Partners

Both the IEA and ETDE place a strong emphasis on working with international partners in order to fulfill the need for timely exchange of global information. To meet this goal, ETDE cooperates with other IEA agreements and has strong ties with other international organizations. These cooperative efforts allow ETDE to provide a broad information resource with significant benefits including:

accelerating technological progress by filling in knowledge gaps
encouraging co-operative advances and reducing duplicated research
strengthening the database content and standardization
ensuring worldwide coverage of energy information in specific areas
providing additional resources and facilitating international communication by linking websites
promoting ETDE visibility in other databases and directories

Related IEA Information Agreements

For information about all the various IEA Agreements, including those considered information centers, visit the IEA site http://www.iea.org/Textbase/techno/index.asp

The following centers have information components which may be of interest to the ETDE community. ETDE strives to include publications generated by all the IEA agreements in its database.

IEA Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC)
IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA GHG)
IEA Heat Pump Centre (HPC)
Climate Technology Initiative (CTI)
IEA Coal Research -- The Clean Coal Centre

ETDE has had a special relationship with the IEA Clean Coal Centre IEACCC to exchange database records. Up until mid-2011 ETDE has been able to offer broader worldwide coverage of coal-related information. With the cessation of updates to the IEACCC's Coal Abstracts database, ETDE's broader coverage will also end.

Other International Organizations

International Nuclear Information System

One of ETDE's key partners is the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Information System, more commonly known as INIS. This relationship is particularly strong in the areas of data exchange and in authorities such as the thesaurus where having a common format is critical. Because of this collaboration and the fact that all ETDE members are also INIS members, most of the data in the INIS database is also included in ETDE’s Energy Database. This means that the database coverage in nuclear areas is worldwide.

UN Energy

U.N. Energy is an interagency mechanism under the United Nations (UN) system established in 2004 to help ensure coherence within the UN's multidisciplinary response to World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) initiatives and to support sustainable energy development within countries and co-operation among entities. UN-Energy has three core cluster areas: access to energy, renewable energy, and energy efficiency. Secretariat services are provided by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

The ETDE World Energy Base (ETDEWEB) appears as a link under the Resources/Tools section on the UN-Energy website. The UN-Energy Newsletter debuted in June 2011 and is available for free viewing on their website.

reegle

ETDE shares synergistic goals with the clean energy search engine "reegle", each sharing a wealth of clean and sustainable energy-related information and both promoting outreach of this information to developing countries. reegle serves as a complementary resource to the ETDE database, drawing in additional information types/sources. The reegle site is a one-stop shop for all clean energy issues and allows the user to search over 250,000 documents, as well as the databases of their knowledge partners. reegle is a strategic product of REEEP, the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership. REEEP works to reduce the barriers limiting the uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, with a primary focus on emerging markets and developing countries.

For more information contact:

florian.bauer@reeep.org

CrossRef

ETDE is an affiliate member of CrossRef. ETDE uses this affiliation to benefit database users by looking up and adding Digital Object Identifier (DOI) information to its database records when possible. Users then gain the ability to hyperlink directly to the publishers to get copies of the articles/papers/reports.

USDOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

ETDE partners with OSTI to make Science.gov and Science Conferences available in the distributed searching feature within ETDEWEB.

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