Forging the way with vision and foresight
DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information launched the Information Bridge in 1998 as a free public access database containing the Department's full-text DOE research reports. OSTI envisioned there would be a dramatic increase in access to DOE research reports in the coming years. See growth statistics below.
| 1998 | 2012 | |
| Full-text research reports | 32,000 | 292,000 |
| Searchable pages (millions) | 1.4 | 168 |
| Website transactions | 500,000+ | 69 million |


