September 2004 Newsletter - LANL Research Library

Research Library Newsletter
September 2004

Table of Contents

BIOSIS now available through SearchPlus
ANSI Z136.1 - Safe Use of Lasers - now available online
Resumption resources: Locating safety and security information
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists now available back to 1945 online!
Cell Press backfiles now available at your desktop
Cell Press announces recent archive of ejournals now freely available
New and updated sci/tech titles from Knovel
Strong LANL presence at the 2004 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
New electronic journals from the Research Library
Search engines: Search tools at Fagan Finder

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BIOSIS now available through SearchPlus

BIOSIS is now in SearchPlus, the Research Library's cross-database search interface. BIOSIS is the leading life sciences database, covering biological and biomedical sciences, botany, biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, medicine, public health, radiation biology, ecology and the environment from 1969 to present. BIOSIS indexes 5,000 journals from all over the world, 1500 meetings, books, reviews, and U.S. patents. The database offers extensive indexing with controlled vocabulary for accuracy and consistency in searching, MESH terminology, and CAS registry numbers.

You can be notified of new literature in a field, or by a particular author or in a particular journal, by saving a search as an alert. In SearchPlus you can set an alert for just BIOSIS, or to be run against all the databases in SearchPlus, picking up cross-disciplinary references.

SearchPlus is a key resource for accessing and using scholarly literature. Its combined databases offer LANL users access to 50 million records, with tools for setting personal preferences, outputting search results, and keeping up-to-date with alerts. Email your questions and comments on SearchPlus to rl-testing@lanl.gov.

Kathy Varjabedian (kv@lanl.gov)

ANSI Z136.1 - Safe Use of Lasers - now available online

The Research Library has negotiated a license agreement for LANL site-wide access to the electronic version of ANSI Z136.1, Safe Use of Lasers. The document is available for Laboratory employees from a Library web page at http://rlcd.lanl.gov/ansi/z136.1/.

ANSI Z136.1 is the basis for LIR 402-400-01.3, provides laser safety information and is designed to assist laser users in developing laser safety programs. ANSI Z136.1 provides information on laser classifications, hazard analysis and control measures needed for the development of a comprehensive laser program.

ANSI Z136.1-2000 is the latest version of the Safe Use of Lasers standard. However, an updated version will be released in November 2004 that will also be available from the Research Library web site. You can sign up for notification of the release of the 2004 version at the Laser Institute of America websites

Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)

Resumption resources: Locating safety and security information

With the recent emphasis on safety and security at LANL, the Research Library's Resumption Resources web page with safety and security resources has proved popular, and we continue to update it with new information. More links to LANL resources, official documents (LIRs, LIGs) and standards have been added. More books and articles have been added — follow the link to books, articles and journals on a separate page.

Library users can also search specific topics in library-supplied databases. Consider using some of the following terms or phrases as part of your search strategy. This list is not intended to be comprehensive but may give you ideas of ways to search. For assistance in constructing online search strategies, contact the LANL Research Library at 7-5809 or send email.

Search term or phrase	Example
"accountability"	as in: "nuclear materials" AND "accountability"
"awareness"	as in: *environment AND "awareness"**
*"best practice"**	as in: *"waste minimization" AND "best practice"**
"dosage"	as in: "ionizing radiation" AND "dosage"
"exposure"	as in: "carcinogens" AND "exposure"
hazard*	as in: "explosives" AND hazard*
"health aspects"	as in: "low-level radiation" AND "health aspects"
"human factors"	as in: "soldering" AND "human factors"
injur*	as in: workstation* AND injur*
"lessons learned"	as in: "construction" AND "lessons learned"
"psychological"	as in: "terrorism" AND "psychological"
"prevention"	as in: "accidents" AND "prevention"
protect*	as in: ("clothing") AND protect*
regulations	as in: "hazardous substances" AND "regulations"
"risk assessment"	as in: "fire" AND "risk assessment"
"safeguards"	as in: "geological repositories" AND "safeguards"
"safety culture"	as in: "safety culture" NOT nuclear
"safety measures"	as in: "air travel" AND "safety measures"
"security measures"	as in: "information" AND "security measures"
"standards"	as in: "air quality" AND "standards"

Irma Holtkamp (isholtkamp@lanl.gov)

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists now available back to 1945 online!

The Research Library is proud to announce that Los Alamos National Laboratory is the first subscriber, worldwide, for the online archive issues of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by a group of World War II-era Manhattan Project scientists, has warned the world of nuclear dangers since 1945.

The Bulletin archive contains more than 18,000 articles forming an archive of primary source material that is recognized internationally as an indispensable resource on international security issues.

You can search, browse, and download articles or entire issues in PDF format and view them exactly as they appeared in print. This collection is continually updated, featuring articles from 1945 to today.

The Bulletin is also famous as the keeper of the "Doomsday Clock" and has told the world what time it is since 1947, when the clock first appeared on its cover. Since then, the minute hand has moved both forward and back, reflecting the global level of nuclear danger.

Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)

Cell Press backfiles now available at your desktop

The Research Library has made available the older electronic journals issues of the following Cell Press titles at your desktop. Over 12,000 backfile articles from the following years are now available:

Cell - 1974-1994
Chemistry & Biology - 1994
Current Biology - 1991-1994
Immunity - 1994
Neuron - 1988-1994
Structure - 1993- 1994

This content, in addition to recent issues, is available through ScienceServer at LANL and is linked through the databases such as SearchPlus (incorporating BIOSIS®).

Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)

Cell Press announces recent archive of ejournals now freely available

Cell Press, publisher of Cell, has announced that access to the recent online archive of Cell and the other journals of the Cell Press collection will become freely available beginning in January 2005. The recent archive of these journals includes content that is 12 months old or older and back to 1995. Each month as new issues are published, the year-old issues will be added to the freely accessible recent archive. Free access to the recent archive will be available on both ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and on the Cell Press journal sites (www.cellpress.com).

Access to current issues of Cell Press ejournals still requires an institutional subscription. Current access is available from http://www.cellpress.com/.

Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)

New and updated sci/tech titles from Knovel

Knovel®, an online service providing leading science and engineering books and databases, has announced the addition of new and updated titles. The library provides sitewide access to key resources via Knovel.

New titles:

Atlas of Protein Spectra in the Ultraviolet and Visible Regions and Atlas of Protein Spectra in the Ultraviolet and Visible Regions, Volume 2 Edited by: Donald M. Kirschenbaum: These volumes should prove useful to anyone interested in protein spectra. Spectra are obtained under a variety of conditions and permit comparisons to be made.
Encyclopedia of Smart Materials, Volumes 1-2 Edited by: Mel Schwartz: This encyclopedia addresses commercial applications as well as specialized properties and coatings that are required for the use of materials in extreme conditions.
Functional Condensation Polymers Edited by: Charles E. Carraher, Jr. and Graham G. Swift: Some of the main areas emphasized in this book include dendrimers, controlled release of drugs, nanostructure materials, controlled biomedical recognition, and controllable electrolyte and electrical properties.
Silicon-Containing Polymers - The Science and Technology of Their Synthesis and Applications Edited by: Richard G. Jones, Wataru Ando and Julian Chojnowski: This up-to-date text is directed at researchers in the field, and serves as the first point of entry for those seeking to understand just how very different silicon-based polymers are from other kinds of polymer.

Updated Titles:

Chemical Properties Handbook

Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry, Volumes 1 - 3

Peterson's Stress Concentration Factors (2nd Edition)

Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances

Yaws' Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds

Susan Heckethorn (heckethorn@lanl.gov)

Strong LANL presence at the 2004 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. This year the Research Library was not only well represented, but won the "Best Poster Award" for the poster "Toolkits for Visualizing Co-Authorship Graph," by Xiaoming Liu, Johan Bollen, Michael Nelson, Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeremy Hussell, Rick Luce and Linn Marks.

LANL Prototype Team Leader Herbert Van de Sompel chaired the heavily attended JCDL session on "Crawling the Web," which included papers on focused crawling and topical crawlers. Van de Sompel was also co-author of a paper presented at the session on "Repository Architectures." The paper titled, "The Multifaceted Use of the OAI-PMH in the LANL Repository" was written by Henry Jerez, Xiaoming Liu, Patrick Hochstenbach, and Van de Sompel.

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:

Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)

Search engines: Search tools at Fagan Finder

The Fagan Finder site at http://www.faganfinder.com contains an amazing set of search tools. The 'Search Engine Ultimate Interface' allows you to choose from nine search engines in the beta test site. The search features alter with your choice of search engine. The site includes many other useful tools and you may want to start with the site map to familiarize yourself with this unusual site.

Also on Fagan Finder is a new and to me very unique tool -- the URLinfo resource which allows you to investigate a site's URL in a variety of ways. You type the URL into the "box" and directly under the box are a series of tabs that provide information about the site. The tabs include topics such as: links--which provides backlink information; track---which contains four sources that can monitor page changes for you; blogs/feeds--about a dozen choices allow you to search the newest information sources about the site; similar--finds related pages, etc. etc. Each of the eleven tabs provides you with several sources to dig into and find more information from a simple URL.

To follow up on a favorite URL you can use the Fagan Finder directions for customized bookmarklets. I also recommend that you look at the 'speed-browse' and take some time to scan the 'informational pages' that cover topics such as topic clustering, popularity ranking and RSS/Atom Syndication.

Donna Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov)

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Research Library Newsletter September 2004

Research Library Newsletter
September 2004