LANL Research Library News

See what other people are reading with “Hot Articles,” a new feature on the Research Library home page. This service shows you, based on real usage data, what is hot in the sciences in the scholarly community.

You can change the subject area using the drop-down menu. In each subject area, the bX Hot Articles service displays a list of the 3 articles that researchers selected the most times in recent weeks; click More… to see the top 10. If you select All Subjects, you see the top articles overall.

The Research Library, in collaboration with the LANL Classification Office (SAFE-1), is pleased to announce the release of the new online Review & Approval System for Scientific and Technical Information (RASSTI), which allows for electronic submission of unclassified and unrestricted publications intended for LA-UR assignment.

The LANL Research Library has released its newly designed internal website, which should provide easier access to the resources that LANL researchers and employees need. And with this new design comes a new URL. The Research Library homepage will now be found at http://int.lanl.gov/library. The library link from the LANL homepage also will direct you to the new site. Don’t forget to update your bookmarks to reflect this change.

Also, to ease the transition between the old and the new sites, a link to the old webpage will be available from the new one for a short period of time.

The LANL Research Library has recently purchased access to SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) e-books. The SIAM e-book collection, a recommended resource for mathematical statistics, covers applied mathematics and computational science. Online versions of nearly 400 books published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) over the last 50 year are available. Newly published titles (2011- ) are available immediately. These titles can be accessed and searched via the SIAM e-books website.

The Research Library is pleased to provide LANL customers with Reaxys, a web-based resource containing experimentally validated data on chemical compound properties, structures, single and multi-step reactions, and catalysts. Reaxys merges data (reaction, substance, citation) from journal and patent literature of chemistry and contains historical information from many respected chemistry handbooks dating back to 1771. Reaxys access is a free trial available through July 2012.

Reaxys merges content from three major data sources:

Thursday 29th September 1000 EST (New York) / 0800 MDT (Los Alamos)

Cyber crime is costing governments and industries billions of dollars – recent estimates suggest the global figure is more than USD40 billion a year - and cyber criminals are becoming increasingly audacious as they evade the authorities. This threat encompasses a number of illegal activities including cyber espionage and a number of high-profile incidents where companies and governments have had valuable information stolen from their servers suggests that this is an increasing problem.

Seminar will cover:

The LANL Research Library has recently purchased access to SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) e-books. SIAM books cover applied mathematics and computational science. Approximately 400 books, published over the last 5 decades, are available. Newly published titles (2011- ) are available immediately. The titles can be accessed and searched via the SIAM e-books website.

Subjects covered include:

The LANL Research Library will be presenting several training sessions on SciFinder® September 13 at both the Research Library and the Chemistry Division Auditorium. SciFinder® offers web-based access to comprehensive scientific content searchable by substance, reaction, structure, property, and more. SciFinder® representatives will be here to offer demonstrations and answer any questions that you have regarding this tool, which is now available to all LANL employees.

Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Sabotage is the third installment of the Jane's Online Seminar series on cyber crime and will begin to delve deep into specific issues within cyber crime. This presentation will include a discussion about cyber terrorism emerging threats, with focus on the technology behind cyber terrorism and examples and definitions of cyber sabotage.

The LANL Research Library has made available to LANL employees all SPIE ebooks in optics and photonics. These ebooks are part of the SPIE Digital Library and include the SPIE Press monographs, tutorial texts and field guides. SPIE ebooks cover a wide range of subjects including:

* Micro/Nanotechnology
* Biomedical Optics
* Communications
* Sensor Technologies
* Lighting and Energy
* Imaging
* Astronomy
* Defense and Security