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PubSCIENCE logo

—New Desktop Access
to Journals

by Wanda Parks

PubSCIENCE is a new web-based tool available to anyone with a need to tap into the vast body of information published in scientific journals. The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) developed PubSCIENCE as an innovative one-stop means to access articles published in peer-reviewed journals without wading through multiple websites, publications and references.

PubSCIENCE ribbon-cutting ceremony with Buckley, Richardson, Krebs, and Warnick

Participating in the October 12th ribbon-cutting ceremony held at DOE Headquarters are (left to right) Francis Buckley, U.S. Superintendent of Documents; Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson; Martha Krebs, Director of the Office of Science; and OSTI Director Walter Warnick. Krebs presided over the ceremony, which included Richardson extolling the virtues of PubSCIENCE to a packed room and recognition of participating scientific journal publishers.

"PubSCIENCE represents a unique partnership between the Federal government and the public/private journal publishers; a partnership focused on enabling good science by providing access to peer-reviewed scientific and technical literature," said R.L. Scott, OSTI Associate Manager for Initiatives, Planning and Development.

PubSCIENCE allows users to search across thousands of bibliographic citations from multiple journal sources to identify information of interest. It focuses on the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines and is modeled after the National Institutes of Health's PubMed. A link, once identified, will deliver the user directly to the publisher's doorstep website to view the full text if made available by the publisher. Alternately, a subscription, site license, or pay-per-view options may be necessary dependent upon publisher provisions.

OSTI is partnering with more than twenty charter member publishers to provide information that is of concern to the Department of Energy. Public access is sponsored by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) through its GPO Access website.

"We have a responsibility to the DOE scientific community to make the results of government R&D accessible while reducing required resources and minimizing taxpayer expense. We are accomplishing that goal with PubSCIENCE. Partnering with the Government Printing Office extends PubSCIENCE benefits to the scientific community at-large and the public," said OSTI Director Warnick.

PubSCIENCE will continue to expand its current collection with the vision of becoming a comprehensive compendium of searchable, published information about the physical sciences and other disciplines of concern to DOE. To date, more than 1,000 separate journal titles are searchable through PubSCIENCE.

The number of journal titles is expected to rapidly increase through negotiations with additional contributors. Also, more than one million journal citations from DOE's Energy Science and Technology Database, dating back over 25 years, are now available through PubSCIENCE, making a major segment of the Department's vast storehouse of scientific and technical information available through this venue.

Chuck Morgan, OSTI's Deputy Director/Manager, pointed out that PubSCIENCE is an excellent example of how modern information technology can provide significant savings in time and money. "It represents the latest in a series of Web-based services developed by OSTI and made available to the public through EnergyFiles, DOE's virtual library of energy science and technology."

Krebs also recognized this "exceptional suite of electronic products to guide us into the new millennium" and indicated that "the concept of a national library of energy science and technology could become a key initiative in the realization of the Secretary's vision of a Department of Energy working for the American people."


For more information, contact Walter Warnick, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 301-903-7996, or see the OSTI website.

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