EnergyFiles is a virtual library of energy-related scientific and technical information created by the US Department of Energy. It provides access to various collections including journal articles, technical reports, electronic preprints, and bibliographic databases containing over 2 million records. The Energy Citations Database within EnergyFiles contains citations and abstracts of literature from fields related to the work of the Department of Energy. Users can search individual databases or search across multiple collections simultaneously through the EnergyFiles portal.
The document discusses how the knowledge management system Tethys facilitates information sharing on the environmental effects of marine renewable energy (MRE). General improvements were made to Tethys, including adding over 1,300 documents to the knowledge base and map viewer. Metadata on MRE data in the Bay of Fundy and Sequim Bay were also collected. An analysis of Tethys website analytics found that countries involved in international MRE cooperation organizations and with coastal access tended to have the most pageviews, indicating use of Tethys as an information resource. However, developing countries without strong MRE programs also had notable pageviews, likely reflecting their renewable energy interests.
ESCAPE Kick-off meeting - Welcome (Feb 2019)ESCAPE EU
The document discusses the ESCAPE project, which is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. ESCAPE aims to connect major European research infrastructures in astronomy and particle physics with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It involves 7 European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures projects, 2 international organizations (CERN and ESO), and other partners. The project seeks to improve access to data and tools, facilitate access to resources for data-driven science, and adopt common approaches to data management. It has a budget of 15.98 million euros and will last 42 months.
Text (personal views position statement) to accompany presentation on what research infrastructures really need for data, XLDB-Europe, 8-10th June 2011, Edinburgh
Open Data and Cross Disciplinary Research - EUDAT Summer School (Brian Matthe...EUDAT
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has become a driving force behind the current evolution of e-Infrastructure to support research. The EOSC offers the vision of an integrated ecosystem of data, services and expertise providing a common platform for open cross-community research in Europe and beyond. In this session, I shall consider the aims of the EOSC and discuss some the opportunities it offers, and barriers it needs to overcome to realise the vision. I shall introduce the EOSC-Pilot project which is aiming to pave the way towards the EOSC by exploring the opportunities and barriers, and proposing how the EOSC should evolve, both technically, including its architecture, and organisationally, including how it should be managed. Participants will be invited to consider what the issues of the EOSC are and how it might affect their own domain.
Visit: https://www.eudat.eu/eudat-summer-school
The Importance of Metadata - EUDAT Summer School (Shaun de Witt, CCFE)EUDAT
Shaun will explain the importance of metadata for data discovery, provenance, reproducibility and reuse. Without sufficient metadata and documentation, research data cannot be found or understood. Providing this contextual information is critical for data to be FAIR. The topics of metadata ontologies and folksonomies are also discussed. This talk aims at giving the participants an understanding of the importance of metadata for both collaborative research and to ensure the usefulness of the data into the future, as well as an idea of what makes ‘good’ metadata.
Visit https://eudat.eu/eudat-summer-school
Museum collections as research data - October 2019Dag Endresen
This document discusses how natural history museums can embrace open science principles by making their collections openly available as research data. It provides context on initiatives like GBIF and DiSSCo that aim to publish biodiversity data according to common standards. While only around 5-10% of specimen records are currently digitized globally, the push for open access to publicly funded research means that museums need to develop new approaches to remain relevant providers of scientific resources. Open science practices like data sharing, citation and reuse can help address reproducibility issues and enable new discovery.
British Library Social Science National Postgraduate Training Day - Datasets ...johnkayebl
The document discusses social science datasets and data resources available through the British Library. It provides an overview of the British Library's Datasets Programme, which aims to help researchers discover, access, reuse and reference datasets. It also summarizes various sources for social science data, including the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) and data from government and international organizations. Guidelines are provided for citing data and depositing datasets in archives.
The document discusses how the knowledge management system Tethys facilitates information sharing on the environmental effects of marine renewable energy (MRE). General improvements were made to Tethys, including adding over 1,300 documents to the knowledge base and map viewer. Metadata on MRE data in the Bay of Fundy and Sequim Bay were also collected. An analysis of Tethys website analytics found that countries involved in international MRE cooperation organizations and with coastal access tended to have the most pageviews, indicating use of Tethys as an information resource. However, developing countries without strong MRE programs also had notable pageviews, likely reflecting their renewable energy interests.
ESCAPE Kick-off meeting - Welcome (Feb 2019)ESCAPE EU
The document discusses the ESCAPE project, which is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. ESCAPE aims to connect major European research infrastructures in astronomy and particle physics with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It involves 7 European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures projects, 2 international organizations (CERN and ESO), and other partners. The project seeks to improve access to data and tools, facilitate access to resources for data-driven science, and adopt common approaches to data management. It has a budget of 15.98 million euros and will last 42 months.
Text (personal views position statement) to accompany presentation on what research infrastructures really need for data, XLDB-Europe, 8-10th June 2011, Edinburgh
Open Data and Cross Disciplinary Research - EUDAT Summer School (Brian Matthe...EUDAT
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has become a driving force behind the current evolution of e-Infrastructure to support research. The EOSC offers the vision of an integrated ecosystem of data, services and expertise providing a common platform for open cross-community research in Europe and beyond. In this session, I shall consider the aims of the EOSC and discuss some the opportunities it offers, and barriers it needs to overcome to realise the vision. I shall introduce the EOSC-Pilot project which is aiming to pave the way towards the EOSC by exploring the opportunities and barriers, and proposing how the EOSC should evolve, both technically, including its architecture, and organisationally, including how it should be managed. Participants will be invited to consider what the issues of the EOSC are and how it might affect their own domain.
Visit: https://www.eudat.eu/eudat-summer-school
The Importance of Metadata - EUDAT Summer School (Shaun de Witt, CCFE)EUDAT
Shaun will explain the importance of metadata for data discovery, provenance, reproducibility and reuse. Without sufficient metadata and documentation, research data cannot be found or understood. Providing this contextual information is critical for data to be FAIR. The topics of metadata ontologies and folksonomies are also discussed. This talk aims at giving the participants an understanding of the importance of metadata for both collaborative research and to ensure the usefulness of the data into the future, as well as an idea of what makes ‘good’ metadata.
Visit https://eudat.eu/eudat-summer-school
Museum collections as research data - October 2019Dag Endresen
This document discusses how natural history museums can embrace open science principles by making their collections openly available as research data. It provides context on initiatives like GBIF and DiSSCo that aim to publish biodiversity data according to common standards. While only around 5-10% of specimen records are currently digitized globally, the push for open access to publicly funded research means that museums need to develop new approaches to remain relevant providers of scientific resources. Open science practices like data sharing, citation and reuse can help address reproducibility issues and enable new discovery.
British Library Social Science National Postgraduate Training Day - Datasets ...johnkayebl
The document discusses social science datasets and data resources available through the British Library. It provides an overview of the British Library's Datasets Programme, which aims to help researchers discover, access, reuse and reference datasets. It also summarizes various sources for social science data, including the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) and data from government and international organizations. Guidelines are provided for citing data and depositing datasets in archives.
The document describes several online resources for scientific and technical information provided by the Department of Energy and its Office of Scientific and Technical Information. It outlines databases and search tools that provide access to DOE-sponsored research reports, citations, patents, data and multimedia. This includes resources like Science Accelerator, Information Bridge and DOE Green Energy that cover various topics such as physics, engineering and renewable energy. It also summarizes federal resources including Science.gov and global resources such as WorldWideScience.org that provide scientific information from participating organizations around the world.
Researchers were able to detect a fast radio burst (FRB) for the first time by accessing archival data from the Parkes Radio Telescope. FRBs were first discovered in 2007 by astronomers analyzing archival Parkes data. Emily Petroff and her team were the first to detect an FRB live, lasting only a millisecond. Opening up research data aids new discoveries and boosts the economy, according to a 2014 report estimating that data sharing is worth up to $5.5 billion annually to Australia. The report shows investing in data infrastructure and policies encouraging sharing can significantly increase value to Australian innovation, research, and the economy.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility - 2013Dag Endresen
Presentation of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), GBIF-Norway and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC, Artsdatabanken) at the Norwegian Institute for Forestry and Landscape (Skog og Landskap) at Ås outside Oslo on the 17th October 2013. Seminar together with the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC, Artsdatabanken).
The document summarizes research at NC State University, highlighting its rankings and accomplishments. It discusses NC State's strong tech and innovation climate, knowledge capital through education and research, strategic research areas, university collaborations, patents, and tools to accelerate innovation partnerships. Specific rankings mentioned include #1 most wired city, #1 best quality of life, and #3 most innovative city in the US. Key university collaborations highlighted are the Research Triangle Solar Fuels Institute and the Joint Biomedical Engineering Department with UNC-Chapel Hill.
GBIF & GRScicoll, Høstseminar Norges museumsforbunds Seksjon for natur, 2021-...Dag Endresen
This document discusses digitalization efforts and open biodiversity data infrastructure. It provides an overview of GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), including its goals of providing open access to biodiversity data worldwide. It notes that over 1.9 billion species occurrence records have been published through GBIF from over 1,700 data publishers. The document encourages museums to engage in open science and digitalization to remain relevant and take advantage of new opportunities and funding. It discusses using identifiers like DOIs to cite biodiversity data and link it to publications and people.
This document discusses potential opportunities for transatlantic research collaboration between Dutch and US institutions on clean energy and smart grid technologies. It identifies over 1700 Dutch and 3300 US researchers active in the field across various clusters. Examples of areas of collaboration could include battery modeling (TU Eindhoven and NIST), solar fuels research (TU Delft, Princeton, Stanford with ARPA-E funding), and smart grid infrastructure modeling (TU Delft's Powerweb program and work by NIST/Carnegie Mellon on a "Smart Grid in a Room" testbed). Next steps proposed include identifying viable joint projects and applying for funding from sources like NSF, ARPA-E, and EU programs.
1) The World Health Organization released a report stating that the Fukushima nuclear disaster will cause minimal increased risk of cancer. It estimated increased lifetime risks of certain cancers based on radiation exposure levels in different locations.
2) Mandatory U.S. budget cuts of $85 billion took effect, reducing funding for science agencies. Agencies are calculating how to save 5% through reducing grants, administrative costs, and ongoing programs.
3) The Swiss government approved spending to create a protected field site for experiments with genetically modified crops in order to reduce security costs from potential vandalism.
This newsletter issue introduces several new contributors and articles about library technology. It includes articles on pricing trends for personal computers, open source software in libraries, educating users about copyright and fair use, and a case study of the University of Valencia library. Conference reports are provided from recent library technology conferences. New columns explore e-books and copyright issues. A new global case studies column debuts with a report on the University of Valencia library.
The document discusses the EU INSPIRE Directive and its implications for UK academia. The INSPIRE Directive aims to create a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to improve sharing of spatial information between public authorities and accessibility for the public. This will allow better environmental policies and outcomes. While initially for environmental policy, INSPIRE intends to extend to other domains. The directive may apply to UK universities as they are considered public authorities. This could mean universities would need to make certain spatial datasets available according to INSPIRE specifications. The directive presents both obligations and opportunities for UK academia as data providers and data users.
ContentMining for France and Europe; Lessons from 2 years in UKpetermurrayrust
This document summarizes Peter Murray-Rust's presentation on two years of content mining in the UK and lessons for France and Europe. Some key points discussed include:
- Content mining can save lives by enabling researchers to search literature and find past warnings, as in the case of Ebola.
- However, publishers like Elsevier and Wiley have stopped researchers' content mining efforts, hampering their work.
- France, Europe and the UK must actively support content mining through funding, tools, training and protecting researchers from restrictive publishers.
- Examples are given of ContentMine fellows' projects mining literature on topics like weevil-plant associations, cell migration and depression in animals.
This document summarizes an article about new interfaces for electronic journals. It describes several novel technologies that take advantage of the digital format to further facilitate use of electronic collections, including higher-level access options beyond typical search features. These include automatically generating terms and semantic relationships to represent document topics, and visualizing these concepts and relationships to reduce the cognitive load of conventional searching. The visualization allows interactive exploration and filtering of document collections through concept mapping.
Text and data mining in UK and France (ADBU - 13 Dec 16)Rob Johnson
Slides from my presentation in Paris on 13 Dec 2016, summarising the findings of our study on text and data mining in public research for the ADBU. Full report available at http://adbu.fr/etude-tdm/.
1) Sustainable development requires an integrated systems approach to planning that considers interdependencies between sectors like water, energy, infrastructure, and the environment.
2) Tools like the CLEW model and iSDG model can help analyze cross-sectoral linkages and support sustainable development planning.
3) A systems of systems approach is needed to understand risks from critical infrastructure failures and interdependencies between sectors like energy, water, and transportation.
4) An integrated governance system with high-level inter-ministerial coordination and an integrated information system using national accounts data can support an effective integrated systems approach.
Presentation for agINFRA Hackathon in Athens 12th December 2013Jane Bromley
This document describes a three step process for identifying and summarizing open educational resources related to agriculture from the Open University's OpenLearn platform:
1. Identify subject topics relevant to agriculture from the Open University's subject listing.
2. Query the OpenLearn dataset to find units tagged with the relevant agriculture subjects.
3. Extract metadata for the matching units using SPARQL queries or a Python script to output the data in JSON or RDF/XML format, providing summaries of the available agricultural resources.
The process allows agricultural data and resources to be efficiently identified and summarized from the Open University's free open educational materials on OpenLearn.
This document provides information about a geospatial metadata and spatial data workshop. The workshop will include a presentation session on metadata standards and application profiles, as well as a demonstration session using the Geodoc Metadata Editor tool and Go-Geo! portal. The document also provides background information on geospatial metadata, standards such as INSPIRE and UK AGMAP 2, and resources available for metadata creation and publication including the Geodoc tool and Go-Geo! portal.
This document summarizes a geospatial metadata and spatial data workshop. The workshop included presentations on metadata standards and application profiles, demonstrations of metadata editing and portal tools, and discussions of current and future activities to support the use and sharing of geospatial data and metadata in UK academia.
The Inter-university Upper Atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET) is a six-year Japanese project running from 2009-2014 involving five universities to build a metadata database of ground-based observational data of the upper atmosphere. The database will provide researchers access to various radar, magnetometer, and other observational data collected across different institutions to facilitate new cross-disciplinary analysis. The project is also developing data analysis software to help researchers download, visualize, and analyze the data.
ESCAPE cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics RIs,EOSC-hub project
The ESCAPE project received €15.98 million in funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme to connect major European astrophysics and particle physics research infrastructures (ESFRI projects) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The 31 partners in ESCAPE include 7 ESFRI projects as well as CERN and ESO. The project aims to address open science challenges around handling and sharing large datasets, establish interoperability within EOSC, and implement common approaches and standards. It consists of 6 work packages focused on areas like data infrastructure, software repositories, virtual observatories, and citizen science.
Purdue University Receives Grant to Study Alternative EnergyFirminy Capital Sarl
Firminy Capital Sarl manages investment funds including the Alternative Energy Series 1 sub-fund, which invests in research and development of alternative energy resources. Purdue University recently received a $3 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to conduct multiple alternative energy research projects in support of the US Navy, focusing on areas like gas chromatography and biomass-biofuel sources. The projects aim to advance understanding of how fuel compositions impact performance in order to drive innovation and leadership in sustainable energy.
The document discusses digital textbooks and how they are an idea whose time has come. It provides an overview of digital textbooks, including that they are neither purely text nor a physical book. It also outlines the history of digital textbooks and lists many commercial platforms for digital textbooks. It describes several higher education and national initiatives that have helped advance digital textbooks around the world.
This document provides details about the Energy Citations Database (ECD) produced by the U.S. Department of Energy. It describes the content, search features, and record format of the ECD. Key points include:
- The ECD contains over 2 million bibliographic records related to energy and energy-related research funded by the DOE.
- Records include fields for title, authors, publication date, report numbers, subject terms, and abstracts. Links to fulltext are provided for some newer publications.
- Searches can be done through a basic search box searching specific fields, or through an advanced search interface. Searching supports boolean operators and wildcard characters.
- Results can be sorted
The document describes several online resources for scientific and technical information provided by the Department of Energy and its Office of Scientific and Technical Information. It outlines databases and search tools that provide access to DOE-sponsored research reports, citations, patents, data and multimedia. This includes resources like Science Accelerator, Information Bridge and DOE Green Energy that cover various topics such as physics, engineering and renewable energy. It also summarizes federal resources including Science.gov and global resources such as WorldWideScience.org that provide scientific information from participating organizations around the world.
Researchers were able to detect a fast radio burst (FRB) for the first time by accessing archival data from the Parkes Radio Telescope. FRBs were first discovered in 2007 by astronomers analyzing archival Parkes data. Emily Petroff and her team were the first to detect an FRB live, lasting only a millisecond. Opening up research data aids new discoveries and boosts the economy, according to a 2014 report estimating that data sharing is worth up to $5.5 billion annually to Australia. The report shows investing in data infrastructure and policies encouraging sharing can significantly increase value to Australian innovation, research, and the economy.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility - 2013Dag Endresen
Presentation of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), GBIF-Norway and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC, Artsdatabanken) at the Norwegian Institute for Forestry and Landscape (Skog og Landskap) at Ås outside Oslo on the 17th October 2013. Seminar together with the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC, Artsdatabanken).
The document summarizes research at NC State University, highlighting its rankings and accomplishments. It discusses NC State's strong tech and innovation climate, knowledge capital through education and research, strategic research areas, university collaborations, patents, and tools to accelerate innovation partnerships. Specific rankings mentioned include #1 most wired city, #1 best quality of life, and #3 most innovative city in the US. Key university collaborations highlighted are the Research Triangle Solar Fuels Institute and the Joint Biomedical Engineering Department with UNC-Chapel Hill.
GBIF & GRScicoll, Høstseminar Norges museumsforbunds Seksjon for natur, 2021-...Dag Endresen
This document discusses digitalization efforts and open biodiversity data infrastructure. It provides an overview of GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), including its goals of providing open access to biodiversity data worldwide. It notes that over 1.9 billion species occurrence records have been published through GBIF from over 1,700 data publishers. The document encourages museums to engage in open science and digitalization to remain relevant and take advantage of new opportunities and funding. It discusses using identifiers like DOIs to cite biodiversity data and link it to publications and people.
This document discusses potential opportunities for transatlantic research collaboration between Dutch and US institutions on clean energy and smart grid technologies. It identifies over 1700 Dutch and 3300 US researchers active in the field across various clusters. Examples of areas of collaboration could include battery modeling (TU Eindhoven and NIST), solar fuels research (TU Delft, Princeton, Stanford with ARPA-E funding), and smart grid infrastructure modeling (TU Delft's Powerweb program and work by NIST/Carnegie Mellon on a "Smart Grid in a Room" testbed). Next steps proposed include identifying viable joint projects and applying for funding from sources like NSF, ARPA-E, and EU programs.
1) The World Health Organization released a report stating that the Fukushima nuclear disaster will cause minimal increased risk of cancer. It estimated increased lifetime risks of certain cancers based on radiation exposure levels in different locations.
2) Mandatory U.S. budget cuts of $85 billion took effect, reducing funding for science agencies. Agencies are calculating how to save 5% through reducing grants, administrative costs, and ongoing programs.
3) The Swiss government approved spending to create a protected field site for experiments with genetically modified crops in order to reduce security costs from potential vandalism.
This newsletter issue introduces several new contributors and articles about library technology. It includes articles on pricing trends for personal computers, open source software in libraries, educating users about copyright and fair use, and a case study of the University of Valencia library. Conference reports are provided from recent library technology conferences. New columns explore e-books and copyright issues. A new global case studies column debuts with a report on the University of Valencia library.
The document discusses the EU INSPIRE Directive and its implications for UK academia. The INSPIRE Directive aims to create a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to improve sharing of spatial information between public authorities and accessibility for the public. This will allow better environmental policies and outcomes. While initially for environmental policy, INSPIRE intends to extend to other domains. The directive may apply to UK universities as they are considered public authorities. This could mean universities would need to make certain spatial datasets available according to INSPIRE specifications. The directive presents both obligations and opportunities for UK academia as data providers and data users.
ContentMining for France and Europe; Lessons from 2 years in UKpetermurrayrust
This document summarizes Peter Murray-Rust's presentation on two years of content mining in the UK and lessons for France and Europe. Some key points discussed include:
- Content mining can save lives by enabling researchers to search literature and find past warnings, as in the case of Ebola.
- However, publishers like Elsevier and Wiley have stopped researchers' content mining efforts, hampering their work.
- France, Europe and the UK must actively support content mining through funding, tools, training and protecting researchers from restrictive publishers.
- Examples are given of ContentMine fellows' projects mining literature on topics like weevil-plant associations, cell migration and depression in animals.
This document summarizes an article about new interfaces for electronic journals. It describes several novel technologies that take advantage of the digital format to further facilitate use of electronic collections, including higher-level access options beyond typical search features. These include automatically generating terms and semantic relationships to represent document topics, and visualizing these concepts and relationships to reduce the cognitive load of conventional searching. The visualization allows interactive exploration and filtering of document collections through concept mapping.
Text and data mining in UK and France (ADBU - 13 Dec 16)Rob Johnson
Slides from my presentation in Paris on 13 Dec 2016, summarising the findings of our study on text and data mining in public research for the ADBU. Full report available at http://adbu.fr/etude-tdm/.
1) Sustainable development requires an integrated systems approach to planning that considers interdependencies between sectors like water, energy, infrastructure, and the environment.
2) Tools like the CLEW model and iSDG model can help analyze cross-sectoral linkages and support sustainable development planning.
3) A systems of systems approach is needed to understand risks from critical infrastructure failures and interdependencies between sectors like energy, water, and transportation.
4) An integrated governance system with high-level inter-ministerial coordination and an integrated information system using national accounts data can support an effective integrated systems approach.
Presentation for agINFRA Hackathon in Athens 12th December 2013Jane Bromley
This document describes a three step process for identifying and summarizing open educational resources related to agriculture from the Open University's OpenLearn platform:
1. Identify subject topics relevant to agriculture from the Open University's subject listing.
2. Query the OpenLearn dataset to find units tagged with the relevant agriculture subjects.
3. Extract metadata for the matching units using SPARQL queries or a Python script to output the data in JSON or RDF/XML format, providing summaries of the available agricultural resources.
The process allows agricultural data and resources to be efficiently identified and summarized from the Open University's free open educational materials on OpenLearn.
This document provides information about a geospatial metadata and spatial data workshop. The workshop will include a presentation session on metadata standards and application profiles, as well as a demonstration session using the Geodoc Metadata Editor tool and Go-Geo! portal. The document also provides background information on geospatial metadata, standards such as INSPIRE and UK AGMAP 2, and resources available for metadata creation and publication including the Geodoc tool and Go-Geo! portal.
This document summarizes a geospatial metadata and spatial data workshop. The workshop included presentations on metadata standards and application profiles, demonstrations of metadata editing and portal tools, and discussions of current and future activities to support the use and sharing of geospatial data and metadata in UK academia.
The Inter-university Upper Atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET) is a six-year Japanese project running from 2009-2014 involving five universities to build a metadata database of ground-based observational data of the upper atmosphere. The database will provide researchers access to various radar, magnetometer, and other observational data collected across different institutions to facilitate new cross-disciplinary analysis. The project is also developing data analysis software to help researchers download, visualize, and analyze the data.
ESCAPE cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics RIs,EOSC-hub project
The ESCAPE project received €15.98 million in funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme to connect major European astrophysics and particle physics research infrastructures (ESFRI projects) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The 31 partners in ESCAPE include 7 ESFRI projects as well as CERN and ESO. The project aims to address open science challenges around handling and sharing large datasets, establish interoperability within EOSC, and implement common approaches and standards. It consists of 6 work packages focused on areas like data infrastructure, software repositories, virtual observatories, and citizen science.
Purdue University Receives Grant to Study Alternative EnergyFirminy Capital Sarl
Firminy Capital Sarl manages investment funds including the Alternative Energy Series 1 sub-fund, which invests in research and development of alternative energy resources. Purdue University recently received a $3 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to conduct multiple alternative energy research projects in support of the US Navy, focusing on areas like gas chromatography and biomass-biofuel sources. The projects aim to advance understanding of how fuel compositions impact performance in order to drive innovation and leadership in sustainable energy.
The document discusses digital textbooks and how they are an idea whose time has come. It provides an overview of digital textbooks, including that they are neither purely text nor a physical book. It also outlines the history of digital textbooks and lists many commercial platforms for digital textbooks. It describes several higher education and national initiatives that have helped advance digital textbooks around the world.
This document provides details about the Energy Citations Database (ECD) produced by the U.S. Department of Energy. It describes the content, search features, and record format of the ECD. Key points include:
- The ECD contains over 2 million bibliographic records related to energy and energy-related research funded by the DOE.
- Records include fields for title, authors, publication date, report numbers, subject terms, and abstracts. Links to fulltext are provided for some newer publications.
- Searches can be done through a basic search box searching specific fields, or through an advanced search interface. Searching supports boolean operators and wildcard characters.
- Results can be sorted
This document discusses emerging paradigms in research and scholarship, focusing on open, semantic, social, and mobile trends. It summarizes key points from several sources on open peer review models like those used by the Journal of Interactive Media in Education and PLOS One. It also discusses tiered peer review systems and ways to semantically enhance articles through metadata and multi-media content to increase discoverability and integration between papers.
This newsletter issue introduces several new contributors and articles about library technology. It includes articles on pricing trends for personal computers, open source software in libraries, educating users about copyright and fair use, and a case study of library automation at the University of Valencia, Spain. Conference reports are provided from SITE, ACRL, E-Books 2001, ETD2001, and TechEd. New columns explore e-books and the SLAC e-conference proceedings archive. The issue also launches a new global case studies column.
The document discusses mobile learning and resources in the iPhone age. It notes that by 2020, mobile phones are predicted to be the primary internet access point for most people worldwide. It then outlines Koç University and Suna Kıraç Library, and various mobile devices, services, and applications that can be used for education, including e-readers, smartphones, apps, microblogging, and library services accessed remotely.
This document summarizes several free international web-based patent sites:
- The USPTO and European Patent Office websites provide free access to patent information as well as other intellectual property resources. Other non-Western nations also offer free patent databases.
- Key free patent database services described include DEPATISnet, the Industrial Property Digital Library (Japan), and the Intellectual Property Digital Library hosted by WIPO. Each provides search access to large collections of patent documents and bibliographic information.
The document discusses several science and technology databases - Aerospace & High Technology Database, Mechanical and Transportation Engineering Abstracts, and the NTIS Database. It provides information on the coverage, size, features, and search capabilities of each database. Major topics covered include aeronautics, materials science, engineering, government reports, and more. Features described include controlled vocabularies, browsable indexes, search options, and full text availability.
This document discusses various paradigms related to open, semantic, social and mobile research and scholarship. It begins by defining open access, semantic technologies like audio and video, and social media platforms for researchers like social bookmarking sites CiteULike and Mendeley. It then discusses the Higher Education Authority's policy in Ireland requiring researchers receiving public funds to make their publications openly accessible within 6 months of publication. Overall, the document outlines changing technologies that are opening up and enhancing research through open sharing and collaboration.
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is an online database funded by NASA that provides bibliographic records and full text articles in astronomy, astrophysics, and related fields. It contains over 2.3 million abstracts as of 2001. The ADS includes searchable abstracts from major journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, and dissertations. Users can search by author, title, keywords, publication date, and other filters. Search results are ranked by relevance and users can view brief records or full details of publications from the search results. The ADS is a widely used resource with over 100,000 users from 112 countries accessing it monthly in 2001.
This document discusses wikis and their use for collaboration. It defines wikis as freely editable web pages that allow for community collaboration. Some key features of wikis include their ability to edit pages, view page histories, and discuss proposed changes. Wikis provide advantages such as asynchronous collaboration and knowledge sharing, but also have disadvantages like issues ensuring content quality and reliability. Popular wiki engines include MediaWiki, MoinMoin, and PmWiki. Examples of wikis in higher education include their use for courses, research projects, and university portals.
The document discusses services available through MIMAS, a UK data center, that can aid various stages of research. It outlines MIMAS's role in providing data, computing resources, and training. It then summarizes several databases and tools hosted by MIMAS, including Archives Hub, COPAC, Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, Derwent Innovations Index, ZETOC, JSTOR, CasWeb, Crossfire, and Landmap. Contact information is provided for each service.
The EPA Comptox Chemistry Dashboard is a web-based application providing access to a set of data resources provided by the National Center of Computational Toxicology. Sitting on a foundation of chemistry data for ~750,000 chemical substances the application integrates bioassay screening results, physicochemical and toxicological endpoints (both experimental and predicted) and consumer product and functional use data. By integrating a series of other EPA and public databases (e.g. ECOTOX, the EPA Substance Registry Service, EPA’s ChemView and PubChem), the dashboard provides a hub for connecting to other releases of value to environmental scientists and toxicologists. The underpinning architecture has been developed in a manner allowing for the release of the dashboard as a public resource, as well as for delivering applications used inside confidential business information environments. These applications are being assessed for potential applications to support risk decisions. This presentation will provide an overview of the dashboard focusing specifically on the most recent functionality supporting deeper integration to the ToxCast bioassay data and exposure data and predictions available via the dashboard. This abstract does not reflect U.S. EPA policy.
Scientific databases and repositories play an important role in the scientific community by organizing and providing access to scientific information. There are several types of scientific databases that focus on different subject areas or provide different types of access, including Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and others. Repositories store and provide access to research outputs, teaching materials, theses/dissertations, and other content. They benefit researchers through increased visibility and impact of publications, and benefit institutions by increasing prestige and supporting teaching/learning. Aggregators facilitate access to content from multiple publishers and databases through hosting, gateway, and full-text services, helping libraries provide access.
The British Library Datasets Programme aims to:
1) Make research datasets more discoverable, accessible, and reusable by providing persistent identifiers like DOIs.
2) Establish best practices for citing datasets to give their creators proper credit.
3) Develop sustainable models for archiving datasets over the long term through projects with data repositories and publishers.
Great Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine Resources Web Search Univ...Matthew Von Hendy
Slide deck presentation from a session at WebSearch University 2014 on Great Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine resources. Emphasis is on primarily open access resources.
The document discusses a study on reducing drag in close formation flight by accounting for flight control trim positions and dissimilar formations. It examines defining the position that provides the greatest fuel savings benefit when aircraft fly in close proximity. The study looks at how trim positions and dissimilar aircraft types impact drag and fuel efficiency in formation flight.
2 Discovery and Acquisition of Data1.pptxvijayapraba1
This document provides an outline of Lecture 2 from the course GEO 802, Data Information Literacy. It discusses various portals and repositories for publishing and finding data, including discipline-specific repositories, as well as directories and indexes of repositories. It also covers data journals and venues for publishing datasets to get them cited. Finally, it lists some exercises for students to find relevant data repositories in their fields and to explore search tools and open data portals.
This document profiles two lesser-known data sources for ecological and environmental data: CEED and Ecological Archives. CEED is a data repository containing peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed data primarily related to southern California organisms and environments. Users can search and browse metadata and download data files through FTP after registering. Ecological Archives is a public archive publishing supplemental materials to articles in Ecological Society of America journals, including data papers which are peer-reviewed compilations of datasets. It provides long-term access to these materials.
Quo vadis, provenancer? Cui prodest? our own trajectory: provenance of data...Paolo Missier
The document discusses provenance in the context of data science and artificial intelligence. It provides bibliometric data on publications related to data/workflow provenance from 2000 to the present. Recent trends include increased focus on applications in computing and engineering fields. Blockchain is discussed as a method for capturing fine-grained provenance. The document also outlines challenges around explainability, transparency and accountability for high-risk AI systems according to new EU regulations, and argues that provenance techniques may help address these challenges by providing traceability of system functioning and operation monitoring.
Understanding the Big Picture of e-ScienceAndrew Sallans
E-science involves large-scale collaborative research enabled by new technologies like high-speed networks and cheap data storage. It produces massive amounts of complex data from areas like climate modeling, particle physics experiments, biomedical research grids, and citizen science projects. This represents a major change for research that requires new infrastructure, expertise, and approaches. Universities like UVA are responding by establishing research computing support services in their libraries to help scientists with the computational and data aspects of e-science throughout the research lifecycle.
This document summarizes five e-print servers across different academic disciplines:
1) The Chemistry Preprint Server (CPS) is a freely available archive for rapid distribution of chemistry research. Authors can submit manuscripts and works-in-progress.
2) Clinical Medicine & Health Research NetPrints is a repository for non-peer reviewed medical and health research. It contains 45 e-prints as of July 2001.
3) CogPrints is an e-print server for research in cognitive sciences like psychology and neuroscience containing over 4,000 e-prints as of July 2001.
Big Data Europe at eHealth Week 2017: Linking Big Data in HealthBigData_Europe
Of the four V's of big data – Volume, Velocity, Variety and Veracity – the most challenging for the health sector is Variety. Health data comes from many sources, formats and standards – how can we bring these together to reap the benefits of big data technologies?
Big Data Europe is tackling this challenge head-on, building a big data infrastructure flexible enough to tackle all seven Societal Challenges identified by Horizon 2020. Here we demonstrate our pilot implementation of Open PHACTS, which integrates life science data for drug discovery.
12 May 2017
This document discusses the public disclosure of biological sequences in global patent practice. It notes that biological sequences are an important part of global patenting, but their disclosure poses unique challenges to ensure their effective and equitable use. The form in which sequences are disclosed matters greatly, as their function can only be determined with computer-aided technology. The document examines standards for sequence disclosure over time at various patent offices and databases, noting variability. It argues that a global platform is needed to enable comprehensive, standardized, timely and meaningful public access to sequence data from patents.
The document describes several e-print servers across various scientific disciplines, including chemistry, clinical medicine, cognitive sciences, and mathematics. It provides details on the purpose, contents, search features, and organizational sponsors of each server. The Chemistry Preprint Server is highlighted as the first profiled, providing a freely available archive for chemistry research with 270 e-prints as of July 2001. Users must register with ChemWeb.com to access the server and submissions are converted to PDF format.
Open Access and the Evolving Scholarly Communication EnvironmentIryna Kuchma
Open access for researchers: enlarged audience and citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers: new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. Open access for libraries. Maintaining digital repository as a key function for research libraries.
The document discusses the CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development) initiative and how it aims to create a global infrastructure for linked open data. It describes how FAO has worked for decades to make agricultural information more accessible, including through programs like AGRIS and AIMS. The CIARD initiative now involves over 100 partners working to coordinate their efforts and promote common data formats and systems. It outlines FAO's work on vocabularies like AGROVOC and how linked open data can help link distributed data sources in agriculture through applying standards.
ASIDIC Spring Meeting, Las Vegas, NV March 2008. This presentation presents the challenges for the researcher, publisher and the library as their collective worlds are constantly colliding as the need to be published, to maintain the subscription model
This document summarizes the CyberStacks prototype, which applies traditional library classification and organization methods to facilitate access to science and technology resources on the World Wide Web. The prototype uses the Library of Congress classification system to organize selected Internet resources and provides browsable access through broad subject categories. It aims to enhance discovery and use of relevant resources by applying established selection criteria and presenting descriptive annotations. The document outlines the philosophy, organization, selection process, and access features of the CyberStacks prototype, arguing that familiar library structures and conventions can help users navigate Internet resources more effectively.
This document summarizes five innovative electronic journals, indexes, or services that go beyond conventional online publications by providing novel features and functionalities. It profiles the Astronomy and Astrophysics index from the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, which uses a self-organizing map to organize journal articles into a clickable graphical interface. It also summarizes the Internet Journal of Chemistry, an electronic-only journal that encourages authors to incorporate interactive elements like animations and molecular structures to enhance reader comprehension. The document discusses how these resources aim to fully utilize the digital environment and empower readers through customization options.
This document summarizes five innovative electronic journals, indexes, or services that go beyond conventional online publications by providing novel features and functionalities. It profiles the Astronomy and Astrophysics index from the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, which uses a self-organizing map to organize journal articles into a clickable graphical interface. It also summarizes the Internet Journal of Chemistry, an electronic-only journal that encourages authors to incorporate interactive elements like animations and molecular structures to enhance reader comprehension. The document discusses how these resources aim to fully utilize the digital environment and empower readers through customization options.
Alexander Street Press provides online collections in the humanities and social sciences through its website and mobile apps. It offers collections of music scores, recordings, videos and reference materials that can be accessed on smartphones and tablets through its mobile-friendly website and apps for iOS and Android devices. Alexander Street Press partners with major content producers and plans to release an iPhone app.
The document summarizes recent events and projects in the fields of digital preservation, metadata, cataloging standards and practices. It describes a forum held by RLG on converging standards for digital preservation, ALCTS regional institutes on metadata and cataloging rules, training courses offered by Rare Book School, an Open Archives workshop in Portugal, and the annual NASIG conference in Virginia. It also provides overviews of the Diffuse Project standards information source and the DLIST digital library for information science and technology.
This document provides summaries of several upcoming conferences, training programs, videoconferences, and workshops related to metadata and digital libraries. It also summarizes two ongoing projects: the development of a MARC 21 XML schema by the Library of Congress to facilitate the communication and conversion of MARC records, and the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) being developed by the Library of Congress as a standard for encoding metadata about digital library objects.
Gerry McKiernan is a popular science and technology librarian blogger from Iowa State University. He runs several blogs focused on emerging technologies and their applications for libraries. McKiernan has been blogging since 2003 and his blogs regularly rank in the top 1% worldwide according to Technorati. He gains professional benefits from blogging through opportunities to present at conferences and staying up to date on new developments relevant to his work.
Roddy MacLeod is an award-winning information professional at the cutting edge of the industry. He has been blogging since 2005 and runs multiple blogs, including the Heriot-Watt Library blog Spineless and the JISC-funded TicTocs project blog. Blogging helps Roddy market the library, build interest in projects, and stay on top of trends in the field. It also expands his network and improves his writing skills.
This document summarizes several free international web-based patent sites:
- The USPTO and European Patent Office websites provide free access to patent information as well as other intellectual property resources. Other non-Western nations also offer free patent databases.
- Key free patent database services highlighted include DEPATISnet, the Industrial Property Digital Library (Japan), and the Intellectual Property Digital Library hosted by WIPO. Each provides search access to large collections of patent documents and bibliographic information.
1. The document discusses how MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) could disrupt higher education through innovative business models and flexible learning approaches.
2. It analyzes MOOCs using the theory of disruptive innovation, finding that MOOCs initially target non-consumers of higher education but may eventually compete with traditional universities by improving performance over time.
3. While MOOCs have potential to disrupt higher education, the education sector is complex with many players and regulations, so the impacts are difficult to predict and universities may not be displaced in the same way as other disrupted industries.
Gerry McKiernan is a popular science and technology librarian blogger from Iowa State University. He runs several blogs on topics like online social networks, bioenergy, geothermal energy, and wind energy that receive thousands of subscribers. McKiernan has been blogging since 2003 and credits it with helping him stay on top of developments in his fields and getting invitations to present at conferences. He enjoys the feedback from colleagues who find his blogs professionally valuable.
The document discusses several free international web-based patent sites, including those run by the USPTO, European Patent Office, China Patent Database, DEPATISnet, and the Industrial Property Digital Library. It describes the types of patent information available on each site, such as bibliographic data, abstracts, and in some cases full-text patent documents. It also summarizes the different search interfaces provided, including basic, advanced, and Boolean searching options available to users.
The document discusses several free international web-based patent sites, including those run by the USPTO, European Patent Office, China Patent Database, DEPATISnet, and Industrial Property Digital Library. It describes the types of patent information available on each site, such as bibliographic data, abstracts, and in some cases full-text patent documents. It also summarizes the search interfaces and capabilities of each site.
This document summarizes the CyberStacks prototype, which applies traditional library classification and organization methods to facilitate access to science and technology resources on the World Wide Web. Specifically, it uses the Library of Congress classification system to organize selected Internet resources into categories. This allows users to browse broad subjects and drill down into more specific topics. The goals are to reduce cognitive load for users and provide context among related resources. Key elements include selecting high-quality reference materials, classifying resources based on subject coverage, and presenting descriptive annotations to help users evaluate resources. The document argues this approach can make Internet resources easier to navigate for users familiar with traditional library systems and services.
The document discusses free web-based patent databases available through esp@cenet. Esp@cenet provides access to over 45 million patent documents from the European Patent Office and other patent offices around the world. It allows users to perform basic and advanced searches. The presentation also reviews other international patent databases from countries and regions like China, Germany, Japan, and WIPO.
The document summarizes esp@cenet®, a free web-based patent search service provided by the European Patent Office. Esp@cenet® provides access to over 42.5 million patent documents from over 70 countries. It allows users to search for patent information via three gateways - the EPO gateway, national patent office gateways of EPO member states, or the European Commission gateway. Basic "Quick Searches" can be done on title/abstract or by patent number. Search results provide bibliographic data and English abstracts when available.
The NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service provides comprehensive access to bibliographic information and select full-text articles in astronomy, astrophysics, and related fields. It offers customizable search options, automatic inclusion of synonyms, and links to citing articles and related papers. The service had provided over 1 billion records since 1993. NEC Research Institute's ResearchIndex uses fully automated processes to extract citations from electronic papers and identify relationships between citations. ePrints.org advocates for open access to scholarly articles and preprints through either new open access journals or author self-archiving in publicly accessible websites.
The document discusses social networking services and Facebook. It provides an overview of Facebook, describing its features such as profiles, friends, groups, pages, and privacy settings. It also discusses the growth of Facebook at Iowa State University and outlines plans to create an organizational social network called ESC-Net for the Engineering Staff Council at ISU. The presentation aims to educate about using social media to facilitate collaboration.
This document discusses the increasing use of multimedia in electronic journals (e-journals) as the capabilities of digital technologies have advanced. It notes that while early e-journals were limited to text and basic images, the development of technologies like PDF, HTML, and the World Wide Web enabled incorporation of multimedia like audio, video, animations and more. The document reviews common types of multimedia being used in e-journals, such as animated GIFs, MIDI files, MPEG videos, and VRML. It also provides examples of e-journals across various academic fields that employ multimedia.
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EnergyFiles: the virtual library of
energy science and technology
The targeted audience for EnergyFiles is
end users and organizations having a
need for energy-related scientific and
technical information. Anticipated pri-
mary users include researchers, scientists,
project managers, program managers,
academia (educators and students), and
associated information professionals
(United States Department of Energy.
Office of Scientific and Technical In-
formation, 1997, 1999).
The Truth is Out There (The X-Files).
Energy Citations Database
The Energy Citations Database
(ECD) (www.osti.gov/energycitations/)
is a bibliographic database developed
by the Office of Scientific and
Technical Information (OSTI) of the
US Department of Energy (DOE) to
improve access to energy and energy-
related scientific and technical
information produced or funded by
DOE and its predecessor agencies, the
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and
the Energy Research and Development
Administration (ERDA) (see Figure 1).
ECD is made available by OSTI in
partnership with the US Government
Printing Office (GPO) through GPO
Access (www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/
index.html). It was launched in October
2001 and presently contains
approximately 2 million records and is
currently updated weekly.
The ECD provides full bibliographic
records to the literature of disciplines of
interest to the US Department of
Energy, notably chemistry, physics,
materials, environmental science,
geology, engineering, mathematics,
climatology, oceanography, computer
science, and related disciplines. ECD
provides citations to books, conference
proceedings and papers, dissertations
and theses, government documents,
journal articles, patents and patent
applications, software manuals, as well
as the report literature. Access to the
full text of selected publications is also
available (McKiernan, 2002).
Although specific in coverage and
content, the Energy Citations Database
in many respects represents the general
nature and scope of the electronic
resources made available through
EnergyFiles: the Virtual Library of
Energy Science and Technology
(www.osti.gov/EnergyFiles/), the portal
of which it is a component. Sponsored,
developed, and maintained by OSTI,
EnergyFiles ``combines information,
tools, and technologies to facilitate the
use of scientific resources at the
desktop'' . . . [that can] ``. . . maximize
access to and usefulness of the vast
body of knowledge that exists in the
worldwide scientific community . . .''.
EnergyFiles is intended to offer ``a fully
searchable dynamic information
resource that provides organized access
to a comprehensive resource of
scientific and technical information in
physics and other disciplines of concern
to the [US] Department of Energy.''
Collections and access
The EnergyFiles project was
initiated five years ago in Spring 1997
with the appointment of a development
team charged with defining ``a virtual
library within the context of the
scientific and technical information
(STI) created and maintained by the
Department of Energy and building a
prototype to demonstrate the concept.''
The prototype was unveiled in May
1997 at InForum, the annual
E-PROFILE
Gerry McKiernan
Figure 1
Screen print of the Energy Citations Database homepage
2. information management and
technology conference sponsored by
OSTI; the current revision was
implemented in May 1998.
EnergyFiles offers access to three
major types of publications (see
Figure 2):
. journal literature;
. gray literature; and
. electronic preprints (e-prints).
Journal literature
From within EnergyFiles access is
provided to three bibliographic
databases:
(1) Infotrieve1
Article Finder;
(2) Scirus;
(3) PubSCIENCE.
Infotrieve1
Article Finder
(www4.infotrieve.com/search/databases/
newsearch.asp) provides access to a
database of 20 million bibliographic
citations with 10 million abstracts from
more than 30,000 scientific, technical,
medical journals, while Scirus
(www.scirus.com/) provides access to
Web resources, as well as free and
subscriber resources such as those
available from or provided by
ScienceDirect, IDEAL, MEDLINE on
BioMedNet, Beilstein Abstracts on
ChemWeb, Neuroscion, BioMed
Central, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, E-Print ArXiv,
Chemistry Preprint Server, Mathematics
Preprint Server, CogPrints and the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). Collectively,
Scirus provides access or links to more
than 90 million Web pages, and millions
of bibliographic citations, abstracts, and
full-text publications or e-prints (Elsevier
Science, 2002).
PubSCIENCE (pubsci.osti.gov) is a
free gateway search engine that
provides access to the citations, and, in
select cases, to the full text of journal
articles provided by cooperating
publishers. PubSCIENCE citations are
derived from two sources: participating
publishers and information
intermediaries maintaining citation
collections based on agreements
negotiated with OSTI, and the DOE
Energy Science and Technology
Database journal citations maintained
by OSTI. To date, more than 1,000
separate journal titles have been
integrated into PubSCIENCE.
Recently, the Department of Energy
has proposed that PubSCIENCE be
discontinued, due in part to the overlap
in coverage of the resources made
available by Infotrieve1
Article Finder
and Scirus.
Gray literature
Gray literature may be defined as
``literature which is not readily
available through normal book-selling
channels, and therefore difficult to
identify and obtain.'' ``Examples of
grey literature include reports, technical
notes and specifications, conference
proceedings and preprints,
supplementary publications and data
compilations, trade literature and so
on'' (Auger, 1998, p. 3). Among the
more significant types of gray literature
is the technical report, a specialized
publication generally issued as a formal
report of a completed organizational,
institutional, or research project (Auger,
1998, pp. 8-15).
Access to the technical reports
produced by the national laboratories of
the Department of Energy, and its
grantees, is provided from within
EnergyFiles via the DOE Information
Bridge. The DOE Information Bridge
offers access to the full text of more
than 60,000 searchable reports issued
since 1995.
In addition, EnergyFiles provides
access to the GrayLIT Network
(www.osti.gov/graylit/), an OSTI
information service that offers access to
nearly 120,000 full-text technical
reports from a wide range of Federal
agencies.
From within GrayLIT Network,
users can individually or
simultaneously search any or all of the
following databases, notably:
. Defense Technical Information
Center (DTIC) Report Collection;
. DOE Information Bride Report
Collection;
. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) Technical Reports;
. NASA Langley Technical Reports;
. EPA National Environmental Pub-
lications Internet Site (NEPIS).
The Defense Technical Information
Center (DTIC) Report Collection
Figure 2
Screen print matrix of selected EnergyFiles collection gateways
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3. (stinet.dtic.mil) is a full-text collection
of more than 61,500 unclassified
documents dating from 1974. The DOE
Information Bride Report Collection
(www.osti.gov/bridge/) provides access
to the full text of more than 65,000
reports with a total of more than 4.3
million pages. More than 12,500
technical reports are available from the
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Technical Reports collection
(jpltrs.jpl.nasa.gov) in Portable
Document Format (PDF). The NASA
Langley Technical Reports collection
(techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/ltrs.html)
provides access to nearly 3,000 publicly
available NASA documents covering
aeronautical and space science in PDF,
HTML, or compressed PostScript
format, with searchable citations and
abstracts.
National Environmental Publications
Internet Site (NEPIS) (www.epa.gov/
cgi-bin/ claritgw?op-NewSearch&
template=epa) provides access to the full
text of more than 7,000 EPA documents
in the areas of water quality, wastewater,
pesticides, ecological issues, wetlands,
and other environment-related topics.
E-prints
In general, ``preprints are
manuscripts that have not yet been
published, but may have been reviewed
and accepted; submitted for
publication; or intended for publication
and being circulated for comment.''
Electronic versions of preprints are
commonly referred to as ``e-prints.''
Worldwide, it is estimated that there are
more than 7,600 preprint servers.
Among the largest and well-known
e-print servers is arXiv.org, the service
originally based and developed by Paul
Ginsparg at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in New Mexico
(McKiernan, 2000).
The PrePRINT Network is a
searchable gateway to preprint servers
that cover the scientific and technical
disciplines of interest to DOE (see
Figure 3). Such disciplines include
physics, materials, and chemistry, as
well as biology, the environmental
sciences and nuclear medicine.
Through its search feature, the
PrePRINT Network allows users to
launch parallel searches on any or all of
the incorporated preprint servers.
PrePRINT Alerts allows users to
subscribe preprint servers to receive
weekly e-mail updates. The PrePRINT
Network can be searched directly, or
concurrently with other networks,
databases, and resources incorporated
within EnergyFiles.
Other components
EnergyFiles also includes several
other complementary databases and
DOE compilations, notably:
. Energy Citations Database;
. DOE R&D Accomplishments;
. DOE R&D Project Summaries;
. Federal Research and Develop-
ment Project Summaries;
. Federal Research and Develop-
ment Project Summaries.
As previously noted, the Energy
Citations Database (www.osti.gov/
energycitations/) provides bibliographic
records, as well as abstracts, to a full
range of energy and energy-related
scientific and technical information
produced by the Department of Energy
(DOE) and its predecessor agencies.
DOE R&D Accomplishments
(www.osti.gov/accomplishments/) is a
database that offers access to
descriptions of previous DOE research
and development projects that ``have had
significant economic impact, have
improved people's lives, or have been
widely recognized as a remarkable
advance in science.'' Current DOE
research and development projects are
available from the DOE R&D Project
Summaries database (www.osti.
gov/rnd/), while those of all Federal
agencies are available from Federal
Research and Development Project
Summaries (www.osti.gov/fedrnd/).
Subject Pathways
Within EnergyFiles, select
collections are organized into subject-
specific categories called Subject
Pathways, which offer ``one-stop access
to and use of widely distributed
information'' and provide ``the
foundation for an electronic national
library of energy-related science and
technology.'' The categories shown in
Table I are included.
For each collection a general
description is provided along with a
listing and access to associated
electronic resources incorporated
within EnergyFiles, for example.
Figure 3
Screen print of the EnergyPortal Search homepage
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4. EnergyFiles: materials science
The materials science subject area
provides information to support
materials research directly associated
with energy production, conversion, or
utilization or with studying radiation
effects on materials. Energy-related
applications of metals, alloys, ceramics,
cermets, refractories, composites,
polymers, plastics and other materials
are (also) covered:
(1) EnergyPortal Search.
(2) Resource Index:
. STI collections and databases;
. Electronic journals, preprints,
and conference proceeedings;
. Related resources;
. Virtual workspace.
For listed items in the Subject
Pathways, a detailed list with
annotations and links is provided for
each; for example:
(1) STI collections and databases:
. DOE Energy Citations Data-
base (DOE ECD), DOE and
DOE Contractor Web site ±
Bibliographic records for en-
ergy and energy-related scien-
tific and technical information
from the Department of
Energy (DOE) and its prede-
cessor agencies, the Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC)
and the Energy Research &
Development Administration
(ERDA), including records
(domestic and international)
from the Nuclear Science Ab-
stracts (NSA) and from the
Energy Science and Technol-
ogy Database (EDB). DOE
ECD provides access to bib-
liographic records from 1948
forward.
. DOE Energy Citations Data-
base (ECD), Public Web site ±
Bibliographic records for
energy and energy-related
scientific and technical infor-
mation from the Department of
Energy (DOE) and its prede-
cessor agencies, the Energy
Research & Development Ad-
ministration (ERDA) and the
Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC). Energy Citations Da-
tabase provides access to DOE
publicly available citations
from 1948 forward.
. DOE Information Bridge,
Public Web site ± (no registra-
tion or password required)
Searchable and downloadable
bibliographic records and full
text of DOE research report
literature from 1995 forward.
. DOE Information Bridge,
DOE and DOE Contractor
Web site ± (Registration and
password required) Searchable
and downloadable biblio-
graphic records of worldwide
energy research and full text of
DOE sponsored or acquired
scientific and technical infor-
mation from 1995 forward.
. DOE R&D Accomplishments
Database ± Searchable and
downloadable bibliographic
records and full-text reports
of past DOE R&D accom-
plishments.
. DOE Research and Develop-
ment (R&D) Project Summa-
ries ± Subset of the research
projects funded by the Depart-
ment of Energy in fiscal years
1995 through 1999.
. Making Matter: The Atomic
Structure of Materials ± The
Institut Laue Langevin pro-
vides this site, which illustrates
the 3D structure of inorganic
materials including perovs-
kites, zeolites, and gems and
minerals.
. NIST Property Data Summa-
ries for Advanced Materials ±
Property Data Summaries are
collections of property values
derived from surveys of pub-
lished data including thermal,
mechanical, structural, and
chemical properties.
. Preprint Network ± Searchable
gateway to preprint servers
that deal with scientific and
technical disciplines of con-
cern to DOE such as physics,
materials, and chemistry, as
well as portions of biology,
environmental sciences, and
nuclear medicine.
. WebHTS ± The NIST WWW
Version of the High Tempera-
ture Superconducting Materi-
als Database.
. PubSCIENCE ± Provided by
DOE's Office of Scientific and
Technical Information and the
US Government Printing
Office, PubSCIENCE offers
users the capability to search
across a large compendium of
peer-reviewed journal litera-
ture with a focus on the
physical sciences.
(2) Other materials science resources.
Electronic Journals, Preprints and
Conference Proceedings | Related
Resources.
Resource List
The Resource List provides ``an
enhanced alphabetical listing of all
resources available through
EnergyFiles . . .'' which can be browsed
or searched; access to a categorized
collection is available through the
Subject Pathways gateway.
A full range of information resource
types is incorporated in the Resource
List and includes publisher Web sites,
Table I
Categories included in the Subject Pathways
Biology and medicine Geosciences
Chemistry Materials science
Energy storage, conversion, and
utilization
Mathematics, computing, and
information science
Engineering Physics
Environmental sciences, safety and
health
Plasma physics and fusion
Fission and nuclear technologies Power transmission, distribution and
plants
Fossil fuels Renewable energy
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5. conference Web sites, Web resource
collections, newsletters, e-journals,
directories, federal agencies' Web sites,
information services, catalogs, research
centers' Web sites, databases, and
technical report collections, among
many.
EnergyPortal Search
Within EnergyFiles, users may
search all incorporated resources using
the EnergyPortal Search. The
EnergyPortal Search provides access to
a variety of multidisciplinary databases,
notably the DOE Information Bridge,
DOE OpenNet Database, Energy
Citations Database, DTIC Technical
Reports Database, NASA CASI
Technical Reports, and PubSCIENCE
among others (see Figure 3).
The DOE OpenNet Database is a
component of the DOE ``Openness
Initiative'' for ``public awareness,
public education, and public input'' and
``designed to provide easy, timely
access to recently declassified
information, including information
declassified in response to Freedom of
Information Act requests.'' The NASA
CASI Technical Reports database
provides access to the NASA Center of
AeroSpace Information RECONplus
database that ``contains worldwide
information on aeronautics,
astronautics, chemistry and materials,
engineering, geosciences, life sciences,
mathematical and computer sciences,
physics, social sciences, and space
sciences published from 1915 to the
present.''
In addition, access is provided to a
range of subject-specific collections in
biology and medicine, engineering,
environmental sciences, physics,
renewable energy. Of particular note
are the databases accessible from within
the environmental and renewal
resources databases, notably:
. The Atmospheric Radiation Mea-
surement Program (ARM)
(www.arm.gov) site which focuses
on global climate change research
with coverage of ``sunlight, radiant
energy, and clouds on tempera-
tures, climate, and weather.''
. The Carbon Dioxide Information
Analysis Center (CDIAC) (cdia-
c.ornl.gov/about/intro.html), which
provides access to information
about the greenhouse effect and
global climate change.
. Environmental Management
Science Research Projects (EMSP)
(emsp.em.doe.gov/portfolio/Multi-
Search.asp), a searchable database
``of research projects funded by the
US Department of Energy, Office
of Environmental Management
Science Program, [with] . . . em-
phasis in such research areas as
chemistry, engineering, geochem-
istry and geophysics, health
science, materials, microbial
science, plant science, and related
topics.''
. Alternative Fuels Data Center
(www.afdc.nrel.gov), which pro-
vides access to information sources
on alternative fuels provided by the
National Renewable Energy La-
boratory.
. Bioenergy Information Network
(bioenergy.ornl.gov), a biblio-
graphic database of DOE-funded
projects focusing on production,
recovery, and conversion of energy
crops to fuels and power genera-
tion, are notable resources in the
Renewable Energy category.
Other options
Within the EnergyPortal, users can
specify that the HML and PDF
collections linked to EnergyFiles are
also searched (``Search Web Sites
Linked to EnergyFiles'') (see Figure 3).
In addition, the number of records to be
retrieved from selected collections can
be designated from a pull-down menu
(i.e. 10, 25, 100, 150, 200, 250); a
maximum of ten collections may be
chosen.
Collection Development Criteria
To guide the development of
EnergyFiles, a document that defines its
purpose and scope has been prepared.
This Collection Development Criteria
document ``states the principles and
guidelines that address the selection and
inclusion of information collections,
databases, materials, software tools and
other resources for the Department of
Energy's EnergyFiles Virtual Library
Environment.'' As such, it serves as ``a
planning document for future
development and growth of
EnergyFiles,'' with the criteria to be
revised and updated as necessary.
Key sections of the document
include: Mission/objectives of
EnergyFiles; Definition of scientific
and technical information (STI);
Audience; and Selection guidelines.
The following are essential components
of its selection guidelines:
. All resources, including reference
materials and software tools, must
support research in one of the
energy-related disciplinary areas
defined in this collection criteria
document and must demonstrate
value to the primary user commu-
nity.
. Full text data, or complete numeric
or other data where applicable, is
preferred where available. If the
information is not available in full
text, then alternate forms will be
considered.
. Resources and software tools must
be maintained on a regular basis by
the source or originating site and
sites must show a demonstrated
commitment to making the infor-
mation or tools available long
term.
. A willingness on the part of the
information owners to participate
in distributed searching and other
collaborative efforts, where applic-
able, is desired.
. Resources and tools in English are
preferred; information in other
languages will be considered if a
demonstrated need is evident.
. Emphasis is on current and recent
information; however, legacy re-
sources will be added as needed to
meet the needs of the user com-
munity.
. Accuracy of the information as
well as the quality of the writing
and presentation format will be
considered.
Within the collection development
policy, specific subject areas relevant to
the scope of EnergyFiles are delineated,
and include the following:
. biomedical sciences;
. chemistry;
. energy storage, conversion, utiliza-
tion and policy;
. engineering;
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6. . environmental sciences and safety
and health;
. fission and nuclear technologies;
. fossil fuels;
. geosciences;
. materials science;
. mathematics, computing and infor-
mation science;
. physics;
. plasma physics and fusion;
. power transmission, distribution
and plants;
. renewable energy.
In addition, each subject area is
annotated with details of its specific
coverage, including, for example:
. Energy storage, conversion, utili-
zation and policy. This area con-
tains information resources to
support research on equipment
and methods to reduce energy
consumption, increase energy effi-
ciency, and enable the substitution
of more plentiful or environmen-
tally favorable energy sources.
Examples of research supported
include mechanical, chemical,
electromagnetic and thermal meth-
ods for storing energy; methods of
converting heat into direct electri-
cal energy; design and develop-
ment of advanced propulsion
systems for land, sea and air
vehicles; and energy conservation
within buildings, transportation,
industry and agriculture, and with-
in municipalities and communities.
. Fission and nuclear technologies.
The Fission and Nuclear Technol-
ogies section is designed to provide
information useful to researchers in
the areas of nuclear fuels, nuclear
power and reactors, and isotope
and radiation source technology.
Within the area of nuclear fuels,
information to support research on
mining, uranium enrichment, spent
fuels, waste management, and safe-
guards and accountability is in-
cluded. Research in the isotope and
radiation source technologies in-
cludes isotope separation, radiation
sources and isotopic power sup-
plies. Various aspects of nuclear
power reactors are covered, includ-
ing the specific types of reactors,
and associated technologies such
as fuel elements, control systems
and reactor safety.
. Power transmission, distribution
and plants. Information supporting
research and development in uti-
lity-size fossil-fuel power plants
and the transmission and distribu-
tion of power is provided in this
section. Research into new designs,
developments and technologies for
both the generation of power at the
plants as well as power transmis-
sion and delivery are included.
Virtual workspace
In addition to its various gateways,
resource list, and collections, EnergyFiles
includes a Virtual Workspace, an
``interactive work environment containing
tools and technologies that facilitate
collaboration and peer interaction, remote
experimentation, [and] discovery ....''
While a prototype, the workspace is
envisioned as an effort to ``interactively
link library with laboratory.'' Among the
tools and technologies currently available
are:
. ACTS Toolkit (www.nersc.gov/
ACTS/). The ACTS (Advanced
Computational Testing and Simu-
lation) Toolkit is a set of DOE-
developed software tools that fa-
cilitate the preparation of computer
programs for high performance
scientific applications for parallel
computers.
. Ask a Scientist Service (newton.
dep.anl.gov/#AAS). The NEW-
TON BBS service, operated by
the Division of Educational Pro-
grams (DEP) of Argonne National
Laboratory, Illinois, provides K-12
science, math and computer tea-
chers and their students with ``a
place to practice telecommunica-
tions, to retrieve useful information
in a wide variety of subjects, to
contact research scientists from all
over the world and to open com-
munications between classroom
teachers.''
. Ask an Energy Expert (www.
eren.doe.gov/askanenergyexpert/).
The Ask an Energy Expert service,
provided by the DOE Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, offers access to informa-
tion fact sheets, relevant Web sites,
and an opportunity to ask a
question related to energy effi-
ciency and renewable energy.
. Software for Environmental
Awareness (www.epa.gov/glnpo/
seahome/). This EPA site provides
access to software and programs on
such topics as water, solid waste,
air pollution, and environmental
assessment.
. Technical Tools and Models
(www.epa.gov/ epahome/data
tool.htm). An EPA site that offers
access to specialized databases and
computer-based tools to assist in
modeling environmental condi-
tions and assessing water quality,
among other activities.
Privacy, security, and accessibility
EnergyFiles provides explicit details
about its policies and practices relating
to privacy, security, and accessibility.
Privacy
Within EnergyFiles, selected site-
access information is automatically
captured and stored, and includes the:
. Internet Protocol (IP) address of
the domain from which Energy-
Files is accessed;
. type of browser and operating
system used;
. pages accessed; and
. referring Web site (if accessed
from another Web site).
``Site-access information is
aggregated and used to assess the value
of the Web site in accomplishing its
stated information dissemination goals,
to plan for enhancements to make this
site more useful to visitors, to optimize
the site's technical design
specifications, and/or to identify system
performance or problem areas. This
information is used only as a source of
anonymous statistical data, and is
shared only when required by law
enforcement investigation.'' It is not
used to ``track or record information
about individuals and their visits.''
Personal information is not collected
unless the user voluntarily provides it
through e-mail queries or requests.
``Except for authorized law
enforcement investigations, these
e-mails and addresses are shared only to
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7. the extent necessary to assure that an
accurate and timely response is
provided.''
EnergyFiles site does not use
persistent cookies. ``Session cookies
may be used to provide salient session-
related information and to allow
product-specific functions to be
performed, but in no case are cookies to
be used to capture information that
might compromise or threaten personal
privacy.''
Security
EnergyFiles is ``part of a Federal
computer system used to accomplish
Federal functions. Computer software
programs as well as other surveillance
methods are used to monitor network
traffic on this Web site for security
purposes. By accessing this Web site,
. . . [the user] is expressly consenting to
these monitoring activities.''
Accessibility
EnergyFiles complies with Section
508 of the Rehabilitation Act
(www.section508.gov/), which ``requires
that Federal agencies' electronic and
information technology be made
accessible to people with disabilities,
including Federal employees and
members of the public.'' The Bobby
utility for evaluating Web sites for
accessibility (bobby.watchfire. com/
bobby/html/en/index.jsp) is used to
ensure compliance.
Disclaimers
EnergyFiles ``is made available by
an agency of the United States
Government. Neither the United States
Government nor any agency thereof,
nor any of their employees, makes any
warranty, express or implied, or
assumes any legal liability or
responsibility for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness of any
information, apparatus, product, or
process disclosed, or represents that its
use would not infringe privately owned
rights. Reference herein to any specific
commercial product, process, or service
by trade name, trademark,
manufacturer, or otherwise, does not
necessarily constitute or imply its
endorsement, recommendation, or
favoring by the United States
Government or any agency thereof. The
views and opinions of originators
expressed herein do not necessarily
state or reflect those of the United
States Government or any agency
thereof.''
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Gerry McKiernan (gerrymck@
iastate.edu) is a Science and Technology
Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State
University Library, Ames, Iowa, USA.
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