Registration of Danish energy literature and descriptions of energy research projects, cooperation with international information systems, and management of a Danish project database

The aim is to make information about Danish energy research and its results available to users in Denmark and abroad and, through international co-operation, to make international research and its results available to Danish research organizations and industry. The aim is obtained through co-operation with international and national databases, primarily ETDEWEB (results in the form of publications) and Danish Energy R&D projects (descriptions of research and development projects). Literature: Registration of Danish energy literature is related to the Danish Energy Authority's membership of the Implementing Agreement for the Establishment of the IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange (IEA-ETDE). The product of this agreement is Energy Database - named ETDEWEB as the internet version (www.etde.org/etdeweb). The membership of the agreement obliges to deliver information to the database on the member country's own publications. All types of scientific and technical literature (including reports from the Energy Research Programme and the Programme for Energy Technology Development and Demonstration), journal articles and conference papers, are collected and registered according to ETDE's rules. The records are sent to ETDE's database regularly. Many reports are sent to the database in full text for direct download from ETDEWEB. All reports are available on loan from Risø Library. R&D projects: Descriptions of new EUDP projects (Programme for Energy Technology Development and Demonstration), PSO projects (Public Service Obligation), ENMI projects (from the Danish Council for Strategic Research, Programme Commission on Energy and Environment), and projects from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation are registered. When a project is completed, the existing record is updated with summaries of the result and with brief information on the publications from the project. The project descriptions are included in the database Danish Energy R&D projects (http://iis-03.risoe.dk/netahtml/risoe/ENS/efpuk.htm) which is available for free for Danish as well as for international users. Knowledge Centre: due to the tasks that Risø DTU performs under this project, Risø acts as the Danish knowledge centre for Danish R&D and offers advice on the use of energy databases such as ETDEWEB and Danish Energy R&D Projects