[Asis-l] FYI: New Science.gov Service Delivers Science Information to Desktops

[Gailhodge at aol.com]

Alliance helps public stay "alert" to the latest science discoveries from 12 
federal science agencies, introduces Science.gov Alert Service

Media Contact                        For immediate release
Cathey Daniels                         February 17, 2005
(865) 576-9539 
danielsc at osti.gov

Science.gov, the "go to" Web portal for federal science information, now 
provides a free and convenient "Alert" service that delivers information about the 
most current science developments right to desktops each Monday.

Launched at the annual meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science (Feb. 17-21, 2005) in Washington, D.C., the Science.gov Alert 
Service provides weekly emails to those interested in science.

>From the Science.gov homepage (www.science.gov), individuals can set up an 
account and let Science.gov do the searching for them. Each week, up to 25 
relevant results from selected information sources will be sent to the subscriber's 
email account. Results are displayed in the Alert email and in a personalized 
Alert Archive, which stores six weeks of alerts results. In the Archive, past 
activity can be reviewed and Alert profiles edited. 

Individuals can choose specific sources to monitor, or select the "All 
Sources" option. Science.gov drills down into hard-to-find research information 
collections, spanning more than 47 million pages of government R&D results. More 
than 1,700 government information resources and 30 databases on a wide variety 
of scientific topics are available - all in one place and searchable with just 
one search tool.

Since its launch in 2002, Science.gov, the science companion to FirstGov, has 
been the one-stop gateway to reliable federal science and technology 
information. Science.gov allows individuals to search for information based on 
subject, rather than by government agency.  

Science.gov is made possible by the Science.gov Alliance, a collaboration of 
12 federal agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, 
Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services and the Interior, as well as 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Government Printing Office, the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science 
Foundation, with support from the National Archives and Records Administration.

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Gail Hodge
Information International Associates, Inc. 
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PO Box 4219
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-4219
Email: ghodge at iiaweb.com
Phone: (865) 742-5430
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