2016 DOE STIP Working Meeting

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and SLAC STI Manager Maggie Loera hosted the 2016 DOE Scientific and Technical Information Program Working Meeting on April 11-13 in Menlo Park, CA.  Led and coordinated by OSTI, the DOE STIP is a complex-wide collaboration that works to ensure that the results of DOE-funded research and development (R&D) are collected, preserved, and disseminated. 

The theme of the meeting was STIP 2016:  Strategies, Technologies, Implementation, and Partnerships to Further the Reach of DOE R&D Results.  Representatives from 16 of the 17 DOE national labs were in attendance, along with representatives from several DOE program, field, and site offices.  Topics covered during the formal two-day meeting included the roles of OSTI and the DOE STIP in supporting the modern science environment, intellectual property issues, redesign of the OSTI software center, and digital data. 

Public access to scholarly publications, as set forth in the DOE Public Access Plan, was a key focus of the meeting, with updates on progress from OSTI, as well as from each of the labs during roundtable discussions.  STI representatives from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory gave detailed presentations on their implementation of public access, covering both digital data and publications aspects of the DOE plan.  Several lab STI managers expressed appreciation that provisions encouraging comprehensive public access to scientific publications in laboratory Performance Evaluation and Measurement Plans are contributing to the success of public access efforts. 

In addition to the formal meeting, OSTI staff also provided an orientation session for new STIP representatives, and the entire STIP contingent was treated to a very interesting and informative tour at SLAC.

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Group picture of the attendees of the 2016 STIP Working Meeting

2016 DOE STIP Working Meeting Attendees