Energy Citations Database Review in _The Charleston Advisor_

[Gerry Mckiernan]

         Energy Citations Database Review in _The Charleston Advisor_

   I am pleased to announce the publication of my review and critique of
the Energy Citations Database:

McKiernan, G. (2002), "Energy Citations Database", _The Charleston Advisor: Critical Reviews of Web Products for Information Professionals_ Vol. 4, no. 1 (July), 25-31, 34-35.
                
The Energy Citations Database  (ECD) 

               [http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/ ]

 is a bibliographic database developed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to improve access to energy and energy-related scientific and technical information produced or funded by DOE or its predecessor agencies, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA). ECD is made available by OSTI in partnership with the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) through GPO Access. It was launched in October 2001 and presently contains approximately 2 million records; it is currently updated weekly.

The Energy Citations Database (ECD) provides full bibliographic records to the literature of disciplines of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy, notably chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science, and related disciplines. ECD provides citations to books, conference proceedings and papers, dissertations and theses, government documents, journal articles, patents and patent applications, software manuals, as well as the report literature. A significant number of ECD records also include abstracts. ECD provides access to public bibliographic records from a variety of DOE, AEC, or ERDA sources, for the period beginning in 1948.

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   Joy!

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Energized Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu