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.