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Walter L. Warnick, Ph.D.Director

United States Department of Energy Office of Scientific & Technical Information(Operating Agent for WorldWideScience.org)

Washington, D.C., United States

WorldWideScience.orgThe Global Science Gateway

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If the sharing of knowledge is accelerated, discovery is

accelerated

Profound implications for all of us in the information business!

Science Progresses asKnowledge is Shared

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Discovery

Research

Facilities

High Performance Computing Scientists

Information

Information feeds discovery

A Key Piece of Science Discovery

4From: The Power of a Good Idea: quantitative modeling of the spread of ideas from epidemiological models, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Ariel Cintron-Arias, Carlos Castillo-Chavez; David Kaiser, May 2005

Discovery path of US and UK authors

The Spread of Knowledge about Feynman Diagrams

The Spread of KnowledgeCan Be Measured & Modeled

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Knowledge is contagious.

Increasing the contact rate means researchers “catch” an idea faster.

The Spread of KnowledgeCan Be Accelerated

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In January 2007, Dr. Raymond Orbach, DOE Under Secretary for Science, and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library signed a Statement of Intent to partner in the development of a searchable global science gateway.

International partnership kicks off global science gateway

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WorldWideScience.org was launched in June 2007

Now searches over 40 portals from more than 50 countries

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A federation of the leading science portals sponsored by the governments and national institutions of over 50 countries

A quantity of science (more than 200 million pages from every inhabited continent)

A breakthrough in content enabled by breakthrough technology

 

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Many popular search engines rely on crawler based

technology

WorldWideScience.org & Federated Search Technology

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Federated search drills down to the deep Web where scientific databases reside

Federated search systems

Probe the Deep Web

Deep Web databases

Surface Web

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Current WorldWideScience.org Sources

• African Journals Online

• Article@INIST (France)

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre

• Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL)

• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

• Catalogue of the TIB, German National Library of Science & Technology

• CSIR Research Space (South Africa)

• Czech Academy of Sciences Manuscriptorium

• Czech Academy of Sciences Repository

• Defence Research and Development Canada (Canada)

• DEFF Global E Prints (Denmark)

• DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

• Digital Repository Service at National Institute of Oceanography (India)

• Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

• Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) (United Kingdom)

• Indian Academy of Sciences

• Indian Institute of Science Eprints

• Indian Institute of Science Theses & Dissertations

• Indian Medlars Centre

• J-EAST (Japan)

• J-STAGE (Japan)

• J-STORE (Japan)

• Journal@rchive (Japan)

• Korea Science (Korea)

• NARCIS (Netherlands)

• Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL)

• Norweigan Open Research Archives (NORA)

• Philippines Journals Online (PhilJOL)

• Science.gov (United States)

• Scientific Electronic Library Online (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Venezuela)

• Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961 (New Zealand)

• UK PubMed Central (United Kingdom)

• Vascoda (Germany)

• Vietnam Journals Online (VJOL)

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Publications Register

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Research Register

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Current Information Partners in WorldWideScience.org

Canada

Denmark

BrazilAustralia Argentina

Chile Colombia

Algeria Botswana

Burkina Faso

Cameroon Congo, DR

Cote d’lvoire Egypt Ethiopia

Bangladesh

Czech Republic

Cuba

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Current Information Partners in WorldWideScience.org (cont.)

IndiaGhana Japan

Kenya LesothoKorea

The Netherlands

New Zealand

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Malawi Mauritius

Nigeria

GermanyFranceFinland

Mexico Nepal Norway

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Current Information Partners in WorldWideScience.org (cont.)

United States

United Kingdom

Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda

Zambia Zimbabwe

Spain Sudan

Sweden

South Africa

Portugal SenegalPhilippines

Venezuela Vietnam

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Founding Alliance Members• African Journals Online (AJOL)• British Library – United Kingdom• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – South Africa• German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) • Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) – France• International Council for Scientific and Technical Information

(ICSTI) • International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications

(INASP)• Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)• Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)• Science.gov Alliance – United States• Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)

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Alliance Executive Board:• Chair – Richard Boulderstone, British Library• Deputy Chair – Pam Bjornson, Canada Institute for

Scientific and Technical Information• Treasurer – Tae-Sul Seo, Korea Institute of Science and

Technology Information• Ex-Officio Member – Walter Warnick,

WorldWideScience.org Operating Agent, U.S. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information

• Ex-Officio Member – Herbert Gruttemeier, ICSTI President, French Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique

• At-Large Member – Yvonne Halland, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

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Recent & Future Enhancements:

• Results Clustering – Added June 2008

• Personalized Alert Service

• Translation Capabilities

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