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Reminder: Tuesday June 14th, 2005: Research Library Breakfast/Open House
for students and their mentors, 8:30 - 10:30am - demonstrations, training,
and giveaways.
E-Science Server has a new faster better search engine!
E-Science Server, the Research Library's e-content server, has a new search
engine. Lucene is a new and faster fulltext open source search engine. In
addition to returning your search results in a flash, it offers improved precision
for author searching along with additional search functions. New functions
include a single character wild card ?. The ? allows
you to perform queries such as Bra?il. Such a query will match both Brasil and Brazil. Fuzzy
searching allows you to find terms similar in spelling. For example, roam~ will
find terms like foam and roams.
E-Science Server contains over 8 million journal articles, IEEE/IEE conference
papers and standards. Look for new e-content coming soon: AIP, APS, Nature
and Royal Society of Chemistry ejournals.
 Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Landolt-Börnstein available online
Hate searching the printed volumes of Landolt-Börnstein? Searching just
got easier with access to the online version.
Landolt-Börnstein is
a systematic and comprehensive collection of critically assessed data from all
fields of physics, physical chemistry, geophysics, astronomy, material technology
and engineering, and biophysics. Data coverage starts with scientific data described
before 1883 (when the first handbook was published) and is continuously expanded
to accommodate new data.
Most recently a new group, Advanced Materials and Technologies, has been added.
The "New Series" comprises more than 280 volumes.
Choose a research topic and go directly to the online content using these links
for the L-B groups:
L-B indexes containing links to specific volume content are also available:
Irma
Holtkamp (isholtkamp@lanl.gov)
Ejournal backfiles from Wiley -
Materials Science and Neuroscience
 
The Research Library is providing access to more than 150 years of backfile
content across two major disciplines—materials science and neuroscience. Materials
science includes 14 journals, back to volume one number one, for such titles
as Advanced
Materials (1989+), Materials
and Corrosion (1950+) and Polymer
Composites (1980+). The Neuroscience collections adds another 14 titles
including Journal
of Comparative Neurology (1891+) and Annals
of Neurology (1977+).
The backfile journal articles include the article as well as references. References
are also linked to the fulltext via LinkSeeker where available. This 150 additional
years of fulltext electronic journals is also linked in the LANL
database SearchPlus.
Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
 New
Nature ejournal - Nature Chemical Biology
The Research Library has subscribed to the newest Nature title—Nature
Chemical Biology. Nature Chemical Biology
is a monthly multidisciplinary journal that covers all areas
of contemporary research at the interface of chemistry and biology ranging from
bacterial to human biology and from small molecules to ribozymes. Topics
include chemical synthesis, expanding chemistry through biology, chemical mechanisms
in biology and expanding biology through chemistry.
The first issue of Nature Chemical Biology is available here. Links
to fulltext articles will be available through SearchPlus.
Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Try the newest RefWorks feature - RefShare
 RefShare is an new add-on module to RefWorks, the Library-provided web-based
bibliographic management tool. RefShare provides users with a quick and
easy way to share their RefWorks references with other LANL employees or with
collaborators outside of LANL, further enhancing collaborative research.
RefShare allows you to make available a central, customizable web page where
users can post their RefWorks databases or folders. Users control access
of their data with a variety of options. Viewers can search, download,
print and export the data.
Uses and benefits: provide easy access to information for researchers collaborating
on a project; create and share databases of frequently requested reference queries
by topic; access data via URL sent by email to remote user; publish an internal
database of references for easy sharing; provide easy remote access to research
and collaboration globally.
You need a RefWorks account to share your references with others via Refshare. Once
in RefWorks, you can access the share feature by clicking <Folders> <Share
Folders>. A tutorial for RefShare is available in Help by clicking <Tutorial> <RefShare>.
The RefShare tool is available on a trial basis through June 30, 2005.
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Knovel® introduces new interface
Knovel® has a new look and name, Knovel® Library. This online library
of full-text science and technical references is fully searchable. Every word,
chart, graph, and picture of every reference is fully indexed. The biggest change
to Knovel Library is a single search box, appearing prominently at the
top of almost every page in the site. Capabilities of the new single search box
include:
- Booleans - Unlimited use of the Booleans AND, OR, and NOT.
- Nested Queries - An unlimited number of nested queries
by placing parentheses around query strings.
- Proximities - The NEAR proximity locates two or more words
within 5 words of each other on a single page or record. The NEXT proximity locates
two or more words directly next to each other on a page or in a record.
- Wildcards - Use an asterisk on the right side of a keyword
to find variations for that word.
- Plurals - Keyword searches expressed in either singular
or plural forms will return the same search results.
- Alternate Spellings - Keywords spelled in either American
or British English variations will return the same results.
- Limits – Search the entire Knovel Library
or limit to the Laboratory’s subscription by checking the radio button
labeled “My Subscription”.
NOTE: Knovel has retained Advanced Search which offers users a powerful
method of searching ranges of values and fielded values across 30 categories
and 185 fields.
Tabs on the home and search results pages let you switch between viewing
information about all of the available titles in the entire Knovel Library
or just what the Research Library's Laboratory subscription includes (nearly
500 titles). Users can quickly change from one view to the other with a single
click. Underneath are filtering links that enable users to view All Titles, New
Titles (added to the site in the past 90 days), Updated Titles (titles updated
in the last 90 days), Coming Soon, and Titles with Productivity Tools.
Search results are sorted by relevancy. It is easy to resort the list by
a different criteria, including by Subject Area, alphabetical by Title Name,
or by Popularity (measured as how often a title is accessed by the entire Knovel
user-base).
Susan Heckethorn (heckethorn@lanl.gov)
The E-books Open House
The Research Library's Open House last month resulted in a better understanding
of our customers' use of electronic books. While most people that were
aware of e-books had one of two favorites that they bookmarked, most were unaware
how to use the library's web resources to find a comprehensive list of e-books
provided by the Research Library, such as using the Limit Search feature in the
online catalog to limit to e-books.
 The e-books most used were:
Keep an eye out for new e-books by visiting our new
books list weekly where
new e-books are mentioned and by checking the news sources on the Library's web
site.
Lou
Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
Change in Library circulation policy - maximum
number of items checked out reduced to 50
In response to customer comments about unavailable items, the Research Library
has reduced the maximum number of items that can be checked out to an individual
to 50 items effective June 2005. In most cases, the Research Library owns only
one copy of a book, and the library's collections are intended to be a shared
resource. To improve the availability of materials, we have reduced the maximum
number of items borrowed.
Library staff will notify users who currently exceed this new limit and provide
any assistance needed to bring the total down to 50 or fewer. The return of materials
will allow for pending holds to be satisfied, as well as make the collection
more readily available for others.
Irma
Holtkamp (isholtkamp@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
European
Journal of Cell Biology
European
Journal of Medical Genetics
Journal
for Nature Conservation
Journal
of Plant Physiology
Organisms,
Diversity and Evolution
Systematic
and Applied Microbiology
Chemistry
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Engineering
AEUE
- International Journal of Electronics and Communications
CPIA Bulletin
Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thermal
Engineering (requires ID/password)
Environment and Earth Science
Basic
and Applied Ecology
Geochemistry International (requires ID/password)
General
Asian Journal of Social Science
International
Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing
Journal of Public Affairs
Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1915-2004)
Mathematics and Computer Science
Expositiones
Mathematicae
Proceedings
of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (requires ID/password)
Tohoku Mathematical Journal
Physics
Optik
- International Journal for Light and Electron Optics
Packaging, Transport,
Storage and Security of Radioactive Material
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Search
engines: Google now personalizes your favorite page
 If you are already a slave to your Google page, you may want to make that
page even more informative. You can now personalize the page by incorporating
content from across the web into a larger box format that can contain headlines,
your Gmail, local weather,
film showtimes and a few other information selections. You can alternate
between your new homepage and the traditional, clean
page of Google by clicking either "Classic Home" or "Personalized
Home". The beta site and further information for creating your very own Google
page can be found at: http://www.google.com/ig
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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