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OSTI, the science & technology portal of the U.S. Government

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OSTI, the Office of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy Infor­ma­tion is worth book­mark­ing.  It serves as a por­tal for most of the fed­eral goverment’s infor­ma­tion, reports and data for 18 agen­cies:

Agriculture,Commerce, Defense, Edu­ca­tion, Energy, Health & Human Ser­vices, Inte­rior, Trans­porta­tion, Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, Library of Con­gress, National Aero­nau­tics & Space Admin­is­tra­tion, National Archives & Records Admin­stra­tion, National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion, and the US Gov­ern­ment Pub­li­ca­tions Office.

Ter­mi­nol­ogy and the­sauri might help in your infor­ma­tion searches.

This site is a gate­way to DOE col­lec­tions at ScienceAccelerator.gov, global sci­ence via WorldWideScience.org, sci­en­tific research data as an open gov­ern­ment ini­tia­tive, and the OSTIblog.

Much of this, they declare, is out­side Google’s purview — in the “deep web.”

Free alerting service now available via “DOE Science Accelerator”

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“Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies pow­ers alert ser­vice in DOE Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor — 31 Mar 2010

Fed­er­ated search ser­vices provider Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies, US, has announced that its Explorit Research Accel­er­a­tor tech­nol­ogy is pow­er­ing a new alerts ser­vice for sci­ence researchers via the DOE Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor. With the new ser­vice, researchers can expect to receive infor­ma­tion about new DOE resources rel­e­vant to them.

Users of the free ser­vice cre­ate a per­son­alised pro­file of searches related to their areas of inter­est. The ser­vice per­forms these searches on users’ behalf every week and e-mails the users noti­fi­ca­tions of newly pub­lished results.

Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor is pro­jected as a gate­way to DOE-related sci­ence infor­ma­tion, includ­ing R&D results, project descrip­tions, accom­plish­ments and other author­i­ta­tive infor­ma­tion, via resources made avail­able by the US Depart­ment of Energy’s Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (OSTI). The ser­vice searches 10 major DOE data­bases and por­tals, includ­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of full-text doc­u­ments going back to 1991 and many more cita­tions going back to the Man­hat­tan Project era. Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor resources are incor­po­rated into Science.gov, also hosted by OSTI. Science.gov is incor­po­rated into another prod­uct main­tained by OSTI, WorldWideScience.org. This is expected to expose Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor resources to a global audience.

OSTI cre­ated Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor and intro­duced it to the pub­lic in April 2007. Explorit, Deep Web Tech­nolo­gies’ fed­er­ated search sys­tem, allows Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor users to search the 10 data­bases simul­ta­ne­ously in real-time and from a sin­gle search box. Rel­e­vant results from all sources are com­pared against one another, ranked for rel­e­vance, and dis­played in a sin­gle search results page.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter

DOE’s Office of Scientific &Technical Information has new look and improved navigation

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“The web­site for the Depart­ment of Energy Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (OSTI) is sport­ing a fresh look with improved nav­i­ga­tion path­ways to our prod­ucts and ser­vices.  Direct links to ScienceAccelerator.gov, Science.gov, and WorldWideScience.org are fea­tured, as well as a list­ing of DOE data­bases by con­tent type. Our new fea­tures, Sci­ence Show­case and From the Direc­tor, high­light excit­ing ideas, sci­ence infor­ma­tion, tools and ser­vices. Our Sug­gested Tags cloud pro­vides ideas on how to tag our web­site infor­ma­tion and offers an easy path to users’ favorite pages. Our inter­ac­tive fea­tures can be found in the Read, Lis­ten and Share box. While we know there will be a learn­ing curve, we hope you find the OSTI web­site more in tune with the needs of today’s web users.”

Let us know what you think.

www.osti.gov

From Tim Byrne at OSTI, to the Sci­ence & Tech­nol­ogy Divi­sion of SLA, via direct email.

Science.gov now provides 200 million pages

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Science.gov is a free, inte­grated single-search gate­way to reli­able sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy infor­ma­tion from 17 orga­ni­za­tions within 13 fed­eral sci­ence agen­cies. In this new 5.0 ver­sion,  launched on Sept. 15th, there are 7 addi­tional por­tals or data­bases that quadru­ple its content.  New con­tent includes patents, tox­i­col­ogy data, e-prints from the Dept. of Energy and OSTI, and jour­nal archives from PubMed Cen­tral, and Cancer.gov.

The search engine is improved with clus­ter­ing tech­nol­ogy, and Science.gov now pro­vides links to sci­ence news, the EurekAlert! and Wikipedia. 

“Science.gov is hosted by DOE’s Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (OSTI), within DOE’s Office of Sci­ence. In addi­tion to DOE, Science.gov is sup­ported by con­tribut­ing mem­bers of the Science.gov Alliance, includ­ing the Depart­ments of Agri­cul­ture, Com­merce, Defense, Edu­ca­tion, Health and Human Ser­vices, and the Inte­rior, the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, the Gov­ern­ment Print­ing Office, the Library of Con­gress, the National Aero­nau­tics and Space Admin­is­tra­tion and the National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion, with sup­port from the National Archives and Records Administration.”

From Tim Byrne at osti/gov

 

 

 

World Wide Science database

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From Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, June 18th:

“US DoE expands global sci­ence gate­way — 18 Jun 2008

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.”

Caveat: 

IF YOU WANT A CERTAIN ARTICLE, FIRST CHECK THE PRINCETON ONLINE CATALOG FOR THE AVAILABILITY HERE.  (Then you may (1)download or print, (2) request via doc­u­ment deliv­ery ‚or (3)order directly on your own.)

As great as this ser­vice is, I must point out that you will be invited to pur­chase papers to which the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library has already pur­chased sub­scrip­tions.   You will want to re –search for the full text arti­cle by arti­cle, prob­a­bly most reli­ably via the online cat­a­log.  (Alter­na­tives would be the e-journals list­ing or the e-journal finder.)  Addi­tion­ally, I must say that not all articles/papers are missed by the pop­u­lar search  engines.