The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the British 
Library, along with eight other participating countries, & 
opened an online global gateway to science information from 
15 national portals.  The gateway, WorldWideScience.org, 
gives citizens, researchers and anyone interested in 
science the capability to search science portals not easily 
accessible through popular search technology ...
...Relying on a novel technology called federated search, 
WorldWideScience.org gives science information consumers a 
single entry point for searching far-reaching science 
portals in parallel, with only one query, saving time and 
effort& In addition to the U.S. and the U.K., the inaugural 
WorldWideScience.org portal provides access to research 
information in English from Australia, Brazil, Canada, 
Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands....