strategies for osti support of national laboratory libraries -2009 and beyond-
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Strategies for OSTI Support of National Laboratory Libraries -2009 and Beyond-. National Laboratory Libraries Coalition Meeting 28-30 October 2009 – Argonne National Laboratory Erin C. Anderson Office of Scientific and Technical Information U.S. Department of Energy. You asked – we answer:. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Strategies for OSTI Support of National Laboratory Libraries
-2009 and Beyond-National Laboratory Libraries Coalition Meeting 28-30 October 2009 – Argonne National Laboratory
Erin C. AndersonOffice of Scientific and Technical InformationU.S. Department of Energy
You asked – we answer:
What does OSTI do for the DOE Laboratories and what are OSTI’s strategies for connecting with the labs?
First a little review…
OSTI Works In Partnership with DOE Laboratories to Fulfill STI-related Requirements Under the Laboratories’ Contract DOE’s STI Program Managed by OSTI
Provides accountability and historical record by creating a central, authoritative collection of DOE STI for long-term use and access
Fulfills statutory mandates Enhances transparency of DOE
research Saves research dollars by reducing
duplication and enabling reuse of previous research
OSTI Responsibility Has Been Established In: Atomic Energy Acts of
1946 and 1954 Energy Reorganization
Act of 1974 Department of Energy Act
of 1977 Energy Policy Act of 2005 America COMPETES Act
of 2007
…OSTI does this while also providing a host of products to assist librarians and researchers
Successes: The Importance of Partnership
Increased use/visibility of DOE R&D: from 1995 to 2008, web transactions increased from 300,000 to 84,000,000 – a 28,000% increase.
As a collaborative partnership comprised of representatives from Headquarters Programs, DOE Operations Offices, DOE Laboratories and technology centers STIP is both a success and the key to success by providing a framework for routine communication and information exchange.
OSTI and the Labs are partners in making scientific and technical information available.
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Strategies for OSTI Support of Laboratory Libraries
Connection: OSTI and National Laboratory Libraries New Technologies Breakthroughs and Enhancements Digitization Outreach
STI Finder New Media Working Group Collaboration from Laboratory Libraries Strategies to Support Laboratory Libraries
New Technologies: OSTI Homepage www.osti.gov
New Technologies: Tabbed Widgets
http://www.osti.gov/widgets.html
Plain Search Box Widget
Customizable Tabbed Widgets
New Technologies: Social Media
http://www.youtube.com/ostigov/http://www.facebook.com/ostigov/
FY09 Enhancements: Provides Free public access to more than 211,973 full-text DOE documents
(last year 10/2008 188,139 full-text) Expanding in full text digitization efforts via multiple approaches (30,000-
35,000 legacy documents were digitized as result of INIS microfiche digitization project)
Search results: possible alternative spelling suggestions, clustering of authors and subjects, capacity to create Alerts on the fly, capability to export citations using Endnote or Zotero
Web 2.0: Widgets and Share features added Spell check when using Basic Search: when a word is spelled incorrectly,
offers options to the spelling used News features and ability to participate in Document DiscussionsFuture Enhancements: Web 2.0 capabilities
Breakthroughs and Enhancements
FY09 Enhancements: Free public access to more than 2,629,847 citations with over
223,563 full-text DOE documents (last year 10/2008 2,351,671)
Expanding in full text digitization efforts via multiple approaches (30,000-35,000 legacy documents were digitized as result of INIS microfiche digitization project)
Search results: possible alternative spelling suggestions, clustering of authors and subjects, capacity to create Alerts on the fly, capability to export citations using Endnote or Zotero
Web 2.0: Widgets and Share features added Adopt-A-Doc link though which individuals can sponsor
digitization of DOE documents News features
Breakthroughs and Enhancements
Breakthroughs and EnhancementsFY09 Enhancements: 1,975 requests fulfilled
for digitized full-text 808 registered users SRC was migrated to a new search
engine during FY 09 – enabling faster search and retrieval results
Future Enhancements: Wideview - a tool for enhancing
global discovery
Breakthroughs and Enhancements
FY09 Enhancements: South Africa joined in November 2008. As of 30 July 2009, the database now provides users a choice of over a
quarter of a million full text documents for free viewing and downloading in energy-related areas. These electronic documents are research reports, conference papers, and other energy-related publications that reside directly on the ETDEWEB server, typically in PDF format.
ETDE's 250,000th full-text document is titled "What's driving energy efficient appliance label awareness and purchase propensity?" submitted by Germany.
October 2009:Total Bibliographic records available: 4,248,000Total records with full text available: 262,000Total records with Digital Object Identifier (DOI) links: 920,000
FY09 Enhancements: Nearly 400 collections of non-text information by end of FY09 Web host (physical location) for each collection added for clarity
(can be browsed or searched) Fields added to each record to clearly show which collections
have specialized interfaces at the home source and which collections require user registration before access is granted.
DDE now has its own search widget. Future Enhancements: Exact phrase searching with quotes added to already existing
word search (in production mid-November, 2009) Data Center crawl search will be released January, 2010
Breakthroughs and Enhancements
Breakthroughs and EnhancementsFY09 Enhancements: An array of new search and retrieval features and capabilities
have been added to ScienceAccelerator.gov, providing new options for customizing the search experience: allows you to e-mail your search results offers the capability to export search results into your citation
management software provides links to EurekAlert! Science News and Wikipedia
information on your topic(s) of interest clusters results by related topics and/or by date in order to more
easily target subsequent searches provides the capability to received Alerts about your selected
topic(s)Upcoming: Addition of DOE Data Explorer to the federated search
FY09 Changes: A major review of the subject categories was undertaken by the agencies. This
was to bring terminology up to date (since launch in 2002) and add/subtract categories that may have changed significantly or subtly. Changes were implemented in September 2009.
DOT joined Science.gov and is now a contributing member. The DOT Integrated Search was added to the deep web search.
Additional databases added this year were USDA Food and Nutrition Center and EI A Publications.
Upcoming Enhancements and Changes (FY10): An aggregated RSS news feed, populated by the participating agencies is
planned for this fall. This will likely be on the main page and provide a one stop for major science agency news feeds
The Science.gov Internships and Fellowships section is very popular. It will be
made more user friendly, and searchable, during the Fall/Winter.
Breakthroughs and Enhancements
FY09 Enhancements: Recent enhancements include the addition of Alerts and a quick
share tool for use with social networking sites, clustering by Author and Publication, and increased speed and improved relevancy ranking.
Continued growth - now covering over 400 million pages of STI from 61 databases/portals in more than 60 countries, representing over three-fourths of the world's population.
Upcoming Enhancements: Current research in multilingual translations technologies will enable
searching of non-English databases, with planned incorporation into WWS in 2010.
Breakthroughs and Enhancements
Digitization of DOE Report Collections Legacy Collection-Unclassified Vault contains 1.2
Million full-text scientific documents and approximately 400,000 microfiche. This represents the accumulated knowledge from DOE and predecessor agencies since the early 1940’s.
Long-term plan to digitize entire collection-Funding is key limitation.
15% of legacy collection has been digitized. Establishment of partnerships (e.g. INIS) and other
efforts (Adopt-A-Doc?) have been key to accelerate digitization efforts.
Adopt-A-Doc? http://www.osti.gov/adoptAdoc/
What? On-demand service—provides the
option to sponsor digitization of full-text DOE technical reports making research broadly available
When? Announced November 2008
Result? Product has been well received
How Many? 300,000+ full text reports available to
digitize More than 30% of requests have been
international
Who?Requests have originated from: United States Sweden South Africa Israel United Kingdom Australia Colombia Belgium
OSTI Staff and Outreach Valerie Allen
Immediate past Director of the Special Library Association’s (SLA) Government Information Division (Served two consecutive one year terms)
Erin Anderson 2009 Membership Chair, Tennessee
Valley Chapter (formerly Southern Appalachian Chapter) of SLA
2010 President-Elect, Tennessee Valley Chapter, SLA
Tim Byrne 2009 Chair of the Depository Library
Council for the Federal Depository Library Program
Presentation at the Federal Depository Library Program Conference-October 2009
Exhibit at the ALA Annual Conference-June 2010
Presentation at the Tennessee Library Association’s Government Documents Roundtable-October 2009
Support of the Office of Science Exhibit at AAAS 2010
CENDI (longtime interagency collaboration)
You asked – we answer:
There was a comment that OSTI seemed to be going directly to the researchers to get information, bypassing the designated Lab contacts. There is interest in understanding OSTI’s strategy.
DOE Researchers OSTI does not go
directly to researchers—OSTI coordinates with each sites’ STI Manager.
Information submitted to OSTI goes thru a sites’ process for E-link submission; whether it is document by document or an established harvesting protocol.
Ways in which individual DOE researchers may interact with OSTI: They register for Science Research
Connection They receive an email (i.e. referred to
as Author Notification) providing them with a link to their report's) in DOE’s InfoBridge database
Based on their expertise, they may be contacted at the direction of Headquarters regarding a special project
Their personal webpage is identified as appropriate for the E-Print Network—does not take the place of formal STI submission
Ad hoc requests initiated by researcher are referred back to the STI Manger at that researcher’s laboratory
•YOU MAY ASK, “WHAT ABOUT STI FINDER?”
STI FinderSTI FINDER DOES NOT INVOLVE DIRECT INTERACTION WITH RESEARCHERS
BACKGROUND: Initially developed to assist GPO in locating federal documents not
found within their system. Later the STI Finder tool was used to assist an STI manager in
identifying obscure STI posted bypassing their STI process. Later STI Finder was used to look at several DOE laboratories
websites identifying a significant amount of STI throughout the Department that hadn’t been submitted to OSTI.
Worked with the STI Manager, 800+ items were identified to be added to E-Link
KEY POINT: STI Finder is designed to assist STI Managers in identifying STI documents that may be bypassing the lab’s STI process. OSTI does not intend to use the STI Finder tool as a replacement for routine or existing STI submission options.
You asked – we answer:
How does the New Media Working Group tie into OSTI’s strategy for the Laboratory Libraries?
STIP: New Media Working Group
Revision of DOE Order 241.1 will explicitly include data and multimedia as STI formats that need to be submitted to OSTI
Resulting in the ability to make
additional R&D results broadly available.
You asked – we answer:
Last year the focus of OSTI’s presentation was on what OSTI does for libraries. Is OSTI looking for more collaboration from the Laboratory Libraries?
Is OSTI Looking for More Collaboration with Laboratory Libraries? Links to OSTI Products from the Laboratory Library’s Web Page
Provide Promotional Material to DOE Researchers and Other Library Users
Educate Library Users About OSTI Products as well as Use and Placement of OSTI Widgets
You asked – we answer:
What additional strategies can OSTI utilize to support Laboratory Libraries?
Additional Strategies OSTI Can Use to Support Laboratory Libraries
Spotlight Laboratory Libraries-Highlighting Accomplishments from OSTI’s Homepage
Provide On-Site Overview and Training for DOE Researchers Regarding OSTI Products/Services
Any other ideas?
Use of Open URL
Please Stay In Touch and Let Us Hear Your Comments…
Karen J. Spence [email protected] (Assistant Director for Information Systems)
Erin Anderson [email protected] (Library & University Outreach, Web 2.0, Widgets)
Webmaster [email protected] (OSTI Homepage Comments & Feedback)