Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is a component of the Office of Science within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The Energy Policy Act PL 109-58, Section 982, called out the responsibility of OSTI: “The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, shall maintain with the Department publicly available collections of scientific and technical information resulting from research, development, demonstration, and commercial applications activities supported by the Department.”

Resources

OSTI provides access to energy, science, and technology information through publicly available web-based systems, with supporting tools and technologies to enable information search, retrieval and re-use.

Science information resources freely available for public use

• DOE Information Bridge provides access to over 263,000 fully searchable, full-text technical reports documenting the results of DOE-sponsored research.
• DOE R&D Accomplishments highlights outcomes of past DOE research and development which have had significant economic impact, improved people’s lives, or been widely recognized as a remarkable advance in science.
• DOE R&D Project Summaries contains information on more than 46,000 ongoing or recently completed DOE-sponsored research projects.
• DOE Data Explorer searches collections of DOE scientific research data, such as computer simulations, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, numeric files and scientific images.
• DOepatents provides a searchable database of patent information resulting from DOE-sponsored research and development.
• DOE Green Energy provides a portal to green energy DOE technical report literature about various forms of green energy, including solar, wind, bioenergy, and others.
• Energy Science and Technology Software Center provides a searchable database of DOE's centralized software management facility.
• Energy Citations Database offers over 2.3 million bibliographic records of DOE scientific and technical information from 1943 to the present, with links to full-text when available.
• Science Conference Proceedings provides single-query searching of conference papers and proceedings on multiple websites and databases.
• Federal R&D Project Summaries provides cross-search of more than 800,000 R&D project summaries in databases at DOE and eight other leading science agencies.
• E-Print Network: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers provides single-query searching of over 5.5 million e-print documents in basic and applied sciences residing on over 34,000 websites, as well as a deep web search across 52 major e-print databases.
• EDUconnections, highlights university research departments and libraries across the nation to increase awareness of DOE's valuable scientific and technical information.
• EnergyFiles, the Energy Science and Technology Virtual Library, provides single-query access to over 500 databases and websites containing information and resources pertaining to science and technology of interest to DOE, with an emphasis on the physical sciences.
• Science Accelerator provides single-query searching of important information resources of DOE scientific and technical information.
• ScienceEducation.gov is a search engine for federally-funded Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education resources.
• Science.gov OSTI hosts this USA.gov science portal in collaboration with 18 organizations within 14 Federal science agencies. These agencies are also members of CENDI, a cooperative group of scientific and technical information (STI) managers from the 14 federal agencies and programs. Science.gov provides a gateway to over 2,000 websites and offers deep web searching of more than 45 databases containing science information and R&D results.
• WorldWideScience.org provides a global science gateway through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.

OSTI's entire line of electronic products may be accessed through its home page at www.osti.gov, where users may search multiple databases from the Science Accelerator with one query.

Related legislation

• 1946 - Atomic Energy Act PL 79-585 (created the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission)
• 1954 - Atomic Energy Act Amendments PL 83-703
• 1974 - Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 PL 93-438 (Split the AEC into the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• 1977 - Department of Energy Organization Act PL 95-91 (Dismantled ERDA and replaced it with the Department of Energy)
• 2005 - Energy Policy Act PL 109-58
• 2007 - America COMPETES Act PL 110-69
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See also

• Federated search
• Web harvesting
• Science.gov

External links

• Key Databases and Resources
• International Databases
• Strategic Alliances
• Statutory Authority
• OSTI History
• OSTI Milestones
• OSTI Awards and Honors
• Office of Science
• Science.gov
• ScienceEducation.gov
• WorldWideScience.org