STI Product Type Fact Sheet for DOE Laboratory Researchers

Books and Monographs

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

As an STI product, a book or monograph is a scholarly piece of writing on a specific subject. It may contain a detailed written study of a single specialized subject or an aspect of it, including a manual describing a particular process. Each volume is a self-contained work, yet monographs may be a published in a series to provide detailed information on a specialized scientific or technical topic. A book may also be composed of chapters, and the STI product may be just one part or topic in the whole book to be published. Books and monographs may be published by the originating site (e.g., as e-books or technical fact sheets) or by a commercial publisher. If the STI product is a chapter, reference should also be made to the whole book.

SUBMISSIONS

Each DOE laboratory has a site program to manage scientific and technical information produced under the contract and to make it available to DOEs Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Each sites STI Manager is involved in the process; for more information, see the listing of STI Managers at https://www.osti.gov/stip/about/stip-community#STIManagers.

Using a Lab's processes for STI submission, the author provides metadata for a book or monograph as well as a full-text document in searchable PDF format or a link to the document hosted on the institutional repository, if it is publicly accessible. If the STI product is copyrighted by a commercial publisher, then an announcement notice only may be submitted, providing metadata and the source of availability.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Launched in 2018, it consolidates OSTIs home page and the previous search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

OSTI.GOV is included in the Federal science portal Science.gov and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org. Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. Worldwidescience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/CONTACTS
The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/
OSTI staff will respond to questions/suggestions sent to stip@osti.gov
Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov

STI Product Type Factsheet for DOE Laboratory Researchers

Conference Paper/Presentation or Proceedings

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

A conference paper/presentation or proceedings is a type of scientific and technical information (STI) product from a conference, symposium, lecture, or similar event. Individual papers and presentations are those presented at an event by an individual whose work was sponsored by DOE, while a conference proceedings is the compilation of a group of papers from a conference, workshop, seminar, etc., typically prepared at the request of a DOE program that sponsored work in the area covered by the conference. Papers and proceedings are typically PDF documents, while presentations may be PowerPoint slides or videos. [See also the fact sheet for "Videos"].

SUBMISSIONS

Each DOE laboratory has a site program to manage scientific and technical information produced under the contract and to make it available to DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Each site's STI Manager is involved in the process; for more information, see the listing of STI Managers at https://www.osti.gov/stip/about/stip-community#STIManagers.

Using the Labs processes for STI submission, the researcher should provide metadata/citation information for conference papers/presentations or proceedings plus an upload in PDF format or a link to the Lab/site institutional repository that is hosting the paper or proceedings. If the item has been commercially published (within conference proceedings, for example), then an announcement record only (metadata and availability information) may be submitted if copyright restrictions are imposed on the product. See also the "Videos" fact sheet for more specific guidance.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Launched in 2018, it consolidates OSTIs home page and the previous search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

DOE ScienceCinema (http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema) includes more than 3,600 multimedia scientific videos from DOE national laboratories, other DOE research Facilities and CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), and makes them searchable using Watson speech?recognition search technology. The ability to search and "jump to" the spoken words in a video that may be an hour or longer is a unique, added value. Released in February 2019, DOE ScienceCinema was updated for a new look and feel, as well as new features including: more powerful searching, filtering options, account and playlist functionalities, larger video players, and further audio searching within individual videos.

OSTI.GOV and DOE ScienceCinema are included in the Federal science portal Science.gov and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org. Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/CONTACTS
The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/
OSTI staff will respond to questions/suggestions sent to stip@osti.gov
Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov

STIP Product Type Fact Sheet for DOE Laboratory Researchers

Patents

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, which in the United States is issued by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent gives the holder exclusive rights to a process, design or new invention for a designated period of time. The assignee could be a government agency or a company that is a contractor or grant recipient. After a patent is issued, the USPTO includes the patent in its database, making the patent application, full text, and other descriptive information accessible to the public. If DOE-funded research led to the patent, then this research result is of interest to DOE as a form of STI. The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) obtains patent records of interest to DOE directly from USPTO; however, to ensure comprehensiveness, broad dissemination, and archival preservation, inventors funded by DOE may find it useful to submit information to OSTI through their particular STI submission channels.

SUBMISSIONS

Each DOE laboratory has a site program to manage scientific and technical information produced under the contract and to make it available to DOEs Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Each sites STI Manager is involved in the process; for more information, see the listing of STI Managers at https://www.osti.gov/stip/about/stip-community#STIManagers.

For patents, the researcher has the option to (1) use the Labs processes for STI submission, providing metadata for a patent as well as a full-text document in searchable PDF format or (2) rely on the OSTI-USPTO process for ensuring access via a link to the document hosted by USPTO. If the latter is the Labs preference, periodic review of the Labs patents in the OSTI collection is desirable to ensure that all patents from the Lab are being included.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Launched in 2018, it consolidates OSTIs home page and the previous search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

DOE Patents (http://www.osti.gov/doepatents/) is a search tool for discovering patent information resulting from DOE-funded research and development (R&D), consisting of bibliographic records with full text where available, either via a PDF document or a link to the record at the USPTO (http://www.uspto.gov). DOE Patents provides comprehensive coverage of patents resulting from DOE funding.

OSTI.GOV and DOE Patents are included in the Federal science portal Science.gov and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org. Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/CONTACTS
The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/
OSTI staff will respond to questions/suggestions sent to stip@osti.gov
Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov

STI Product Type Factsheet for DOE Laboratory Researchers:

Program Documents

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Launched in 2018, it consolidates OSTIs home page and the previous search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

OSTI.GOV is included in the Federal science portal Science.gov and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org. Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/CONTACTS
The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/
OSTI staff will respond to questions/suggestions sent to stip@osti.gov
Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov

STI Product Factsheet for DOE Laboratory Researchers:

Scientific Datasets

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

Scientific datasets are data derived during research and development (R&D) or other scientific and technical work. Datasets may consist of numerical data, simulations from computer models, figures, tables, data plots, GIS data supporting interactive applications, genomic data, or other forms of non-textual data which are a basic component of research results. Often these datasets are referenced in publications and in some cases, are made available as supplemental information. To announce datasets through the OSTI STI process, the scientific research data must be posted at a DOE site, DOE Data Center, or other publicly accessible location such as an open repository. The URL (and DOI, if available prior to submission) must be included in announcement notice metadata. This link will typically take the user to a landing page which describes the dataset and what to expect in more detail. Datasets cannot be uploaded or stored at OSTI.

SUBMISSIONS

Each DOE laboratory has a site program to manage scientific and technical information produced under the contract and to make it available to DOEs Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Each sites STI Manager is involved in the process; for more information, see the listing of STI Managers at https://www.osti.gov/stip/about/stip-community#STIManagers.

The STI staff will use the Managers at labs E-Link account to submit the metadata through Announcement Notice (AN) 241.6. Data Centers, repositories, or projects needing to submit large volumes of data with high frequency may work directly with OSTI to automate their submissions through a web service using an Application Programming Interface (API). In return, OSTI provides the service of assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and registering it with DataCite. See OSTIs Data ID Service (http://www.osti.gov/data-services) for full details. Datasets cannot be uploaded or stored at OSTI.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Launched in 2018, it consolidates OSTIs home page and the previous search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

DOE Data Explorer (DDE) (http://www.osti.gov/dataexplorer) is a search tool to help find DOE-funded, publicly available, scientific data submitted by data centers, repositories, and other organizations within the department. DDE includes data Project, data Collection, and individual Dataset records. Use the search functionalities to discover publicly available, DOE-funded data resources.

OSTI.GOV and DOE Data Explorer are included in the Federal science portal Science.gov and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org. Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/CONTACTS
The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/
OSTI staff will respond to questions/suggestions sent to stip@osti.gov
Data related questions should be directed to DOEDataID@osti.gov
Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov

STI Product Type Factsheet for DOE Lab Researchers:

Scientific and Technical Software

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DOE CODE offers two paths to provide code. Users can (1) Submit code to DOE CODE, and (2) Announce code to DOE for official review and release through DOE CODE. Codes in later stages of development are the primary use case for the latter functionality. Project Type, as follows, determines when uploading of code is required. Source code is required announcing codes with Project Type Closed Source (CS) and with Project Type Open Source, No Publicly Available Repository (OS-NPAR). For Project Type CS, a compiled binary may be provided as a last resort when the code is not available. The code is required for preservation purposes only; i.e., not for distribution by OSTI.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Launched in 2018, it consolidates OSTI's home page and the previous search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

As the DOE software services platform and search tool for DOE-funded code, DOE CODE provides functionality for collaboration, archiving, and discovery of scientific and business software.

OSTI.GOV and DOE CODE are included in the Federal science portal Science.gov and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org. Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/CONTACTS

The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/

The DOECODE website at https://www.osti.gov/doecode/

OSTI staff will respond to questions/suggestions sent to stip@osti.gov or doecode@osti.gov

Questions related to software may be sent to doecode@osti.gov

Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov

STI Product Factsheet for DOE Lab Researchers:

Thesis or Dissertation

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Launched in 2018, it consolidates OSTIs home page and the previous search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

OSTI.GOV is included in the Federal science portal Science.gov and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org. Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/CONTACTS
The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/
OSTI staff will respond to questions/suggestions sent to stip@osti.gov
Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov

STI Product Factsheets for DOE Laboratory Researchers:

Technical or Workshop Report

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

A technical report (or scientific report) is a document that describes the process, progress, or results of research and development or other scientific and technological work, including recommendations or conclusions of the research and such information as the original hypotheses, approaches used, and findings. Facts, figures, analyses, and assumptions used during the life of the project to support the results are used to convey to the scientific community the findings during the project. Technical reports are an important source of STI derived from research projects sponsored by DOE and may include more comprehensive or in-depth experimental details than scholarly papers or presentations can. Workshop reports are similar in format, but the content is derived from a workshop, conference, or similar venue which focuses on a specific scientific or technical problem or topic. The workshop report may summarize various papers and presentations or give a synopsis of the topics addressed during the meeting. As a DOE STI product, a workshop report is typically prepared by a research organization (e.g., a lab or a university) as requested by a DOE program or subprogram to address a certain research topic.

SUBMISSIONS

Each DOE laboratory has a site program to manage scientific and technical information produced under the contract and to make it available to DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Each site's STI Manager is involved in the process; for more information, see the listing of STI Managers at https://www.osti.gov/stip/about/stip-community#STIManagers.

Using a Lab's processes for STI submission, the researcher provides metadata for a technical report or workshop report as well as a full-text document in searchable PDF format or a link to the document hosted on the institutional repository, if it is publicly accessible. Technical reports with any type of access restriction must also be submitted to OSTI.

For technical reports that have no access restrictions (i.e., are publicly releasable), OSTI.GOV (http://www.osti.gov) includes metadata/citations and full-text documents, as well as the other types of STI products STIP has collected historically. Technical reports are full-text searchable.

For technical reports that have a specified type of access restriction {such as CUI (https://www.osti.gov/stip/submit/submission-basics/protected-sti), SBIR https://www.osti.gov/stip/submit/submission-basics/protected-sti/handling-access-restriction-markings#sbir_sttr) or CRADA protected (https://www.osti.gov/stip/submit/submission-basics/protected-sti/crada)}, the documents are accessible by DOE staff via the Science Research Connection (SRC) tool. Access must be approved. Contact OSTI for more information, stip@osti.gov.

Reports that are Classified or Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information are handled separately. Contact OSTI for guidance, stip@osti.gov.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Launched in 2018, it consolidates OSTI's home page and the previous search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

OSTI.GOV is included in the Federal science portal Science.gov and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org. Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/CONTACTS
The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/
OSTI staff will respond to questions/suggestions sent to stip@osti.gov
Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov

STI Product Factsheet for DOE Laboratory Researchers:

Scientific Videos

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

One emerging format of STI is categorized as videos or multimedia. DOE produces hundreds of STI videos each year with significant scientific and technical content. Like full?text indexing of a document, content indexing of an audio or video file greatly enhances the retrievability of the STI as a whole and also enables a user to find the exact place in the video where the term he/she is searching for was actually spoken by the presenter or the narrator. These videos are typically from conferences and events where speakers or panels of speakers present the content. Webinars used to disseminate research results may also be recorded as a video. Whether the STI product is a conference presentation or some other event where Multimedia was used to present research results, the information can be made more easily accessible by announcing the item to OSTI.

SUBMISSIONS

Each DOE laboratory has a site program to manage scientific and technical information produced under the contract and to make it available to DOEs Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Each sites STI Manager is involved in the process; for more information, see the listing of STI Managers at https://www.osti.gov/stip/about/stip-community#STIManagers.

Sites are encouraged to provide metadata and a link to a video or audio file through the AN 241.1 on E?Link, via Batch Upload, or via the AN 241.1 Web Service. The audiovisual formats that can be automatically downloaded, cached, and content?indexed by OSTI as CO (conference/event) STI submissions are listed at https://www.osti.gov/stip/submit/product-types/audiovisual.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Launched in 2018, it consolidates OSTIs home page and the previous search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

DOE ScienceCinema (http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema) includes more than 3,600 multimedia scientific videos from DOE national laboratories, other DOE research Facilities and CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), and makes them searchable using Watson speech?recognition search technology. The ability to search and "jump to" the spoken words in a video that may be an hour or longer is a unique, added value. Released in February 2019, DOE ScienceCinema was updated for a new look and feel, as well as new features including: more powerful searching, filtering options, account and playlist functionalities, larger video players, and further audio searching within individual videos.

OSTI.GOV and DOE ScienceCinema are included in the Federal science portal Science.gov and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org. Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/CONTACTS
The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/
OSTI staff will respond to questions/suggestions sent to stip@osti.gov
Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov

Factsheet for STI Program for Classified &Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI)

About Classified & UCNI STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document their findings.

Classified and UCNI STI includes products such as Technical Reports, Conference Papers/ Proceedings, Journal Articles, Software Manuals, Patents/ Patent Applications, Drawings, Data, Collections, and Computer-Related products which includes software.

OSTI is approved for classified information up through Secret/Restricted Data including Nuclear Weapon Data (sigmas 14, 15, 18 and 20).

OSTI is not authorized to receive Top Secret information.

Definition

The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and Executive Order 13526 serve as the bases for identifying classified information generated by the Department. Classified information is defined as certain information that the United States Government has determined requires protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national security (i.e., Restricted Data, Formerly Restricted Data, Transclassified Foreign Nuclear Information, and National Security Information).

The unauthorized dissemination of UCNI is prohibited under Section 148 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. UCNI is identified and controlled as directed in DOE Order 471.1B, Identification and Protection of Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information; and Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1017, Identification and Protection of Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information.

Submissions

The AN 241.5 provides OSTI with information required to appropriately identify, process, and/or announce, and disseminate the STI results of classified or UCNI work funded by DOE/NNSA. Metadata only submissions are accepted. Classified and UCNI STI products are submitted securely by originating sites via the Classified E-Link product on the Enterprise Secure Network (ESN). STI that is potentially classified or UCNI must be reviewed and properly marked prior to submitting to OSTI. Classification level and category (if Restricted Data or Formerly Restricted Data), and any caveats and/or special markings, if applicable, shall be indicated. Caveats and special control markings are placed on documents to identify special handling or dissemination requirements, or to assist in describing the type of information involved. Refer to Classified Matter Protection and Control (CMPC) Marking Resource for marking examples.

STI Availability

The Classified STI Metadata Search (CSMS) product provides metadata only search capability within OSTIs classified and UCNI collection and is available to a limited, approved user base. ESN access and appropriate need-to-know (NTK) are required. Each site approves its own user accounts, makes user NTK determinations, and processes document requests for its documents. For a more thorough search of OSTIs legacy holdings, see contacts list below.

The most restrictive Programmatic Approval Authority Category Code for the product must be included on the Announcement Notice (AN) 241.5 when submitted because it is used to determine user access to the metadata searched on CSMS.

PROGRAMMATIC APPROVAL AUTHORITY CATEGORY CODES (reference DOE/OSTI-3679)

C-24 Gas Centrifuge Method of Uranium Isotope Separation
C-27 Plutonium Isotope Separation
C-29 Uranium Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation
C-44c Nuclear Technology-Production Reactor Engineering and Technology
C-52 Gaseous Diffusion Process of Isotope Separation
C-57 Tritium Production C-65 Plutonium Production
C-68 Safeguards and Security
C-72 Nuclear Weapon Data (IMPORTANT NOTE: For a full list of C-72 subcodes, contact your Classified STIP Site Liaison.)
C-73 Nuclear Weapons Effects
C-74 Nuclear Weapon-Related Engineering, Instrumentation, and Materials
C-74a Laser and Particle Beam Fusion
C-75 General, Miscellaneous, and Progress Reports
C-81 Directed Energy Weapon Technology
C-860 Other Isotope Separation Technology
C-870 Space and Defense Reactor Power Systems
C-880 Arms Control and Nonproliferation

Additional Information/Contacts

The STIP website at https://www.osti.gov/stip/

For sites ANL, INL, KCP, LANL, PNNL, SRNL
Evelyn Gibson, Classified STIP Site Liaison(865) 576-2590 or gibsone@osti.gov

For sites LLNL, NNSS, NREL, Pantex, ORNL, SNL, Y-12
Tammy Spencer, Classified STIP Site Liaison(865) 576-0256 or spencert@osti.gov

Document requests or other related inquiries:
David Gottholm, Classification Officer(865) 576-2623 or gottholmd@osti.gov

July 2023

STI Product Factsheet for Financial Assistance Awardees/Grantees:

Books/Monographs

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

As an STI product, a book or monograph is a scholarly piece of writing on a specific subject. It may contain a detailed written study of a single specialized subject or an aspect of it, including a manual describing a particular process. Each volume is a self-contained work, yet monographs may be published in a series to provide detailed information on a specialized scientific or technical topic. A book may also be composed of chapters, and the STI product may be just one part or topic in the whole book to be published. Books and monographs may be published by the originating site (e.g., as e-books or technical fact sheets) or by a commercial publisher. If the STI product is a chapter, reference should also be made to the whole book.

SUBMISSIONS

The book or monograph should be submitted to DOE through the E-Link System (https://www.osti.gov/elink/2413-submission.jsp) using Announcement Notice (AN) 241.3, per instructions provided in the award package, which may refer to this as Other STI, as specified on the Federal Assistance Reporting Requirements Checklist (DOE F 4600.2) at the time of award. Using E-Link, the required metadata for the book or monograph are filled in on the AN 241.3 and the full-text document is uploaded in searchable PDF format, if it is publicly accessible. If the STI product is copyrighted by a commercial publisher, then an announcement notice only may be submitted, providing metadata and the source of availability. Questions related to E-Link may also be sent toelink_Helpdesk@osti.gov.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV (https://www.osti.gov) is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.6 million journal articles, 1.1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

OSTI.GOV is included in the Federal science portalScience.gov(https://www.science.gov) and the international science portalWorldWideScience.org (https://worldwidescience.org).Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.orgsearches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

STI Product Factsheet for Financial Awardees/Grantees:

Conference Paper/Presentation or Proceedings

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV (https://www.osti.gov) is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.6 million journal articles, 1.1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

DOE ScienceCinema (http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema) includes more than 3,700 multimedia scientific videos from DOE national laboratories, other DOE research Facilities and CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), and makes them searchable using Watson speech?recognition search technology. The ability to search and "jump to" the spoken words in a video that may be an hour or longer is a unique, added value.

OSTI.GOV and DOE ScienceCinema are included in the Federal science portalScience.gov (https://www.science.gov) and the international science portalWorldWideScience.org(https://worldwidescience.org). Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies.WorldWideScience.orgsearches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

STI Product Factsheet for Financial Assistance Awardees/Grantees:

Patents

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, which in the United States is issued by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent gives the holder exclusive rights to a process, design or new invention for a designated period of time. The assignee could be a government agency or a company that is a contractor or grant recipient. After a patent is issued, the USPTO includes the patent in its database, making the patent application, full text, and other descriptive information accessible to the public. If DOE-funded research led to the patent, then this research result is of interest to DOE as a form of STI. The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) obtains patent records of interest to DOE directly from USPTO; however, to ensure comprehensiveness, broad dissemination, and archival preservation, inventors funded by DOE may find it useful to submit information to OSTI through their particular STI submission channels.

SUBMISSIONS

A patent can be submitted to DOE through the DOE E-Link System (https://www.osti.gov/elink/2413-submission.jsp) using Announcement Notice (AN) 241.3, per instructions for Other STI on the Federal Assistance Reporting Requirements Checklist (DOE F 4600.2) provided in the award package at the time of award. Using E-Link, the required metadata for the patent are filled in on the AN 241.3, with the option to either upload the full-text document in searchable PDF format or provide a URL link to the USPTO location of the specific patent. Questions related to E-Link may also be sent toElink_Helpdesk@osti.gov.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV (https://www.osti.gov) is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.6 million journal articles, 1.1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

DOE Patents (http://www.osti.gov/doepatents) is a search tool for discovering patent information resulting from DOE-funded research and development (R&D), consisting of bibliographic records with full text where available, either via a PDF document or a link to the record at the USPTO (http://www.uspto.gov).DOE Patentsprovides comprehensive coverage of patents resulting from DOE funding.

OSTI.GOVandDOE Patentsare included in the Federal science portalScience.gov(https://www.science.gov) and the international science portalWorldWideScience.org(https://worldwidescience.org). Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies.WorldWideScience.orgsearches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

STI Product Factsheet for Financial Assistance Awardees/Grantees:

Program Documents

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

A program document is one that is prepared by or for a DOE Program Office for the purpose of being published (i.e., issued) on behalf of a program, representing a program perspective. This type of document may contain programmatic analyses, research needs assessment, outcome of a workshop on a specific technology or scientific topic, strategic or operational plan, or other types of program-specific information. The format may be similar to a technical report; however, since it contains an official government perspective, it would not include a disclaimer. The Program Office may have funded the preparation of the document through a contract or grant and will have significant involvement in the final content.

SUBMISSIONS

Submission of a program document to the E-Link System (https://www.osti.gov/elink/2413-submission.jsp) is done per instructions provided in the award package, which would have instructions for Other STI on the Federal Assistance Reporting Requirements Checklist (DOE F 4600.2). It is likely that the program document is to be submitted to the funding program for final review and will be issued directly by the program. However, once finalized and approved, it can also be submitted to OSTI through E-Link, including the metadata/citation information as well as an upload of the searchable PDF document. Questions related to E-Link may also be sent toElink_Helpdesk@osti.gov.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV (https://www.osti.gov) is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.6 million journal articles, 1.1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

OSTI.GOVis included in the Federal science portalScience.gov(https://www.science.gov) and the international science portalWorldWideScience.org (https://worldwidescience.org). Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies.WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

STI Product Factsheet for Financial Assistance Awardees/Grantees:

Scientific Datasets

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

Scientific datasets are data derived during research and development (R&D) or other scientific and technical work. Datasets may consist of numerical data, simulations from computer models, figures, tables, data plots, GIS data supporting interactive applications, genomic data, or other forms of non-textual data which are a basic component of research results. Often these datasets are referenced in publications and in some cases, are made available as supplemental information. To announce datasets through the OSTI STI process, the scientific research data must be posted at a DOE site, DOE Data Center, or other publicly accessible location such as an open repository. The URL (and DOI, if available prior to submission) must be included in announcement notice metadata. This link will typically take the user to a landing page which describes the dataset and what to expect in more detail. Datasets cannot be uploaded or stored at OSTI.

SUBMISSIONS

Although not currently a required deliverable for financial assistance awardees, a service is offered by OSTI whereby a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) will be assigned and registered with DataCite for subsequent use in citing the scientific data in, for example, published articles. Access the version of AN 241.6 made available to grantees on the E-Link website (https://www.osti.gov/elink/2416-submission.jsp), and follow the instructions provided to submit the metadata/citation information for the dataset. Questions related to E-Link may also be sent toDOEDataID@osti.gov.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV (https://www.osti.gov) is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.6 million journal articles, 1.1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

DOE Data Explorer (DDE)(http://www.osti.gov/dataexplorer) is a search tool to help find DOE-funded, publicly available, scientific data submitted by data centers, repositories, and other organizations within the department. DDE includes data Project, data Collection, and individual Dataset records. Use the search functionalities to discover publicly available, DOE-funded data resources.

OSTI.GOVandDOE Data Explorerare included in the Federal science portalScience.gov(https://www.science.gov) and the international science portalWorldWideScience.org(https://worldwidescience.org). Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.orgsearches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

STI Product Type Factsheet for Financial Assistance Awardees/Grantees:

Scientific and Technical Software

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information.  OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies.  Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia.  OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.6 million journal articles, 1.1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites.  OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

As the DOE software services platform and search tool for DOE-funded code, DOE CODE provides functionality for collaboration, archiving, and discovery of scientific and business software.

OSTI.GOV and DOE CODE are included in the Federal science portal Science.gov (https://www.science.gov) and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org (https://worldwidescience.org). Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies.  WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

STI Product Factsheet for Financial Assistance Awardees/Grantees:

Thesis or Dissertation

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

A thesis or dissertation is an academic paper often based on original research, using scholarly resources, which is written by a candidate as a graduate school requirement for a higher academic degree (a masters or doctoral degree) or professional qualification. Dissertations and theses may be considered gray literature since they are not typically published commercially. In cases where the authors research was funded by DOE or conducted at a DOE facility, submission to OSTI as a scientific and technical information (STI) product facilitates access to federally funded research results.

SUBMISSIONS

The thesis or dissertation should be submitted to DOE through the DOE E-Link System (https://www.osti.gov/elink/2413-submission.jsp) using Announcement Notice (AN) 241.3, per instructions provided in the award package, which may refer to this as Other STI, as specified on the Federal Assistance Reporting Requirements Checklist (DOE F 4600.2) at the time of award. Using E-Link, the required metadata for the thesis or dissertation are filled in on the AN 241.3 and the full-text document is uploaded in searchable PDF format, if it is publicly accessible. If the STI product is copyrighted by a commercial publisher, then an announcement notice only may be submitted, providing metadata and the source of availability. Questions related to E-Link may also be sent toElink_Helpdesk@osti.gov.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV (https://www.osti.gov) is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.6 million journal articles, 1.1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

OSTI.GOV is included in the Federal science portalScience.gov (https://www.science.gov) and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org (http://worldwidescience.org). Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

STI Product Factsheet for Financial Assistance Awardees/Grantees:

Technical or Workshop Reports

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

A technical report (or scientific report) is a document that describes the process, progress, or results of research and development or other scientific and technological work, including recommendations or conclusions of the research and such information as the original hypotheses, approaches used, and findings. Facts, figures, analyses, and assumptions used during the life of the project to support the results are used to convey to the scientific community the findings during the project. Technical reports are an important source of STI derived from research projects sponsored by DOE and may include more comprehensive or in-depth experimental details than scholarly papers or presentations can. Workshop reports are similar in format, but the content is derived from a workshop, conference, or similar venue which focuses on a specific scientific or technical problem or topic. The workshop report may summarize various papers and presentations or give a synopsis of the topics addressed during the meeting. As a DOE STI product, a workshop report is typically prepared by a research organization (e.g., a lab or a university) as requested by a DOE program or subprogram to address a certain research topic.

SUBMISSIONS

The Final Technical Report should be submitted to DOE through the DOE E-Link System (https://www.osti.gov/elink/2413-submission.jsp) using Announcement Notice (AN) 241.3, per instructions provided in the award package. For R&D projects, a final technical report is typically a requirement of the funded project, which is specified on the Federal Assistance Reporting Requirements Checklist (DOE F 4600.2) at the time of award, to document findings by summarizing the results of the entire funded project. Using E-Link, the required metadata for the technical report are filled in on the AN 241.3 and the full-text document is uploaded in searchable PDF format. While final report may be included as part of the title, it is preferred that the title convey the subject of the project. The DOE awarding office and/or the funding program office will review the

technical report within E-Link before it is made accessible via web products. Questions related to E-Link may also be sent to Elink_Helpdesk@osti.gov.

For technical reports that have no access restrictions (i.e., are publicly releasable), OSTI.GOV (http://www.osti.gov) includes metadata/citations and full-text documents, as well as the other types of STI products STIP has collected historically. Technical reports are full-text searchable.

For technical reports that have a specified type of access restriction {such as CUI (https://www.osti.gov/stip/submit/submission-basics/protected-sti), SBIR https://www.osti.gov/stip/submit/submission-basics/protected-sti/handling-access-restriction-markings#sbir_sttr) or CRADA protected (https://www.osti.gov/stip/access/crada)}, the documents are accessible by DOE staff via the Science Research Connection tool. Access must be approved. Contact OSTI for more information, stip@osti.gov.

Reports that are Classified or Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information are handled separately. Contact OSTI for guidance, stip@osti.gov. 

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV (https://www.osti.gov) is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information.  OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies.  Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia.  OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.6 million journal articles, 1.1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites.  OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

OSTI.GOV is included in the Federal science portal Science.gov (https://www.science.gov) and the international science portal WorldWideScience.org (https://worldwidescience.org).  Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies.  WorldWideScience.org searches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70 countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.

STI Product Factsheet for Financial Assistance Awardees/Grantees:

Scientific Videos

DEFINITION

One emerging format of STI is categorized as videos or multimedia. DOE produces hundreds of STI videos each year with significant scientific and technical content. Like full?text indexing of a document, content indexing of an audio or video file greatly enhances the retrievability of the STI as a whole and also enables a user to find the exact place in the video where the term he/she is searching for was actually spoken by the presenter or the narrator. These videos are typically from conferences and events where speakers or panels of speakers present the content. Webinars used to disseminate research results may also be recorded as a video. Whether the STI product is a conference presentation or some other event where Multimedia was used to present research results, the information can be made more easily accessible by announcing the item to OSTI.

SUBMISSIONS

Conference presentations that are in an audiovisual format (videos or multimedia) may be announced to OSTI using AN 241.3, available through the DOE E?Link System (https://www.osti.gov/elink/2413-submission.jsp). Simply follow the instructions provided in the award package on the Federal Assistance Reporting Requirements Checklist (DOE F 4600.2). Using E?Link, the required metadata are filled in on the AN 241.3. Videos that are accessible to the public can be announced by providing the URL where the video is located. Questions related to E?Link may also be sent toElink_Helpdesk@osti.gov.

Acceptable audiovisuals formats are listed athttps://www.osti.gov/stip/submit/product-types/audiovisual.

STI AVAILABILITY

OSTI.GOV (https://www.osti.gov) is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.6 million journal articles, 1.1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options; and for the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research.

DOE ScienceCinema (http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema) includes more than 3,600 multimedia scientific videos from DOE national laboratories, other DOE research Facilities and CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), and makes them searchable using Watson speech?recognition search technology. The ability to search and "jump to" the spoken words in a video that may be an hour or longer is a unique, added value. Released in February 2019,DOE ScienceCinemawas updated for a new look and feel, as well as new features including: more powerful searching, filtering options, account and playlist functionalities, larger video players, and further audio searching within individual videos.

OSTI.GOVandDOE ScienceCinemaare included in the Federal science portalScience.gov(https://www.science.gov) and the international science portalWorldWideScience.org(https://worldwidescience.org).Science.gov, hosted by OSTI, offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from more than 60 databases from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. WorldWideScience.orgsearches over 100 STI resources including national libraries and information centers from more than 70countries.

OSTI also works in close collaboration with Google and others, using Sitemap Protocols and other information industry standards to facilitate the discovery of DOE STI through widely used search engines.