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  Faculty
of 1000 for bioscience literature — free trial
The LANL Research Library is providing a free trial of Faculty
of 1000, February
1 – March 6, 2005. Faculty of 1000 is a next generation
literature awareness service that highlights and evaluates the most interesting
papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of
a Faculty of over 1600 of the world’s leading researchers.
How can Faculty of 1000 help
you?
‘My F1000’ provides
you with a personalized literature-awareness service, tailored to your specialty,
your own homepage containing the latest relevant evaluations and regular email
alerts of paper evaluations by subject area, from stored searches or from Faculty
Members.
Top 10’s are a great way to stay up to date with Faculty of 1000. Top
10s allow users to see the very best papers evaluated in the last month, either
across the whole of Biology, or within individual faculties. There are
also Top 10s for the Most Viewed Papers and a Classic Top 10, listing the very
best papers of all time across the whole of F1000.
Hidden Jewels evaluate the top papers published in lesser-known journals, highlighting
important papers that could otherwise be overlooked.
Faculty of 1000 is
a great resource to steer you through the mass of reading needed to stay on top
of your subject.
 If
you are interested in this product, send feedback, comments and questions to
Carol Hoover at hoover@lanl.gov.
 Genome
Biology — free trial
The LANL Research Library is providing a free trial of Genome
Biology, February
1 – March 6, 2005. To take
full advantage of the service register for all additional features, details of
how to do this are below.
Subjects covered in Genome Biology include any aspect of molecular,
cellular, organismal or population biology studied from a genomic perspective,
as well as genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, genomic methods (including structure
prediction), computational biology, sequence analysis (including large-scale
and cross-genome analyses), comparative biology and evolution.
Key website features include:
- Articles - reviews, reports, commentaries and research.
- Email alerts - sign up for regular updates from Genome Biology, including
the latest news, recent papers and journal information.
- News – the latest research and development news.
- Search – for detailed searches of the Genome Biology,
BioMed Central, PubMed and PubMed Central archives, stored searches, and emails
whenever search results change.
- Customization - go to the Logon/Register button in the top right-hand corner
and enter your details to register with Genome Biology. You can
then customize the site according to your subject preferences, receive regular
updates, store your searches and access the full content of Genome Biology from
off-site terminals.
If you are interested in access to this ejournal, send
feedback, comments or questions to Carol Hoover at hoover@lanl.gov.
Cambridge Structural Database
offers new visualization and data features
A new version (5.26) of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) System is
available for download. Produced by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data
Centre (CCDC), the CSD records bibliographic, chemical and crystallographic
information for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds. The system is
comprised of software for database access, structure visualization and data
analysis, and structural knowledge bases derived from the CSD.
This latest release of the software incorporates the IsoStar and Mogul programs.
IsoStar stores knowledge about intermolecular interactions in the form of scatterplots.
Each scatterplot shows the distribution of a contact group (for example, an O-H
donor group) around a specific central group (for example, a charged carboxylate
group) displayed in a RasMol window. Mogul provides easy access to information
on the preferred values of bond lengths, valence angles and acyclic torsion angles,
using data derived from the CSD.
If you have version 5.25 of the CSD System, the Library recommends deleting the
existing software before installing the new version. A complete installation
requires nearly 3 GBs disk space. Go to http://library.lanl.gov/csd/ and
click on the link for the download site. A cryptocard is required for downloading.
If
you have any questions, please contact Susan Heckethorn at 7-5936 or heckethorn@lanl.gov.
A new interface for CSA databases
CSA (Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts) has just released a new interface called Illumina which
Research Library customers will experience for GeoRef, NTIS, and
a variety of other databases which now appear under the umbrella "CSA
Technology Research Database," covering:
CSA Engineering Research Database: civil, earthquake, environmental,
mechanical, transportation engineering and related fields
CSA High Technology Research Database: aerospace and
aeronautics, computer and information technology, electronics, solid state and
superconductivity.
CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX: materials science, metals and
allows, engineered materials, ceramics
You select your database(s) first, then enter search terms, and date limits
if you wish. Or use the Advanced Search tab for more searching options. From
your search results, click the LANL LinkSeeker icon to get to full text and other
services. You can still save, print, email or send records to RefWorks. Searches
can be combined, or saved as alerts.
Features and enhancements in CSA Illumina:
- Easier to use "Quick Search"
- Improved navigation
- Elimination of frames
- Improved integration of help files
- Online tutorials
- New custom default options
- Search
Tools including Combined Search
- Dynamic de-duplication of records with show/hide
duplicates option
- Hyper-linked descriptor terms for quick execution of new search
queries
- QuikBib bibliography creator (under "Save,Print,Email")
Kathy
Varjabedian (kv@lanl.gov)
Access Organic Syntheses online
Organic Syntheses provides detailed, reliable, and carefully checked
procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. Some procedures describe practical
methods for the preparation of specific compounds, while other procedures illustrate
important synthetic methods with general utility. Each procedure is written in
considerable detail. Reaction and all characterization data have been carefully "checked" for
reproducibility in the laboratory.
Annual and collective volumes of Organic Syntheses can be accessed at http://orgsyn.org/.
Procedures may be accessed in “journal mode” via the tables of contents
of individual volumes. The "database mode" allows users to simultaneously
search all volumes of Organic Syntheses by keywords or by inputting structures
and substructures. Structure searching requires the ChemDraw plugin.
Susan Heckethorn
(heckethorn@lanl.gov)
 Nature Publishing Group announces
change to self-archiving policy
Nature Publishing Group, publisher of the journal Nature and Nature
Materials, has announced a change to its self-archiving policy for all authors. As
of January 2005, LANL authors of original research papers published by Nature
Publishing Group (NPG) are only allowed to submit the author’s version
of the accepted, peer-reviewed manuscript to their relevant funding body’s
archive, for release six months after publication. In addition,
LANL authors are only allowed to archive their version of the manuscript in their
institution’s repositories (as well as on their personal web sites), also six
months after the original publication.
Formerly, NPG had allowed immediate self-archiving of the peer-reviewed postprint.
This apparent back-sliding from its postprint green policy is a needless access
delay. This delay causes loss of research access, loss of usage, loss of impact
and loss of benefits to the academy, researchers and the public worldwide. Electronic
journals have made it possible to eliminate this type of needless delay and loss
in research impact and progress. If there is any evidence that the former
NPG policy of immediate self-archiving has had a negative effect on publishing
and cost-recovery, NPG has not presented this argument. So why the policy
change?
NPG calls this extended limit to their self archiving policy "another step
forward in the evolution of scientific communication on the Internet."
If you would like to express your opinion on the NPG change in self-archiving
policy, please contact nature@natureny.com. You may read the policy press
release at http://npg.nature.com/pdf/archiving.doc.
Send
comments or questions to Carol Hoover, hoover@lanl.gov.
Retirees eligible for Research Library card
LANL retirees may obtain a Library Card from the local UC Office in downtown
Los Alamos (1350 Central Ave, 667-3232). The card allows a LANL retiree to check
out books from the Research Library. The Library is open to the public, including
retirees, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. — please bring
a photo identification card.
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:
Biology and Medicine
American Journal
of Medical Genetics. Part C. Seminars in Medical Genetics
Cytometry. Part A
Cytometry. Part B. Clinical Cytometry
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part B. Applied Biomaterials
Chemistry
Journal of Physical and
Chemical Reference Data (1972-1998)
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
General
Advances in Complex Systems
Information Systems and e-Business Management
Mathematics and Computer Science
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation
Physics
Acoustics Research Letters Online
Imaging Science Journal
Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
 Search
engines: Google adds another beta feature
Google has added still another new feature to compete with Yahoo and Mapquest,
a beta site for US maps. The address is: maps.google.com.
At this point the site only has maps available for the United States, parts of
Canada and Puerto Rico.
Features that are being praised are the ability to drag
the maps around to view a wider area and a slider feature for zooming in and
out. There is also a local search feature with step-by-step directions for getting
to a nearby location and back.
Floating bubbles appear when you click on these steps. Keyboard
shortcuts have also been praised as
a positive feature of the new service. The search boxes are very friendly
and the ability to use "in" and "near" as part of your query is most helpful.
The major criticism to date has been the lack of a "save" feature — something
they hope to provide soon.
Donna
Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov)
Comments?
If you have comments or suggestions for other topics you would like to see covered
in this newsletter, pease send your ideas to the Newsletter
Editor at kv@lanl.gov.
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