60,000 DOE Scientific and Technical Reports Online
E-Government
Initiative for DOE Technical
Reports
The Department of Energy (DOE) has
established a new performance goal for Operations Offices and Laboratories to
complete the transition to a fully-electronic process for submitting, retaining,
and making the Department’s scientific and technical information (STI) readily
available to its broad constituency of users. In a memorandum signed by program
officials, a call was issued to all offices and laboratories to provide all
full-text STI reports and accompanying announcement data to the Office of
Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in electronic formats by January 1,
2001. Many offices and labs in DOE were already providing reports and data
electronically. OSTI and the Department’s STI community initiated this massive
effort in 1998 by reinventing information processing, management, and delivery
systems and procedures to allow for the transition. The transition has allowed
OSTI to make full-text reports available and searchable, with a minimal
processing effort, through a set of tools that create an electronic environment
throughout the information life cycle. OSTI makes the publicly releasable
full-text STI reports searchable on the DOE Information Bridge, accessible by
the public at http://www.osti.gov/bridge. As a result, DOE continues to lead all
other Federal agencies in the electronic receipt, processing and delivery of
full-text STI generated by scientists, engineers, and researchers. For more
information about this initiative, please contact Sharon Jordan at (865)
576-1194 or via e-mail at [log in to unmask].
Physical Sciences
Information Infrastructure
For more than 50 years, studies have
called for a comprehensive resource for finding, understanding, and using
information about our physical world. Realizing that the Internet and
distributed information technologies now provide the means to fulfill this
vision, the Department of Energy sponsored a workshop May 30-31, 2000, at the
National Academy of Sciences, to explore the concept of a future Physical
Sciences Information Infrastructure (PSII). Workshop panelists agreed "The time
is now; the need is now." The Workshop report http://www.osti.gov/physicalsciences endorses
PSII as an integrated network of dispersed resources, a point of convergence for
tools and technologies, and an openly available source of information in
sciences that explore the nature and properties of energy and nonliving matter.
The Report also emphasizes the need for a collaborative effort involving science
agencies, academia, professional societies, and the private sector. The DOE
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), with over 50 years
experience and leadership in the collection and sharing of worldwide scientific
and technical information, has laid the foundation for the PSII with innovative
information products and services. Currently, OSTI is actively pursuing the
collaborative development of an implementation strategy for PSII through
partnerships and consortia agreements. Partnership arrangements, sources of
content, tools/technologies, and numerous other planning activities for the PSII
are currently being explored as support for this initiative continues to grow.
For more information, contact RL Scott at [log in to unmask] or (865)
576-1193.
2. Featured Sites
2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alan G.
MacDiarmid won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in the area of
conductive polymers. Through an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy, he
conducted research that was primarily directed towards the evaluation of
polyacetylene, the prototype conducting polymer, as an electrode-active material
in novel, rechargeable batteries employing non-aqueous electrolytes. This
research was done at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Chemistry
during the 1980's. The resulting plastic batteries are the most radical
innovation in commercial batteries since the dry cell was introduced in 1890.
They offer higher capacity, higher voltage, and longer shelf-life than many
competitive designs. More information about Alan MacDiarmid and his research is
available at http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/macdiarmid.html.
AAAS 2001 Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition
February
15-20, 2001 - San Francisco, CA
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2001/index.htm
4th Industrial Energy Efficiency Symposium and Exposition
2001 Layered Ocean Model Users' Workshop
Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental
Problems
Corrosion/NACExpo 2001
Building Energy 2001 Conference
221st ACS National Meeting
Oceanology International 2001
Conference
MRS (Materials Research Society) Spring Meeting
National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) Users'
Meeting
May 21-24, 2001 - Upton, NY
http://nslsweb.nsls.bnl.gov/nsls/users/meeting/
Society for Scholarly Publishing 23rd Annual Meeting
22nd International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic
Collisions (ICPEAC)
July 18-24, 2001 Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://icpeac2001.phy.ornl.gov/home.html