LANL Research Library Newsletter
- July 1998
Did you know you can have literature search results sent
directly to your e-mail address? To request a search,
contact the Research Library staff at 7-5809 or send e-mail
to library@lanl.gov.
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There are 300 plus electronic journals published by Elsevier for which the
Research Library
offers access to individual articles, but not to a journal web address.
These electronic
journal titles are being added to the
Library's electronic
journal page
with no journal
title link. The title appears in a black font. You can get to the
articles through
article level links in our locally loaded databases. The pertinent
databases are noted
in the line "Articles linked in: INSPEC at LANL, SciSearch at LANL." There
are currently
approximately 225,000 articles linked. The Research Library wants to make
the availability
of these links broadly known.
Work progresses on offering journal level browse capabilities for these
Elsevier titles. Journal level links will be added as soon as the system
is thoroughly tested.
Frances Knudson
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What are your research needs? How do you manage information? These are
some of the questions
we've been asking our customers in the last couple of months. This is part
of the Research
Library / Library Without Walls project to plan our next generation of
electronic information
products. We want to ensure that these products are on target to meet your
needs. Therefore,
we are seeking volunteers to help us prioritize product features.
If you are interested in helping us with this project, please complete
the prioritization survey.
We appreciate your collaboration. We believe a partnership with our
customers is essential
in building the information products of the future.
Lou Pray
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A proposal has been issued by a group of university provosts which could
have far-reaching implications for how scholarly journal articles would be
reviewed and published. The motive is primarily to create alternatives to
high-priced journals, particularly in science and technology, for which
annual subscriptions can run as high as $15,000. In the proposed
scenario, researchers would send their work to a "certification panel" in
their field, which would use the same kinds of experts that journals now
use for peer review. The panel would give each article a grade or a stamp
of approval. A researcher could then get the article published in a print
or electronic journal, or post the article on a World Wide Web site.
Universities would accept a certification panel's stamp of approval and not
require that professors actually publish their work. A major proponent of
the plan says the idea of creating a new system of peer review is based in
part on what is happening in physics with Paul Ginsparg's pre-print server
at LANL. Critics of the proposal are concerned about lack of publication
and about control of the certification panels. For more information see
the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 26, 1998, page A12.
Kathy Varjabedian
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Several Subject Resources pages have been augmented with more useful
links:
- the Computer
Science page now includes ILC glossary of Internet Terms, two
electronic computation handbooks, and Past Notable Women of Computing &
Mathematics
- the Engineering page now
includes an engineering software database form ASME, and collections of
thermodynamics information sites.
- the General
Reference page is now organized by category and includes more
dictionaries, a DOE acronyms list, FedStats, and travel information links.
- the Internet
Resources page lists more search engines, and also meta search engines
(which search multiple search engines at once).
Kathy Varjabedian
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At the June 1998 National Meeting of the Special Libraries Association, the
LANL
Research Library received the following awards for excellence in marketing
library products and services to our customers:
- First Place in the "Video" category
- First Place in the "Web Page Design" category
- Second Place in "Specialties" category
More importantly, this was a forum for sharing marketing ideas and plans
among libraries across the country. If you are interested in viewing our
library video (80 seconds), visit this URL:
/vi
deo/00412835.mov
Note: This is a 20MB QuickTime file.
Lou Pray
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In SciSearch® at
LANL,
when searching for words anywhere finds too many and searching
for words right next to each other misses records you would expect
to find, consider using the <near/n> operator (where
n is the number of intervening words). Searching for
palladium<near/3>membrane will find the phrase
palladium membrane as well as palladium alloy membranes
and palladium ceramic composite membranes.
When the order in which words appear is important, use the
<order> operator directly before <near/n>.
For example, use black<order><near/2>white to
find black and white but not white and black.
<order> works only with the <near/n>
operator and not alone.
Jeane Strub
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Classes are free, but you must pre-register by using the email links above
to send a message to library@lanl.gov
or calling the Library Service Desk at 7-5809. Please include your name,
the date and title of the session, and your email address in your message.
Special classes and orientations can also be arranged; call 7-5809 for
more information.
Sandi Blackburn
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Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna
Berg , Jack Carter, Lou
Pray, Kathy Varjabedian, and Eileen
Vela.
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Kathy Varjabedian.
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