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).

Mission

OSTI's mission is to advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people.

Accelerating science by increasing the contact rates among scientific communities is a priority for OSTI.

Resources

At OSTI, one can search collections of DOE research results, find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, sign up for alerts on science topics of interest, find science conference papers and proceedings, connect with national laboratory education sites, and find other resources.

OSTI, located on Science.gov Way in Oak Ridge, TN

Sharing scientific and technical information is integral to OSTI’s mission. OSTI objective is to make R&D findings available and useful, so that science and technological creativity can advance.

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

• The Energy Citation Database offers over 2 million bibliographic records of DOE scientific and technical information from 1948 to the present, with links to full text when available.
• The DOE Information Bridge provides access to over 125,000 fully searchable, full-text technical reports documenting the results of DOE-sponsored research.
• The E-Print Network: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers provides single query searching of over 900,000 manuscripts, scholarly papers, and other scientific documents residing on approximately 22,000 Web sites, as well as a deep Web search across 52 major e-print databases.
• 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 22,000 active DOE-sponsored research projects.
• EnergyFiles, the Energy Science and Technology Virtual Library, provides single-query access to over 500 databases and Web sites containing information and resources pertaining to science and technology of interest to DOE, with an emphasis on the physical sciences.
• Federal R&D Project Summaries provides cross-search of more than 750,000 R&D project summaries in databases at DOE and five other leading science agencies.
• GrayLit Network provides access to full-text reports from DOE, the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
• Science Conference Proceedings provides single-query searching of conference papers and proceedings on multiple Web sites and databases.
• ScienceLab is an education resource site for science.
• Science.gov: OSTI hosts this USA.gov science portal in collaboration with 17 organizations within 13 Federal science agencies, many of which are also members of CENDI, a cooperative group of scientific and technical information (STI) managers of 13 federal agencies and programs. Science.gov provides a gateway to over 1,800 Web sites and offers deep Web searching of more than 30 databases containing science information and R&D results.

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

Related legislation

• Atomic Energy Act 1946
• 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 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 of 2005 PL 109-58

See also

• United States Department of Energy
• Template:OSTI – Wikipedia template to help link references to the Energy Citation Database
• 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