“Mobilizing” ScienceTechnologyPublished on Aug 05, 2011 At the youngest ages, children are intrigued by Mentos in a Diet Coke. Figuring out what nature is trying to tell us, which is otherwise known as doing science, can be exciting. But, too often, young people become disabused of that excitement when they experience the drudgery of reading dry texts while confined in a stuffy cubicle or a study carrel. Now we are taking a step to help change that perspective. We are displacing text with video, and we are making it easy to find and learn science wherever you happen to be. It is an unfortunate circumstance that fun is too often taken out of science. We should want students of all ages to be happy, as happy people invest themselves more into what they are doing. We should want science to remain an avocation even as it becomes a vocation for some students and others move on to different interests. Read more... |
How to Integrate Anything on the WebTechnologyPublished on Aug 03, 2011 OSTI is especially proud of its web integration work whereby we take multiple web pages, documents, and web databases and make them appear to the user as if they were an integrated whole.  Once the sources are virtually integrated by OSTI, the virtual collection becomes searchable via a single query. Because information on the web appears in a variety of formats, from HTML web pages, to PDF documents, to searchable databases, OSTI has developed and uses a suite of integration approaches to make them searchable via single query.  Read more... |
WorldWideScience Opens International DoorsPersonal PerspectivesPublished on Jun 06, 2011 On May 25, 2011, I made an invited presentation in Geneva, Switzerland at the 14th session of the United Nations’ Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD). I want to share with you the reception WorldWideScience.org received at this conference. Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland CSTD and OSTI share similar goals. CSTD supports universal access for all to scientific knowledge. OSTI seeks to share DOE R&D results with as many people as possible and we partner with other organizations to create integrated products designed to attract users. Read more... |
The Importance of Small Business Innovation Research FundingTechnologyPublished on Mar 09, 2011 The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs were established to provide funding to stimulate technological innovation in small businesses to meet federal agency research and development needs. Under SBIR, federal agencies with large R&D budgets set aside a small fraction of their funding for competitions exclusively among small businesses. Each year, the DOE Office of Science sets aside 2.8% of its research budget for SBIR (2.5%) and STTR (.3%) awards. Small businesses that win SBIR awards keep the rights to any technology developed and are encouraged to commercialize the technology. Read more... |
Celebrate National Engineers’ Week 2011 – February 20-26, 2011Science CommunicationsPublished on Feb 17, 2011 The celebration of National Engineers’ Week started in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. The week occurs in February, in conjunction with President George Washington's Birthday; our first President is considered by many engineers to be the nation's first engineer because of his survey work. Read more... |
Join OSTI at the AAAS Annual Meeting, February 17-21Science CommunicationsPublished on Feb 01, 2011  The Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) will be at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s 2011 Annual Meeting. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Science without Borders.” OSTI will have a booth (#201 floor plan) at the meeting. Our central theme is “Ensuring Global Science Access.”Â
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OSTI Makes "Non-Googleable" Science and Technology SearchableProducts and ContentPublished on Jul 08, 2010 The success of Google has been so profound that the word “Google” is now considered a verb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_(verb) “To Google” has come to mean to search the web via the free search engine provided by Google, Inc. Read more... |
OSTI Not Only Has a Mission, OSTI is On a MissionProducts and ContentPublished on Jul 05, 2010 The notion that science progresses only if knowledge is shared is the reason that OSTI wascreated in 1947. Documents sent to and from President Franklin Roosevelt near the end of World War II included this rationale for sharing knowledge, and the concept was incorporated into the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 which led to the creation of OSTI. Â Read more... |
Enormous STI Content Made Easily Searchable by OSTIProducts and ContentPublished on Jul 01, 2010 We have integrated about ten OSTI products dealing with technical reports, e-prints, patents, conference proceedings, project summaries, etc., so that they are all searchable via s single query. The integrated product allows users to search without first having to decide which OSTI product is likely to have the content he/she seeks. This product is ScienceAccelerator.gov. Read more... |
OSTI's Contributions Highlighted in DOE Open Government PlanScience CommunicationsPublished on May 11, 2010 Â By Walt Warnick and Peter Lincoln Read more... |
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