Brian Hitson

Biography

<p>Brian A. Hitson is Director of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energy.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="https://www.energy.gov/">U.S. Department of Energy</a>&nbsp;(DOE)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.osti.gov/" title="https://www.osti.gov/">Office of Scientific and Technical Information</a>&nbsp;(OSTI), a DOE corporate function that is managed by the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energy.gov/science/office-science" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="https://www.energy.gov/science/office-science">Office of Science</a>.&nbsp; OSTI fulfills agency-wide responsibilities to collect, preserve, and disseminate scientific and technical information emanating from DOE research and development (R&amp;D) activities.</p> <p>Prior to becoming Director, Brian led a range of OSTI's programmatic and administrative activities, including strategic planning, budget formulation and execution, information product development, and cost-reimbursable project management.&nbsp; He has also managed OSTIs international information exchange programs, administrative and financial management, classified and sensitive information programs, and the digitization and preservation of a 1.2 million scientific document repository.</p> <p>Brian co-authored the&nbsp;<a href="https://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="https://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan">DOE Public Access Plan</a>, developing a strategy for implementing public access to the scholarly publications resulting from DOEs R&amp;D efforts, and, along with DOE, Office of Science, and OSTI colleagues, he led the launch of the DOE Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science, or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.osti.gov/pages" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="https://www.osti.gov/pages">DOE PAGES</a>&reg;.&nbsp; He also formed partnerships with the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense in increasing public access to those agencies' R&amp;D results.&nbsp; As Director, he has led strategic efforts to improve discoverability and linkages between diverse, related research objects, including publications, datasets, and scientific software available at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.osti.gov/" title="https://www.osti.gov/">OSTI.GOV</a>.&nbsp; Brian played a key role in the development of&nbsp;<a href="https://worldwidescience.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="https://worldwidescience.org/">WorldWideScience.org</a>&nbsp;and in the establishment of the WorldWideScience Alliance.&nbsp; He represents DOE in interagency open science initiatives; serves as the U.S. representative to the IAEA's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.iaea.org/inis/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="https://www.iaea.org/inis/">International Nuclear Information System</a>&nbsp;(INIS); and chairs the technical activities committee of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icsti.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="http://www.icsti.org/">International Council for Scientific and Technical Information</a>&nbsp;(ICSTI).</p>