press release: OSTI Joins CrossRef to Assign DOIs to Technical Reports

[Amy Brand <abrand@crossref.org>]

NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

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