The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) brings this new site to the Web. The database includes bibliographic records of documents from the DOE as well as the agencies that preceded it, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Users can keyword search or advanced search in selected fields to access citations from 1948 to the present. The documents span a range of materials from dissertations to patents to papers, articles, and books. Results provide an impressive amount of information including an abstract, a link to the electronic document when available, the research organization and sponsoring organization, and much more. Researchers in a range of disciplines will find this site very useful; DOE explains that the records span "chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines." Users should note that files available here are in a range of formats, including .pdf, MS Word, PostScript, Excel, .zip, and more.
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