[MPWG] DOE/OSTI Joins CrossRef to Assign DOIs to Technical Reports

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For Immediate Release

Contact: Amy Brand, CrossRef (781) 295-0072  abrand at crossref.org
<mailto:abrand at crossref.org>

DOE/OSTI Joins CrossRef to Assign DOIs to Technical Reports

Lynnfield, MA, February 3, 2005.  CrossRef, the reference-linking service
for scholarly and professional content, is pleased to announce that the
Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
has joined CrossRef. OSTI plans to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
to its Information Bridge platform, which currently contains 94,000
scientific and technical reports.

Information Bridge serves as an open source to full-text and bibliographic
records of DOE research in physics, chemistry, materials, biology,
environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and
information science, renewable energy, and other topics. It consists of
full-text documents produced and made available by the Department of Energy
National Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward. Additional legacy
documents are also included as they become available in electronic format.

"We are pleased to join CrossRef in pioneering this first-of-a-kind
government-private partnership," said Dr. Walter Warnick, director of OSTI.
"We believe that coupling the vast resources available at Information Bridge
with the reference-linking capabilities of CrossRef will advance OSTI's
mission of making DOE research results more accessible."

OSTI is the largest provider of so-called "gray literature" to join CrossRef
since CrossRef moved late last year to include publishers of working papers
and technical reports among its members. Other new CrossRef members who are
registering working papers or reports include the Social Science Research
Network and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

According to CrossRef Executive Director Ed Pentz, this is all part of
CrossRef's mission "to provide the most robust citation linking network
possible, cutting across publishers, business models, and content types."
The 14.3 million DOIs registered in CrossRef to date point mainly to journal
articles, books, chapters, and conference proceedings. Among its 350
members, CrossRef already includes several open-access publishers. Within
the coming year, CrossRef plans to extend its content coverage to standards
and datasets as well.

OSTI's mission is to advance science and sustain technological creativity by
making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American
people. OSTI has been delivering science information since 1947. With its
suite of Web tools, OSTI has proved to be a leader in government science
search.

For more information on these and other CrossRef developments, please visit
www.crossref.org <http://www.crossref.org>.

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