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LANL Research Library has arranged for the availability of a substantial
discount for lab employees who wish to purchase print copies of
O'Reilly computer books. The following print discounts are available:
1-9 books = 25% discount
10-19 books = 35% discount
20+ books = 47% discount
To place an order for print copies of O'Reilly books, please contact
the Research Library
for the username and password which is necessary to access the order
form. You may place an order from O'Reilly via their website, e-mail
or telephone. (The Research Library is not able to place orders
for you.)
WWW: http://partners.oreilly.com/losalamos/
E-mail: corporate@oreilly.com
Telephone: 800-998-9938, x7221
The O'Reilly website has a full
list of O'Reilly titles and ISBNs. Orders are shipped via UPS
ground unless a faster delivery is requested. All orders must include
the following:
- LANL Account #
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Employee's name
- Billing address
- Shipping address
- Phone number
- E-mail address
- If paying with credit card and ordering via web/e-mail, a request
to contact for credit card information.
- Quantity of each title
- Title of each book
- ISBN for each title (last 4 digits is fine) (see the list
of titles and ISBN's)
O'Reilly books are also available online to LANL staff through
Safari Tech Books Online.
Please send comments to safari-admin@lanl.gov
 Carol
Hoover
 Interested
in Titanium Aluminide's electron-beam weldability? Consult the new
library database, Weldasearch®.
Weldasearch® has short abstracts of articles on welding, joining,
and allied technologies. Using the LinkSeeker icon ( )
you can link to the full-text of the articles when it is available.
The database aims to be a comprehensive record of appropriate worldwide
literature published since 1966. Every aspect of welding and allied
processes is covered including design, materials science, fatigue
and fracture mechanics, equipment for joining and cutting processes,
corrosion, surfacing, microjoining, metallurgy and materials science,
quality control, inspection, non-destructive testing, health and
safety, commercial applications, market statistics, and news of
the industry.
Weldasearch® has comprehensive coverage of all key industry
sectors including aerospace, automotive, electronics, shipbuilding,
fabrication of bridges, pipelines, offshore structures and pressure
vessels, fabrication of power generation, nuclear and process plants,
robotics and automation, repair and maintenance. Processes of welding,
brazing and soldering, microjoining, diffusion bonding, thermal
cutting, surfacing and hardfacing, thermal spraying are covered.
Publication types covered by this database include: books; conferences;
journal articles; patents; reports; software and standards. This
database will be of potential relevance to users in most engineering
disciplines.
The LANL Research Library has brought you this database and more
via the CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) search interface. CSA
has an alert feature that is very easy to use and would be excellent
for keeping up-to-date on the newest publications in these areas.
Visit CSA
to see the other files available for searching.
Please
send your comments to the Chemistry team.
Another
new database to try from CSA's offerings is Corrosion
Abstracts (1980-current). International sources of literature
for this database are scanned and abstracted in the areas of general
corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventive measures,
materials construction and performance, and equipment for many industries.
Why use Corrosion Abstracts? Here are a few reasons why:
- To access information to solve corrosion problems found within
a specific industry such as the petroleum industry, pipeline industry,
water/waste industry, coatings and linings industry, transportation
industry, pulp and paper industry, power industry, refining industry,
and the corrosion testing and monitoring industry
- To track the latest corrosion science and engineering trends
and the technology used to prevent and control corrosion
- To solve your corrosion problems by reviewing the documented
experience of corrosion engineers and scientists from around the
world
- To stay current on corrosion industry standards and guidelines
for preventing and controlling corrosion (remember, CSA has an
Alerting feature)
- To search for information on a particular corrosion phenomenon
(for example, stress-corrosion cracking, hydrogen embrittlement,
galvanic corrosion)
- To research corrosion tendencies of specific materials
As with all CSA databases, the LANL Research Library has provided
links to full-text articles to which the library subscribes and
other services via the LinkSeeker icon
Please
send your comments to the Chemistry team.
An expanded database and new features are being built into a new
interface to be called SciSearch® Plus from the LANL Research
Library. SciSearch® at LANL and Social SciSearch® at LANL
can be searched together with a single search. The much-requested
SciSearch backfiles, going back to 1954, are included.
Search results are de-duped and can be sorted in different ways.
Results can be printed, e-mailed, or downloaded. Also, this interface
offers a streamlined way to automatically import
records into EndNote. You can log in to set personal search preferences,
such as dates and limits to apply to your searches, and to create
Alerts for weekly notification of new articles
of interest. Bibliographies are enhanced with linking
to articles covered in SciSearch Plus. Cited searching
has been enhanced with new ways to search and to combine cited counts,
and you can browse all cited authors.
We will be doing beta testing of this new interface with library
users next month. If you would like to participate in testing, please
send your name to rl-testing@lanl.gov.
The Library has formed a Chemistry/Materials Science advisory group
comprised of Laboratory scientists. To ensure representation of
research efforts at the Laboratory, the 15-member committee is drawn
from 11 Groups in 5 different Divisions. Their charge is to advise
Library staff on collections, products, and services to support
changing research directions in the fields of chemistry and materials
science. Members also serve as a conduit for getting information
about library collections, products, and services to the Laboratory
research community. The Committee meets once quarterly and communicates
through e-mail as needed.
The Library thanks the Committee members for their efforts and
greatly values their input.
Susan
Heckethorn
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop:
Biology
BBA - Proteins and Proteomics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15709639
Chemistry
Journal of Chemical Education
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/index.html
Environment
Geographie, Economie, Societe
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=1295926x
Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=00393169
Engineering
Power Technology and Engineering
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=1570145x
General
Conflict Resolution Quarterly
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15365581
Electronic Communication Law Review
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15702294
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/not_rec/
Mathematics/Computers
Quantum Information Processing
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15700755
eteam@lanl.gov
The Oppenheimer Study Center, which houses the Research Library,
is undergoing a project to replace the roof of the building, to
remedy long-standing problems with our roof. As of November 1 the
project is about 2/3 done, and the contractor is hoping to be done
by Thanksgiving. The Library remains open, maintaining its normal
hours of operation, with some increased noise and smell of asphalt
during parts of the project. Any questions or concerns regarding
this project can be directed to Charles Harviar, Construction Project
Manager at 667-4938 charvier@lanl.gov
or Victor Turner, Project Leader at 667-6777 or victort@lanl.gov.
Anyone in vicinity of the Study Center lately will have noticed
the fencing which has appeared recently in the area between the
Study Center and the Otowi building. This is an unrelated project
to improve the appearance and usability of the area between Otowi,
the Study Center, and the Admin Building. It involves creating sidewalks,
vehicle barriers, and planters, removing streets, and moving flagpoles
and lights, and is expected to last a month or so. Pedestrian routes
around this construction area will change several times, so please
be careful approaching the Library.
The size of the Teoma database has
been increased 60% to about 350 million pages with more enlargements
on the way. In addition to the larger database, several advanced
searching options are now available. Here's a review.
1) Ability to Limit By Language
Here's the Syntax to add to your search:
lang:fr = French
lang:es = Spanish
lang:it = Italian
lang:no = Norwegian
lang:da = Danish
lang:pt = Portuguese
lang:de = German
lang:nl = Dutch
2) More Syntax - Specify that your search term appear in a specific
place by prefacing it with:
Site:
Intext:
Inurl:
Intitle:
3) Dynamic Description -- in other words, your search terms appear
in context.
Lou
Pray
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