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

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

Science.gov Alliance 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 Support and coordination by CENDI (brochures)

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

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

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

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

Thomas Lahr USGS/Biological Resources Discipline Sunrise Valley Drive / MS 302 Reston, VA Telephone: 703/ Eleanor Frierson National Agricultural Library (NAL) Baltimore Avenue, Room 200 Beltsville, MD Telephone: 301/ Bonnie C. Carroll Oak Ridge, TN Telephone: 865/ Fax: 865/ Science.gov Co-Chairs For more information CENDI Secretariat Press kits available at