The WorldWideScience Alliance: An International Partnership to Improve Access to Scientific and Technical Information Lorrie A. Johnson United States Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information

What is WorldWideScience.org? Launch of WorldWideScience.org and Formation of the WorldWideScience Alliance Search Technology Multilingual Translations Integration of Multimedia and Scientific Research Data Role in Public Access Future Directions

What is WorldWideScience.org?  A global science gateway comprised of over 100 national and international scientific databases and portals  More than 70 countries are represented

History and Formation of the WorldWideScience Alliance WorldWideScience.org concept emanated from Science.gov model (2006) Initial partnership between U.S. Department of Energy and the British Library (2007) Transition to multilateral governance (WorldWideScience Alliance) and ICSTI* sponsorship (2008) *International Council for Scientific and Technical Information

The Search Technology Behind WorldWideScience.org Federated search technology :  Searches the “deep web,” which may not be searchable by major search engines  Performs a real-time, simultaneous search of participating databases  Overcomes barrier of needing to know about all resources  Little or no burden on database owners  Returns a consolidated, relevance-ranked results list  Links to original records at source databases, including full text if available  Integrates symbiotic technologies to further accelerate scientific discovery

A Measure of WorldWideScience.org’s Uniqueness 90% “Unique ”  33 sample queries launched in Google, Google Scholar, and WorldWideScience.org  Similar quantities in the numbers of results, but very little overlap  Among the “top 50” results from each search engine, only ~10% overlap – or 90% uniqueness – in WorldWideScience.org results

WorldWideScience.org Topic Pages Utilizing the power of Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines:  Millions of Topic Pages created  Exposes distributed WorldWideScience.org content to commercial search engines via site map protocols Utilizing the power of Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines:  Millions of Topic Pages created  Exposes distributed WorldWideScience.org content to commercial search engines via site map protocols

Multilingual Translations The world’s first “one to many” and “many to one” multilingual translations tool in science Most automatic translations are limited to translating from a single language into another single language Most automatic translations are limited to translating from a single language into another single language WorldWideScience.org partnering with Microsoft ® Translator enables true multilingual functionality WorldWideScience.org partnering with Microsoft ® Translator enables true multilingual functionality

Multilingual Translations Translating ten languages, with potential for more: Arabic Chinese 中文 GermanDeutsch English SpanishEspañol FrenchFrançais Japanese 日本語 Korean 한국어 PortuguesePortuguês RussianРусский RussianРусский

User enters search term and selects language

Query is translated into languages of all databases, searches are completed, and results are combined into a single, relevance-ranked results list

User translates results into their preferred language

Translated bibliographic record (English to German)

Multimedia and Speech Indexing  Multimedia (e.g., video, audio, images) represents a major emerging form of scientific information  Multimedia presents special opportunities and challenges – lack of written transcripts, minimal metadata, scientific/technical/medical terminology, lengthy videos (>1 hour)

Multimedia Search Results Videos accessible

Search terms identified via snippets Users can play the exact segments of the videos where search terms were spoken

Integration of Scientific Research Data Scientific Research Data can be:  Difficult to find…. and  Hard to navigate TTT F Phe TTC F Phe TTA L Leu TTG L Leu i TCT S Ser TCC S Ser TCA S Ser TCG S Ser TAT Y Tyr TAC Y Tyr TAA * Ter TAG * Ter TGT C Cys TGC C Cys TGA * Ter TGG W Trp CTT L Leu CTC L Leu CTA L Leu CTG L Leu i CCT P Pro CCC P Pro CCA P Pro CCG P Pro CAT H His CAC H His CAA Q Gln CAG Q Gln CGT R Arg CGC R Arg CGA R

Results containing research and numeric datasets

A data result, showing the landing page for this dataset

Research Data, via the landing page, is accessible Data can be viewed or downloaded

WorldWideScience.org and Public Access Within the United States,  White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Directive – February 2013 (addressed both scholarly publications and digital research data)  U.S. Department of Energy released public access plan in July 2014, and launched the Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science (PAGES Beta ) in August 2014

Public access results from the U.S. Department of Energy’s PAGES Beta

Record from PAGES Beta The Accepted Manuscript will be available 12 months after publication

Public Access as a Growth Opportunity for WorldWideScience.org Other U.S. federal agencies with public access plans include:  U.S. Department of Agriculture  Department of Defense  National Aeronautics and Space Administration  National Institute of Standards and Technology  Centers for Disease Control  Food and Drug Administration  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  National Institutes of Health  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  National Science Foundation  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Canada: “Tri-agency Open Access Policy on Publications” released in February 2015 United Kingdom: Research Councils’ open access policy, in place for several years Other countries in progress….

 As public and open access content grows, new resources will be incorporated into WorldWideScience.org (scholarly publications and digital research data)  With the extension of federated searching on an international scale, combined with multilingual translations, WorldWideScience.org enables access to a diverse array of scientific and technical content in traditional and non-traditional formats

Thank you! WorldWideScience.org Operating Agent Lorrie Johnson