July 1999 Newsletter - LANL Research Library

Come to the Open House at the Research Library on Thursday August 5th from 1-3 p.m. (Note: this is a change of date and time), co-hosted by the Director's Office. Deputy Director Bill Press will speak. See demonstrations of library resources. Refreshments will be served.

Academic Press has enhanced its online scientific journal library by offering researchers accelerated access to key journal articles.

By using an article-by-article publishing process, Academic Press will electronically post individual articles as soon as they become available, even if the print edition of the article's journal is not ready for publication. This article-by-article system is particularly useful when applied to journals with low publication frequencies.

The LANL Research Library subscribes to three of these Academic Press journals, with publication frequencies ranging from quarterly to monthly, which have been selected to launch this initiative. The journals are:

Electronic article-by-article publishing is the first step toward publishing journal articles independent of volumes, issues, and page numbers. Academic Press plans to adopt the article-by-article system for additional journals in the future.

The following books and videos from the last ten years are in the Research Library. Request via the online catalog, phone (7-4175) or email (library@lanl.gov).

Albright, Joseph; and Marcia Kunstel. Bombshell : the secret story of America's unknown atomic spy conspiracy. New York : Times Books, c1997. MAIN UB271.R9 A48

Haynes, John Earl; and Harvey Klehr. Venona : decoding Soviet espionage in America. New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c1999. MAIN JK2391.C5 H39 1999

Kuzichkin, Vladimir. Inside the KGB : my life in Soviet espionage. Translated by Thomas B. Beattie ; foreword by Frederick Forsyth. New York : Pantheon Books, c1990. MAIN UB271.S652 K89 1990

Levchenko, Stan. On the wrong side : my life in the KGB. New York : Dell Pub., [1989]. c1988. MAIN UB271.R92 L435 1989x

Livingstone, Neil C. The cult of counterterrorism : the "weird world" of spooks, counterterrorists, adventurers, and not quite professionals. Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, c1990. MAIN HV6431 .L583 1990

Lunev, Stanislav, with Ira Winkler. Through the eyes of the enemy : Russia's highest ranking military defector reveals why Russia is more dangerous than ever. Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, c1998. MAIN UB271.R92 L865 1998

McGonagle, John J.; and Carolyn M. Vella. A new archetype for competitive intelligence. Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 1996. MAIN HD30.213 .M378 1996

Melton, H. Keith. The ultimate spy book. Foreword by William Colby. New York : DK Pub., 1996. MAIN JF1525.I6 M45 1996

Polmar, Norman; and Thomas B. Allen. Spy book : the encyclopedia of espionage. New York : Random House, c1997. MAIN JF1525.I6 P65 1997

Rhodes, Richard. Trademark Los Alamos the first Soviet bomb. [Los Alamos, N.M. : Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1993] 1 videocassette (VHS) (80 min) MAIN QC773 .R463 1993

Sontag, Sherry, and Christopher Drew, with Annette Lawrence Drew. Blind man's bluff : the untold story of American submarine espionage. New York : Public Affairs, c1998. MAIN VB321.U54 S65 1998

Stoll, Clifford. The cuckoo's egg : tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage. New York : Doubleday, c1989. MAIN UB271.R92 H477 1989

Stoll, Clifford. Stalking the wiley hacker. [Los Alamos, N.M. : Los Alamos National Laboratory], 1990. 1 videocassette (VHS) (104 min) MAIN UB271.R92 H478 1990x

Sudoplatov, Pavel; and Anatolii Pavlovich Sudoplatov with Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona P. Schecter. Special tasks : the memoirs of an unwanted witness-- a Soviet spymaster. Foreword by William Colby. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1994. MAIN UB271.S652 S83 1994

Weinstein, Allen; and Alexander Vassiliev. The haunted wood : Soviet espionage in America--the Stalin era. New York : Random House, c1999. MAIN UB271.R9 W45 1999

Wolf, Markus, with Anne McElvoy. Man without a face : the autobiography of communism's greatest spymaster. New York : Times Books, c1997. MAIN on order

Young, Jay T. presenter. Competitive Technology Intelligence (CTI) : methods, sources, and strategies. Colombus, Ohio : Battelle, 1994. 1 videocassette (VHS). MAIN HD38.7 .Y68 1994

Dr. Harold Varmus, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, has proposed a centralized web site for biomedical articles based on the highly successful electronic archive developed at Los Alamos by Paul Ginsparg (http://xxx.lanl.gov). Varmus' idea is raising havoc among the medical community, especially medical publishers who see this as a threat to their lucrative industry. Recent articles have appeared in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, JAMA, etc. Varmus believes it is important to make publicly funded research available as quickly as possible to speed up the R&D process.

Meanwhile, the Stanford Library has partnered with the British Medical Journal to begin a site this fall for archiving un-refereed preprints. This project will probably be realized more quickly than the NIH proposal and will be monitored to see if getting new research into the public domain quickly is as threatening as some members of the medical community imagine.

The art of computer programming by Donald E. Knuth has gone into its third edition. Volumes 1-2 are now available in the Research Library (the third volume is not in print yet). This work presents a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of algorithms and the analysis of algorithms, organized in: v. 1 Fundamental algorithms, v. 2 Seminumerical algorithms, and v. 3 Sorting and searching.

One of the work's greatest strengths is the collection of problems that accompany each chapter. The author has chosen problems carefully and indexed them according to difficulty. Solving a substantial number of these problems will help you gain a solid understanding of the issues surrounding the given topic. Furthermore, the exercises feature a variety of classic problems.

The art of computer programming is available in the Main book collection, call number QA76.6 .K64.

The following electronic journal is now available from the Research Library Electronic Journals web page:

As of July 1st, all of the Reference books in the Research Library are in their new location within the library to the right and back (SE corner) as you walk in the front door. The aisles are wider, and the stacks are much brighter. We hope you are as pleased as we are with the new arrangement. Stop by and familiarize yourself with the new spots for your favorite reference books!

By July 6th, all of the Dewey books will once again be on the main floor, and in their final location to the far back and far left (NE corner) as you walk into the library. Additionally, the Main books, QH-Z are also in their final location, almost straight back (center) as you enter the library. It is our somewhat optimistic goal to have the rest of the main books (A-QE) moved to their final locations by mid-August.

See before and after maps for an overview of the shifting project. If you have any questions, please contact Lynn or Marie at 667-3063.

Research Library Group Leader Rick Luce gave the invited keynote talk at the Max Planck Society's Transformation of Science conference in Schloss-Elmau, Germany. The conference brought together leading digital librarians from Europe and the U.S., publishers, authors and Max Planck institute staff to discuss the transformation of scientific communication. Luce's talk on "Communicating Science in the Next Generation: New Implications for the Digital Library" described the Library Without Walls work at Los Alamos, as well as forecasting the next generation of digital library capabilities.

Luce was also selected to give the keynote talk by CERN and the Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists conference on Information Science. The title of Luce's talk was "Integrating the Digital Library Puzzle: the Library Without Walls at Los Alamos", given in April in Geneva, Switzerland.

7/1	Alerting Service for the SciSearch� & Social SciSearch� Databases	1:00-1:30
7/7	Research Library Tour	1:00-1:30
7/14	Research Library Tour	1:00-1:30
7/14	Introduction to Electronic Library Resources	1:30-2:00
7/15	GeoRef� on the Web	1:00-1:30
7/21	Research Library Tour	1:00-1:30
7/22	InfoSurfing: Basic Web Searching Strategies	2:00-4:00
7/27	Melvyl� (U of CA specialized databases)	1:00-1:30
7/28	Research Library Tour	1:00-1:30

Classes are free. Pre-registration is appreciated. Register by email to library@lanl.gov or by calling the Library Service Desk at 7-5809. Please include your name, Z#, and the date and title of the session in your message.

Special classes and orientations can also be arranged; call 7-5809 for more information.

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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