Five Years InterLab ’07 Los Alamos, New Mexico October 1–3, 2007 Valerie S. Allen, MSLIS U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Science.gov is all of these things USA.Gov for Science cross-agency portal Large scale collaboration between major science agencies Wealth of information located by term or topic Unique search capability that searches the deep Web Traditional search capability indexing over 1,800 sites

The Science.gov Alliance 17 organizations from 13 agencies Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library United States Forest Service Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology National Technical Information Service Department of Defense Defense Technical Information Center Department of Education National Library of Education Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine Department of Interior United States Geological Survey National Biological Information Infrastructure Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Information Office of Research and Development Library of Congress National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Program National Science Foundation United States Government Printing Office With additional support from the National Archives and Records Administration

Breaking News! Website by committee actually works! Why?

Significant events— a perfect storm USA.gov (formerly FirstGov) Two workshops on concept and infrastructure issues CENDI backbone of established relationships The ease of the technology Small amount of early seed money for cross-agency initiatives

Some features added since version 1.0 Subscribe to weekly Alerts identifying newly added items results to yourself or a colleague Sort by date, author, title in addition to source Refine your original search Begin viewing results while more are returned Multiple algorithms for relevancy used

Surface Web and Deep Web— 2005 Size: Estimated to be 8+ billion (Google) to 45 billion (About.com ) web pages Static, crawlable web pages Large amounts of unfiltered information Limited to what is easily found by search engines Size: Estimated to be 5 to 500 times larger (BrightPlanet) Dynamically generated content that lives inside databases High-quality, managed, subject-specific content Growing faster than surface web (BrightPlanet)

Agencies are responsible for their agency information NTIS developed the original catalog CENDI Secretariat now maintains the content catalog Agency content managers submit and edit their information via a form By Topic sites are indexed nightly by USGS Real time search of content in large databases

Content Guiding Principles Science.gov presents select, web-based government science information The focus is on subject rather than government organization The audience is the science aware citizen, including educators, students, professional researchers, and members of the general public with an interest in science and technology The sites are selected and cataloged with the user in mind

* Based on number of URLs in Web site catalogue as of April 2006 Note: DOE also contributes over 21 percent of the 50 million pages in Science.gov search

U.S. invests approximately $8.5 billion in energy- related research and development each year OSTI collects, preserves, disseminates, and leverages DOE’s scientific and technical information resulting from this investment OSTI collaborates within DOE to develop and maintain an efficient and effective access and delivery system OSTI partners with other organizations to facilitate national and international cooperation and information exchange

OSTI Partnerships include but are not limited to STIP Science.gov Alliance CENDI ETDE ICSTI WorldWideScience Alliance

Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org

Science.gov Valerie S. Allen Office of Program Integration Science.gov Content Kathy Chambers Office of Program Integration