2000s Meeting the needs for Scientific and Technical Information

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2000: PrePRINT Network made available
2000: OSTI convened Physical Sciences Workshop, chaired by Dr. Alvin W. Trivelpiece
2000: GrayLIT Network broke ground as world’s most comprehensive portal to full-text technical reports
2000: Former current awareness publications transformed into Subject Portals, subject specific web sites pertaining to key areas of research and development (R&D)
2001: Workshop conducted to explore means for improving public access to science information of Federal Agencies, resulting in formation of Science.gov Alliance
2001: Energy Citations Database made available to provide access to Department of Energy (DOE) publicly available citations from 1940s forward
2002: Data harvesting initiated to increase comprehensiveness of Scientific and Technical Information (STI) while reducing the reporting burden for Departmental labs
2002: Science.gov, launched, is FirstGov’s designated science portal
2003: PrePRINT Network, renamed E-print Network, was expanded and designed to facilitate peer exchange and scientific advancement
2003: DOE co-hosted a conference commemorating fiftieth anniversary of President Eisenhower’s "Atoms for Peace" speech, where OSTI exhibited a range of information emanating from the Atoms for Peace initiative
2003: To commemorate Science.gov, Science.gov Way became the official name of the road adjacent to OSTI, the first known .gov road; 1 Science.gov Way became the official address of OSTI
2004: Reference linking offered to DOE report authors
2004: First "digital data" meeting convened by OSTI to explore web access to scientific datasets
2004: OSTI partnered with popular search engines to make all DOE-sponsored R&D searchable by title, improving accessibility, use, and visibility of DOE’s STI
2004: Relevancy ranking of Federal STI search results introduced in Science.gov
2004: Customized delivery options of DOE metadata introduced to libraries and others
2005: Science Research Connection (SRC) launched as a special access collection for DOE-only users
2005: Energy Policy Act called out OSTI by name as office to ensure access to DOE research results
2005: Single-query access to science conference papers and proceedings introduced
2006: OSTI makes DOE content more discoverable via Google and other large search engines
2007: Accelerating Science workshop convened at National Academy of Sciences
2007: Launched DOE Science Accelerator, the first one-stop search of key DOE Databases
2007: Launched WorldWideScience.org, the first one-stop search of international scientific databases
2007: OSTI celebrates 60^th anniversary with community-wide events
2007: Launched DOepatents, DOE's central collection of patent information
2007: Launched OSTIblog
2007: OSTI partners with CrossRef to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to an initial 86,000 technical reports
2008: DOIs are added to output products as a new metadata element
2008: Launched DOE Data Explorer, an information tool to find scientific research data
2008: OSTI Facebook page launched
2009: OSTI Twitter account launched
2009: OSTI YouTube channel established
2009: OSTI begins offering XML data services