DOE OSTI Implements Re-organization: Sticking to Our Knitting While Meeting New Challengesby Brian Hitson 08 Apr, 2015 in
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), a unit of the Office of Science, recently completed a restructuring to fulfill agency-wide responsibilities to collect, preserve, and disseminate scientific and technical information (STI) emanating from DOE research and development (R&D) activities, including a new obligation to provide public access to DOE-affiliated journal articles. The re-organization is the culmination of a year during which OSTI took steps to re-focus and re-balance our operations by devoting more resources to collecting and preserving DOE STI and to providing comprehensive access to the results of DOE R&D investments. At the same time, we streamlined our portfolio of science search tools to make it easier to find DOE’s R&D results. In August, DOE became the first federal science agency to issue a public access plan for scholarly scientific publications in response to a February 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directive, and OSTI launched DOE PAGESBeta, a beta portal to journal articles and accepted manuscripts resulting from DOE-funded research. On October 1, we issued the OSTI 2015-2019 Strategic Plan, a roadmap for working to ensure its collections and portals reflect the complete R&D output of DOE. As we now implement the OSTI re-organization, I’m excited about aligning our structure and people in ways that strategically support our ongoing re-focus/rebalance efforts,... Related Topics: Catalogue of Collections, E-Link, osti mission, re-organization Read more... |
OSTI's Contributions Highlighted in DOE Open Government Planby Dr. Walt Warnick 11 May, 2010 in Science Communications
By Walt Warnick and Peter Lincoln The Department of Energy Open Government Plan (http://energy.gov/open/documents/DOE_OGI_Plan_07Apr2010.pdf) published in April 2010 prominently featured the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and several of its initiatives, products and services. On January 21, 2009, his first full day in office, President Barack Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. The memo was addressed to the heads of all Cabinet departments and agencies, and in it, the President called for “an unprecedented level of openness in Government” and instructed the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to prepare a directive that would serve “to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation and collaboration” throughout the Federal Government. On December 8, 2009, OMB Director Peter Orszag issued the Administration’s Open Government Directive, which required agencies to take a number of steps to advance the principles of transparency, participation and collaboration, including preparation and publication of an Open Government Plan by April 7, 2010. The Department of Energy was one of 29 agencies that has posted its Open Government Plan online, and OSTI’s contributions appeared throughout the 30-page DOE document. The DOE plan included a brief profile of OSTI (http://www.osti.gov/) and its Science Accelerator (http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/) resource (on page 16), and the plan listed OSTI’s newest product, the DOE Green Energy portal (http://www.osti.gov/greenenergy/) (page 17). The DOE plan also accounted for the many high-value datasets that OSTI has posted to Data.gov (... Related Topics: Open government, osti mission, r&d findings Read more... |
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