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WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway that provides access to approximately 100 national scientific and technical portals and databases in more than 70 countries and offers multilingual translations of their science information and research results across 10 languages.
Through its federated search technology, WorldWideScience.org allows users to search more than 500 million pages of science information with a single query, with results returned in relevance-ranked order. WorldWideScience.org can be used to search for textual and multimedia information and research data sets – and to get the most current findings in fields such as energy, medicine, agriculture, environment, and basic sciences. To help users target their searches, results can be clustered by subtopic, country, author, publication, or date. Much of the information accessed via the gateway is freely available and open domain.
WorldWideScience.org also employs Microsoft Translator™ to enable users to search across databases in 10 languages, and then have the results translated into their preferred language. Translations can be performed for Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Management
WorldWideScience.org is operated by a multilateral partnership, the WorldWideScience Alliance; the Alliance’s membership is comprised of organizations representing participating countries and other international entities.
DOE relevance
WorldWideScience.org was developed and is maintained by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) (https://www.osti.gov/home), the DOE office responsible for collecting, preserving, and disseminating DOE R&D results. The contents of WorldWideScience.org include Science.gov, which provides access to science information from 15 U.S. agencies (including the DOE scientific and technical information offered by OSTI). WorldWideScience.org and Science.gov serve important roles in the dissemination of DOE R&D results to global and national audiences.
Partnership
Maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in partnership with the International Council of Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI).
Databases
- African Journals Online
- AGRIS (FAO/UN)
- ArXiv.org
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre
- BazTech (Poland)
- BioGrid
- British Library Electronic Table of Contents (United Kingdom)
- CDC Stacks
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Podcasts
- CERN Document Server
- CERN Multimedia
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Institutional Repositories Grid
- CiNii
- CSIR Research Space (South Africa)
- Czech National Repository of Grey Literature
- Data.gov
- DataCite
- Digital Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Digital.CSIC (Spain)
- Digitale Bibliothek (Germany)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
- DNA Data Bank of Japan
- DOD Public Access Search
- DOE OSTI.GOV
- DOE Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (PAGES)
- DRYAD
- EKT National Archive of PhD Theses (HEDI) (Greece)
- Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
- ERIC Institute of Education Sciences
- Europe PubMed Central
- European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
- European Union Open Data Portal
- Federal Science Library
- German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
- GreyGuide Repository
- HAL Archives
- ICSU World Data System
- Index Scriptorium Estoniae (Estonia)
- Indian Institute of Science Theses and Dissertations
- Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) Chinese Databases
- Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) English Journals Database
- Integbio (Catalog of the Lifescience Databases)
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)Digital Library
- International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
- Invasive Species Compendium
- Joint Research Centre Publications Repository
- J-STAGE (Japan)
- KAUST Repository
- KOAR (Korea Open Access platform for Researchers)
- KoreaMed
- KoreaMed Synapse
- KoreaScience
- KPubS (Korean Journal Publishing Service)
- LENUS (Ireland)
- Library of Congress
- Lifescience Database Archive
- Lifescience database cross search (English) (Japanese)
- Medline Plus Multimedia
- NARCIS (Netherlands)
- NARCIS Datasets
- NASA Video Gallery
- National Library of Latvia
- National Research Council Canada - National Science Library
- National Science Foundation Multimedia
- National Science Foundation Public Access Repository
- Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA)
- OpenAIRE
- PubAg
- PubMed Central
- Research Data Australia
- Russian State Library
- Science Central
- ScienceCinema (United States)
- Scientific Electronic Library Online (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico, Portugal, Peru, Spain, Venezuela)
- State Public Technical Library of Russia (GPNTB)
- TIB AV-Portal
- Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961 (New Zealand)
- Trove (Australia)
- T-Stór (Ireland)
- USGS Publications Warehouse
- USGS Software Catalog
- Virtual Library of Lithuania
- VTT's Research Information Portal
See https://worldwidescience.org/indextext.html for most up to date list.
History
The WorldWideScience.org concept was first conceived at the June 2006 annual conference of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) and a WorldWideScience.org prototype debuted one year later at the June 2007 ICSTI conference in Nancy, France.
Stemming from a bilateral statement of intent between the U.S. Department of Energy and the British Library, participating countries transitioned the governance of WorldWideScience.org to the WorldWideScience Alliance, and officially launched the portal in June 2008 at the annual ICSTI conference in Seoul. A signing ceremony marked this milestone. The Alliance was closely affiliated with ICSTI, which served as a member and primary sponsor.
Recognizing the need to expand beyond English language scientific resources, multilingual translations capabilities were added to WorldWideScience.org and introduced at the June 2010 ICSTI conference in Helsinki. Improvements and enhancements since then have expanded the languages offered to ten: Arabic, Chinese, German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian.
In celebration of WorldWideScience.org's 10th anniversary in September 2018, a special panel convened at the British Library to reflect on WorldWideScience.org's growth and evolution over the past ten years, and to affirm its future role in supporting the open science movement.
In 2022, the WorldWideScience Alliance established a partnership with ICSTI, facilitating scientific and technical information dissemination across borders and supporting the next generation of science research communication.
Contact
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