This Weekly Alerting Service can be used to track tables of contents of your favorite journals. With the new exact source capability, you can track articles from "Science" or "Nature." You can also set up a subject based alert.
For example, use the all fields index in SciSearch® at LANL and the search terms - accelerator, production, tritium - to keep current with articles in this field. Cited references can also be tracked using this alert service. You can be notified when people cite your papers or you can be notified when an important paper in your field is cited. If you are tracking the efforts of a particular institution, this can also be accomplished through a weekly alert.
1. Use the SciSearch® at LANL General Search or Cited Reference Search to first test your search.
2. Review your results. If results are too broad or too narrow, revise the search and test again.
3. Select Alerts from the SciSearch® at LANL home page.
4. Register as a new user, then login with your password.
5. Select New General Alert or New Cited Alert.
6. Give your alert a name, select method of receipt, and enter search criteria as tested.
7. Submit the alert when finished.
8. The database is updated weekly. After receiving e-mail notification that results were found, login to SciSearch® at LANL Weekly Alerting Service and view your results.
A class on setting up alerts through this service is scheduled for October 8th in the Research Library. To arrange to have a presentation given at your site, call the Research Library at 7-5809 or send e-mail to library@lanl.gov
Please send comments about this online service to library@lanl.gov.
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SEARCHING TECHNIQUES - ADJACENCY AND PROXIMITY SEARCHING
IN THE ONLINE CATALOG
In the Research Library
online catalog, you can search keywords (author, title, subject, note, all)
separately or in combinations with Boolean logic using AND, OR, or NOT
(as explained under COMBINE KEYWORDS on the search menu).
But sometimes even using AND, OR, or NOT can result in too broad
or unfocused a search. To define how closely you want terms related,
use adjacency and proximity searching. This allows you to specify
within how many words the terms are to appear.
Adjacency is enabled by using angle brackets (< >). For example,
Proximity is enabled by using <x>, where x represents the number of intervening terms between words; x can be a number from 0-5.
Los<x>Alamos - where LOS is within x number of words of ALAMOS, in specified order
Also, to find words appearing in any order, include "n":
Los<n>Alamos - where LOS and ALAMOS are immediately next to each other, in any order. Los<xn>Alamos - where LOS is within x number of words of ALAMOS, in any order
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What to do? Actually, you have a number of options. If you don't want to borrow the microfiche report (they circulate for 7 days, renewable) or read it at one of the Library's microfiche readers, you have several othe options.
The Library has several microfiche reader/printers which make good quality paper copy. They work well and are fast. Alternatively, the Report Collection will make the paper copies for you, free, provided the total request is for 25 pages or less. Finally, if you give us your cost code, we can have one or more copies made for you at CIC-17's micrographic reproduction center.
So don't be put off by microfiche. Contact the Report Collection at 667-4446 or library@lanl.gov and tell us what you need. It's our job to find it for you and get it to you in the form you want it.
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Los Alamos Publications provides access only to reports received in electronic form. At this time, therefore, it only covers several hundred fairly recent reports, as well as some other high-profile Laboratory publications. We have just revised the introduction to the Los Alamos Publications page to try to clarify what it covers.
For access to the entire set of Los Alamos reports in electronic format, back to 1943, go to Los Alamos Unclassified Publications or to the Research Library online catalog. Los Alamos Unclassified Publications is an experimental database, available to LANL customers only, that cites approximately 50,000 documents (technical reports, journal articles, books, conference papers, etc.) by Los Alamos authors or about Los Alamos National Laboratory. If the full-image electronic file of a Los Alamos technical report is available, it can be launched directly from the citation. Alternatively, the online catalog permits you to retrieve records for reports held in the Library. If an electronic file is available, the URL (the electronic address) is provided. It can be copied and pasted into your Web browser to launch the document.
See the detailed instructions on the Web that were prepared by the Research Library on how to use the online catalog to access electronic reports. If you have any questions or comments about accessing and using electronic reports, contact the Report Collection at library@lanl.gov or 667-4448.
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This month we added a link to the Federal Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) available at no cost from the Research Library Home Page under Electronic Journals and Electronic Databases.
FBIS offers an extensive, indepth collection of translations and transcriptions of open source information from around the world on such diverse subjects as military affairs, politics, the environment, societal issues, economics, and science and technology. The information is obtained from the monitoring of radio, television, press, periodicals, books and other sources of unrestricted information such as databases and gray literature. The information presented on this server is the textual version of the following reports:
FBIS Daily Reports: Africa (Sub-Saharan) Daily Report; China Daily Report; Central Eurasia Daily Report; East Asia Daily Report; East Europe Daily Report; Latin America Daily Report; Near East and South Asia Daily Report; West Europe Daily Report
FBIS Topical Reports: Arms Control and Proliferation Issues Report; Environmental and World Health Report; Narcotics Report; Terrorism Report; Central Eurasia/Military Affairs Report
FBIS Science and Technology (S&T) Reports (text only): S&T Perspectives; S&T Central Eurasia; S&T China; S&T Europe; S&T Japan
S&T Perspectives -- S&T Perspectives highlights worldwide scientific, technological, and industrial developments. Published monthly, S&T Perspectives includes information from media worldwide on a wide range of high-tech fields, including aerospace, advanced materials, biotechnology, computers, defense industries, electronics, and environmental technologies. Also included are announcements of ad hoc open source reports, such as conference reports, acquired outside normal subscription channels and available on order. The textual version of S&T Perspectives is available online. Future plans call for including pictures, graphics, and line drawings in the online version.
S&T Reports -- Each publication is a compilation of translations dealing with science and technology issues in a particular country or region. These reports are produced on an ad hoc basis. Future plans call for including pictures, graphics, and line drawings in the online version.
Analytic Publications Trends -- Current open-source analysis written by FBIS media analysts and focused on countries of significant interest to the U.S Government. Included in Trends are foreign governments' attitudes, policies and actions as reflected in that country's media, media behavior in selected countries, and ad hoc Special Memoranda and Analysis Reports (longer assessments on key issues written by FBIS analysts).
Economic Review Series: Pacific Rim Economic Review and West Europe Economic Review
If you are interested in using this service, please contact the Research Library at library@lanl.gov or 667-5809 for password information. Please note: only one user allowed on at a time. Please remember to EXIT when done.
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3 Business Sources on the WWW (1-1:30 p.m.) 8 SciSearch® at LANL Alerting Service (1-1:30 p.m.) 10 1996 Chemical Abstracts on CD-ROM (1-1:30 p.m.) 15 MELVYL-- U of CA specialized databases (11-11:30 a.m.) 16 Finding Addresses and Phone Numbers on the WWW (1-1:30 p.m.) 17 Energy Database -- at your desktop (1-1:30 p.m.) 17 Information Sources on the Internet via WWW (2-4 p.m.) 22 SciSearch® at LANL -- at your desktop! (1-1:30 p.m.) 24 Grants and Funding Information (1-1:30 p.m.) 24 Information Sources on the Internet via WWW (2-4 p.m.)Classes are free, but you must pre-register by calling the Library Service Desk at 7-5809 or sending e-mail to library@lanl.gov. Special classes and orientations can also be arranged. Please send comments about this online service to library@lanl.gov.
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To receive an electronic subscription to the Research Library Newsletter, sent the first of each month to your e-mail address, do the following:
1) Send an e-mail message to ListManager@lanl.gov
2) Leave the subject line blank
3) The body of the message should contain the following two-
line message
exactly as shown:
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The name and e-mail address of the Library member who contributed an article appears at the end of the article. If you have comments or further questions, please contact that person. If you have general questions or comments about the Newsletter itself, please contact the Newsletter distributor, Lou Pray
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