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Science.gov: FirstGov for Science

Science.gov: FirstGov for Science. AAAS Annual Conference Denver, Colorado February 15, 2003. Objective: Provide Cross-agency, Gateway to Science and Technology Resources. Selected, authoritative U.S. government resources Across all agencies Specialized in science and technology.

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Science.gov: FirstGov for Science

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  1. Science.gov: FirstGov for Science AAAS Annual Conference Denver, Colorado February 15, 2003

  2. Objective: Provide Cross-agency, Gateway to Science and Technology Resources • Selected, authoritative • U.S. government resources • Across all agencies • Specialized in science and technology

  3. Science.gov Initiative • An integrated, voluntary interagency effort of 14 STI programs in 10 federal agencies • Supports the Administration’s E-Gov objectives, bringing government science and technology closer to citizens • The FirstGov-designated “Cross Agency Portal” for science • Provides a public gateway to federal web sites and databases

  4. Dept. of Agriculture Dept. of Commerce Dept. of Defense Dept. of Education Dept. of Energy Dept. of Health and Human Services Dept. of Interior Environmental Protection Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation Science.gov Alliance Support and coordination by CENDI (brochures)

  5. Guiding Principles • Provide simple, integrated access to web sites and database content across the government • Provide selected, quality information • No distracting pop-ups – just the facts • Based on currently available content

  6. Access to Government Science Web Sites • ~1700 web sites selected and cataloged by agency content managers and NTIS • Organized for browsing under one or more of 12 topics and 175 sub-topics • Free-text searching based on text of selected web sites and linked sites • To one level • Provided by USGS

  7. Access to Deep Web Databases • 29 databases with tens of millions of records that are generally not accessible to web search engines • Special deep (invisible) web searching developed for Science.gov by DOE/OSTI • Single search interface for web sites and databases

  8. Business people Intermediaries Researchers journalists students and teachers science-attentive citizen

  9. For more information Science.gov Co-Chairs Bonnie C. Carroll Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Telephone: 865/481-03 Fax: 865/481-0390 bcarroll@infointl.com Eleanor Frierson National Agricultural Library (NAL) 10301 Baltimore Avenue, Room 200 Beltsville, MD 20705-2351 Telephone: 301/504-6780 efrierson@nal.usda.gov Thomas Lahr USGS/Biological Resources Discipline 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive / MS 302 Reston, VA 22092 Telephone: 703/648-4222 tom_lahr@usgs.gov CENDI Secretariat Press kits available at http://www.science.gov/communications/index.html

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