1 / 11

Transforming NTIS

National Technical Information Service. Transforming NTIS. National Technical Information Service. National Technical Information Service (NTIS), United States Department of Commerce

lidia
Download Presentation

Transforming NTIS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. National Technical Information Service Transforming NTIS

  2. National Technical Information Service • National Technical Information Service (NTIS), United States Department of Commerce • Established 1945 to collect and provide permanent access to nation’s scientific, technical, engineering and business information and to collect related international information NTIS

  3. National Technical Information Service • Facilitates perpetual public access to Federal information in various formats • Assists federal agency compliance with transferring their government information to NTIS under the American Technology Pre-eminence Act (ATPA). • ATPA Requires Federal Agencies to transfer their Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Information (STEI) to the National Technical Information Service • Develops bibliographic records to aid find-ability • Maintains a permanent repository of unclassified scientific, technical, engineering, and business information • Collects and disseminates information worldwide • Provides customized information services to other agencies

  4. National Technical Information Service General Trends in Dissemination of Physical Media

  5. National Technical Information Service The Collection Total Documents

  6. National Technical Information Service Customer Feedback Strengths: • The NTIS database is focused on government technical reports. • The NTIS database is big and covers lots of years • Consistent metadata over a long period of time • Customer recognition with major commercial suppliers Concerns: • Collection is not completely digital • Customer confusion about the NTIS role in S&T • Source agency confusion about NTIS value to them

  7. National Technical Information Service • Core customers are academic and government libraries. • Customers are intermediaries not end-users. • Print and PDF orders are mostly corporate. • Customers know who we are. • Librarians do not generally collect technical reports, but value them highly. • Librarians value comprehensive coverage. • Sources of reports need to be recognized. • Value of the collection is far greater than the value of the document. Observations

  8. National Technical Information Service NTIS will be recognized by the technical information community as the leader in must-have government scientific, technical, and engineering content and services with easy to use access, search, discovery, and retrieval tools in a collaborative environment. The Big Goal

  9. National Technical Information Service • Build a resource for scientific discovery. • Ensure that NTIS content is accessible and usable to the widest possible audience. • Provide focus to the NTIS content acquisition and preservation strategy. • Create a value proposition that encourages Federal Agency participation. Big Objectives

  10. National Technical Information Service Step 1: National Technical Report Library • Access to bibliographic records plus full text content from the desktop • Broader dissemination possible • Subject matter exposure • Focus on timeliness, comprehensiveness and current awareness • Higher value to source agencies • Values the collection as greater than the sum of the documents • Subscription based access to library functions • Free search of titles from NTIS website

  11. National Technical Information Service For more information, please contact The Office of Product and Program Development 703-605-6142 Don Hagen dhagn@ntis.gov

More Related