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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.”

Copenhagen COP15

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© flickr user Jams_123 licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
U.N. Cli­mate Sum­mit Under Way in Copen­hagen
Lead­ers from across the globe con­vened today (Dec. 7th) in Copen­hagen for a United Nations con­fer­ence to dis­cuss a plan to com­bat cli­mate change. One of the goals of the sum­mit, which runs through Dec. 18, is to work on a follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Pro­to­col that expires in 2012.

Source: WhatsNew@NationalAcademies.org

Under the “Full Story”, there are links to reports and a link to the con­fer­ence web­site.

 

National Technical Reports Library — coming soon from NTIS

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From Bill McGa­hey at NTIS.gov:

“To fur­ther enhance acces­si­bil­ity to the NTIS col­lec­tion, NTIS will be launch­ing the National Tech­ni­cal Reports Library (NTRL) dur­ing early Spring 2009.
 
The NTRL will pro­vide access to:
Bibli­o­graphic records of more than 2,000,000 tech­ni­cal reports
Down­load­able full text of 500,000 of these reports in Portable Doc­u­ment Format
 
The NTRL oper­ates on a subscription-based sys­tem inter­face that allows users to do queries on the large NTIS bib­li­o­graphic data­base. The intent is to broadly expand and improve access to mil­lions of bib­li­o­graphic records (pre-1960 to present) and 500k full-text doc­u­ments in Portable Doc­u­ment For­mat that are directly linked to the bib­li­o­graphic database.”
 
More infor­ma­tion will be forthcoming.
 

NTIS — National Technical Information Services — RSS Feeds

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 The Nation’s Source for Sci­en­tific Information

“NTIS under­goes a rig­or­ous process to ensure that all the infor­ma­tion we offer is authen­tic and cred­i­ble. This integrity, along with the breadth and depth of our col­lec­tion, is why NTIS is regarded as the nation’s pre­em­i­nent source of gov­ern­ment infor­ma­tion.” 

NTIS is now offer­ing RSS feeds to any of its 39 major sub­ject cat­e­gories.  One may sub­scribe to receive the lat­est titles, weekly.   For a list­ing of Scope Notes that defines the spe­cific top­i­cal con­tent for each, go to  http://www.ntis.gov/pdf/scopenotes.pdf

To sub­scribe to the Newslet­ter, write to:

 “The National Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion Ser­vice (NTIS), is the nation’s largest and most com­pre­hen­sive source of government-funded sci­en­tific, tech­ni­cal, engi­neer­ing and business-related information.”

 

Source: NTIS Tech­ni­cal Reports Newslet­ter, Vol. 1(4), Octo­ber 15, 2008