The metadata record provides the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) with information required to appropriately identify, process, and/or announce, and disseminate the scientific and technical information (STI) results of classified or unclassified controlled nuclear information (U...agencies. Classified and UCNI STI products are submitted securely by DOE and DOE contractors via the Classified E-Link product on the Enterprise Secure Network (ESN).

The DOE laboratories, sites, and facilities represent a premier federal research system and perform leading-edge research on national priorities in science, energy, and national security. To ensure research results are accessible, as appropriate, OSTI provides several mechanisms for DOE laboratories...OSTI's search products.

Recipients of DOE Financial Assistance (FA) awards are required to submit Scientific and Technical Information (STI) according to the terms of their award based on the financial opportunity notice for the award. The DOE Office of Management (MA), Office of Acquisitions Management (OAM) develops and ... OAM provides standard information and guidance relevant to FA recipients on the recipient webpage which includes the standard DOE requirements for STI referenced in the following documents:

Requirements for FA awards are established by policy and guidance issued by the DOE Senior Procurement Executive (SPE) in the Office of Management, Office of Acquisitions Management (OAM). STI requirements for federal staff initiating and executing FA awards are set by DOE O 241.1C, Scientific and T...OE FA policy and guidance issued by the SPE under their purview. The policy and guidance issued by the SPE is implemented for FA awards by way of the DOE Guide to Financial Assistance (to be referred to as the “FA Guide”).

DOE Programs fund research and other scientific endeavors. For those activities where the STI is not submitted by National Labs, major sites, or through financial assistance awards, it should be submitted by the DOE Program. DOE Programs have the option to provide metadata records via E-Link. The me... products includes metadata elements/fields that provide identification of and attribution for DOE's STI. It also includes key identifiers; descriptive elements, review and release information, and medium, format, and location elements. Some elements are required, while others are optional. Submitters must provide required information and are highly encouraged to include optional information wherever possible.

One specific mission of the Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information is to disseminate the STI originating from the Department's R&D and other science and technology activities. OSTI develops and hosts search tools for an extensive collection of STI originating from DOE an...results and science information from the Manhattan Project to the present, encompassing research emanating from national laboratories and DOE contractors as well as research funded through Financial Assistance Awards.

Scientific findings are communicated through various media e.g., textual, multimedia, audiovisual, and digital - and are produced in a range of products such as technical reports, conference papers and presentations, theses and dissertations, scientific and technical computer software, journal artic... or other types of STI.

STI is produced and published through various media (e.g., textual, multimedia, audiovisual, and digital) and include scientific/technical reports; scientific/technical conference papers, presentations, posters, or proceedings; journal articles/accepted manuscripts; scientific data; scientific softw...

The Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP) effectively manages the Department of Energy’s STI, therefore ensuring that U.S. citizens are realizing a maximum return on investment, while ensuring information is appropriately marked and managed in accordance with any statutory access limit...