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Screen shot of STI Progam Plan cover
STI Progam Plan cover

The Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) collects, organizes, preserves, and releases the Agency's scientific and technical information. STI is derived from NASA's research and development efforts and NASA projects, programs, and missions. The program is essential in helping NASA avoid duplication of research, by sharing information to ensure that the U.S. maintains its preeminence in aerospace-related industries and education.[1] Examples of NASA STI include technical papers and reports, contractor reports, conference papers and proceedings, journal articles, presentations, and technical information on websites. NASA STI also includes research information from NASA's predecessor agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which dates back to 1915 and transitioned to NASA at the advent of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Amended).[2]


Program Management

View of NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI) facility.
View of NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI) facility.

The STI Program Office (STIPO) is funded by the NASA Chief Information Officer (CIO) in Washington, DC.[3] The NASA CIO establishes strategic policy and operational measurements for STIPO, which is located at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In turn, STIPO oversees the NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI), a contractor-operated facility that collects the NASA STI, organizes it into a large database, ensures that it is preserved via the National Archives and Records Administration, and releases the STI or has the STI released through various methods, such as science.gov[4] and USA.gov.[5] The STI Program participates in the collaborative Open Government Initiative[6], and is a member of CENDI (Commerce, Energy, NASA, Defense, Interior),[7] which is a partnership of Federal STI managers.

STIPO's charter exists so that NASA STI is promptly and widely released and available, and can be leveraged by NASA, U.S. businesses, government, the public and international entities. This allows NASA to comply with e-Government regulations.[8]




Accessing the NASA STI Program

The STI website[9] provides products, services and tools to access and benefit from NASA STI.

  • Search NASA's public STI collections for reports, conference papers, proceedings, journal articles and other technical and peer-reviewed STI through the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS).[10] NTRS integrates other sources, such as NIX (NASA Image Exchange) into its collections. NTRS has:
    • More than 500,000 aerospace STI documents
    • Over 300,000 full-text documents
    • More than 500,000 images and videos
    • Over 13,000 full-text documents from NASA’s predecessor, NACA
  • Learn about and better understand NASA's technical accomplishments via its annual premier publication Spinoff (NASA spin-off)[11] and the Spinoff database of successfully commercialized NASA technology.[12]
  • Subscribe to daily STI RSS feeds[13] for the latest technical documents in the STI collection.
  • View NASA's subsets of technical imagery and videos through a variety of online media sites[14]
  • Locate publishing tools such as the "NASA Publications Guide for Authors"[15] and the popular guide, NASA SP-7084, "Grammar, Punctuation and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors,"[16] as well as the NASA Thesaurus and the NASA Scope and Subject Category Guide.[17]



Management and Dissemination of STI

Along with NASA STI, the Program maintains non-NASA STI that is pertinent to NASA's missions and activities, including information from North Atlantic Treaty Organization's NATO Research and Technology Organisation. The STI Program is a critical component in the worldwide activity of scientific and technical aerospace research and development. Collected from U.S. and international sources, STI is organized by its content prior to being added to the STI Database, which is a world-class collection of STI that includes over 4 million bibliographic records and a growing number of full-text documents.[1] Much of this database is available to the public via the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS).[10]



Communication

NASA CASI icon
NASA CASI icon

In addition to the STI website,[9] NASA CASI uses social media to foster awareness of the STI Program’s activities and latest acquisitions. CASI’s presence on Facebook,[18] Twitter,[19] and YouTube[20] has proven to be a vital use of these tools to help STIPO teach users how to access and benefit from its services.


See also



References

  1. ^ a b "NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program Fact Sheet" (PDF).
  2. ^ NASA Space Act
  3. ^ "Program Plan" (PDF).
  4. ^ science.gov website
  5. ^ USA.gov website
  6. ^ "Open Government Initiative".
  7. ^ CENDI website
  8. ^ e-Government regulations
  9. ^ a b "STI website".
  10. ^ a b "NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)".
  11. ^ NASA Spinoff
  12. ^ NASA Spinoff database
  13. ^ STI RSS Feeds
  14. ^ NASA Multimedia links from the NASA STI home page
  15. ^ "NASA Publications Guide for Authors"
  16. ^ "Grammar, Punctuation and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors"
  17. ^ STI Tools
  18. ^ "NASA CASI Facebook page".
  19. ^ "NASA CASI Twitter page".
  20. ^ "NASA CASI YouTube Channel".
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