LANL Research Library Newsletter - September
2000
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The LANL Research Library is now providing access to the JSTOR collection
of electronic journals. JSTOR (which stands for Journal Storage) contains
the digitized backfile of 124 core scholarly journals, many of which date
from the 1800s. This includes such titles as American Mathematical Monthly
(1894-1994), Mathematics of Computation (1943-1994), World Politics (1948-1995)
and Science (1960-1994) among many others.
JSTOR can be found at http://www.jstor.org/jstor/.
You can search the journals by author, title, words in the abstract or
full-text and limit your search by date. Links are currently available
in MathSciNet and will soon be available through LANL databases such as
SciSearch® at LANL, INSPEC® at LANL and others. Links will also be available
from the Ejournals
web page. Additional years and titles are regularly added to the JSTOR
collection.
Check it out. For comments or questions contact Carol Hoover, hoover@lanl.gov.
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Carol Hoover
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FlashPoint, the library's multi-database
search tool, has been enhanced with these features:
- Nuclear Science Abstracts at LANL database is now included. This extends
coverage to 1960-1976 for nuclear science literature.
- Databases are labeled with beginning and ending dates. If your date range
is not included in a database, the message "years not covered" will be displayed
on the result screen.
- Search tips are included. Any time an author search is performed, a message
is displayed with tips on how to noting that the search will be treated as
a phrase; one might want to insert boolean operators or use the comma - relevancy
operator.
Frances Knudson
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| Do you have a copy of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
near your desk or in your lab? Maybe your desk copy is a few years old?
Would having electronic access to its contents make finding your answer
a little easier? The Research Library is sponsoring a trial to the online
CRC Handbook, through September 21, at www.hbcpnetbase.com.
Send your comments on the usability and functionality of the online Handbook
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Marie Harper
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Have
you been waiting for the electronic version of Chemical & Engineering News?
It's here! The LANL Research Library is participating in a special two year
program allowing access to Chemical & Engineering News Online for non-American
Chemical Society members. The Research Library is one of only two libraries
participating in this two year pilot study. The other is the California Digital
Library.
To access, first register at http://cen.acs.org/Forms/cen/register.html.
Then go to http://pubs.acs.org/cen/index.html
to read C&EN. (Note: The registration page may not give a correct acknowledgement
of registration, even though the registration is processed. Try logging in with
the username and password you have set even if your registration is not acknowledged.)
Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the chemical world,
keeps readers informed of all the news of the chemical world generally as it
interrelates with the world at large, and of policies and ACS activities.
Please send your comments to the Library's electronic
journals team.
Jeane Strub
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journals from Kluwer Academic Publishers have loaded by the Research Library
and are available through Science Server®
at LANL. The list of titles added is included below. Links to these articles
from our databases will also be available soon. We will be adding more Kluwer
titles in the future when we recieve the data from the publisher.
| Acta Applicandae Mathematicae |
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization |
| Acta Mathematica Hungarica |
Journal of Engineering Mathematics |
| Astrophysics and Space Science |
Journal of Materials Science |
| Boundary-Layer Meteorology |
Journal of Materials Science Letters |
| Cancer and Metastasis Reviews |
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics |
| Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy |
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine |
| Climatic Change |
The Journal of Supercomputing |
| Designs, Codes and Cryptography |
Letters in Mathematical Physics |
| Distributed and Parallel Databases |
Machine Learning |
| Earth, Moon, and Planets |
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry |
| Ecotoxicology |
Molecular Biology Reports |
| Environmental and Ecological Statistics |
Optical and Quantum Electronics |
| Environmental Monitoring and Assessment |
Solar Physics |
| Histochemical Journal |
Space Science Reviews |
| International Journal of Fracture |
Speculations in Science and Technology |
| Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics |
Surveys in Geophysics |
| Journal of Applied Electrochemistry |
Transition Metal Chemistry |
| Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry |
Transport in Porous Media |
| Journal of Biomolecular NMR |
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution |
Miriam Blake
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Web-Enabled DROLS (WED) is a modernized version of the Defense RDT&E Online
System (DROLS), maintained by DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center). It
has officially replaced the Technical Reports and Research Summaries portion
of the online unclassified DROLS.
This product provides full access to virtually all unclassified, unlimited
(U2) and unclassified, limited distribution (UL) citations to technical reports
in DTIC's Technical Reports Collection. It also includes unclassified citations
to classified documents in DTIC's Technical Reports Collection. Newly accessioned
full-text Technical Reports will be available soon.
The Research Summaries Collection provides work unit level technical and management
data to ongoing DoD research and technology. This collection is a database of
descriptive summaries of DoD research that provides information to technical
content, responsible individuals and organizations, principal investigators
and funding sources.
Access is free. Register at http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/web-drols-app.html. For
LANL's DTIC user number and other registration information contact Jeane Strub
at jstrub@lanl.gov or by phone at 7-5809.
Jack Carter
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What algorithms would you select for the top ten of the 20th century? Would
one of your choices have a LANL connection?
First let’s define algorithm. The word algorithm is actually derived from a
man’s name - Al-Khwarizimi - an Arabian mathematician from the ninth century.
Al-Khwarizimi stressed the importance of methodical procedures for solving problems.
Merriam-Webster’s online definition of algorithm: a procedure for solving a
mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite
number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation; broadly:
a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end especially
by a computer.
Jack Dongarra and Francis Sullivan have assembled the 10 algorithms “with the
greatest influence on the development and practice of software and engineering
in the 20th century.” This list and articles on each algorithm constitute the
Computing in Science & Engineering, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, 2000 http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15219615&issue=v02i0001.
The top ten algorithms in chronological order:
- Metropolis Algorithm for Monte Carlo
- Simplex Method for Linear Programming
- Krylov Subspace Iteration Methods
- The Decompositional Approach to Matrix Computations
- The Fortran Optimizing Compiler
- QR Algorithm for Computing Eigenvalues
- Quicksort Algorithm for Sorting
- Fast Fourier Transform
- Integer Relation Detection
- Fast Multipole Method
Frances Knudson
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The following new electronic journals have been added to the library collection
and are available from your desktop:
Biology
Bulletin of the World Health Organization http://www.who.int/bulletin/tableofcontents.htm
Chemistry
Acta Crystallographica. Section A, Foundations of Crystallography
http://journals.iucr.org/a/contents/backissues.html
Acta Crystallographica. Section B, Structural Science
http://journals.iucr.org/b/contents/backissues.html
Acta Crystallographica. Section C, Crystal Structure Communications
http://journals.iucr.org/c/contents/backissues.html
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Biological Crystallography
http://journals.iucr.org/d/contents/backissues.html
Journal of Applied Crystallography
http://journals.iucr.org/j/contents/backissues.html
General
Armed Forces and Society
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tranpub/0095327x/contp1-1.htm
International Public Management Journal
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=10967494
Journal of Asian Economics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=10490078
Journal of Energy Finance and Development
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=10857443
Journal of Information Science
http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bks/jis/
Journal of Quality Management
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=10848568
Learning and Individual Differences
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=10416080
Linguistics and Education http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=08985898
Mathematics
Duke Mathematical Journal http://www.dukeupress.edu/dmj/index.shtml
Physics
Optics and Spectroscopy http://ojps.aip.org/ops
Transactions
of the Society of Rheology http://ojps.aip.org/joro/
JSTOR (back issues of journals)
These and many more titles available at http://www.jstor.org/jstor/:
General Science
Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 1990-1996
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological
Sciences 1960-1990
Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
1996
Philosophical Transactions: Physical Sciences and Engineering 1990-1995
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Mathematical
and Physical Sciences 1960-1990
Proceedings: Biological Sciences 1990-1996
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 1960-1990
Proceedings: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 1996
Proceedings: Mathematical and Physical Sciences 1990-1995
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical
Sciences 1960-1990
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
1960-1997
Science 1960-1994
Mathematics
American Journal of Mathematics 1878-1995
American Mathematical Monthly 1894-1994
Annals of Mathematics 1884-1994
Journal of Symbolic Logic 1936-1995
Journal of the American Mathematical Society 1988-1994
Mathematics of Computation 1960-1994
Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation 1943-1959
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 1950-1994
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 1966-1994
Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1953-1965
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 1966-1994
Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Series B, Numerical
Analysis 1964-1965
SIAM Review 1959-1994
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 1900-1994
Statistics
Annals of Applied Probability 1991-1994
Annals of Mathematical Statistics 1930-1972
Annals of Probability 1973-1994
Annals of Statistics 1973-1994
Applied Statistics 1952-1995
Biometrika 1901-1994
Journal of the American Statistical Association 1922-1994
Quarterly Publication of the American Statistical Association 1920-1921
Publications of the American Statistical Association 1888-1919
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society) 1988-1995
Journal of the Statistical Society of London 1838-1886
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 1887-1947
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) 1948-1987
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological) 1948-1995
Supplement to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 1934-1947
Statistical Science 1986-1994
Statistician 1962-1995
Incorporated Statistician 1950-1961
Ecology
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1970-1994
Ecological Applications 1991-1996
Ecological Monographs 1931-1996
Ecology 1920-1996
Journal of Animal Ecology 1932-1996
Journal of Ecology 1913-1996
Political Science
American Journal of International Law 1907-1996
American Journal of Political Science 1973-1998
Midwest Journal of Political Science 1957-1972
American Political Science Review 1906-1996
International Organization 1947-1994
Journal of Politics 1939-1996
Philosophy and Public Affairs 1971-1994
Political Science Quarterly 1886-1995
Proceedings of the American Political Science Association 1904-1913
Public Opinion Quarterly 1937-1994
World Politics 1948-1995
Carol Hoover
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Search engines index Web sites based on topic. The good ones, such as Google,
employ sophisticated technology to guess at what you meant and what you wanted
when you typed into the little box. These general-purpose search engines typically
return hundreds or thousands of results, letting you sift through them all by
hand.
Some new industry-specific and subject-specific sites can help solve this problem.
They are a still maturing segment of the Internet, but some are worth experimenting
with now. They restrict their offerings to relevant sites and the result is
a much higher percentage of quality hits. Because they are subject-specific
the terminology you use will be appropriate. They build a taxonomy that is recognized
and use it to construct directories that have meaning for you. Some engines
to try: www.ChemIndustry.com, www.Biocrawler.com,
www.Biolinks.com, www.iCivilEngineer.com,
www.Semiseek.com, www.Sstreams.com (technical
computing). These types of specialty search engines can save time and eliminate
frustration when you are need a small number of targeted hits.
Donna Berg
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Want a reminder?
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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