science.gov: firstgov for science aaas annual conference denver, colorado february 15, 2003
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Science.gov Initiative An integrated, voluntary interagency effort of 14 STI programs in 10 federal agencies Supports the Administration’s E-Gov objectives, bringing government science and technology closer to citizens The FirstGov-designated “Cross Agency Portal” for science Provides a public gateway to federal web sites and databasesTRANSCRIPT
Science.gov: FirstGov for Science
AAAS Annual ConferenceDenver, Colorado
February 15, 2003
Objective: Provide Cross-agency, Gateway to Science and Technology Resources
• Selected, authoritative • U.S. government resources• Across all agencies• Specialized in science and technology
Science.gov Initiative
• An integrated, voluntary interagency effort of 14 STI programs in 10 federal agencies
• Supports the Administration’s E-Gov objectives, bringing government science and technology closer to citizens
• The FirstGov-designated “Cross Agency Portal” for science
• Provides a public gateway to federal web sites and databases
Science.gov Alliance• Dept. of Agriculture• Dept. of Commerce• Dept. of Defense• Dept. of Education• Dept. of Energy• Dept. of Health and
Human Services
• Dept. of Interior• Environmental Protection
Agency• National Aeronautics and
Space Administration• National Science
Foundation
Support and coordination by CENDI (brochures)
Guiding Principles
• Provide simple, integrated access to web sites and database content across the government
• Provide selected, quality information • No distracting pop-ups – just the facts • Based on currently available content
Access to Government Science Web Sites
• ~1700 web sites selected and cataloged by agency content managers and NTIS
• Organized for browsing under one or more of 12 topics and 175 sub-topics
• Free-text searching based on text of selected web sites and linked sites
• To one level• Provided by USGS
Access to Deep Web Databases
• 29 databases with tens of millions of records that are generally not accessible to web search engines
• Special deep (invisible) web searching developed for Science.gov by DOE/OSTI
• Single search interface for web sites and databases
journalists
Business people
Researchers
Intermediaries
students and teachers science-attentive citizen
Thomas Lahr
USGS/Biological Resources Discipline12201 Sunrise Valley Drive / MS 302
Reston, VA 22092Telephone: 703/648-4222
Eleanor Frierson
National Agricultural Library (NAL)10301 Baltimore Avenue, Room 200
Beltsville, MD 20705-2351Telephone: 301/[email protected]
Bonnie C. Carroll
Oak Ridge, TN 37831Telephone: 865/481-03
Fax: 865/481-0390 [email protected]
Science.gov Co-Chairs
For more information
CENDI Secretariat
Press kits available at http://www.science.gov/communications/index.html