Launch of ICSTI Connections

In March 2022, ICSTI launched a new event series, ICSTI Connections, which offers ICSTI’s members an informal discussion forum for sharing experience and expertise on key topics in Science, Technolgy and Innovation.

The March Connections topic was portfolio analytics. Mary Beth West, an information technology specialist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), explained the wide array of data sources that OSTI uses to inform their researcher profile tool and wider portfolio analytics efforts, including the OSTI.GOV database and other governmental databases such as Web of Science, OpenAlex, Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), and ORCiD.