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Proceedings of the 8th Annual
Federal Depository Library Conference

April 12 - 15, 1999

Cover/Title Page  | Table of Contents  |  Agenda

Federal Agency Update Session
DOE Information Bridge: One Year Later

Don Altom
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington, DC

Background
  • GPO/DOE relationship to provide public access to DOE report literature – microfiche
  • GPO/DOE Interagency Agreement in December 1997 to provide Web access to full text DOE report literature from January 1996
    • Leverage existing DOE system
    • Access through GPO Access system
  • Incorporated GPO requirements
    • Eliminate passwords
    • Provide PDF full text for download to user desktop
  • "Roll out" in April 1998 with Web access to 23,422 bibliographic and full text DOE reports

Growth/Utilization
  • Increased full text information collection by 50%; 35,006 bibliographic and full text records available on 12 April 1999
  • Utilization
    • Document downloads - performance measure
    • 55,942 downloads through 10 April 1999 by all user communities: depository libraries, US and international publics, DOE, other government agencies, etc.

Recent Enhancements
  • Customer driven
  • Option to download full text in native formats
    • PDF, Word, WordPerfect, SGML, HTML, XML, Postscript, TIFFG4
  • Links to full text posted at remote sites scattered throughout the DOE Complex
    • ASCII-based formats

Future Directions
  • Customer driven
  • Convert to Oracle/UNIX environment
  • New functionality
    • Date range searching
    • Search downloaded PDF documents
  • Legacy data
    • Assessment pending; determine interest in Web access to full text prior to January 1996
    • Encourage participation

Honors/Awards
  • DOE Information Management Quality Award for Technical Excellence in October 1998
  • Hammer Award presented by National Partnership for Reinventing Government in February 1999

GPO/DOE partnership continuing success story

For more information:

Kathy Chambers
DOE Information Bridge
Product Manager
http://www.doe.gov/bridge

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