Research Library Newsletter
March 2003 |
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Table of Contents
 The
newest search interface from the Research Library, SciSearch®
Plus is now live. It combines the formerly separate databases
SciSearch® at LANL and Social SciSearch® at LANL. SciSearch
covers more years, going all the way back to 1945, and additional
content will be added in the coming months.
Many new features improve the way you work. With SciSearch®
Plus you can:
- login to set personal settings for your preferred ways of interacting
with the database
- view bibliographies (article references) with one click from
the results list, and the bibliographies have been enhanced with
fuller citations where available
- access full-text and other resources through the LinkSeeker
icon
- mark records on the results list to print, e-mail or download
records in several formats
- do automatic downloading into bibliographic management software
such as EndNote and ProCite
- browse cited authors and search cited references in a completely
re-designed interface
- set up alerts to stay current with the literature
- refine a search by using the "Revise this search"
link on the results page
- view your search history
- more easily do multiple searches for a given period, because
date ranges you set are kept for the session ("sticky dates")
How preferences work: To save settings for the
way you like to work, first log in. On any SciSearch Plus screen,
select the Login link in the tan bar below the navigation tabs.
Register and log in and you can set and save preferences.
Search preferences save time if you know you always want to search
particular databases, date ranges, etc.
Search preferences you can choose are:
- how results will be sorted: by relevance, first author, date,
title, source, or times cited.
- number of records to display at a time in your search results,
from 10 to 100.
- years to be searched. The default setting is 2000-2003, for
recent literature. You can set it for a different time period.
Available years for SciSearch are 1945 to present; for Social
SciSearch, 1974 to present.
- language
- document type (e.g. article, bibliography, review)
- database(s) to search. The default is to search both SciSearch
and Social SciSearch, but you can set just one or the other as
suits your research needs.
Alerts are a way to save and run a search strategy automatically
with the results e-mailed
to you, and alert preferences determine how an alert is sent to
you, etc. Alerts and other new features will be further explained
in future articles.
 Kathy
Varjabedian
| Journal Citation Reports®
- data to help you evaluate and compare scholarly journals |
 Are
you trying to decide the best journal in which to publish your article?
What are the top ten journals in condensed matter physics? In cell
biology? How about organic chemistry?
Journal Citation Reports®
Science Edition provides data that can help you evaluate and compare
scholarly journals in the various fields of science. Journal Citation
Reports® (JCR) can show you the highest impact journals, most
frequently used journals, the hottest journals and the largest journals.
You can use the JCR to compare self-citing rates as well as self-cited
rates to supplement your journal evaluation. You can also identify
review journals and view and analyze impact trend graphs for journals
in which you may be interested.
The Research Library has made available JCR data via the web back
to 1997. Please be sure to click the <Log out> button in the
upper right corner of JCR when you are finished searching. This
will free up a session for the next person.
Please send comments and suggestions to eteam@lanl.gov
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Carol
Hoover
The Report Library has scanned and made available in PDF for LANL
staff all available editions of Samuel Glasstone’s classic
work, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, and its predecessor,
The Effects of Atomic Weapons. These documents
are available via the WWW from any LANL computer through the Research
Library catalog or through the links below. Or, if you prefer, you
may contact the Report Library (7-4446, reports@lanl.gov) to borrow
the CD ROM copy.
 The
Effects of Atomic Weapons (1950)
http://lib-www.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00099411.pdf
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (1957)
http://lib-www.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00029161.pdf
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (1962)
http://lib-www.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00154930.pdf
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (1964)
http://lib-www.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00042062.pdf
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (1977)
http://lib-www.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00475365.pdf
Mona
Mosier
The Combined
Chemical Dictionary from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press is a structured
database holding information on chemical substances. It includes
descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological
properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds;
literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection
tables. You can search together all the records published in:
Dictionary of Organic Compounds (255,000 records)
Dictionary of Natural Products (170,000 records)
Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (101,000 records)
Dictionary of Drugs (40,000+ records)
Dictionary of Analytical Reagents (14,000 records)
The Dictionary can be searched in a variety of different ways,
using single or multiple parameters, including structure searches.
Structure searches require a plug-in; if you don't need to do structure
searches, you can ignore the "click here to get the plugin"
box and still use the 30 other search indexes.
Combined Chemical Dictionary is available to LANL staff currently
as a tree trial. Response has been favorable and the Library will
be purchasing a subscription.
Comments
or questions to the Chemistry team.
 Ceramic
Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts via the CSA interface is
an excellent starting place for information about the ceramics industry,
addressing the manufacture, processing,
applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced
ceramics. This database, which spans 1975 to present, covers more
than just journal literature but also, conference proceedings, books,
patents, standards and company product literature. International
in scope but all abstracts are in English.
Subject coverage includes:
- functional, technical and advanced ceramics (electro-ceramics,
engineering ceramics, composites)
- abrasives
- building ceramics (bricks, pipes, roofing tiles, cement-based
materials)
- refractories
- glass
- raw materials
- ceramics processing and treatment
- properties and testing
- applications (e.g. bioceramics, automotive, aerospace, nuclear)
- commercial and economic information
- legislation and standards
- environmental and pollution information
- metal-ceramic systems
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
can be searched at the same time.
Check out Ceramics Abstracts today from our site
map or Databases & Indexes
page.
Lou
Pray
 In
the late 90's IBM started a group to develop technologies to support
leveraging IBM's intellectual assets. This group developed into
the well-known web site, Delphion. Delphion helps organizations
with more efficient methods of exploring intellectual property information.
The site is one of the most comprehensive sources for finding and
viewing patent information. Delphion is specifically useful to help
you stay abreast of market innovations by monitoring for new patents
and patent applications on a global basis; and also allows you to
conduct competitive intelligence by determining who owns particular
patents and all the countries in which specific patents have been
granted.
The product contains patent collections from all over the world
and is one of the most popular online destinations for researching
patents. If your research requires in-depth patent analysis you
may want to sign up for a password. Call the Research Library desk
at 7-5809 or send an e-mail with your request to: library@lanl.gov.
Donna
Berg
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop:
Biology
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
http://www.annalsnyas.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml
Genes and Function
http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bsc/gaf
Journal of Plant Physiology
http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/urban/271
Engineering
Acta Mechanica
http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/00707/tocs.htm
Experimental Mechanics
http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/sage/emq
Environment and Earth Sciences
Radiocarbon
http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/arizona/rdc
General
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
http://lucia.ingentaselect.com/vl=2738584/cl=29/nw=1/rpsv/cw/iom/03080188/contp1-1.htm
Mathematics/Computer Science
Applied mathematics E-Notes
http://www.math.nthu.edu.tw/~amen/
Forum geometricorum
http://forumgeom.fau.edu/
Journal of Integral Equations and Applications
http://rmmc.eas.asu.edu/jie/jie.html
Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
http://rmmc.eas.asu.edu/rmj/rmj.html
Physics
Health Physics
http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=toc&
D=ovft&NEWS=n&AN=00004032-000000000-00000
eteam@lanl.gov
Whatever your favorite search engine there are some basic tricks
that you should be using to focus your search.
Use quotation marks when your search is a phrase or exact name;
most engines say this is their most useful hint. For instance my
search on Doris Day was narrowed from a half million down to 70K
just by helping the search engine focus on the name, "Doris
Day". Next, learn the three fundamentals; and/or/not. Most
engines also allow you to use the + and - signs, but be aware of
spacing around these symbols. Check the rules on your search engine
site for how to correctly use the boolean operators.
Also, most search engines feature their own simple Web directory.
You can use these topics to begin drilling down through the categories
that interest you. When you do find sites that are of interest use
them to find more linked or related sites and don't forget to search
thoroughly within that site—it becomes a very targeted search.
A few engines are offering image searching and this can turn up
some odd, but interesting results. To search the past you can use
Google's 20-year archive of newsgroup messages to discover how to
fix an ancient computer, but be aware that most newsgroups are huge
and inhabited by passionate fans. Spending a few minutes browsing
the help feature of any search engine can provide tips and hints
for more productive searching that will help you limit results and
create a more specific search.
Donna
Berg
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Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna
Berg, Helen Boorman, Lou
Pray, and Kathy Varjabedian.
The name and e-mail address of the Library member
who contributed an article appears at the end of the article. If
you have comments or further questions, please contact that person.
If you have general questions or comments about the Newsletter itself,
please contact the Newsletter Editor, Kathy
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