LANL Research Library Newsletter
February 1996
Do you know how to use the Electronic File information that appears in some
citations of the Library's on-line catalog to access the full image of the
citation?
For more information contact the Report Collection Team at 7-4446 or send e-
mail to library@lanl.gov.
See end of Newsletter for publication and access
information.
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February 1996 Issue
FUNDS ADDED TO THE LIBRARY
BUDGET
$200,000 dollars will be transferred from the Director's Reserve to the
Research
Library for "enduring" collection purchases -- materials such as books and
journals. This unprecedented assistance from Sig Hecker and Jim Jackson is a
testimony to the strong support that was given to the Research Library by its
customers over the last few months. We hope that the long term issue of
adequate library budget support from G&A or other funding vehicles will be
discussed further and resolved.
Rick
Luce
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LLNL DOCUMENTS ON-LINE
For regular users of technical reports, access to the LLNL Documents On-line
database, available from the LLNL Web Server, may be a useful way to bring
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reports to your desktops. The
database currently contains approximately 650 reports in pdf format and new
report image files are being added all the time. Locating reports in the
database
is by use of a WAIS search engine. While the approach is somewhat different to
that adopted by the Research Library's Los Alamos Unclassified Publications
database, the bottom-line is that this is a way to access an entire report from
your desk top. Let us know your reaction if you try out the LLNL Documents On-
Line database. Send comments to library@lanl.gov.
Ken Collins
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FULL-TEXT BUSINESS NEWS ON THE
WEB
Check out two new electronic resources on the Business Resources Page at the
Research Library's Web site: Knight-Ridder
Financial News, which contains the latest financial news from around the
globe and highlights American, European, Asian and Australian Markets
including credit summaries, financial reports and more; and CNN Financial News, which
provides the text of top stories, Dow Jones Industrials and MarketWatch and
links to Knight-Ridder Financial News. The latest issue of Fortune,
plus
the three previous, ones are also available under Electronic Texts, on the Research
Library Web Page.
Lou Pray
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LOS ALAMOS UNCLASSIFIED PUBLICATIONS
DATABASE EXPANDS
The size of the Los Alamos
Unclassified Publications Database expanded substantially on January 29.
It now contains 49,000+ records for publications issued 1943-1995. These
records were extracted from the Energy Science and Technology Database and
the Research Library's on-line catalog. The last of the 1995 and the 1996
citations should be loaded sometime in February. We are anxious for customer
feedback on this database -- we would like to know whether this database is
useful or not to you, what you specifically like or do not like. Send
comments to
The Library Without Walls Project Team.
Irma S.
Holtkamp
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QUARTERLY PATRON SERVICE
ASSESSMENT
The Research Library has just sent out its first customer survey (named the
QUartErly PAtron Service Assessment or "Que Pasa") to approximately 600
customers. We plan to survey one fourth of our customers every three months.
The data from the survey will help us serve our customers better and aid the
Research Library as we begin Strategic Business Planning. Questions or
comments are welcome and can be sent to Sue Watkins or at 667-3063.
Sue
Watkins
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ELECTRONIC JOURNALS PROJECT
UNDERWAY
The Research Library's Library Without Walls Project is beginning an exciting
new effort to bring electronic versions of journals to patrons' desktops.
The goal
is to provide access to the full-image of a journal article complete with
charts,
tables, and graphs.
The first phase of this project is in collaboration with the publisher,
Elsevier. We
would appreciate your assistance in determining which Elsevier titles to
receive
electronically. Current print subscriptions to these journals will not be
affected.
We are targeting the following four core competencies:
- Nuclear and advanced materials
- Nuclear science, plasmas, and beams
- Bioscience and biotechnology
If you wish to look at and/or comment on the list of possible titles, go to http://lib-www.lanl.gov/walls/totlist.htm.
If you are interested in participating further in this project, by sharing
your ideas
on electronic journals, becoming an active tester, etc., please contact Nancy
Sprague at 7-5809 by March 1.
Nancy
Sprague
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GUIDE TO FREE DATABASES FROM THE
RESEARCH LIBRARY
New under Electronic
Databases on the Research Library's Web page is the Research Library Databases link. This
is a chart of all databases which may be used at no cost.
The chart offers a description of the database and links to access if it is
available
for use outside of the library. The library has over 25 databases available
free
for LANL community. However, what is available from your desktop is only a
portion of the electronic resources free to you from the Research Library.
Check
out this list for access to databases from the Aerospace CD to Standard and
Poor's Directory of Corporations.
Lou Pray
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Newsletter Editor: Ken
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