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.