Comments on: WorldWideScience.org http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/newinnsdl/2007/11/20/worldwidescienceorg/ Information about collections recently added to the National Science Digital Library. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:49:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Kristin Bingham http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/newinnsdl/2007/11/20/worldwidescienceorg/#comment-677 Kristin Bingham Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:59:27 +0000 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/newinnsdl/2007/11/20/worldwidescienceorg/#comment-677 WorldWideScience.org accelerates the sharing of knowledge three ways. First, it informs users that vast non-Googlelable information resources exist in other countries. (How many of the 24 information sources on WWS did you know about?) Second, it allows all these sources to be searched via a single query, thus avoiding the tedious chore of searching the sources one at a time. Third, it sorts through myriad hits from all these sources and presents them to the patron in relevance rank order. Thus, WorldWideScience.org advances the OSTI Corollary: Accelerating the sharing of knowledge accelerates the advancement of science. Kristin Bingham, Technical Information Specialist, OSTI WorldWideScience.org accelerates the sharing of knowledge three ways. First, it informs users that vast non-Googlelable information resources exist in other countries. (How many of the 24 information sources on WWS did you know about?) Second, it allows all these sources to be searched via a single query, thus avoiding the tedious chore of searching the sources one at a time. Third, it sorts through myriad hits from all these sources and presents them to the patron in relevance rank order.

Thus, WorldWideScience.org advances the OSTI Corollary:
Accelerating the sharing of knowledge accelerates the advancement of science.

Kristin Bingham, Technical Information Specialist, OSTI

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