July 25, 2008
DOE Energy and NSA users: find DOE reports in OPPIE
DOE Energy at LANL and Nuclear Science Abstracts at LANL database have been a good resource for finding DOE-funded and other agency reports and energy research. However they have not been updated in some time and are running on an old server which is being retired. In light of this they are no longer included in FlashPoint, and will be retired shortly.
Meanwhile the data has been made available in "Energy Citation Database" in OPPIE, the new Research Library search and discovery tool. In OPPIE new records are added frequently, so the data will stay up-to-date with new energy research.
June 30, 2008
Thinking of publishing a paper? Check the new Review and Approval website!
LANL now has a new institutional process for Review & Approval (R&A) of Scientific and Technical Information (STI) intended for public release. The Research Library is responsible for the public dissemination of formally reviewed LANL STI via the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) databases and the Library's online catalog.
So, the next time you are thinking of publishing a paper take a look at the new R&A website for information on how to not only follow the proper process, but ensure that your paper is as widely disseminated as possible.
Continue reading "Thinking of publishing a paper? Check the new Review and Approval website!"May 05, 2008
OPPIE search and discover tool debuts
You can now can search for journal articles and other documents faster and more efficiently with a new search and discovery tool the Research Library has released May 6, 2008.
Called OPPIE, it will replace SearchPlus as the Research Library's primary search tool in the coming months. It is being released as a "perpetual beta," which means additional functionality and new services will be added every two to three months.
The initial functionality includes:
· Basic, fielded, and cited searching
· Full record display
· Facets, which allows you to narrow your search by date, document type, and database
· Times cited counts
· Ability to limit search to LANL authors only
· Record marking across searches
· Permalinks
· LinkSeeker links to full text articles and related information.
Features to be added in the near future include:
· Search history
· User accounts and preferences
· Results sorting
· Alerts
· De-duplication, which eliminates redundancy
· Browse
· Tagging/ social features
· Additional output options.
"I am excited about releasing OPPIE, because it is an implementation of theoretical ideas that have been proposed by leaders in information science," said Research Library Director Miriam Blake. "OPPIE is faster, has a better design, and is less expensive than SearchPlus, so it is a major achievement for the library."
Try OPPIE today at http://oppie.lanl.gov .
April 23, 2008
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/ .
March 20, 2008
AGU backfiles now available online back to 1896!
The Research Library is providing access to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Digital Library. Now available online, it contains more than 100 years of Earth and space science research going back to the first issue of Terrestrial Magnetism in 1896.
Records for AGU Digital Library journal articles are linked to the online full text through SearchPlus and are available for browsing and searching at the AGU website.
