Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information

1. Dr. Walter Warnick Director, OSTI STIP Meeting April 20-21, 2005 Enhancing Collaboration – The Washington Perspective Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information

2. The further I get into SC-33 duties and other activities, the more I appreciate STIP!

3. Our Mission To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people

4. Focus on Results The Department of Energy Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-91) mandated DOE to “carry out the planning, coordination, support, and management of a balanced and comprehensive energy research and development program… disseminating information resulting from such programs….” STIP accomplishments are making a difference in the diffusion of science

5. Collaboration Is Our Culture • Since 1997, collaboration has been imperative to the success of STIP • DOE is still at forefront of the Information Age • Our actions put DOE ahead of the E-gov curve • Our preferred way of doing business in STIP has prepared OSTI well for other endeavors

6. Roles Have Expanded! • CENDI Chairmanship • GPO Depository Library Council to the Public Printer • ICSTI Participant • Bottom Line: Increased presence in interagency and international forums, bringing new appreciation to the DOE STI Program

7. Collaborative Successes Abound • Science.gov – Multi-agency alliance • CENDI – Cross-agency cooperation • GPO – Partner in providing public access • Google, Yahoo, MSN – Making DOE’s STI accessible to public search engines • NSDL – Increasing access • CrossRef – First government gray literature to join

8. Seamless Access Through STIP Currently OSTI provides stewardship for almost 5M citations and 1.5M reports Distributed Central Almost 100,000 of these reports are available online and are fully searchable Fully searchable through OSTI, but 25 percent are hosted by the labs!

9. Science.gov Alliance DOE has largest share of Federal STI in Science.gov * Based on number of urls in Web site catalogue Note: DOE also contributes over 21 percent of total pages in Science.gov

10. New Alert Service feature was added in February (Try it. You’ll like it!) • Version 3.0 is in development, due in fall • Version 4.0 is not far away on horizon • OMB E-Government Report to Congress on March 1, 2005, noted that Science.gov was one of two efforts, government-wide, satisfying the requirements of Section 207 of the E-Gov Act • " . . . so citizens can access the results of Federal research." 

11. The OSTI-GPO Partnership Continues to Thrive • Over two decades of successful partnership • DOE does more! • Alerts • Web harvesting leading to government-wide portal

12. Exposing our deep Web content to surface Web • Partnerships with commercial search engines continue to grow, advancing STIP mission • Increased access to deep Web information – available and searchable

13. NSDL Collaboration This year we began another approach to support deep Web searching Why shouldn’t DOE STI [and that of other science agencies] be searchable through the National Science Digital Library collection? We believe it should – and we’re working to make that happen!

14. CrossRef Opportunity • Our membership pioneers a first-of-a-kind government-private partnership • Couples the vast gray literature available at Information Bridge with the reference-linking capabilities of CrossRef • Offers an additional pathway using DOIs to increase long-term access • Advances mission of making DOE research results more accessible, via a multitude of pathways

15. OSTI and SC working closely to deliver valuable resources to further enable the advancement of science • To date a huge success • Announced June, 2004 • Currently 1,487 titles available on wide range of disciplines • Content includes current back to 1996

16. “We have a proposal” Sharon

17. Emerging policies Public outcry for access to Federal STI is broadening scope of agencies’ view beyond traditional gray literature • NSF/NSB – Long-Lived Data Collection • NIH – Journal articles • DOE – STIAB

18. Numeric Data • Text results of DOE’s R&D are consistently collected, preserved, and disseminated. Yet the underlying source data created through experimentation and testing are not readily accessible. • Ten highly specialized DOE data centers store data and provide access, but not all DOE research data is covered. • The Data Centers called for a “data management policy.” • The STI Program proposes to facilitate, coordinating among data centers to enable linking to full text and increasing access to data collections. The report of the DOE Data Center meeting (held July 2004) was issued at the recent STIAB meeting. [Contact Sharon Jordan for a copy.]

19. NIH Policy • Enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from NIH-funded research • NIH-funded investigators requested to submit to the NIH National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of the author's final manuscript upon acceptance for publication • Strongly encourages authors specify posting of their final manuscripts for public accessibility as soon as possible (and within 12 months of publisher’s official publication date)

20. STIAB Established We stand on the rim of a new era of global discovery And at the beginning of a fruitful partnership effort

21. Dr. Orbach Chairs STIAB Initial STIAB meeting, March 10, 2005 “Today, we stand on the rim of a new era of global discovery. STI can no longer be simply technical reports or gray literature in the traditional form. While such documents served us well in the past, we must modify our practices just as science communication has changed and continues to change due to the Internet, grid computing, simulation, collaboratories, and other technological advances we can't even envision yet in our day-to-day operations.”

22. The Challenge • Dr. Orbach’s challenge to create a new STI policy to advance missions of the future • Ensuring that the definition of STI matches the mission • Labs and programs know the value of underlying information – STIAB will provide DOE corporate buy-in

23. New STI Policy on the Way • To affirm that DOE values all forms and formats of STI, the “tangible” result of R&D • To ensure STI program clearly encompasses text documents and numeric data

24. New Draft STI Definition Scientific and Technical Information (STI) consists of the experimental, observational, and analytical findings and conclusions resulting from research and development activities, as well as other relevant associated information and data. DOE STI is the body of scientific, technical, or associated knowledge identified as having value to accomplish DOE's missions and support the advancement of science.

25. Promising Future • Science progresses only if knowledge is shared • Together we are entering a new era of knowledge diffusion – GLOBAL DISCOVERY • The best is yet to come!