Research Library Newsletter
May 2003 |
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 Lou
Pray
| Scientific
American online |
 Did
you know that Scientific
American is the oldest continuously published magazine in America,
having been around for more than 150 years? The Research Library
has now made Scientific American available in full text at your
desktop. Every article in each issue published over the last 10
years is now available.
The magazine identifies and delivers the latest developments in
science and technology across a broad range of fields. The Scientific
American web site includes articles from current and past issues,
online-only features, daily news, trivia and weekly polls. Visitors
to the site also have access to Scientific American Careers, the
career board for professionals in the science and technology industries.
Carol
Hoover
| Metallurgical
and Materials Transactions now available online |
 
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A and B are now available
in full-text at your desktop. Metallurgical
and Materials Transactions A focuses on physical metallurgy
and materials science, publishes contributions monthly on all aspects
of physical metallurgy and materials science, with a special emphasis
on relationships among the processing, structure, and properties
of materials.
Metallurgical
and Materials Transactions B focuses on process metallurgy and
materials processing science, publishes contributions bimonthly
on the theoretical and engineering aspects of the processing of
metals and other materials, including studies of electro- and physical
chemistry, mass transport, modeling, and related computer applications.
These journals are linked through SciSearch Plus, INSPEC and Engineering
Index and are also searchable through FlashPoint. They are published
jointly by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and
ASM International.
Carol
Hoover
 The
Marquis Who's Who on the Web is available online as a free trial
for LANL employees through September 1, 2003.
Marquis Who’s Who on the Web provides access to current biographies
of any person who appeared since 1985 in any one of 20 Marquis print
titles, such as Who’s Who in America, Who Was Who in America,
Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Science &
Engineering. It is is updated daily and provides access to over
1 million biographies.
You can search by name, or conduct advanced searches using multiple
criteria including age, gender, geography, occupation, college attended
and degree(s), and more. Biographical coverage also includes the
following data elements: birth information, family, education, career
history, creative works, awards, military history, achievements,
current memberships, interests (hobbies) and contact information.
To access, see the instructions on the Marquis
Who's Who trial page.
Carol
Hoover
The Open Archives Forum provides a Europe-based focus for information
about European activity related to open archives. The Forum facilitates
clustering of IST projects, national initiatives, the building of
a community of interest, and reviewing of technical and organizational
issues.
In late March a workshop was held in Berlin to explore requirements
and demands to be considered before a digital media archive is made
available via the Internet. Herbert van de Sompel of the LANL Research
Library was the keynote speaker for the event. Speaking about the
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH),
van de Sompel said the motivation to launch the OAI was to facilitate
transformation in the scholarly communication system through specifying
technical interoperability between the nodes of such systems. This
generic protocol can be used well beyond the initial application
domain. Speakers and participants represented organizations from
The Netherlands, Romania, Italy, Austria, Albania, Latvia, Ukraine,
Moldova, Norway and Australia. Some of the topics of discussion
were collaboration among different cultural heritage institutions;
metadata for multimedia-objects; and cross searching distributed
Internet information resources.
Donna
Berg
Library Director Rick Luce was invited to give a keynote lecture
at the recent ISTEC/NSF
Ibero-American Digital Library Joint Project Development Symposium
at Campinas, Brazil. Luce spoke about digital library activities
at the LANL Research Library for the ISTEC meeting.
ISTEC was begun in the mid-90s
as an initiative from the University of New Mexico, with LANL as
a founding member. Today the non-profit organization is active throughout
the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. The Consortium fosters scientific,
engineering, and technology education, joint international research
and development efforts. Luce also took an active role in the "Political
de Informacao em Bibliotecas Digitais" workshop, discussing
the Library-Without-Walls Project and exploring with the US and
Brazilian attendees the possibilities of future initiatives. In
spite of political and financial problems in the region the workshop,
which expected around 200 participants, drew a crowd of over 600.
Los Alamos/ISTEC 's Henry Jerez also attended the meetings where
he continues to lead the joint "ChipsnSalsa" GRA student
project, a multi-national electronic gateway for education, research
and e-publishing.
Donna
Berg
Outsell is the premier research and advisory service in the information
content industry. With an emphasis on the Global 200 companies,
their focus is Information Technology. This year's Outsell Executive
Conference theme was "From Physical to Digital: Future Realities
and Changing Venues, Buying and Selling E-Content". Library
Director Rick Luce was invited to explore that theme with major
content distributors, give a talk on "Supporting Scientific
Research: the Library Without Walls at Los Alamos National Lab."
Attendees included representatives from IBM, the Almaden Research
Center, Sun, NY Times, DuPont, Dow Jones/Reuters and other major
information technology organizations.
Donna
Berg
The New England Journal of Medicine has published several reports
and studies of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Those
articles, along with editorial commentary, have been published electronically
at: www.nejm.org. The full text
of the articles is available to all; the articles will appear in
print in a future issue.
Donna
Berg
 The
Aluminium
Industry Abstracts database includes information from over 2,300
journals, reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, books
and patents. Coverage of these important materials began in 1972
and the file is updated monthly.
There is comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature
on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business
developments. Some specific areas of coverage in this database are:
the aluminum industry, end uses of aluminum, engineering properties
and tests, patents, physical and mechanical metallurgy and quality
control and tests.
As with all CSA databases, you can use the LinkSeeker icon ( )
to link to the full-text of articles to which the Research Library
subscribes as well as other services. The Alert feature can keep
you up-to-date on the newest publications, and related databases
can be searched at the same time.
You can find links to Aluminium Industry Abstracts on our site
map and on the Databases &
Indexes page.
Donna
Berg
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop:
Biology
BMC Genomics
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164
IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15361241
Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry Letters
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=16103653
International Materials Reviews
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/maney/09506608/contp1.htm
Journal of Phase Equilibria
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/asm/10549714/contp1.htm
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. A. Physical metallurgy
and materials science.
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/tms/10735623/contp1.htm
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. B. Process metallurgy
and materials processing science.
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/tms/10735615/contp1.htm
Engineering
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/asm/10599495/contp1.htm
Journal of Thermal Spray Technology
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/asm/10599630/contp1.htm
Power Engineer
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14798344
Mathematics and Computer Science
Computational Biology and Chemistry
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14769271
Physics
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14757516
Les Houches
http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/4300/tocs.htm
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