LANL Research Library Newsletter - May 1999
| MathSciNet now offers full text back to 1940 |
The American Mathematical Society has completed its two-year project of adding full-text reviews from the early archives of Mathematical Reviews (MR) to the MathSciNet database. During that project, all reviews from 19401979 were keyboarded--over 80,000 pages of MR representing over 500,000 reviews. The number of searchable reviews from 1940 to the present now on totals nearly 1,400,000. The entire collection contains, for the first time online, searchable reviews of a major part of mathematics from the past 60 years.
The addition of the review texts back to 1940 means, among other things, that researchers can see more fully the development of mathematical ideas by using a combination of sophisticated tools within MathSciNet--notably the Author Identification resource, and the extensive network of links throughout the database.
The Author Identification function--unique to MathSciNet--assists in identifying authors and variations of authors' names as they appear in MR. Author Identification results can then be combined with other search criteria to further narrow a search. From the search results, users can mark records to display or download in multiple formats. Then within those records, researchers can follow via links the progression of an author's published works, reviews of those works, and how the works influenced other mathematicians' research. Access to the full-text reviews and cross-references online enables users to better understand the history, development, and applications of mathematical concepts.
Frances Knudson
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| Digital library of mathematical functions |
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, formerly NBS) is working to replace the Handbook of mathematical functions (with formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables) by Abramowitz and Stegun. This was first published in 1964 and corrected in 1972. The Research Library owns multiple copies of this handbook. All eight circulating copies were checked out 4/29/99. Many personal copies are probably housed at the laboratory.
NIST is planning a digital replacement. There is currently a mockup at http://math.nist.gov/DigitalMathLib/. This provides an opportunity to comment on the design and organization of this new mathematical web resource.
Frances Knudson
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| American Chemical Society publication news |
The ACS Publications Library Advisory Group met recently in Washington, D.C., providing the following news:
If you have concerns, suggestions, or comments on ACS Publications, please contact me. ACS Publication representatives will be visiting in May - details are still being finalized.
Frances Knudson
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| 30,000 electronic reports available |
The Research Library now has nearly 30,000 electronic unclassified reports in the Online Catalog. The majority are Los Alamos reports. Most of these were scanned from paper or microfiche copies of reports going back as far as the 1943 when the Laboratory started, but more recent reports have been received already digitized by the author. Reports from other agencies in the DOE community are also being linked. The electronic reports in the online catalog break down approximately as follows:
| LA's (formal Los Alamos unclassified reports) | ~11,000 | |
| LA-UR's (Los Alamos Unrestricted Releases) | ~13,400 | |
| misc. Los Alamos publications (LALP's, LAMS's, etc.) | ~1,900 | |
| CERN | 80 | |
| Fermilab | 370 | |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | 1,710 | |
| Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory | 70 | |
| Sandia National Laboratories | 540 | |
| SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) | 760 | |
| other agencies | 100 |
Jack Carter
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| Nature is available online |
Nature, and the entire family of Nature journals, are now available online from the Research Library Electronic Journals web page.
You can now access the full-text electronic content of the entire family of Nature publications including Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Structural Biology, Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature Cell Biology. Go to the Macmillan electronic journals page, get the User Name and Password which can be found under Description/Password, then click on the title in which you are interested.
The library has received one User Name/Password which can be used to access any of the Nature publications. This access allows only one simultaneous user at a time. Allow 10 minutes between logout and login before another user can take the place of the previous one.
Please note that this is not site-license access. Nature plans to make site-wide access available after December 1999.
Carol Hoover
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| More shelves for books |
New shelving for the book collection is being installed in the space just cleared on the west side of the main floor. This shelving will provide growth space for the next 3+ years. Additionally, some existing ranges will be moved to create a new configuration for the stacks. During the month of May, a major shift of the collections will begin. This new arrangement will help differentiate between reference, main, and dewey books. Signs will be posted throughout the project to keep customers informed about book locations. More details will be available in next month's Newsletter.
Susan Heckethorn
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| Congressional report on Y2K available |
The Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem of the U.S. Senate has published a 163-page report titled Investigating the impact of the year 2000 problem: summary of the Committee's work in the 105th Congress. It is available in the Research Library Main book collection, call number QA76.76.S64 U55 1999.
Kathy Varjabedian
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| Statistical Highlight: Electronic journal growth |
The Research Library continues to increase the number of electronic journals made available to the Lab community, up to the current total of 2,135.
Kathy Varjabedian
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| Research Library May Training |
Research Library Tours are scheduled for Wednesday May 12 and Wednesday May 26. Anyone interested in joining a tour should meet at the service desk at 1:00 p.m. The Introduction to Electronic Library Resources class will immediately following the tour on the 12th (1:30 to 2:00). Library staff will also arrange special training sessions upon request. Please submit requests via e-mail to library@lanl.gov or telephone 7-4175.
Watch for the full summer training schedule to be posted in late May.
Susan Heckethorn
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Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna Berg, Helen Boorman, Jack Carter, Lou Pray, and Kathy Varjabedian.
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 Editor, Kathy Varjabedian.
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