Energy Technology Data Exchange.What’s in it for Belgium?

Implementing Agreement Day Belgium

ELIA, Brussels

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Hillebrand VerkroostVice-Chair, IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange

(information specialist, Energy research Centre of the Netherlands)

ETDE – Key facts, figures

� 1974-1986 bilateral agreements US-DoE - countries

� 1987 multilateral agreement: IEA IA

� 1999 ETDEWEB: 4.6 million+ records, 440,000+ PDFs, 1 million+ (direct and indirect) links

� 2004 opening up to developing countries

� 2006- present federated search, domain recognition, search options, Topic Pages, Google comparison study, e-mail alerts, translation, openURL

� Members and partners

� 14 government signatories from five continents

� 5 partners

� Task- and cost sharing

� Mission

� “To provide governments, industry and the research community in the member countries with access to the widest range of information on energy research, science and technology and to increase dissemination of this information to developing countries.”

ETDE Implementing Agreement

ETDE StakeholdersGovernment Signatories: Partners:

• IAEA International Nuclear

Information System (INIS)

• IEA Clean Coal Centre

• WorldWideScience.org

• World Energy Congress

• Energy Market Authority of

Singapore

• IEA Hydrogen Implementing

Agreement

Brazil Canada Denmark Finland

Germany Korea, Rep. of

The Netherlands Norway

Mexico

SwitzerlandSweden United StatesSpain

South Africa

ETDE Membership

� Task-sharing: prepare and submit records of energy RTD activities published within the member country (from journals, technical reports, conference proceedings, books, etc.), including full text when available.

� Cost-sharing: make contribution to cover annual cost of the exchange (i.e., primarily, ETDEWEB), consisting of “base” fee and “additional” contribution (related to national energy R&D expenditures relative to other member countries).

� Contracting party has right to determine ETDEWEB access policies and any fees within its national borders.

Developing Country Access

ETDE’s Values

� Marketing technologies developed within countries

� Increase visibility of research results

� Learn from technological developments

� Learn from research results

� Avoid duplication of research

� Locate potential partners/researchers

� Serve as central archive for full-text publications

� Unique information

search phrase

# of records found

Diversity of sources: Korea, Turkey, China, US

Search Refinement Aid Additional

Resources

Link to Full Text PDF

Link to Journal Article

Translate record in 34 languages

Additional Resources

JOIN ETDE!� Belgium is invited to explore ETDE membership

� Becoming a member in ETDE will:

� Increase national research capabilities

� Provide a sound basis for decision-making

� Drive innovation

www.etde.org/etdeweb

Comments/Questions

ETDE welcomes and encourages

further comments or questions.

Main ETDE website: www.etde.org

ETDE World Energy Base: www.etde.org/etdeweb

Contacts:Brian Hitson, Chair, hitsonb@osti.gov

Hillebrand Verkroost, Vice-Chair – verkroost@ecn.orgDebbie Cutler, Operating Agent – cutlerd@osti.gov