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CINDAS materials properties databases now available
 Looking
for materials properties? The Research Library is providing access
for Lab staff to almost a half-century's worth of materials properties data assembled
by Purdue University. For over 45 years, Purdue's Center for Information
and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS) has complied and analyzed
materials properties data. In the early 1980s, the center's data collection was
published in hard-back volumes entitled Thermophysical Properties of Matter the
TPRC Data Series. This data is now available online.
The Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database (TPMD) contains
thermophysical properties of over 5,000 materials with approximately 50,000 data
curves. This is the searchable, web-based version of the Thermophysical Properties
of Matter, the TPRC
data series. Dynamic graphing capabilities allow users to compare the same property
of multiple materials, change scale ranges, and export and import data. The database
is continually updated and expanded.
The Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database (MPMD) contains information
on the thermal, mechanical, electrical and physical properties of materials used
in the microelectronics packaging industry. This database which contains properties
of over 750 materials and over 15,000 data curves was developed under the sponsorship
of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). The results of the multi-million
dollar research program were originally available only to SRC members. Now they
are available to engineers and scientists worldwide. This database is also continually
updated and expanded.
To access the CINDAS databases, go to https://cindasdata.com/ and click <Login> in the upper
right corner. Tutorials are available for both TPMD and MPMD.
 Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
 NECA Standards available from the
Research Library
Standards
from the National Electrical Contractors Association have just been added to
the Research Library's standards collection. National Electrical Installation
Standards, or NEIS, (developed by NECA in partnership with other industry organizations),
are the first performance standards for electrical construction. They go beyond
the basic safety requirements of the National Electrical Code to clearly define
what is meant by installing products and systems in a "neat and workmanlike" manner.
All NEIS are submitted for approval by the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI). NECA/NEIS standards cover lighting, limited energy, power distribution,
utilization equipment, wiring methods and general standards.
The NECA
standards are separate from our IHS standards subscription and are not available
at the IHS site.
LANL staff
can access the National Electrical Installation Standards at http://rlcd.lanl.gov/ansi/neis/.
Jeane
Strub (jstrub@lanl.gov)
Science Research Connection (SRC), an
excellent source of technical reports
If you have attempted to access the DOE Information Bridge (IB) or DOE Energy
Citations Database (ECD) recently, you will have noticed that these two products
have been replaced by the Science Research
Connection (SRC), which contains the
content of both the DOE IB and DOE ECD.
It contains about 4 million records from the Department of Energy (DOE), its
predecessor agencies and its partners, covering disciplines of interest to DOE
such as chemistry, physics, materials science, environmental science, geology,
engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related
disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference
papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
New features include:
- Ability to limit to matches with full-text
- Register to request free full-text scanning of documents that lack PDFs
- Alert Services: Receive weekly notification of new documents posted
- Browse Author listing to create your own author search
- Browse thesaurus of terms
- Auto-importing into EndNote
Lou Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
 news@nature now available for LANL
The Research Library is now providing news@nature available at your
desktop. news@nature provides broader coverage of news than Nature,
including industry developments, commercial and government decisions, and the
effects of recent research and events on our broader society. news@nature
is written for a more general audience than Nature, with less 'scientific'
language and a broader appeal. The articles are longer and have usually
been given further investigation than regular news articles in Nature. Articles
are well classified into subject areas so you can read thoroughly about a topic.
The Research Library's subscription to news@nature includes archived news articles
back to 1998.
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
  Faculty
of 1000
The LANL Research Library is providing access for Lab employees to Faculty
of 1000 -- 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.
Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Compact shelving in the Research Library - Phase 2
The Research Library is about to begin Phase 2 of its compact shelving project. The
project involves replacement of stationary shelving on the lower level with compact
shelving which will allow us to house the growing book and journal collections.
Work is planned to begin July 20th. We anticipate minimal interruption of
access to the lower level during the installation phase of the project. Installation
will be completed in sections so that only a very limited number of titles may
be unavailable to walk-in customers at any given time. At some points during
installation there may be no affect at all on customer access.
As work begins we will be closing access to limited areas of the lower level. Journals
located in these areas will be temporarily relocated within the lower level. If
it becomes necessary to limit access to these journals, affected titles requested
by customers will be retrieved three times per day, based on scheduled dropoff
times, and placed in a pickup area available to the customer within an hour after
the scheduled dropoff time. Schedule will be announced soon.
During compact shelving installation the Library's document delivery service
for items in the Library's collection will continue to be available. You
can obtain this service by using our Web-based Library Request Form, by telephone
at 7-5809 or by e-mail or regular mail
sent to MS-P362 (Attention: Photocopies). Be sure to include your LANL cost code
information.
Remember if you need an article from a journal the Library does not own, you
have the option to order articles yourself. LANL employees with a Lab purchase
card can create an account with the organizations listed on
the Document Delivery page to order photocopies.
You can
send questions or concerns to Carol Hoover at hoover@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
Experimental
and Toxicologic Pathology
Genome Biology
HOMO
- Journal of Comparative Human Biology
Immunobiology
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
Journal of Experimental Animal Science
Journal
of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology
Mammalian
Biology
Metabolomics
Microbiological Research
Perspectives
in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
Protist
Theory
in Biosciences
Chemistry
Nature Chemical Biology
Polymer
Science. Series A. (ID/password required)
Polymer
Science. Series B. (ID/password required)
Polymer
Science. Series C. (ID/password required)
Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
Environment and Earth Sciences
Interdisciplinary journal for chemical problems of the geosciences and
geoecology: Chemie de Erde
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Journal
of Forest Economics
Limnologica: ecology and management of inland waters
General
Economic Indicators
Mathematics and Computer Science
Artificial Life
Physics
Waves in Random and Complex Media
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
 |
 Search
engines: The Yahoo Challenge
After meeting a fascinating person from Yahoo recently I decided to look
more
carefully at their site and evaluate it for the work we do. Like everyone
I
have been addicted to the "G" site and rarely use other products.
Yahoo has been ramping up with many new services recently as part
of the
extreme competition between search engines. We really need to be using
a suite of
search engines in order to take advantage of the variety of ideas
bubbling up in this
area and a wider range of content. I was always put off by the
crowded and cluttered home page; but now I know
to go directly to www.search.yahoo.com to start my search using the ubiquitous
box on a fresh clean page. Be sure to click on the small print and
make yourself
aware of the "shortcuts" and the features of the "advanced search".
A nifty feature
available with "advanced search" is the ability to include personal subscriptions
you may have with content such as the Wall Street Journal.
It is also wise to review the
preferences available in an unfamiliar search engine. Yahoo
offers the ability to enlarge
your results window to display up to 100 results; and you may also choose
to have each search result link open in a new browser window.
The Yahoo image search feature is important as it has different
content from those found elsewhere.
I like to select it from the www.search.yahoo.com page.That page permits you to
choose the advanced search which allows size
choices for the
images and also coloration choices. The beginning search page includes
a list of the images most searched for,
which can provide you with a good index of how out-of-touch you might be
with contemporary culture.
If you do not use a "My Web" feature from another engine, you might start
with the one provided
by Yahoo. You need to register for this service and by doing
that you are able to use it globally.
You can save all your bookmarks and your search history to your individual
site. This is a reference
tool to have available when you travel as it saves your links and also an
exact copy of the content
as you saw it. You can now share the information with colleagues.
Yahoo also provides some of the best business and industry related resources
free under the "Finance"
heading from their main page; their news sources also vary from the
other search engines. You can now
create a blog and keep in touch with friends through their new beta "360" service. Don't
be a slave
to the "G" site! Try Yahoo today.
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, please send your ideas to the Newsletter
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