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Library of Congress taps LANL Research
Library for expertise
A $750,000 grant from the Library of Congress will be used to support
research and development of tools that will help address complex problems related
to collecting, storing and accessing digital materials.
"Research
papers that detail the design of our repository work attracted the interest of
the Library of Congress," said Herbert Van de Sompel, PI for the project and
team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping team. Laura E. Campbell,
associate librarian for strategic initiatives at the Library of Congress commented
that "Los Alamos is a world leader in developing cutting-edge technologies in
a rapidly changing environment. We anticipate that this collaboration will
move the national digital preservation project closer to achieving its goals." Further
information is available in the Press
Release and at the Library of Congress's Digital
Preservation website.
Visitors from the Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation
with
members of the Library's Prototyping Team
Donna Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov)
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Elsevier chemistry book series available electronically
Twelve chemistry book series published by Elsevier are now available electronically
for LANL users. Full text access is available beginning with volumes published
in 2000 for all series except Analytical Profiles of Drug Substances and Excipients,
and Advances in Chemical Engineering for which full text is available beginning
with 2001.
The collection covers chemical engineering, catalysis, spectroscopy, biochemistry/medicinal
chemistry, pharmacology, organic/inorganic chemistry, and quantum chemistry and
are an important complement to primary research in these subject areas. Individual
series volumes are compiled and written by the most highly regarded authors in
their fields.
Access these electronic book series and many more via Elsevier's ScienceDirect Books page.
Advances in Carbohydrate
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advances in Catalysis
Advances in Chemical
Engineering
Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry
Advances in
Inorganic Chemistry
Advances in Organometallic Chemistry
Advances in
Physical Organic Chemistry
Advances in Quantum
Chemistry
The Alkaloids.
Chemistry and Biology
Analytical Profiles
of Drug Substances and Excipients
Annual Reports
in Medicinal Chemistry
Annual Reports
on NMR Spectroscopy
Irma Holtkamp (isholtkamp@lanl.gov)
Keep up with the UC contract news
The LANL Research Library recently put up a page for Lab employees dedicated
to the UC
contract competition. Look for the link in the upper right of the library
home page.
In addition to the latest news stories about the contract and any developments
related to it, we've provided key links to the following:
In addition, there is a list of documents in chronological order relating
the UC contract such as the acquisition plan, master management memos, Congressional
testimony, etc. If you see an article or pertinent document that we have not
yet posted, please send it to Lou Pray, lpray@lanl.gov and we'll link it from
this page.
Lou Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
 Stay current with alerts in SearchPlus
Alerts are weekly e-mail notifications of new articles on
a topic of interest to you.
SearchPlus runs a saved search automatically each week when records are added,
and sends you the results.
You can use alerts to:
- keep current with the latest research on a topic
- track the latest research by a particular author or institution
- receive the table of contents of your favorite journal
- see who has cited a paper or author
How to create an alert:
1) Log in to SearchPlus - you will be prompted for your email
address and password. If you have never logged in to SearchPlus before, register
now.
2) Enter your search criteria (author, keyword, institution,
cited search, etc.) and click on search.
Tip for alerts on a topic: Limit your search to the most recent year,
and see if the number of records obtained will be reasonable to receive divided
among the number of weeks in a year. Narrow or broaden the search as appropriate.
 3) If
you are satisfied with the results you retrieved, click on "Save as alert/search" in
the upper right corner of the search results page.
4) You will be prompted to name your alert and choose how
you want to receive your alerts: On demand or Weekly; email
in text or HTML, level of detail and formatting. Choose Notification to
just get an email with a URL, or choose Brief
with abstract or Full to have the results appear
in your email.
On demand alerts must be run manually. When you choose On demand for
alerts you can then click <Run> from your Alerts screen to generate
alerts results. On demand alerts are run against the entire collection for the
dates you have chosen in your search.
Edit alerts/saved searches: Use this link in the left column
to edit, suspend, run, or delete your alerts.
View current alerts: Use this link in the left column to
see a table of your alert results for the past six weeks. Note: "pending" will
always display when you initially set up a search. The following week when the
files are updated, results will display. If you wish to see results for previous
weeks, clicking on a Pending link will execute your alert on that week.
MyLibrary users: You can also view your SearchPlus alerts through MyLibrary
by selecting a new folder as an alert.
Once you have turned your favorite searches into alerts, you can keep current
with little effort through all of the databases in SearchPlus.
Kathy
Varjabedian (kv@lanl.gov)
The NIH open-access
proposal
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently embarked on an interesting
experiment that may change scholarly publishing as we now know it.
They propose creating a centralized online repository of all articles funded
by NIH. Anyone in the world could access these online articles at no cost
within six months of their publication in a scientific journal.
The purpose is of this "open-access archive?" Improved access
to NIH funded medical and bioscience research information - irrespective of your
ability to pay the increasingly sky-rocketing prices of sci/tech journals.
The draft proposal, put forth by NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.,
is intended to:
- help NIH manage its portfolio of research,
- provide taxpayers with increased access to NIH research and
- address the current rate of scientific research.
Naturally, this model of publishing is not without its detractors. What
are the implications of a model that is essentially author-funded? Add to this
concerns about the peer-review process, quality of publications and cost to suppliers
and there are plenty of questions. Here are a few of them:
- Will NIH (a government agency) be doing all the peer review?
- No. The plan only applies to articles accepted at peer-reviewed journals,
and the peer review will be conducted by those journals as they see fit.
- Will this plan affect copyright?
- No. NIH-funded research is currently copyrightable and will remain copyrightable
under this plan. Initially the copyright belongs to the author. If the author
submits an article based on NIH-funded research to a journal that requests transfer
of copyright, then the author is free to transfer copyright.
Many key organizations have endorsed the plan (chronological order):
- Twenty-Five
American Nobel Laureates in Science, August 26, 2004
- Association
of College Research Libraries, August 30, 2004
- Four library
associations (the Association of Research Libraries, the American Library
Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the Special Libraries
Association), August 31, 2004
- U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, September 9, 2004
- National
Academy of Sciences, September 16, 2004
- Association
of American Universities, September 27, 2004
- Association
of Independent Research Institutes, October 28, 2004.
- For a large and growing number of other institutional endorsements, not individually
dated, see the membership list for the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.
Related documents (chronological order):
- Access
to Biomedical Research Information, a report from NIH to Congress, May 2004.
- Access to Research Results,
section of House Appropriations Committee report
(H.R.
5006) of July 14, 2004. (H.R. 5006 was adopted on September 9, 2004, by a
vote of 388-13.)
- Enhanced
Public Access to NIH Research Information, NIH plan for public comment, released
September 3, 2004. Or see the same
text published in the Federal Register on September 17, 2004.
- Colloquy between
Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK) and Rep. Ralph Regula (R-OH) about the House Appropriations
Committee report language proposing the NIH open-access plan (Congressional Record,
September 8, p. H6833).
The LANL Research Library is supportive of the Open Access movement and wants
to know what LANL scientists think. Could this work? Please contact us
at library@lanl.gov or stop by to discuss your position on this new model. We
welcome your opinions on this controversial topic.
For more information about open access, visit the Library's Open
Access page.
Lou
Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
Library staff share expertise with
MARCXML metadata
Library staff members Miriam Blake and Beth Goldsmith were in an unusual
situation recently when they were asked to give their conference paper
twice for the same meeting. Conference sponsors of the "LITA 2004 National Forum," an
annual event for those whose work involves new and leading edge technologies
in the library and information technology field, felt their innovative use of
XML schemas would draw quite a crowd.
The presentation, "Using
MARCXML for Archiving, Transforming, and Displaying Complex Bibliographic Citation
Metadata -- A Surprisingly Flexible & Robust
Option," describes how to simplify the increasingly complex task of
storing, indexing, and displaying millions of metadata records.
The LANL Research Library digital
collections hold more than 60 million metadata records at this point and their
new idea was for using the MarcXML
standard as a building block for keeping a long-term repository in-house. Blake
and Goldsmith reported that both sessions were full and their ideas resulted
in many enthusiastic questions.
Donna Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov)
Research Library's Van de Sompel gains 5 stars
"The Charleston Advisor, Critical Review of Web Products for Information
Professionals," is the library industry's leading consumer report and review
too. The journal provides objective,
reliable, and critical evaluations of Internet accessible electronic resources.
Each year, The Charleston Advisor sponsors a series of awards for
electronic services and databases for libraries. In addition to awards for products, special one-time
awards are periodically bestowed.
This year the "Five Star Award for an Individual" has been presented to
Herbert Van de Sompel, Team Leader for the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team,
for his pioneering work in developing the OpenUrl linking concepts.
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
Integrative and Comparative Biology
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-archive&issn=1540-7063
PLoS Medicine
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-archive&issn=1549-1676
Southwestern Naturalist
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-archive&issn=0038-4909
Environment and Earth Sciences
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/journal=0037-1106;screen=info;ECOIP
Mathematics and Computer Science
Artificial Life and Robotics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14335298
Computational Management Science
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=1619697x
Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/vsp/mcma
Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics
http://sankhya.isical.ac.in/index.html
Studia Mathematica
http://journals.impan.gov.pl/sm/index.html
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
 Search engines: Google does numbers
Many special numbers can be entered into Google's search box to access information. Here are special number searches you can try: UPS tracking
numbers, FedEx tracking numbers, USPS tracking numbers, vehicle ID or VIN numbers,
UPC codes, telephone area codes, and patents numbers (be sure to type in "patent" before
your number). FCC equipment ids (type in "FCC" before the id number) and
FAA airplane registration numbers can also be input for further information.
The Google box can also be used as a calculator to solve math problems,
units of measure conversion, and physical constants. Complete instructions
are at: www.google.com/help/calculator.html
Donna Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov)
Comments?
If you have comments or suggestions for other topics you would like to see covered
in this newsletter, pease send your ideas to the Newsletter
Editor.
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issues?
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