Figure 270314: PAGES ORNL video article image
As the Department of Energy (DOE) Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (DOE PAGES) marks its third anniversary, the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is continuing its efforts to grow the number of scientific publications available via the discovery tool and to improve the user experience for DOE researchers.
Developed and maintained by OSTI, DOE PAGES is a web-based portal that makes scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE research funding publicly accessible and searchable at no charge to readers. The DOE public access repository offers free access to the best available full-text version of DOE-affiliated scholarly publications either the peer-reviewed, accepted manuscript or the published article after an administrative interval of 12 months. Launched in August 2014, DOE PAGES now contains more than 40,000 accepted manuscripts and journal articles, including more than 34,000 that are publicly accessible in full text.
DOE-funded authors at national laboratories and grantee and other research institutions play a key role in enabling public access to their publications. To help get the word out to researchers funded by DOE at its national laboratories and research universities around the country, OSTI and the DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently teamed up to produce a video about DOE PAGES. Entitled A Video Message about DOE PAGES for DOE-funded Authors of Scientific Publications, the infographic video provides an introduction to the DOE public access portal and encourages DOE laboratory and grantee researchers to submit their accepted manuscripts to OSTI.
DOE PAGES was created to provide free public access to articles by DOE-funded researchers, the video notes. To get their papers into DOE PAGES, all DOE-funded researchers are required to submit their accepted manuscripts to their labs publication system or directly to OSTI. This is a great way for DOE to show the American public the important work thats underway to solve some of the biggest science and technology challenges.
Meanwhile, OSTI has worked to improve the functionality of DOE PAGES in a number of ways. Users now have the opportunity to sign up for a DOE PAGES account to save searches, export bibliographies, and create content alerts. There are a number of additional features that may be activated by the DOE research community anyone accessing DOE PAGES from a DOE national laboratory or DOE office IP address as indicated during the account registration process.
For the DOE community, DOE PAGES displays a reference citation tree that enables users to explore a publications references and any articles citing the publication, through an agreement between DOE and Web of Science. OSTI produced a tutorial that explains these features, DOE PAGES Improved Reference Navigation for DOE Researchers.
Finally, DOE PAGES now offers an application programming interface (API) designed specifically for researchers and developers who want to obtain metadata programmatically. The API is HTTP-based, so it provides a way for individuals to retrieve metadata more quickly (by writing a GET request for a resource) without using the front-end interface.
Please check out the DOE PAGES video and enhancements. OSTI will continue working to improve DOE PAGES, and, as always, we welcome feedback from users. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please submit them to pagescomments@osti.gov.