Research Library Newsletter
August 2003 |
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Interested in getting the most out of SciSearch®
Plus? The SciSearch Plus interface has many great features that
you may not be familiar with. There is now a quick, self-paced tutorial,
available at the bottom of the main Search screen.
Take this tutorial to learn the basics of navigating the general
and cited interfaces to the information you need. Using the arrows
located in the upper and lower right corners, choose from general
search, cited search/browse, preferences, and output.
 Lou
Pray
 Over
1000 electronic books in 23 book series published by Springer-Verlag
are now available to LANL researchers from their desktop. If you
are accustomed to using the printed book versions of titles in the
series listed below, you may want to try using the online PDF versions
available from SpringerLink.
To browse the book series, use the "Browse" link at the
top, then de-select journals and you will get an alphabetical list
of all the book series. For each series, volumes are listed newest
ones first. There is a Table of Contents for each volume and each
article/chapter appearing in the Table of Contents has its own web
page with bibliographic information, abstract, keywords, navigational
links to previous and next articles in the volume, and a button
to open the full-text PDF version of the article.
You can personalize your access at the SpringerLink website --
see the FAQ page at SpringerLink for details. Personalization includes
Table of Contents and Keyword alerts and the ability to access your
own Favorites list.
NOTE: The SpringerLink website represents the most exhaustive place
to search for and retrieve articles/chapters from these series since
it offers searching by volume or by individual article. In the LANL
Library Catalog you can search
by volume. For some of these series you can find articles using
SciSearch Plus or other LANL
Research Library databases.
As volumes in these series are made electronically available, they
will be announced in the Library's weekly What's New list irrespective
of their original publication date.
Springer book series to which the Research Library subscribes:
This list can also be found on the LANL Research Library's Electronic
Books web page. Please send questions or comments to the Library
at 667-5809 or library@lanl.gov.
Irma
Holtkamp
The Merck
Index contains 10,250 monographs describing significant chemicals,
drugs, and biological substances. Search possibilities include trademarks,
CAS numbers, molecular formulas, molecular weight, melting point,
boiling point, and many more. Substructure searching is also a feature
if you download a free chemical drawing package.
You can also look up organic name reactions in Merck. You can review
what the "Janovsky Reaction' is and locate the original source
plus reviews that have appeared in the chemical literature.
Questions/comments please email strbl-chemobj@lanl.gov
Frances
Knudson
 The
LANL Research Library has made the complete archives for the journal
Synthesis
available in full-text at your desktop. The Synthesis backfiles
from Volume 1, Issue 1, 1969 to 1994 are available from the E-journals
web page as well as linked through the databases such as SciSearch
Plus.
Synthesis is an international journal devoted to the advancement
of the science of synthetic chemistry, covering all fields of organic
chemistry, such as organometallic, organoheteroatom, medicinal,
biological, and photochemistry, but also related disciplines. Synthesis
publishes reviews, articles, practical synthetic procedures, alerts
on new reagents and catalysts as well as developments on established
reagents and book reviews.
Carol
Hoover
Recently the Research Library interviewed many library users to
see what future knowledge discovery tools would best assist researchers
in their work.
We learned that these five areas below are where LANL customers
would like to see us expand our R&D efforts:
1) Access to all LANL materials online (LA-URs, shot data, etc.)
2) Access to classic works online
3) Online data centralization
4) Advanced searching techniques
5) Competitive Intelligence
Thanks to all of you who took time to respond to us about your
future needs. We are working on ways to address these areas. To
help us with the #1 request ("Access to all LANL materials
online"), please respond to lpray@lanl.gov
with examples of Los Alamos materials that we currently lack or
that you find difficult to locate easily. Thanks in advance!
Lou
Pray
 The
LANL Research Library has a subscription to IHS
Specs and Standards which includes full text of ANSI and numerous
society standards, the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, DOD Military
Specs and Standards, and DOD Adopted Industry Standards. It also
offers an index to over 568,000 industry standards and related documents
written by 450+ standards developing organizations.
A new version of the search software provides enhanced searching
of the full text as well as the abstract. Initial results can be
refined. You may personalize your screen by first registering and
then creating personal document lists, saving searches, viewing
previous documents from session to session, and ordering/viewing
the full text when the standard falls outside the LANL subscription.
IHS is planning to offer WebX training at your desktop to learn
how to use these enhanced features. If you are interest in being
notified about upcoming WebX training, please contact Jeane Strub
at jstrub@lanl.gov .
The old version for searching will be going away shortly so become
familiar with the enhanced searching now.
Jeane
Strub
| Keep
up with the latest Department of Homeland Security appointees
with the Leadership Library® |
 Leadership
Library® on the Internet, the online version of the Federal
Yellow Book and other "yellow books," allows you to keep
up with newly appointed and confirmed members of the Federal government.
The Research Library is offering a free trial of Leadership Library®
on the Internet through September 30. Send e-mail to library@lanl.gov
for an ID and password.
Here is the latest on members of the Department of Homeland Defense,
from Yellow Books Insight, the e-mail newsletter of new developments
from Yellow Books and Leadership Directories:
June 3, 2003:
Appointment, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National
Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism
President Bush announced the appointment of Frances Fragos Townsend
as Deputy Assistant to the President and ! Deputy National Security
Advisor for Combating Terrorism, within the Executive Office of
the President. Ms. Townsend will serve on the staff of the National
Security Council and report to the Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs. She will also report to the Assistant
to the President for Homeland Security with respect to matters relating
to global terrorism in the United States.
June 18, 2003:
Nomination, Director, Office for Domestic Preparedness, Department
of Homeland Security
President Bush nominated C. Suzanne Mencer to be Director of the
Office of Domestic Preparedness at the Department of Homeland Security.
This is a new position.
June 24, 2003:
Confirmation, Director, Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services,
Department of Homeland Security
The Senate confirmed Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. as Director of the Bureau
of Citizenship and Immigration Service at the Department of Homeland
Security. This is a new position.
June 24, 2003:
Confirmation, Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, Border
and Transportation Security, Department of Homeland Security
The Senate confirmed C. Stewart Verdery, Jr., as Assistant Secretary
of Policy and Planning, Border and Transportation Security, within
the Department of Homeland Security. This is a new position.
June 25, 2003:
Confirmation, Under Secretary, Information Analysis and Infrastructure
Protection, Department of Homeland Security
The Senate confirmed Frank Libutti as Under Secretary for Information
Analysis and Infrastructure Protection at the Department of Homeland
Security. This is a new position.
June 30, 2003:
Nomination, Assistant Secretary for Plans, Programs and Budgets,
Department of Homeland Security
President Bush nominated Penrose Carballo Albright to be Assistant
Secretary of Homeland Security for Plans, Programs and Budgets.
This is a new position.
Please send your comments to eteam@lanl.gov.
Carol
Hoover
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop:
Biology and Medicine
Avian Diseases
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-journals-list&issn=0005-2086
Economic Botany
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-journals-list&issn=0013-0001
EHP Toxicogenetics
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/allpubs.html
Epidemiologic Reviews
http://epirev.oupjournals.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml
Waterbirds
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-journals-list&issn=1524-4695
Engineering
American Ceramic Society Bulletin
http://www.ceramicbulletin.org/current.asp
ASHRAE Journal (see E-journals
web page for ID/password)
http://membership.ashrae.org/template/JournalLanding
Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14384957
Environment and Earth Science
American Journal of Science
http://www.geology.yale.edu/~ajs/Regular.html
General
Metascience
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=08150796
Research on Language and Computation
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15707075
Mathematics and Computer Science
AI Magazine
http://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Editorial/magazine-contents.html
Integral Equations and Operator Theory
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=0378620x
Journal of Grid Computing
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15707873
eteam@lanl.gov
 If
you have not used the Google News
feature yet, you might try the new "Advanced News Search"
which is currently in test phase and only covers June/July 2003.
With over 4,500 news sources the opportunity of retrieving too many
items is almost assured.
The Advanced Search page starts with the usual Google boxes for
keywords (all the words, exact phrase, etc.) but then provides boxes
for additional filters especially useful for searching news . You
can restrict to a specific news source, another box allows you to
request sources from specific geographic areas—handy if you
want rugby scores or the real dirt on the cleaning of the David
in Florence. To enable even further narrowing of your search, and
extremely helpful because of the structure of news stories, you
can use a pull-down box to choose where your terms should be found:
in the headline, body, URL or anywhere in the article. Additional
boxes allow limiting by date or perhaps to the last hour or last
day. If you are tracking a breaking event this could be the right
tool for the task.
Donna
Berg
Comments?
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