OSTI
is driven! We are fully committed to providing scientists and
researchers with the social networking tools and services that can
make it easier for them to more rapidly advance their scientific
research. We have a number of exciting ongoing initiatives in support
of accelerating the evolution of science. Here are ten that come to
mind:

1. We
   are committed to forming relationships with universities, both the
   technical research departments and the supporting research
   libraries, to make sure that the university research community is
   aware of the many products and services that OSTI has to help them
   in their research endeavors.

2. We
   are committed to providing the bells and whistles for various
   products that make those products user friendly.

3. We
   aim to make it easy for scientists to keep up with new research
   efforts so we are actively investigating new and innovative ways to
   deliver information through RSS feeds, alert services, and other
   technologies.

4. We
   are investigating the use of clustering capabilities to link
   researchers together who may have similar projects; our intent is to
   promote the proliferation of new technologies.

5. We
   know that scientific and technical information comes in many forms
   so we are creating a distributed environment to bring together all
   types of multimedia documents to make entire collections easily
   searchable and findable.

6. We
   are increasing the visibility of DOE's R&D information
   collection by providing libraries with MARC records to make
   information accessible in every library (or at least every library
   that has any of the old DOE legacy collections of materials.)

7. We
   are also getting the word out about DOE R&D by posting
   information to various science blogs.

8. We
   are facilitating conversations between DOE researchers by providing
   a forum for document discussions on the DOE Information Bridge.

9. We
   are making OSTI products more well known by creating Wikipedia
   entries for each one.

10. We
    are providing opportunities for the science and science-attentive
    communities to sponsor digitization of legacy DOE research reports.

OSTI's
never-ending commitment to finding innovative ways to bring
scientists together ensures that our work will never become dull.

Karen
Spence

OSTI
Assistant Director

Information
Systems