Carly B. Robinson, Assistant Director

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OSTI Assistant Director,
Office of Information Products and Services:
Carly B. Robinson

Carly Robinson is the OSTI Assistant Director for Information Products and Services. The Office of Information Products and Services focuses on the dissemination of DOE-funded research and development (R&D) results through OSTI's suite of tools and services. Her responsibilities include management of OSTI search and discovery tools, persistent identifier services, collection metadata quality and curation, and OSTI communications. Carly co-authored the DOE Public Access Plan developing a strategy for implementing public access to DOE-funded R&D.

During her tenure at OSTI, Carly has served as Senior Product Strategist and Senior Science Advisor and led the product management team. In those roles, Carly organized and led a series of workshops with researchers at DOE national laboratories to better understand their needs and uses of R&D results; led the project to reinvent OSTI.GOV as the primary search tool for DOE R&D results and the OSTI organizational hub; provided open science guidance to OSTI leadership; and provided expertise about management of data resulting from DOE-funded R&D. Prior to joining OSTI, she was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow.

She has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of Colorado, and a B.S. in Applied Physics from Michigan Technological University.