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OSTI

OSTI coordinates the STI Program (STIP), a complex-wide collaboration across DOE programs, field offices, national laboratories, and contractors to disseminate and preserve the Department's STI. In addition to text, OSTI recognizes the growing need to capture scientific research in emerging formats, such as data and software, and pursues this mission responsibility. OSTI builds on existing partnerships and seeks strategic alliances across a wide range of communities, including DOE, interagency, international, and private sector, to increase access to the Department's research and development results.

Responsibilities include:

  1. Providing appropriate access to DOE’s STI and preserving a permanent DOE STI repository.
  2. Leading the Department’s STI Program, which includes TIOs representing Departmental Elements (Headquarters and field) and STI Managers at contractor sites/facilities who work collaboratively to fulfill DOE requirements for STI management and to address specific programmatic or cross-cutting STI management issues.
  3. Providing and managing accredited information systems, services, and processes for secure, efficient, and comprehensive submission and collection of STI, encompassing various forms and categories.
  4. In collaboration with the STI community, establishing requirements and responsibilities to ensure optimal availability of Departmental STI to the varied customer segments, within applicable laws, regulations, Executive orders, and other Federal and Departmental requirements.
  5. Making DOE-funded STI accessible and discoverable by maintaining information management systems and providing web search tools and services for publicly releasable STI (see https://www.osti.gov/), along with secure search tools for protected categories of STI as appropriate.
  6. Managing domestic, interagency, and international STI exchanges to ensure DOE access to national and global scientific and technical advances and to enable global access to publicly available DOE STI.
  7. Supporting program-specific STI management efforts by offering special support services upon request to DOE organizations that provide funding to cover incremental costs of the requested service(s).
  8. Creating and providing basic STI training for DOE federal and contractor employees on appropriate STI management procedures and requirements.

Responsibilities of OSTI STIP Liaison

The STIP Liaison within the Office of Assistant Director for Acquisition and Information Programs at OSTI serves as the representative and advocate for the STIP community. The Liaison is normally involved in activities or discussions concerning:

  • STIP collaboration business
  • Cross-cutting STIP issues and resolutions
  • DOE Order 241.1C
  • Performance objectives and measures
  • STI policies and procedures
  • STIP special focus teams
  • E-Link submission and reporting
  • STIP planning and reporting

Throughout its history, OSTI has worked with representatives across the agency - in laboratories, field offices, Headquarters - to facilitate access to information and to promulgate policy and best practices for STI management. OSTI will work to broaden its complex-wide collaboration by increasing communications beyond the designated STI points of contact and by engaging others across DOE in projects that advance STIP goals.

For more information, contact an OSTI-STIP Liaison.