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
*OSTI.GOV - The primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering R&D results and the organizational hub for information about DOE OSTI ;
*DOE PAGES (DOE Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science) - The DOE discovery tool that makes peer-reviewed scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE research funding publicly accessible to read, download, and analyze;
*DOE CODE is an open source, submission and search tool for DOE-funded software;
*DOE ScienceCinema is a collection of multimedia videos highlighting DOE's scientific research;
* 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.
* DOE Patents provides a searchable database of patent information resulting from DOE-sponsored research and development.
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Science.gov OSTI hosts this USA.gov science portal in collaboration with 17 organizations within 13 Federal science agencies. These agencies are also members of
CENDI, a cooperative group of scientific and technical information (STI) managers from the 13 federal agencies and programs. Science.gov provides a gateway to over 2,100 websites and offers deep web searching of more than 50 databases containing science information and R&D results.
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WorldWideScience
WorldWideScience.org is a global science search engine (Academic databases and search engines) designed to accelerate scientific discovery and progress by accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge. Through a multilateral partnership, WorldW ...
.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, where users may search multiple databases 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
The United States Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) was a United States government organization formed from the split of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1975. It assumed the functions of the AEC not assumed by the Nucle ...
and the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy. Established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, the NRC began opera ...
)
* 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
The America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act of 2007, or America COMPETES Act, '' PL 110-69
See also
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Federated search
Federated search retrieves information from a variety of sources via a search application built on top of one or more search engines. A user makes a single query request which is distributed to the search engines, databases or other query engines ...
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Web harvesting
Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While web scraping ...
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Science.gov
External links
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