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...