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| MyLibrary now
offers e-journal recommendations |
 MyLibrary
@ LANL is the personalized web portal from the Research Library—a
customizable collection of personal links to electronic journals,
databases, and other web resources. The latest version, 2.1, was
released January 10th with these enhancements:
- "See recommended ejournals" - Results from the Active
Recommendation Project (ARP)
have been incorporated into MyLibrary. Clicking on this link,
MyLibrary will use your current ejournal selections to recommend
related ejournals, uncovering possible new avenues for research.
- E-mail addresses will now require .lanl.gov extensions.
- Administrative improvements: the forgotten passwords system
is now more automated, eliminating wait time, and several checks
(Z-number, email, user name) have been added to catch duplicate
accounts at the registration level.
Please send comments and suggestions to stbrl-mylib@lanl.gov.
 Lou
Pray
As the calendar year clicked over to 2003 the LANL Research Library
clicked off a milestone of its own -- there are now over 5600 electronic
journals available through the library. This means that 92%
of the library's current journals are now available electronically
at the desktop.
Digital information is becoming ubiquitous, changing the way scientists
and researchers look for information and the way they publish their
findings. The LANL Research Library is at the forefront of the digital
information movement, providing tools, content and customer service
that support scientific collaboration at the Laboratory. More information
on current projects at the Research Library can be found on the
Library Without Walls web page.
Carol
Hoover
 What's
new is actually old! The Research Library recently loaded a collection
of electronic backfiles for Elsevier journals in the area of chemistry.
There are 87 titles in the collection with the oldest issue dating
back to 1939.
Some of the more notable titles are: Tetrahedron, the Journal of
Organometallic Chemistry, Applied Catalysis A, Colloids and Surfaces
A, Analytica Chimica Acta, Chemical Physics Letters, and Journal
of Chromotography.
These journals are accessible from the Library
Catalog, the Electronic Journals
web page, Science Server,
or through links in databases using LinkSeeker.
Susan
Heckethorn
The Research Library sends out requests for LA-UR's to authors
on a monthly basis. Many of these requests are sent in order for
the Laboratory to be in compliance with DOE Order 241.1 (Scientific
and Technical Information Management). The Research Library, in
coordination with the Classification Office (S-7) and Jacqueline
M. Stack, the Scientific and Technical Information Officer for the
Laboratory, has assumed the role of dissemination of LA-UR documents
to the DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
S-7 makes the determination of which reports need to be sent to
OSTI based upon requirements in the Order and accompanying guide.
They then send the announcement to OSTI and notify the Research
Library. The Research Library then sends out the request to the
author for the report. OSTI will not accept paper copies of reports
which is why we ask that you send us an electronic copy.
Sending your reports to the library not only helps the Laboratory
be in compliance but also increases the visibility of your work.
By having the reports available through the Library and through
DOE Information Bridge (OSTI's point of dissemination), your work
is easily accessible throughout the government research community
at centralized locations.
The Research Library staff requests other reports that have been
determined to be of value to researchers based upon the titles and
format. These are generally items that have technical information
that is not published elsewhere. We will also accept LA-UR's that
authors send to us that they believe should be available to a wider
audience.
We thank all staff members who have cooperated with the Research
Library and Laboratory in their efforts to comply with the DOE Order
and those who send us other reports to make available through the
Research Library's web site.
For further information please contact:
Policy questions: Jacqueline M.
Stack
Criteria for OSTI: Marie Harper
Questions on format to send reports: Mona
L. Mosier and Viola Vigil
Mona
Mosier
 Interested
in mechanical engineering topics? Try the new Mechanical
Engineering Database available via CSA interface.
Preeminent in its field, Mechanical Engineering Abstracts surveys
and summarizes the worldwide literature in mechanical engineering,
engineering management, and production engineering. Presenting theoretical
perspectives as well as specific applications, it covers journals,
articles, and conference papers from 1981 to the present.
Subject coverage includes:
- Mechanical Engineering, General (including Mechanical Design,
Mechanical Devices and Transmission, Machine Tools, Metal Cutting
and Machining, Small Tools and Hardware, Abrasives, and Lubricants)
- Mechanical Engineering, Plant and Power (including Hydro and
Tidal Power Plants, Internal Combustion Engines, Nuclear Power
Plants, Steam Power Plants, Thermoelectric, MHD, and Other Power
Generators, Heat Exchangers, Turbines and Steam turbines, Compressors
and Pumps, and Plant Engineering Generally)
- Nuclear Technology
- Fluid Flow. Hydraulics, Pneumatics, and Vacuum Technology
- Heat and Thermodynamics (including Industrial Furnaces and Process
Heating, Space heating and Air Conditioning, Refrigeration, and
Cryogenics)
- Aerospace Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
- Materials Handling
As with all CSA databases, you can use the LinkSeeker icon ( )
to link to the full-text of articles to which the Research Library
subscribes as well as other services. The Alert feature can keep
you up-to-date on the newest publications, and related databases
such as Engineered Materials Abstracts can be searched in combination.
Lou
Pray
The entire process of designing, construction and operating a
building has enormous environmental impact. "Green building"
is a new phrase to describe land-use, building design, and construction
strategies that can reduce environmental impact. By using these
strategies you can reduce energy consumption, protect ecosystems
and enhance occupant health. DOE is adopting these ideas as are
other governmental institutions. 
The Research Library is subscribing to a new online resource called
"BuildingGreen"
that will provide information for LANL staff involved in such projects.
The electronic center provides access to e-versions of Environmental
Building News and the GreenSpec Directory as well as e-mail discussion
lists, product reviews, links to web sites, listings of books, journals
and other information resources. Bookmark this site today: http://www.buildinggreen.com.
Donna
Berg
 Wondering
where your SciSearch® alerts went? No, there is nothing wrong
with your account.
A new version of SciSearch, called SciSearch Plus is expected to
be rolled out on February 12. SciSearch Plus will be current with
2003 data; the old versions of the databases *will not* be updated
for 2003.
As part of the rollout, users who have alerts set up in the old
versions of SciSearch or Social SciSearch will receive an e-mail
with a link to the new system in the next few weeks. This link will
allow you to review your current alerts and choose to import some
or all of them into SciSearch Plus.
On or shortly after February 12, you will receive alerts for all
new records loaded in 2003 (e.g. for the first weeks of 2003). The
alerting schedule will then resume its normal weekly run in SciSearch
Plus.
We apologize for the delay but no alerts will be missed. The new
features in SciSearch
Plus will benefit everyone in their personal alert management
and in many other ways as well.
Lou
Pray
The Research Library has added "Polarization of the Blackbody
Radiation at 3.2 cm", the Princeton University dissertation
by George Peter Nanos to the general collection.
From the abstract: "A 3.2 Dicke Radiometer configured as a
polarimeter was used to make measurements of the linear polarization
of the Primeval Fireball...Harmonic analysis of the Stokes parameters
of the radiation, Q and U, sets limits on sidereal variations, which
in turn limit the possible contributions of the cosmological origin.
Results are related to the isotropy of the cosmic background radiation
and the symmetry of the universe."
Donna
Berg
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop:
Chemistry
Catalysts and catalysed reactions
http://pubs.rsc.org/CFCCR/CCRSearchPage.cfm
CrystEngComm
http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/crystengcomm/ceccon.htm
Geochemical transactions
http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/geochem/geocon.htm
Green chemistry
http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/green/gccon.htm
Journal of environmental monitoring
http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/jem/emcon.htm
Lab on a chip
http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/loc/loccon.htm
Methods in Organic Synthesis
http://www.rsc.org/CFMOS/MOSSearchPage.cfm
Natural Product Reports
http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/npr/npcon.htm
Natural Product Updates
http://www.rsc.org/CFNPU/NPUSearchPage.cfm
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/obc/OBprevious.htm
Mathematics/Computer Science
Neural Computation
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/mitpress/08997667/contp1.htm
eteam@lanl.gov
The "2002
Search Engine Watch Awards" are just out and although the
big "G" swept the gold in almost every category, there
were some other interesting winners that you should pop into and
explore.
 www.AllTheWeb.com
continues to improve their service speed and site design. In the
upper right hand corner, a new feature that allows you to instantly
enlarge the type size is a thoughtful addition. The personalization
feature is good although we still can't have our results in some
sort of date order.
 www.Ez2www.com
is another interesting engine with a home page that covers soup
to nuts. 
I would love to hear your comments if you try out www.Kartoo.com,
a search engine with visualization features. This could be the look
of the future.
Also of note are www.SurfWax.com,
www.Fazzle.com and www.Turbo10.com.
And, just because it has such a great name, if you are looking for
streaming audio or video files try www.Singingfish.com.
Donna
Berg
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