Outreach: Office visits and group presentations

The Research Library staff are available to visit LANL staff in their offices to answer questions and provide help in finding information and using library products and services.

We will attend Lab group or team meetings to update a group on the wealth of electronic resources available from the desktop. Sessions can be general overviews or in-depth training sessions tailored to particular products such as a specific database, patents, or grants and funding databases on the Web. (see list below)

Please schedule a session by contacting the Library by phone (7-5809) or e-mail.

Library tours

Tours of the Research Library, with an overview of library collections and services, are conducted on a drop-in basis every Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. or by appointment. Tours last approximately 30 minutes.

Training sessions

For individuals or groups, at the library or at your site. Topics include:

Business Resources on the Web

Business related resources such as ABI-INFORM are covered in this in-depth course on electronic resources.

Earth & Environmental Resources on the WWW

Environmental information is found in a multitude of sources including electronic journals and searchable databases. Environmental legislation and internal references round out the resources covered in this specialized course.

EndNote^®

How to use this tool for organizing bibliographic references. It allows you to create databases of references, either typed in or imported from databases, link your references to full-text articles or other material on the WWW, and create bibliographies in standards formats.

GeoRef on the Web

American Geological Institute's geoscience database contains over 1.5 million records, 1785-present.

Grants & Funding on the WWW

Funding information is available through local and external sources including many that are pertinent to LANL's researchers and program directors.

Introduction to Electronic Library Resources

Get the most out the resources available at your desktop -- find out where to start looking for information, how to get to full-text, and more.

Knovel

Searchable full-text of over 600 electronic books and databases, with productivity tools such as interactive tables.

RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based database and bibliography creator available through a site license — no software to load. Import references from online databases, organize them, and create bibliographies.

SearchPlus

The latest cross-database search interface from the Research Library. Learn how to search across several databases at once, focus your search, search cited references, set up alerts.

Standards

How to find full-text standards online, using IHS Specs and Standards.

Technical reports

The Research Library has an unrivaled collection of unclassified technical reports — over 1.5 million reports from government agencies, corporations and non-profit research laboratories.