GPO and NOAA Partner to Increase
Permanent Public Access to NOAA
Publications
WASHINGTON —U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) in partnership with the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library is working to
add more than 47,000 unique items published by NOAA authors and grantees to the
National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information. GPO shares NOAA’s goal of
providing additional avenues to access Government research and making these
documents more discoverable to the public. GPO will add the NOAA Institutional
Repository (IR) to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and create
permanent URLs, ensuring documents in NOAA’s IR are available digitally for permanent
public access. GPO will work to promote the addition of these documents to more than
1,100 Federal depository libraries nationwide.
“GPO is excited to collaborate with the NOAA Central Library on making these materials
easily accessible to the public and supporting NOAA in long-term preservation efforts,”
said GPO Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern. “This partnership is a major step forward in
cultivating an America Informed.”
Items that will be added to the National Collection and digitally preserved date back to
1970, the year NOAA was founded. They include NOAA’s reports to Congress, strategic and
policy documents, white papers, conference proceedings, Federally-funded scholarly
research, and more. While many of these items have historically been available in print
formats at Federal depository libraries, they will now be available digitally through the
CGP for easier and wider access.
Items the public may find particularly interesting from this collection are:
- Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act (Weather Act) Collection,
including documents describing efforts to improve hurricane, tornado, tsunami,
and subseasonal to seasonal forecasting
- Endangered Species Act Section 7 Biological OpinionsItems the public may find particularly interesting from this collection are:
- Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act (Weather Act) Collection,
including documents describing efforts to improve hurricane, tornado, tsunami,
and subseasonal to seasonal forecasting
- Endangered Species Act Section 7 Biological Opinions
About GPO
GPO is the Federal Government’s resource for publishing trusted information for the
Federal Government to the American people. The GPO is responsible for the production
and distribution of information products and services for all three branches of the Federal
Government, including U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as the official
publications of Congress, the White House, and other Federal agencies in digital and print
formats. GPO provides for permanent public access to Federal Government information at
no charge through www.govinfo.gov and partnerships with approximately 1,100 libraries
nationwide participating in the Federal Depository Library Program. For more
information, please visit www.gpo.gov.
About NOAA
Climate, weather and water affect all life on our ocean planet. NOAA’s mission is to
understand and predict our changing environment, from the deep sea to outer space, and
to manage and conserve America’s coastal and marine resources. See how NOAA science,
services, and stewardship benefit your community: Visit noaa.gov for our latest news and features, and join us on social media.
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