The following will be of interest for those of you working to meet the
information needs of physical scientists.
Dan
E-PhySCI News
Physical Sciences Information Update
January 2001
Issue 2001:1
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U.S.Department of Energy
Editor, Lynn Davis
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E-PhySCI News keeps you informed about rapidly evolving developments related
to information in the Physical Sciences. It is issued quarterly by the U.S.
Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information. If you
have an article to include or suggested topics for future issues, send
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In this issue:
1. News & Information
60,000 DOE Scientific and Technical Reports Online
E-Government Initiative for DOE Technical Reports
Physical Sciences Information Infrastructure
2. Featured Sites
PrePRINT Network Alert Service
3. Scientist Updates
2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
4. Upcoming Meetings
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1. News & Information
60,000 DOE Scientific and Technical Reports Online
For the first time ever, each of 60,000 full-text scientific and technical
reports sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) is directly accessible
on the Internet using a unique URL. These reports reside on the DOE
Information Bridge at http://www.osti.gov/bridge which provides to the
public at no charge the capability to search every word of all the reports.
A Persistent URL (PURL) allows educators, students, scientists, and
engineers to directly access individual documents and to easily direct
others to them. The collection of over 5 million full-text pages is DOE's
report literature output since January 1995. Scientists and researchers are
encouraged to share these reports with colleagues and others. This
ever-increasing report collection is the product of an extensive
collaboration among DOE Programs, Operations Offices, Laboratories, and
other DOE contractors. It is made available to the public through a
partnership between the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information
and the Government Printing Office. For more information, please contact
Kathy Chambers, Product Manager, at (865) 576-0487 or via e-mail at
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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
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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
PrePRINT Network Alert Service
Enlist the latest technology and keep up with preprints in your scientific
discipline! PrePRINT Alerts is a new personalized alert service for the
PrePRINT Network http://www.osti.gov/preprint/. This is the first alert
service that harvests information from the Deep Web, whereby the underlying
content of multiple databases is searched rather than only surface pages.
The PrePRINT Network offers a single-query portal to 340,000 preprints on
1,500 preprint servers in disciplines related to Department Of Energy (DOE)
research. PrePRINT Alerts allows patrons of the Preprint Network to
register, create one or more personalized search profiles, and automatically
receive notifications of new preprint information fitting the profile. As
new servers are added to the Network, or as researchers add new preprints to
servers already on the Network, PrePRINT Alerts sends an e-mail message
calling your attention to all the new material that meets your profile. To
register your search profile, follow the instructions linked to the PrePRINT
Network home page. To accomplish its novel search capability, PrePRINT
Alerts applies the Explorer Distributed Query Engine, developed in
collaboration with the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information
(OSTI) by Innovative Web Applications (IWA) http://www.iwapps.com. IWA, a
small business in Los Alamos, New Mexico, developed the software, which
currently supports several OSTI Web-based applications.
3. Scientist Updates
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.
4. Upcoming Meetings
Meetings of interest in the Physical Sciences:
2001 TMS (The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society) Annual Meeting and
Exhibition
February 11-15, 2001 - New Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.tms.org/Meetings/Annual-01/AnnMtg01Home.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
February 19 - 22, 2001 - Washington, DC
http://www.oitexpo4.com/
2001 Layered Ocean Model Users' Workshop
February 26-28, 2001 - Miami, FL
http://panoramix.rsmas.miami.edu/micom/wrkshp-01.html
Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental
Problems
March 4-7, 2001 - Denver, CO
http://www.sageep.com/
Corrosion/NACExpo 2001
March 11-16, 2001 - Houston, TX
http://nace.org/NACE/Content/Conferences/C2001/Corrosion2001index.asp
Building Energy 2001 Conference
March 22 - 24, 2001 - Boston, MA
http://www.nesea.org/buildings/be2000.html
221st ACS National Meeting
April 1- 5, 2001 - San Diego, CA
http://www.acs.org/meetings/calendar/calendr1.html#2001
Oceanology International 2001 Conference
April 3 - 5, 2001 - Miami Beach, FL
http://www.oiamericas.com/
MRS (Materials Research Society) Spring Meeting
April 16-20, 2001 - San Francisco, CA
http://www.mrs.org/meetings/spring2001/cfp/
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
June 6-8, 2001 - Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA
http://www.sspnet.org/
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
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