Los Alamos Authors new database available

Los Alamos Authors, a new search service for Laboratory publications, debuts today. Los Alamos Authors offers an updated interface and new search capabilities for finding unclassified data that previously were stored in the former Classification office (SAFE-1) database. This data was created at the Laboratory and covers any Laboratory publications that were submitted for classification review. The earliest records are from 1943 and the repository includes data for records through this year.

The search tool is housed on the yellow network and is available to Laboratory staff only. Los Alamos Authors data is stored in an open-source, standards-based repository managed by the Research Library.

You can
· search by author, title, group, document number, document type, meeting information, program codes, or across all words in the record.
· use Facets, which allow narrowing and targeting search results
· view the Full record display, which contains links to fulltext where available.

"This release is an important step toward realizing the library's vision of becoming information stewards for the Laboratory's intellectual history in addition to data from outside sources," said Research Library Director Miriam Blake. "I'm also pleased because we were able to use the same tools and model that were developed for OPPIE and apply it to a different dataset in a short period of time with minimal resources. This shows how extensible OPPIE is."

Try Los Alamos Authors at http://lasearch.lanl.gov/ .

Posted by kv at April 23, 2008 09:15 AM