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The Dynamic Polymer Annotated Library: An automated approach to curating materials science literature

February 25, 2026

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Kathryn Miller, Christopher Cooper

It remains challenging to curate data about the design, properties, and applications for a given class of materials across thousands of papers to identify emerging trends and efficiently train new artificial intelligence (AI) models. Here, we present a

Multiplatform Standards and Guidelines Publishing at NIST

May 20, 2021

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Kathryn Miller

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is a nonregulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. One of the agency's responsibilities is to develop industry standards and guidelines, which are published as NIST Technical Series publications

A Self-Audit of the NIST Public Data Repository Using the CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements

April 1, 2021

Author(s)

Andrea Medina-Smith

In February 2020, Office of Data and Informatics Group Lead Gretchen Greene asked Metadata Librarian Andrea Medina-Smith to perform a CoreTrustSeal (CTS) self-audit of the Public Data Repository (PDR) in preparation for submitting an application for the

Reproducibility literature analysis - a federal information professional perspective

June 29, 2020

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Erin Antognoli, Regina L. Avila, Jonathan Sears, Leighton Christiansen, Jessica Tieman, Jacquelyn Hart

This article examines a cross-section of literature and other resources to reveal common reproducibility issues faced by stakeholders regardless of subject area or focus. We identify a variety of issues named as reproducibility barriers, the solutions to

Creating Collaborative Spaces for Dialogue within the NIST Research Library

August 30, 2019

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Paula J. Deutsch, Susan L. Makar, Gregory Strouse

The NIST Research Library of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within the U.S. Department of Commerce is currently undergoing changes that will transform the Library in major ways. One of these changes is the conversion of an

Lessons Learned: Takeaways from a Seven-Year Digitization Project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

July 23, 2019

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Katelynd Bucher

With the completion of a large-scale project comes the inevitable question: what have we learned, and how can we apply it in the future? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Services Office (ISO) looks back on lessons

Operationalizing Bibliometrics as a Service in a Research Library

June 10, 2018

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Susan L. Makar, Amy Trost

During the past year, librarians in the Information Services Office (ISO) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) expanded ISO's bibliometric analysis services to include topic analysis and more customized services. The new services

Using Bibliometric Data and Analysis Tools to Identify Emerging Research Opportunities

June 18, 2017

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Amy L. Trost, Susan L. Makar, Amanda J. Malanowski

The Information Services Office (ISO) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is working to identify emerging research areas where NIST can have the greatest impact on

Visualizing the Impact of a Journal Article: "The Protein Data Bank" in Nucleic Acids Research, 2000

June 17, 2017

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Susan L. Makar, Amanda J. Malanowski, Talapady N. Bhat

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) was established at Brookhaven National Laboratories in 1971 as an archive for biological macromolecular crystal structures. Originally, it contained only seven structures; today it holds over 129,000 structures for large

Breaking Out of the Grey Area: Discoverability of Technical Reports at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

March 19, 2017

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Katelynd Bucher, Kathryn Miller

The NIST Research Library occupies the unique position of serving NIST both as publisher of the NIST Technical Series and in an archival capacity, responsible for collecting and preserving copies of NIST's grey literature. Over the last 15 years, the

Assessing the Impact of NIST's Forensic Publications and Collaborations

November 7, 2016

Author(s)

Susan L. Makar, Amanda J. Malanowski

Forensics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) crosses many disciplines and includes computer forensics, firearms analysis, trace analysis, and forensic biometrics, including fingerprints and DNA analysis. This research and the

Bringing The Past Into The Present: the NIST Legacy Publications

August 20, 2015

Author(s)

Katelynd Bucher, Regina L. Avila, Andrea Medina-Smith

Since 2009, the Information Services Office (ISO) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been digitizing a legacy publication collection of technical reports and other materials published by the agency since its founding in 1901

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