BENEFITS OF CONTRIBUTING
DOD Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP)
PRODUCTS TO DTIC
A one-stop shop for easy access and retrieval of DoD Scientific and Technical Information (STI)
Search one source rather than many.
Why establish a STIP program? The reasons for doing so are the same today as those stated in the 1951 Secretary of Defense Memorandum and Directive:
"The end product of all Department of Defense sponsored research and development -- i.e., the recorded conclusions -- costing vast sums of money and irreplaceable scientific effort, must be assembled, organized, preserved, and made available for future reference by those concerned with exploring and guarding the scientific frontiers of the Nation."
Required by DoD Directive 3200.12, “DoD Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP)”
And if THAT isn’t enough incentive, how about…
REPOSITORY
1. Saves agency and taxpayer money by reducing expenditures for information dissemination management such as:
- costs for creating bibliographic records/metadata
- storage, printing, distribution of copies
- maintaining access to documents on Web sites
- responding to customer requests for documents
2. Provides long-term 24/7 access, storage and retrieval.
3. Provides off-site back-up disaster storage.
4. Ensures the preservation and availability of the work over the long-term should Web sites and documents disappear when their authors leave or when agencies reorganize or realign.
5. Migrates to new formats and platforms when technologies change.
6. Facilitates intellectual property management of federally-funded public domain and government purpose rights works.
AGGREGATOR
7. Accounts and documents specific R&D initiatives and efforts for the DoD corporate memory.
8. Tracks and links related work for a DoD project, program or technology.
9. Shares and transfers results within the DoD community.
10. Leverages results to maximize R&D dollars and to eliminate duplication of effort.
BENEFITS OF CONTRIBUTING DOD STIP PRODUCTS TO DTIC (Continued)
SECONDARY DISSEMINATOR
11. Facilitates sharing, while safeguarding national security, through a multi-level secure system for controlled dissemination through the Internet, NIPRNET and SIPRNET.
12. Maintains a registration system to verify and authenticate user status and authorizations.
13. Matches user authorizations with document distribution markings specified by the controlling office. Markings include classification (through secret), secondary distribution statements, export control and others.
14. Reduces the burden on legal or security staff by maintaining a tracking and audit trail for limited and classified documents and by filtering requests for release of documents to those outside the secondary distribution audience.
15. Meets the FOIA requirement to have a public reading room.
16. Meets the requirements under the Anti-Deficiency Act to provide public release documents to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
17. Widely announces and disseminates public release information through libraries, government and commercial abstracting & indexing services, and search engines such as Google and OCLC's Worldcat.
18. Promotes recognition, credit, and attribution of sponsors, producers, and personal authors within DoD and the science community.
19. Provides new documents and newly digitized documents free to authorized users.
20. Assigns persistent unique identifiers (Handles http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/stresources/techreports/dticSearchTools/handleservice.html) to public release electronic documents for continuous access, unchanging citation reference and no broken link.
Real advantages...not just regulations!!
