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 60th 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