ETDE Energy Technology Data Exchange - Implementing Agreement

1. Energy Technology Data Exchange.
What’s in it for Belgium?
Implementing Agreement Day Belgium
ELIA, Brussels
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Hillebrand Verkroost
Vice-Chair, IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange
(information specialist, Energy research Centre of the Netherlands)

2. 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

3. ETDE Implementing Agreement
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.”

4. ETDE Stakeholders
Government Signatories: Partners:
• IAEA International Nuclear
Information System (INIS)
Brazil Canada Denmark Finland • IEA Clean Coal Centre
• WorldWideScience.org
• World Energy Congress
Germany Korea, Rep. of Mexico • Energy Market Authority of
Singapore
• IEA Hydrogen Implementing
The Netherlands Norway South Africa Agreement
Spain Sweden Switzerland United States

5. 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.

6. Developing Country Access

7. 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

10. search phrase
Search
Refinement
Aid Additional
# of records found Resources
Diversity of
sources:
Korea,
Turkey,
China, US

11. Link to Full Text PDF

12. Link to Journal Article

13. Translate record in
34 languages

14. Additional
Resources

17. 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

18. 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.org
Debbie Cutler, Operating Agent – cutlerd@osti.gov