OSTI has a track record of success in collaboration. OSTI's ability to forge partnerships and strategic alliances opens avenues for researchers and the American public to gain appropriate and ready access to both historic and ongoing research and development information.
Department of Energy
Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP)
Throughout its history, OSTI has maintained responsibility in the policy areas of STI management. OSTI coordinates the Department-wide STIP, a complex-wide collaboration to lead the Department in the Information Age. OSTI coordinates the STI Program through an infrastructure that involves designated STI points of contact at the Operations and Field Offices and at the National laboratories and other contractor facilities.
Scientific and Technical Information Advisory Board (STIAB)
STIAB was established to provide advice on STI policy and encourage that the scientific knowledge embodied in textual and numeric data produced across the DOE complex is appropriately disseminated and preserved. OSTI provides primary support to STIAB with members representing the Department's Program Secretarial Offices, the National Nuclear Security Administration, as well as other offices that impact STI policies.
Interagency
Science.gov Alliance
OSTI hosts Science.gov, an interagency initiative of 17 U.S. government science organizations within 13 Federal agencies. These agencies form the voluntary Science.gov Alliance. Visitors to the site can search across Alliance agency resources and via one query can access the government's vast stores of scientific and technical information.
CENDI
OSTI is an active member of the community of federal agencies and organizations responsible for handling the nation's federally funded STI. CENDI is an interagency working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies, and these agencies represent approximately 97 percent of the federal R&D budget. OSTI represents the Department of Energy and OSTI Director Walt Warnick currently serves as chair of CENDI.
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) serves as a public outlet for Federal report information, and OSTI has a long standing relationship with NTIS to provide research results from the Department of Energy to further public access.
International
IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE)
OSTI maintains an international program to meet the energy communities' STI needs, both domestic and international. Under the auspices of the International Energy Agency, the ETDE, through its member countries, provides an extensive bibliographic database announcing published energy research and technology information. OSTI serves as the ETDE operating agent, and Brian Hitson, the U.S. representative to ETDE and associate director of OSTI, currently serves as chairman of the ETDE Executive Committee.
IAEA International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, INIS provides a comprehensive information reference service for literature on the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. OSTI played an instrumental role in the creation of INIS in 1969 and continues to provide the U.S. Liaison Officer and the U.S. nuclear STI input to INIS.
Additional Public Access
Commercial search engines
OSTI is making DOE's STI accessible to public search engines through partnerships and collaboration with commercial search engines such as Yahoo!, Google, and MSN.
ArXiv
By implementing an Alert Service for patrons of arXiv, a service of Cornell University Library System, OSTI automatically notifies users of the latest information posted on arXiv. OSTI provides this special interface for e-print arXiv patrons (www.osti.gov/eprints/arxivalerts.html) through its E-print Network, vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels.
CrossRef
OSTI pioneered this first-of-a-kind government–private partnership with CrossRef, a nationally recognized reference-linking service for scholarly and professional content, in order to facilitate access to the Agency's vast stores of scientific and technical information. OSTI and CrossRef plan to use Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to facilitate the access to 110,000 science research reports available electronically on OSTI's Information Bridge. A DOI provides a way to track, exchange, and manage content over time in the digital universe, regardless of changing information related to that content.
SPARC
In an effort to increase and encourage scholarly communication and to disseminate research, OSTI's E-print Network was chosen as a Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition partner. The selection recognized the contribution of the E-print Network to expanded availability and use of open-access scientific and technical research on the Internet. The E-print Network utilizes a unique deep Web search capability that combines full-text searching through PDF documents residing on e-print Web sites with a distributed search across e-print databases.
National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
OSTI's establishment of an OAI server immediately opened more then 110,000 records for harvesting by the NSDL and other OAI users, achieving broader exposure of searchable science through OSTI's suite of R&D databases. By becoming a data provider adopting the OAI technical framework, OSTI took another step toward easing access and search of the deep Web.
Regional
East Tennessee Technology Corridor (ETTC)
OSTI works with numerous organizations across the state of Tennessee and in the East Tennessee Technology Corridor, which spans Chattanooga, through Knoxville, to Johnson City, in support of important economic, science and technology initiatives.
Center for Excellence for Information Science and Technology (CEIST)
OSTI has been an active participant in several major information infrastructure activities across the region and championed the establishment of the Center for Excellence for Information Science and Technology (CEIST) in East Tennessee.
