Sharon M. Jordan Assistant Director for Program Integration U.S. DOE Office of Scientific & Technical Information Vantage Point: Government R&D Results Distributor to Accelerate Science Discovery Global Data Access DOE Data Access Interagency Data Access Transparency Collaboration Participation

OSTI Mission To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to Department of Energy (DOE) researchers and the public Making government-sponsored R&D information available via single-query aggregated portals Responding to practices of searchers.* Librarians, researchers and the public can access a science page count comparable to, but not duplicative of, the entire science content of Google TM * In 2002 OCLC “Perceptions of Library and Information Resources,” 84% of public began search using search engines; only 1% began with online databases.

Integrates 10 key DOE databases that cover a range of R&D results (reports, patents, citations, project summaries, eprints, etc.) Integrates science information databases and portals from >60 nations Drills down to selected databases and websites in parallel, then presents ranked search results Free Aggregator of Multiple Government R&D-related Databases Integrates databases and websites of 14 U.S. science agencies

less than 1% overlap with Google approximately 3.2% overlap with Google Scholar Science.gov results are uniquely different from Google and Google Scholar results 95.8% of the time Integrates simple search interface with database functionality & searches in real time: over 40 databases of 14 U.S. science agencies 200 million pages of science information Thousands of authoritative scientific websites within.gov domain/sponsorship Clusters results EurekAlert! Science News Wikipedia links Download capabilities Relevancy ranked results Alerts service Search within a search search results Spell check Results sorting User-friendly navigation, preference options Key Features Integrated Search Portal: Single Query of Science.gov Databases and Websites Science.gov helps users identify databases for more advanced searching as needed

Searches 61 science databases and portals sponsored by governments and national institutions in 61 countries Covers scientific literature from over three-fourths of the world’s population Includes a vast quantity of science (over 400 million pages), providing significant journal coverage as well as a majority of grey literature. Current research in multi-lingual translation technologies will enable non-English databases to be searched from the WWS interface Proving WWS “deep web” value, recent analysis shows only 3.5% overlap with Google and Google Scholar

Real Time Search? Ads? Relevancy Ranked? All Govt. Science? Known Sources? Scholarly Info?

Conclusion: They are complementary and suitable for certain audiences/tasks/circumstances Science.gov and WWS Discovery Tools vs. Discipline-Oriented Databases Science.gov Govt Portal Search Discipline-Oriented Databases Generally have more human input, preparation of data prior to posting Have more administrative control (not reliant on underlying databases) Presentation of information uses standard fields, standard look and feel, standard query search strings often makes for more comfortable user experience (especially at first) Depth of information can be achieved due to discipline-specific nature One-stop access to multiple databases targeted for inclusion Integrates and organizes huge amount of information Provides well-rounded picture of topic to quickly scan environment Offers user the ability to drill down to individual database(s) Simple searching, yet powerful results: one search box or advanced search specifying fields or databases Modules enhance user experience with quantity of information, e.g., clustering, filtering, sorting, menu selections