WorldWideScience
WorldWideScience is a transnational science portal with the aim of making international scientific information centrally accessible via an Internet portal and thus promoting global scientific exchange. The portal is operated by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the US Department of Energy (DOE), and builds on the US science portal Science.gov (OSTI), the searchable databases of various state Authorities offers. 44 countries participate in the portal, including the USA with Science.gov, Great Britain with the British Library and Germany with vascoda . WorldWideScience enables a search in over 200 million documents.
The portal has been online since June 22, 2007. On January 21, 2007, United States Department of Energy representative Dr. Raymond L. Orbach and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, during the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information's winter meeting in London, an agreement to jointly develop the portal with the working title Science.world .
As early as 1999 and 2003, the DOE offered PubSCIENCE, a literature database that enabled free access to abstracts of scientific articles in the field of physical sciences and related disciplines via the World Wide Web with appropriate search functions. PubSCIENCE was stopped due to a lobbying campaign because companies objected that PubSCIENCE was competing with the offers of its members.
Web links
- www.worldwidescience.org
- Britain and the United States is planning global science portal , CORDIS 19 February, 2007.
- US and UK plan global science portal, EurActiv.com, Feb 21, 2007
- British Library, US DOE Partner on Science Portal , libraryjournal.com, February 14, 2007
Individual evidence
- ^ British Library and US Department of Energy to collaborate on global science gateway , British Library press release, January 25, 2007
- ↑ www.science.gov
- ↑ DOE expands global science portal ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Government Computer News, June 12, 2008
- ↑ Global Science Gateway Now Open. WorldWideScience.org opens public access to more than 200 million pages of international research information ( Memento of the original dated July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release, Department of Energy, June 22, 2007
- ↑ Statement of Intent between The Department of Energy of the United States of America and The British Library (PDF; 63 kB)
- ^ International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
- ↑ Global Science Gateway Agreement Signed in London , Posted January 23, 2007, OSTI News
