Don Hagen presented at the Special Libraries Association meeting on June 15, 2011 as part of a panel on New Forms of Scholarly Communications in the Sciences. His talk was entitled "NTIS Focus on Science and Data: Open and Sustainable Models for Science Information Discovery"

1. NTIS Focus on Science and Data: Open and Sustainable Models for Science Information Discovery Special Library Association Science 2.1: New forms of Scholarly Communications in the Sciences 15 June 2011

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3. Thirteen Private Sector Investments in the Global Business of Government Information (2007-2011): Deltek acquires Input and Federal Sources. Dolan Media acquires Federal News Services and DataStream Content Solutions Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis acquires Statenet. Cambridge Information Group’s ProQuest acquires LexisNexis’ Congressional Information Services and University Publications of America. Bloomberg launches Bloomberg Government. E. L. Rothschild LLC acquires Weather Central. Nxt1 launches Local Government Information. Propylon and Spikes Cavell invest in the US government sector. Economist Group caps Roll Call’s roll-up with its acquisition of CQ. Sage Publications acquires CQ Press. NBC Universal and two private equity groups acquire Weather Channel. Politico was launched. Montreal-based mediaGrif caps its Government Contracts USA roll-up with the acquisition of epipeline. Source: Marlin & Associates, 2011 #

4. National Technical Information Service NTIS Mission To promote progress by serving as the Federal Government’s central means of making technical information perpetually and widely available. “Maintain a permanent archival repository and clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of nonclassified scientific, technical, and engineering information.” 15 USC 3710(d)(3)

5. National Technical Information Service Vision Ensure easy and perpetual availability of the most comprehensive collection of Federally-funded scientific, technical and engineering information (STEI) in support of the nation’s economic growth and opportunity. Assist other federal agencies in accomplishing the information needs of their constituencies. Provide this public good at a high level of quality and on a self-sustaining basis.

7. Released in April 2009

8. Focus on federally funded technical reports

9. Features: Online subscription; 2.5 million records; rich metadata; full text access to 630,000 documents.

10. 44 current subscribers.

11. Current approach uses traditional database and search engine developed in-house

12. Began with Fedora-based pilot in April 2010

13. Beta 2.0 version using Fedora Spring 2011

14. Beta 3.0 Version using Fedora 3.4/Custom Tech Report Structure: October, 2011

16. Collaborative Interagency Position

17. Science Repository as an NTIS Service to other Federal Agencies.

18. Based on NTIS ability to establish public/private partnerships

20. Support preservation and long-term access

21. Support open government initiatives

22. Builds Collections on Themes of Science

23. Are based on open standards and development approaches

24. Promote interoperability

26. Agency Repository Services Private-Public Partnership Information International Associates

28. Based on Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository

29. Architecture (Fedora)

30. Open source with an active community, including many in the Federal community

31. Modular architecture

32. Metadata triplestore

33. Flexible metadata extension

34. Various front ends depending on agency requirements

35. Different search engines

36. Independent of other components

38. National Technical Information Service

40. Understanding of federal security and information management requirements

41. Project management support

42. Supports “Cloud, Crowd, and Community”

45. Define New level of science value-add:Depth of knowledge Current activity/works in progress Methodology Analysis of findings Data analysis Embedded value for scientists

46. Save the Date – November 30, 2011Repositories in Science & Technology: Preserving Access to the Record of ScienceA One-Day Workshop Co-sponsored by CENDI and NFAISHosted by FLICC at the Library of CongressThe Mumford Room, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540Wednesday, November 30, 2011 * 9:00 am - 4:30 pm *

47. National Technical Information Service Thank You. Donald Hagen National Technical Information Service Office of Product Management and Acquisition dhagen@ntis.gov