Name Ambiguity and ORCIDScience CommunicationsPublished on Oct 28, 2013 Wouldn’t it be nice if your name were a unique identifier and nobody else had the same name as you? Unfortunately, most of us share our names with a number of other people, most of whom we have never met and never will. But we have all probably experienced the challenge and frustration of trying to find a specific person from a list of people with the same name. Remember when we used phone books? Trying to pick out the person you needed from a listing of multiple names? Actually, searching the internet doesn’t make this process any easier. Read more... |
SciTech Connect: Subject and Author FiltersProducts and ContentPublished on Jul 24, 2013
One of the nice features of SciTech Connect is the ability to filter search results by subject and author. On the Search Results page, these filters are midway down the left side. The full SciTech Connect database contains over 2.5 million citations. Filtering the full database by subject [23 MB AVI] shows the top subject in the database to be materials science with 184,200 citations. Not too far down the top ten list you will also find materials with another 127,916 citations. Read more... |
OSTIBlog has a new lookScience CommunicationsPublished on Jul 05, 2013
The new menu bar has tabs for Topics, Authors, and Archive. The Topics tab allows users to browse OSTIblog articles assigned to one of four topic areas: Personal Perspectives, Products and Content, Science Communications, and Technology. There is also an option to browse by the name of an OSTI database, search tool or other product. The last choice under the Topics tab is to browse OSTIblog articles by subject tags. Read more... |
OSTI by the numbersProducts and ContentPublished on Nov 02, 2012 For those of you who like numbers, I thought I would give you a few numbers about some of OSTI’s databases and search products. Read more... |
Catch up on research info while you waitProducts and ContentPublished on Jun 13, 2011 Standing in line at the DMV, sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, commuting to work on the bus or train, waiting for a meeting to start, whenever and wherever you get the urge to do a little energy-related research, you can do so now with your mobile phone via OSTI Mobile at m.osti.gov. Read more... |
What's in the OSTI Legacy Collection?Products and ContentPublished on Mar 20, 2009 The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information legacy collection contains an estimated one million technical reports representing six decades of energy research that is, for the most part, unavailable in electronic format. On average, OSTI receives close to two hundred requests each month to digitize specific reports, with the vast majority of the requests coming from Read more... |
OSTI is helping librarians make DOE R&D easier for library patrons to findProducts and ContentPublished on Sep 18, 2008 OSTI now offers librarians and others, free of charge, the opportunity to download records of DOE research and development (R&D) information in MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) format. Read more... |
Forms of STI - pt. 3Products and ContentPublished on Jun 23, 2008 In the first two parts to this post (Forms of STI and Forms of STI - pt. Read more... |
Forms of STI - pt. 2Products and ContentPublished on Jun 20, 2008 In the first part to this post, Forms of STI, I talked about how there are different forms of scientific and technical information and how each is published and disseminated in its own way. OSTI has different search tools to access the different types of STI. In the last post I discussed techni Read more... |
Forms of STIProducts and ContentPublished on Jun 19, 2008 A comment I have heard on numerous occasions is that OSTI has a too many databases and search tools and it is difficult to know which to use. Well, I am sure that a lot of people do find the variety of OSTI resources to be a bit confusing, but it really takes different types of databases and search tools to cover all the different types of scientific and technical information (STI). Read more... |
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