What Is Not STI?
Type
Not Submitted to OSTI
Information:
The following products (exceptions noted below) are not submitted to OSTI for announcement or availability.
- Administrative materials
- Brochures
- Catalogs
- Correspondence
- Databases
- Draft documents
- Engineering drawings
- Field work proposals
- Financial information
- Future conference announcements
- Notices
- Memoranda
- Monthly reports
- Newsletters
- Policies
- Procedures
- Contractor planning documents
- Proposals or predecisional information
- Public communications (except S&T accomplishments)
- Report sections
- Training or new employee orientation videos
- Weekly reports
- Websites (except those applicable as an STI product)
- Non-scientific or technical or non-programmatic publications
Special Submissions to OSTI
Information:
Certain information products are submitted to OSTI for central processing and announcement; however, they are not considered STI and do not follow the same submission process.
Declassified Documents
Information:
Those documents that do not meet the definition of STI and have been determined to be publicly releasable are submitted through the Department's OpenNet database, maintained by OSTI. OpenNet provides easy and timely access to recently declassified documents and related information, in support of the national Openness initiative. (Declassified documents that meet the definition of STI are submitted through the STI program.)