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<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2> <p>OSTI provides access to energy, science, and technology information through publicly available web-based systems, with supporting tools and technologies to enable information search, retrieval and re-use.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="science-information-resources-freely-available-for-public-use">Science information resources freely available for public use</h2> <ul><li>OSTI.GOV - The primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering R&D results and the organizational hub for information about DOE OSTI;</li> <li>DOE PAGES (DOE Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science) - The DOE discovery tool that makes peer-reviewed scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE research funding publicly accessible to read, download, and analyze;</li> <li>DOE CODE is an open source, submission and search tool for DOE-funded software;</li> <li>DOE ScienceCinema is a collection of multimedia videos highlighting DOE's scientific research;</li> <li>DOE Data Explorer searches collections of DOE scientific research data, such as computer simulations, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, numeric files and scientific images.</li> <li>DOE Patents provides a searchable database of patent information resulting from DOE-sponsored research and development.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Science.gov/mFtt0vqc">Science.gov</a> OSTI hosts this USA.gov science portal in collaboration with 17 organizations within 13 Federal science agencies. These agencies are also members of <a href="/facts/CENDI/orWexzAm">CENDI</a>, a cooperative group of scientific and technical information (STI) managers from the 13 federal agencies and programs. Science.gov provides a gateway to over 2,100 websites and offers deep web searching of more than 50 databases containing science information and R&D results.</li></ul> <p>OSTI's entire line of electronic products may be accessed through its home page, where users may search multiple databases with one query. </p> <h2 id="related-legislation">Related legislation</h2> <ul><li>1946 – <i><a href="/facts/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Act_of_1946/mBHX11vr">Atomic Energy Act</a></i> PL 79-585 (created the <a href="/facts/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission/7VXrvVJ9">U.S. Atomic Energy Commission</a>)</li> <li>1954 – <a href="/facts/Atomic_Energy_Authority_Act_1954/XsYG6JbX"><i>Atomic Energy Act Amendments</i></a> PL 83-703</li> <li>1974 – <i><a href="/facts/Energy_Reorganization_Act_of_1974/Uc37QChr">Energy Reorganization Act of 1974</a></i> PL 93-438 (Split the AEC into the <a href="/facts/Energy_Research_and_Development_Administration/dw0Xor6s">Energy Research and Development Administration</a> and the <a href="/facts/Nuclear_Regulatory_Commission/tbC56grX">Nuclear Regulatory Commission</a>)</li> <li>1977 – <i>Department of Energy Organization Act</i> PL 95-91 (Dismantled ERDA and replaced it with the Department of Energy)</li> <li>2005 – <i><a href="/facts/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005/rql6yaMt">Energy Policy Act</a></i> PL 109-58</li> <li>2007 – <i><a href="/facts/America_COMPETES_Act/8WD5pqqg">America COMPETES Act</a></i> PL 110-69</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Federated_search/YwUEgY4A">Federated search</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Web_harvesting/5R4mf1bd">Web harvesting</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Science.gov/mFtt0vqc">Science.gov</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <a href="/facts/Wikidata/5Myy74K5">Wikidata</a> has the property: <ul><li> <i>OSTI article ID (P3894)</i> (see <a href="https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3FWikidata_item_%20%3FWikidata_item_Label%20%3Fvalue%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FEnglish_Wikipedia_article%20%23Show%20data%20in%20this%20order%0A%7B%0A%09%3FWikidata_item_%20wdt%3AP3894%20%3Fvalue%20.%20%23Collecting%20all%20items%20which%20have%20P3894%20data%2C%20from%20whole%20Wikidata%20item%20pages%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3FEnglish_Wikipedia_article%20schema%3Aabout%20%3FWikidata_item_%3B%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%7D%20%23If%20collected%20item%20has%20link%20to%20English%20Wikipedia%2C%20show%20that%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%23Show%20label%20in%20this%20language.%20%22en%22%20is%20English.%20%20%20%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%201000">uses</a>)</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://www.osti.gov">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.sc.doe.gov/">Office of Science</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)". usa.gov. Retrieved 11 October 2024. <a href="https://www.usa.gov/agencies/office-of-scientific-and-technical-information" target="_blank">https://www.usa.gov/agencies/office-of-scientific-and-technical-information</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Scientific and Technical Information". Energy.gov. Retrieved 11 October 2024. <a href="https://www.energy.gov/science/scientific-and-technical-information" target="_blank">https://www.energy.gov/science/scientific-and-technical-information</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>