerator resource that provides free access to over 2.6 million science research citations. These include scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and computer science. Bibliographic citations are for report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.

ECD contains energy and energy-related scientific and technical information collected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessors, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA), the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and the Manhattan Project.

You can explore ECD by using the Advanced Search page. Remove the check prior to 'All Resources' (by clicking on it) and check the box in front of Energy Citations Database (sixth on the list).