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Betty Petersen Memorial Library is a branch of the NOAA Central Library jointly funded by the
National Centers for Environmental Prediction and NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research.
The library contains a specialized meteorological and oceanographic collection of about 7,000 volumes. A small number of those volumes cover physics,
mathematics, historical weather information, and computer science support. In addition, the library has atlases, a collection of World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) publications, NOAA/NESDIS technical notes and technical reports, NWS/NCEP technical notes
and reports, and weather and ocean related publications from other government organizations, from other countries, and from universities.
Library News:
- YOUR LIBRARY, AVAILABLE ONLINE
A series of webinars featuring customized training for NOAA staff on effective use of library electronic resources. Session #1 on July 16 at 2 pm EST,
will feature an overview of CSA Illumina databases: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), BioOne Abstracts and Indexes, Conference
Papers Index, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA), Oceanic Abstracts, Water Resources Abstracts, and TOXLINE. These databases
are available to all NOAA staff nationwide via the NOAA Central Library's databases page. (Note MGA is available only to NOAA staff in Silver
Spring, Camp Springs, Miami, Boulder, and Seattle.) Also featured will be an introduction to CSA Illustrata, a database employing "deep indexing"
to categorize and enable searching of tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical
literature. The webinar will be presented by a Customer Training Specialist from CSA.
Please register by sending email to . You will be sent a confirmation
email with link to join the Webinar. NOAA staff and contractors nationwide are welcome to register.
Thursday, September 17
YOUR LIBRARY, AVAILABLE ONLINE: Topic TBD
Thursday, December 10
YOUR LIBRARY, AVAILABLE ONLINE: Topic TBD
- OSA launches Advances in Optics and Photonics
The Optical Society of America recently launched Advances in Optics and Photonics, an online-only peer-reviewed journal, with features that include:
- Invited, chapter-length review articles with internal navigational links and external reference linking for easy sourcing and enhanced learning
- Tutorials with multimedia enhancements
- Peer-reviewed letters to the editor
- Rapid access to content, as each article is published online immediately upon completion
AOP is freely available in 2009 and can be accessed from the library's journals holding page here
- New Training Resources page added to library website
A new webpage has been added to the Betty Petersen Memorial Library website with training materials for databases
and from library workshops. Handouts created for library training sessions have been added to the page in html and pdf formats.
External training resources have also been added to the page. The new webpage is viewable at
http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/training/ and will grow as new library workshops are held.
- Climate Change in the Encyclopedia of Earth
The Encyclopedia of Earth just recently announced the addition of the
Climate Change Collection. Says the Editor-in-Chief:
The Collection is anchored by an electronic version of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Nobel Prize-winning reports.
It also includes articles by climate experts, biographies of individuals who have made important contributions to climate science
and policy, a timeline of key events in the history of climate science and policy, a climate glossary, and much more. Scientists,
educators, environmental professionals and concerned citizens should find the Collection to be an invaluable resource.
We seek to expand the Collection with articles on a wide rage of climate-relate’ topics and written for a large and diverse global
audience. We encourage potential contributors to contact us.
- Over 13,000 Open Access Science Journals now available in Open Science Directory
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission/International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IOC/IODE), with the support of EBSCO and
Hasselt University Library, has created the Open Science Directory as an access point to sources of open access scientific journals. Over 13,000
journals are now available in Open Science Directory. When the project is completed, over 20,000 journal titles will be included. According to
the OSD website, "Open Science Directory contains collections of Open Access Journals (e.g. Directory of Open Access Journals) and journals in
the special programs (Hinari, Agora, OARE). Other programs will be added in the near future: INASP-PERI, eJDS." Access the directory
here.
- New Journal-Ranking Tool
A new open-access journal-ranking database was launched in December 2007, providing users with an alternative source of citation
statistics. The SCImago Journal and Country Rank database utilizes data retrieved from Scopus, Elsevier's subscription-based
abstracts database. This database ranks journals according to a new metric, the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), which analyzes
data in a method similar to that of Google's PageRank algorithm
SJR emerges as a competitor to Thomson Scientific's impact factor, which draws its data from Thomson's Web of Science database
and utilizes an algorithm calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that
journal during the previous two years. SJR differs from this by also analyzing the citation links between journals iteratively.
Click here for a description of Thomson Scientific's imact factor
Click here for a description of SJR's algorithm (pdf)
The NOAA Science Center in Camp Springs has access Thomson Scientific's
Journal Citation Reports, courtesy of a NOAA Central Library subscription.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank is an open access database freely available.
- Journal Citation Reports now available NOAA-wide
ISI's Journal Citation Reports database can now be accessed from your desktops in the World Weather Building (and NOAA-wide).
You can access this resource from the library's Databases and Electronic Resources page here.
Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation
data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.
If you are interested in learning more about this valuable new resource and how it can benefit your own research, you are
invited to attend a Brown Bag information session on Friday, November 30th from 12pm-12:45pm in Conference Room 100. Please
RSVP to the librarian by 5pm on 11/29 if you would like to attend.
- A new IT Resources page has been created and added to the Betty Petersen Memorial
Library website. Check out the new page for links to Free eBook sites and titles for software programs used in the World Weather Building.
- Betty Petersen Memorial Library is pleased to announce a new Journal Alerts service for patrons in the World Weather Building:
Would you like to be notified when the latest print issue of a particular journal arrives in the library? Sign up for a Journal Alert
and you will automatically receive an email when new issues are added to the library collection! Just complete the attached form,
checking off your favorite journal titles, and email it to the librarian or drop it off in the library in WWB Room 103.
Please call 301-763-8266 or email the librarian at michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov if you have any questions.
Journal Alerts Form (opens as .doc file)
- Betty Petersen Memorial Library at the NOAA Science Center in Camp Springs is pleased to announce 208 Wiley electronic journal titles are available NOAA-wide as part of NOAA's participation in the National Research Libraries Association (NRLA) consortium. NRLA is a consortium of federal libraries or libraries funded by the Federal Government whose mission is to support scientific research.
Full-text holdings for these titles go back to 1997 and you can search the titles by going to the
Wiley Interscience home page. Relevant titles will be added to the library's
Journal Holdings page. For a list of all 208 titles, please contact the librarian
at michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov.
- On August 22, 2007, the United Nations launched Gateway to the UN System's work on climate change
that provides
easier access to climate change information, such as fact sheets, news, calendar of events,
and links to the pages describing the work on climate change issues by various UN System organizations and specialized agencies.
- Chris Kinner, Librarian/Contractor at NOAA Miami Regional Library, has created a bibliography of scholarly research
entitled, "Climate Change and Its Potential Impacts on Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Frequency," which is now available to the public through the
NOAA Miami Regional library webpage here.
Helpful Search Tips and Links
Helpful Search Tips and Links for How to Properly Cite Electronic and Print Resources, and Management Issues electronic resources.
NOAA Library and Information Network Catalog (NOAALINC)
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