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New Library Catalog debuts
Our new Library Catalog software is now live, and available at http://catalog.lanl.gov. It
enables you to:
- do Basic word searching
- do Advanced word searching, combining different kinds of terms with Boolean
operators
- Browse alphabetical indexes
- Limit a search by language, format (journals, conferences, technical reports,
online resources, etc.) and year
- After you get search results, "Filter within results" by data ranges,
available items (not checked out), and publication dates
- Sort results by Author, Title, or year (year with most recent first is the
default)
- add records to a Bookshelf to print, save or email (similar to the List Marks
feature of the old catalog)
- see a list of your Previous Searches, and re-run or combine them
Electronic resources have clickable URLs displaying on the results screens. Print
holdings are listed by "Location" -- click on the information displayed,
such as "MAIN QC793 .M42 2003," to see details including whether
the material is checked out.
The initial installation offers only a part of the full capabilities of the new
system, having been accomplished under a very tight deadline. Over the coming
months more features will be added, such as requesting and renewing books online,
saving records to a personal account, saving personal preferences, and creating
alerts.
Circulation of books and reports is running on the new system. Thanks to
customers who have provided feedback; watch for improvements
in coming weeks.
Please send feedback to library@lanl.gov.
 Kathy
Varjabedian (kv@lanl.gov)
 Compact shelving installation completed!
Installation of additional compact shelving on the lower level of
the Research Library has been completed on schedule. The construction crew,
along with their hammers and drills, have departed and we now have more space
for the Library's print collection.
The project was completed without loss of access for customers to the back volumes
of journals on the lower level. We would like to thank our customers for
your patience with the temporary noise and inconvenience.
Research Library Compact Shelving Project Team (library@lanl.gov)
 Ejournal backfiles from Springer and Kluwer now available!
Ejournal backfiles from Springer and Kluwer now available!
You've been waiting and now here they are — the backfiles for Springer
and Kluwer ejournal titles. The LANL Research Library has purchased the
full Springer backfile collection, which includes Kluwer ejournals as well. Over
1.5 million fulltext journal articles are now available at your desktop via the Springer
website. Each title now goes back to volume one, number one online,
some titles as far back as the year 1869. The Springer backfiles include
titles you use every day such as:
- Applied Physics A & B
- Boundary Layer Meteorology
- European Physical Journal A-E
- Hyperfine Interactions
- Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
The Springer/Kluwer backfiles will soon be available as fulltext links through
SearchPlus and the Library databases via LinkSeeker. The Library has purchased
the Springer ejournal backfile content to be locally loaded on servers inside
the LANL firewall, similar to the current Springer ejournal content, and available
via E-Science Server. A copy of this content is now owned by LANL and will
be always be available for LANL researchers.
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Nature Physics now online
The newest Nature journal, Nature Physics, is now
available online at your desktop. The LANL Research Library has subscribed
to Nature Physics online, which publishes papers in all areas of pure
and applied physics including theoretical physics. Research areas covered
in the journal include:
 Quantum physics
- Atomic and molecular physics
- Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics
- Condensed-matter physics
- Fluid dynamics
- Optical physics
- Chemical physics
- Information theory and computation
- Electronics, photonics and device physics
- Nanotechnology
- Nuclear physics
- Plasma physics
- High-energy particle physics
- Astrophysics and cosmology
- Biophysics
- Geophysics
Nature Physics will be indexed in SearchPlus and linked to fulltext
of articles via LinkSeeker. The premier issue is available now.
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
 ANSI Z136.2 - Safe Use of Optical Fiber Communication Systems now available
online
ANSI Z136.2 - "Safe Use of Optical Fiber Communication Systems Utilizing
Laser Diodes and LED Sources" is now available online
at http://rlcd.lanl.gov/ansi/z136.2/.
This Laser Institute of America standard provides guidance for the safe use,
maintenance and service of optical fiber communications systems (OFCS) utilizing
laser diodes or light emitting diodes (LED) operating at wavelengths between
0.4 µm and 2.6 µm. It
is available as a searchable pdf.
ANSI Z136.2 is referenced in LPR
402-00-00.5, Performance Requirement: Worker Health and Safety.
For other standards available from the Research Library, visit our Standards,
codes and specs page.
Jeane
Strub (jstrub@lanl.gov)
 Get Inside Energy - online
Inside Energy is a weekly online newsletter reporting on energy policy
developments in the US government that affect the production, delivery, and use
of energy resources — including oil, natural gas, electricity, coal, nuclear
energy, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Inside Energy will keep you informed on
- Policy and legislative developments in Congress and the executive branch,
including the White House and federal agencies such as the DOE, the Department
of the Interior, the EPA, the FERC and the NRC
- Important developments in federal
energy research and development programs
- Key court decisions that uphold or overturn
federal rules governing the energy industry
- Major activities in states that complement--or
contradict--federal energy policy
- New technologies, new funding and new energy-related
business opportunities
- New legislation, votes, rule makings, events and contract
opportunities
Inside Energy is available weekly via the web with a userID and password
allowing access anywhere in the world.
The LANL Research Library is providing access to the Laboratory for a limited
number of users. If you are interested in access to Inside Energy,
please request an Acknowledgement Form from the Research
Library and return as indicated. A userID and password will then be provided
to you for instant access.
Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
 Nucleonics Week now available
online
Since 1960, Nucleonics Week has been a leading source of global news
for the commercial nuclear power business. Nucleonics Week delivers news
and information along with analysis.
- Find out who's building nuclear plants,
and who's shutting them down.
- Learn which plants are performing best, and why they're succeeding.
- Get accurate,
up-to-the-minute technical information when something goes wrong at a nuclear
plant anywhere in the world.
- Explore the economics of nuclear plants and discover
how vendors and operators are changing them.
- Find out more about the political
challenges facing nuclear power, locally and globally.
- Refer to the exclusive
monthly table of generating performance at virtually every nuclear power unit
in the world to get a better sense of the industry.
Nucleonics Week is available weekly via the web with a userID and password
allowing access anywhere in the world.
The LANL Research Library is providing access to the Laboratory for a limited
number of users. If you are interested in access to Nucleonics Week,
please request an Acknowledgement Form from the Research Library and return as indicated.
A userID and password will then be provided to you for instant access.
Send
questions or comments to Carol Hoover at hoover@lanl.gov.
Can a DVD influence nuclear proliferation?
The Nuclear Threat Initiative, an organization headed by former Senator
Sam Nunn that works to control dangerous weapons material, has produced
a film that illustrates plausible scenarios for nuclear terrorism. Titled "The
Last Best Chance," the film will be aired on HBO in October. Three very realistic
scenarios are presented; they show how easily nuclear bombs can be moved, how
difficult these weapons are to detect and why it is imperative that terrorists
not acquire nuclear material.
The NTI is
providing multiple copies of the DVD to the Research Library. If you would
like to have a copy, send e-mail to Donna.Berg@lanl.gov. NTI also provides free
copies by request from their web site at: www.nti.org.
Donna
Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov)
New electronic journals from the Research
Library
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library collection
and are available from your desktop:
Biology and Medicine
Current Protocols in Microbiology
Earth and Environment
Ecological Research
Journal of African Earth Sciences
General
Review of World Economics
Mathematics and Computer Science
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
IEEE/ACM Transactions
on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
Journal of Machine Learning Research
Physics and Astronomy
Chinese Journal of Physics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
Nature Physics
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Blog searching — a world-wide web of options
Did you know that over 50 million folks world-wide regularly read blogs? New
blogs are created every 7.4 seconds resulting in over 12,000 new blogs every
day, according to a recent
Pew Internet study. As
a competitive intelligence tool or as a way of finding out what is creating the
biggest stir in cyberspace, the value of blog searching is massive, resulting
in a much less static and passive sharing of communication.
So where to begin?
As with most search engines out there on the web, each one has its own strengths.
In the Blog searching universe here are my all-time favorite top five — for
now, at least! Check with me again next week.
BlogPulse
* uses machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover
trends
* allows you to create trend charts comparing "buzz"
* identifies top-ranked blogs and analyzes their blog "presence"
Clusty
* uses "dynamic clustering" that is useful in spotting trends
* allows you to see which database or databases the results are coming from
Daypop - favorite for "news" and
competitive intelligence sources; effective search limits include:
Just news
Just blogs
RSS headlines
Country
Date
IceRocket
* provides personalization/preferences features
* saves searches - keywords can be stored for further use
Technorati
* excellent for the "importance" and "relevance" factors in the blogsphere
* zeros in on ideas/blogs/bloggers that are rising in prominence — all
indexed within minutes of posting.
* can search for links to a particular site; searches 19.4 million blogs
More later on what the newer Yahoo and Google blog searching versions are contributing
to the world of blog searching. What are your favorites and why? Let us know
and we'll post them in the next issue!
Lou
Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
 Katrina donut sale raises $600
The Research Library's donut sale raised $600 for Katrina relief. We sold
our 50 dozen in just over an hour. That means we raised almost $10/minute. Thanks
to everyone who helped, donated or bought donuts! And a big thanks to Daylight
Donuts, which supplied the donuts at no cost to us.
If you'd like to do more, consider visiting Daylight Donuts and buying a
beignet. They are donating all proceeds from the beignet sales to hurricane relief.
Thanks so much for donating for donuts!
Lou Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
New file-based storage mechanism
for digital libraries presented at ECDL2005
"File-based storage of
Digital Objects and constituent datastreams: XMLtapes and Internet Archive ARC
files," byXiaoming Liu, Lyudmila Balakireva, Herbert
Van de Sompel was presented
at the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital
Libraries (ECDL 2005), September
18-23, 2005 in Vienna. The paper introduces a storage approach that combines
two interconnected file-based storage mechanisms that are made accessible in
a protocol-based manner.
 E-Science
advocate outlines the future
September 19, the Research Library, Chief Information Officer Charlotte Lindsey,
and Chief
Science Officer Tom Bowles sponsored a Colloquium and follow-up discussion
on E-Science and Cyberinfrastructure. Dan Atkins, Panel Chair of the NSF Report
on this topic was the speaker and led the afternoon discussion group.
The NSF Report emphasized that the future of the U.S. economy depends on the
success of innovation—which must be supported by more aggressive innovation.
The study provides an outline for policy steps that could jump-start this innovation.
Because of an emerging way of doing science, combining computation, theoretical
and experimental techniques, there are new information technologies developing
to enable collaboration among groups of scientists and engineers. Supported by
a cyberinfrastructure of supercomputers, data servers,
simulation and visualization tools, connected by high-speed networks, new "collaboratories"
are developing around the globe. The Atkins Report supports a major investment
in these resources, as the future infrastructure that will support new innovation.
These new
ideas are based on shared instruments and expertise, cross mentoring and enhanced
participation from people and institutions that till now have been underserved.
The discussion group, made up of research scientists from various Lab divisions
and led by Atkins and Research Library Director Rick Luce, identified
issues relevant to
the Lab environment as well as specific programs, and analyzed barriers and incentives
within LANL conditions.
If you have an interest in this area and the future of e-Science/cyberinfrastructure
within Los Alamos, please contact Library Director Rick Luce at: rick.luce@lanl.gov.
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