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Global Science Gateway Now Open

Department of Energy Press Release:

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the British Library, along with eight other participating countries, today [June 22, 2007] opened an online global gateway to science information from 15 national portals. The gateway, WorldWideScience.org, gives citizens, researchers and anyone interested in science the capability to search science portals not easily accessible through popular search technology such as that deployed by Google, Yahoo! and many other commercial search engines.