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(Information is provided by: Suhasini Kumar,
University of Toledo, Oh)
Government Scientific and Technical
Information Resources
FirstGov for Science
This site is new and being made available in test mode at this
time. It is slated to be officially launched in Summer
2002. It is described as a gateway to authoritative science
information selected by the respective agencies as the best
for scientific and technical information. It includes science
web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles,
conference proceedings, and other published materials. These
sites can be searched individually or in combination from this
site. A working group drawn together from 14 scientific
and technical information organizations associated with 10 major
science agencies developed this web site. These agencies form
the science.gov Alliance created in response to a workshop on
"Strengthening the Public Information Infrastructure for
Science held in April 2001”.
National Library of Medicine
NLM Gateway
Allows users to search multiple databases at the U.S. National
Library of Medicine (NLM). Currently the Gateway includes
access to MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus,
DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings,
Space Life Sciences Meetings and Health Services Research
Projects. Clinical Trials, Images from the History of Medicine,
Profiles in Science, and TOXNET are due to be added soon.
This Gateway offers access to citations, full text, video,
audio, and images.
Federal
Commons: Science and Technology
The Federal Commons is a grants management portal serving the
grantee organization community. The Science and Technology site
of the Federal Commons grants portal links to various funding
opportunities for science and technology from various agencies
and under multiple grant topics. This site is still under
development and is searchable only by different agencies and
as yet not searchable by grant topic.
Federal Agencies and
Associated Databases
Department of Commerce (DOC)
GOV.Research_Center (GRC)
A partnership between the U.S. Department of Commerce’s
National Technical Information Service and the National Information
Services Corporation. This center provides access to
reports prior to 1990 with an annual subscription or a one-day
pass for a fee.
SciTechResources.gov
A catalog of government science and technology web sites,
this comprehensive searchable site is under development to
create an easy, one-stop access to key U.S. Government web
resources. The Department of Commerce and the NTIS maintain
this site. It includes links to key government web sites
for locating computer software, government expertise, federal
laboratories, information centers, inventions for licensing,
online databases, sources of images and photographs, sources
of publications, reports, and data, and technology transfer
opportunities. This is an effort to make available to scientists,
students, researchers and the general public the results of
the U.S. Government's multi-billion dollar R&D effort
in science and technology. A useful list of various specialized
scientific web portals is included on this site at (http://www.scitechresources.gov/scitech-portals.htm)
National Technical Information
Service (NTIS)
The main resource for government sponsored scientific, technical
and engineering information. NTIS indexes these reports and
makes them available to the public. NTIS charges a nominal
fee for its publications since the law requires it to be self-supporting. NTIS
provides access to millions of documents published after 1990
and it covers over 350 subject areas. (http://www.ntis.gov/search/advanced.asp)
The National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST)
An agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology
Administration. NIST 's “mission is to develop and
promote measurements, standards, and technology to enhance
productivity, facilitate trade and improves the quality of
life.” It conducts and supports scientific and engineering
research and offers more than 100 databases for the scientific,
technical, and engineering communities. The NIST Data Gateway
(http://srdata.nist.gov/gateway/)
provides easy access to NIST Standard Reference Databases
that cover a wide range of substances and properties from
various scientific disciplines. The NIST Data Gateway, apart
from other information, provides a list of NIST online databases
with descriptions and provides online access to them. There
are 26 databases at present that include Atomic Spectra databases,
Chemistry Web Book, Protein Databank, and a web version of
the Standard Reference Database 60. NIST produces another
important set of Standards, which is known as the Federal
Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS).
These standards are used by the government and are concerned
with portability of data, Software, and computer security.
United States Patent Office
(USPTO)
The USPTO is an agency of the Department of Commerce and its
role is to grant patents as well as to protect new inventions
and register trademarks. It is also responsible for the
preservation, classification and dissemination of patent information.
The USPTO Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases:
(http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html)
is intended for the use of the general public and there are
many search options and help screens available on the site
to assist the user.
Department of Defense
(DOD)
The Defense Technical Information
Center (DTIC)’s Scientific
and Technical Information Network (STINET) provides
the defense community access to scientific and technical information.
Public STINET provides access to unclassified, unlimited citations
to documents added into DTIC from late December 1974 to present.
Secure STINET provides limited distribution citations from
1985 to present. It also includes limited access to unclassified
full text reports from December 1999 to the present, gray
literature, language translator and much more. Access
to this is limited to registered users only.
Department of Energy (DOE)
The stated overarching mission of the Department of Energy is
to enhance national security through four major program lines. One
of the program lines is the science program which has as its
top priority "the sponsorship of cutting-edge science &
technology research and development that revolutionizes how
we find, produce, and deliver energy."
EnergyPortal
maintained by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information
allows users to search across one or more of the dispersed
collections listed on the EnergyPortal search page such as
the Information Bridge, Energy Citations Database, PubScience,
U.S. Patents database, and subject specific and multidisciplinary
databases. Ten databases may be selected at one time.
GrayLIT Network
"A science portal of technical reports." GrayLIT
Network is a portal for technical reports produced by federally
sponsored research. This network is developed by the DOE Office
of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and is a joint
effort of DOE/DTIC, NASA and EPA. A special search tool called
the Distributed Explorer enables a search to be conducted
on all of these databases simultaneously. This network enables
convenient access, by the American public, to hard-to-find
government information
Energy
Citations Database (1948-present)
produced by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific
and Technical Information (OSTI) to provide access to the
scientific and technical information generated by this Department.
It contains bibliographic records for energy and energy related
scientific and technical information.
Information Bridge
(full text 1995-present)
The Information Bridge provides full-text access to the Department
of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in several
areas of science and technology including physics, chemistry,
materials, energy technologies, biology, engineering, computer
and information science and others. The Information Bridge
provides access to full text documents and bibliographic data
from 1995 forward electronically at no charge.
PubScience
A database of bibliographic citations to the journal literature
and reports and is a collaborative effort between participating
publishers and the DOE Energy Database (EDB). PubSCIENCE addresses
the information needs of researchers, students, and the public
for information in the physical sciences and other energy-related
disciplines.
PrePRINT Network
Provides access to electronic preprints in science and technology
from various sites. This network brings together a variety
of preprint servers and resources and makes them searchable
as a whole or in specific subsets. The preprints may originate
from academic institutions, government research laboratories,
scientific societies or private research organizations. Subject
pathways are also available which allow users to not only
browse the preprints by specific subject areas but also to
browse preprints on sites maintained by individual scientists. There
is generally no charge to access the preprints.
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)
Scientific and Technical Information (NASA/STI) The NASA Scientific
and Technical Information Program Office located at Langley
Research Center in Hampton, Virginia was established to support
NASA’s mission and research and is dedicated to the support
and advancement of aeronautics and space science. This
includes responsibility for collecting, acquiring, maintaining
and disseminating research results from the United States and
international sources.
NASA
Technology
Features real time video of agency activities, video archives,
news, and calendar or upcoming events.
NASA Web
May be searched using The NASA-wide Search Engine which indexes
NASA's publicly available Web pages.
NASA
Scientific and Technical Information (STI)
Provides access to scientific and technical holdings from
many sources. It includes more than 3.5 million records
of NASA reports, patents, conference proceedings, journal
articles, and non-print materials, as well as other aerospace-related
NASA, US, and international information. Abstracts are available
for most reports and full text only for NASA material acquired
since 1995. There is a fee for searching the entire database.
STI online images are entered into the NASA Image eXchange
(NIX).
One component of the STI program is the NASA
Technical Reports Server (NTRS). The NASA Technical
Report Server offers a unified interface to search the many
different technical report servers of various NASA centers
and programs. It is an experimental service that is open
to the public free of charge. The NTRS also includes access
to the NASA
Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI) Technical Report Server.
NASA/STI/Scientific
and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) is a resource
that lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related
reports. It covers all aspects of aeronautics and space
research and development and is classified under 10 major
subject divisions. It includes a subject and an author
index.
National
Science Foundation (NSF)
An independent agency of the U.S. Government. The National
Science Foundation’s mission is to promote the progress
of science, to advance the national health, prosperity, and
welfare, and to secure the national defense. The NSF initiates,
supports, and strengthens scientific and engineering research
and education through various initiatives, grants, awards, graduate
and postgraduate fellowships to educational institutions in
the United States. There are guides and general information
available on the site.
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