The US Depart­ment of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion has announced that inter­na­tional sci­ence por­tal WorldWideScience.org has expanded its scope to include con­nec­tions to data­bases and sci­en­tific web sites from over 44 nations.

WorldWideScience.org allows users to ques­tion over 200 mil­lion sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy doc­u­ments not indexed by pop­u­lar search engines. The por­tal linked to 12 data­bases from 10 coun­tries when it debuted in June 2007. The lately expanded ser­vice includes 32 national sci­en­tific data­bases and links to por­tals from 44 countries.

DOE and the British Library along with eight other par­tic­i­pat­ing coun­tries first struck an agree­ment to estab­lish the por­tal in Jan­u­ary 2007. WorldWideScience.org gives sci­ence infor­ma­tion con­sumers a sin­gle entry point for search­ing far-reaching sci­ence por­tals in par­al­lel, with only one query, sav­ing time and effort.”