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Newsletter December 2000 
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LinkSeeker provides a reference-linking service among electronic resources. One of the Research Library's goals is to provide seamless integration from one resource to another. LinkSeekers allows users to click through from a citation in one database to the full text of an article in another or to be able to tell if this paper has been cited and by whom, plus many more options:
Simply follow the
Please send comments to linkseeker@lanl.gov.
The Library Advisory Board is looking for new members to serve staggered
three-year terms beginning January 2001. Are you a regular library or
information user, very interested in library issues or comfortable with
using electronic information services?
Further information can be found on the Advisory Board web page. Board members meet regularly on the first Monday of each month for approximately one and one-half hours. If you are interested in joining the Library Advisory Board, send a brief statement describing your general research interests and the information issues that interest you to Allan Hartford at hartford@lanl.gov and Rick Luce at rick.luce@lanl.gov.
Jane's is a leading publisher on global defense, geopolitics, transportation and law enforcement, known for titles such as Jane's international defense review, Jane's strategic weapon systems, Jane's space directory. Comments from users are critical in the Library's deciding to purchase the package, so please be sure to send your comments to mharper@lanl.gov, library@lanl.gov, or call Marie Harper (7-3065) with questions.
During the Cerro Grande fire, the Research Library lost 231 books that were in people's offices or homes. Six months after the fire (and a new fiscal year later), the majority of those items either are, or are in the process of being, replaced. In the spirit of generosity that was so evident during and after the fire, many Lab people responded to the Library's plea for copies of lost books. In addition to the list being posted here at the Lab, it also was circulated (unbeknownst to us) among government and military libraries in the US, bringing in gifts from the Battelle Technical Information Center, DOE Headquarters and Picatinny Arsenal. 88 titles which are still in print have been placed on order (for a total cost of close to $10,000), and some of those replacements have started to trickle in. Additionally, our "wish list" of out-of-print titles has been sent to book dealers, in the hopes that some of them can be located. If you happen to have one of these books in your office and would like to pass it on to the Research Library, please mail it to Marie Harper at P-362. Questions or comments? Call Marie at 7-3065 or send e-mail to mharper@lanl.gov. One of the most significant documents on the Cerro Grande fire is a special edition of the Site-Wide Environmental Impact statement (SWEIS) known as the Special Yearbook Edition--Wildfire 2000 (LA-UR-00-3471). This document has been in great demand and the Report Library Staff have mounted it electronically with other reports about the fire. The web address for the SWEIS report is: http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00393627.pdf (4.1 Mb PDF file). A collection of reports about the fire may be found on the Cerro Grande Fire page.
There is now a version of the NTIS (National Technical Information Service) database available free on the Web. NTIS Electronic Catalog at http://www.ntis.gov/search.htm has 400,000 titles from 1990 to the present. Searching is limited to titles and topic, and the majority of records do not have summaries (abstracts). But this can be useful for keeping up with current research. The NTIS Electronic Catalog offers online ordering, but LANL staff may wish to contact the Report Library (library@lanl.gov or 7-4446) first - we have many of the reports listed by NTIS. Another useful feature of the NTIS Electronic Catalog is alerts. You can get free e-mail notification of "best-sellers" and news and updates about NTIS products and services. Alerts in specific subject areas are available for a fee. If you need to search more thoroughly, the Research Library has the NTIS database for 1980 - 1996 (1.2 million records). This is a telnet (character-based) interface with many indexes and full bibliographic records with abstracts and subject terms. To access, telnet to library@lanl.gov. Or, NTIS and other vendors such as DIALOG offer the entire NTIS database, with 2 million records going back to 1964, abstracts and more searching options. This is available for a fee; one option is a $15 "day pass" - see http://grc.ntis.gov/daypass.htm for more information. Contact library staff as library@lanl.gov or 7-5809 for more information or assistance in searching NTIS.
This release of MathSciNet also offers clearer navigation on search results pages, improved journal and author search capabilities, and more, such as a primary-only Mathematics Subject Classification search, improved navigation from the MathSciNet home page, and translation information in bibliographic data.
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop: Biology General Mathematics Physics
Cesar Ruiz and Andres Monroy, UGS students from the Univ. de Monterrey,
Monterrey, Mexico, spent four months working with the Library Without
Walls Team at the Research Library. Their efforts can be seen in the LinkSeeker
product and the soon to be unveiled "My Library".
The Research Library will be accessible to badgeholders during the holiday closure. Library staff will be off but the copiers and computers will be left on for use by our customers. The unclassified elevator in the Study Center, SM-207, will be operating during the closure. Happy Holidays from the Research
Library!
Want a reminder? Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna Berg, Helen Boorman, Jack Carter, 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 Varjabedian. |
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