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The Research Library has a new home, organizationally speaking, on Oct. 2 as it moves from CIC Division to the Science and Technology Base (STB) Program Office. Instead of CIC-14, the library will now be STB-RL. "This puts us closer to our customers," Research Library group leader Rick Luce said of the planned move. "Clearly the Research Library supports the research base of the Laboratory so it's a good match of our missions." STB Director Allen Hartford said, "I'm delighted to have the Research Library as an integral part of STB. I have been on the Library Advisory Board for about two years and have been extremely impressed by Rick Luce's vision and leadership and the things he has accomplished. "The Library fits nicely with the many other functions in STB. It is a vital part of maintaining the Laboratory as a premier research institution."
The Research Library web site has a new look. Feedback from customers was collected and used to reorganize the site, improve navigation and add content. Changes include:
Please send comments and suggestions to: lib-www@lanl.gov Kathy
Varjabedian
The Research Library/Library Without Walls introduced several database enhancements on September 28, 2000. The major enhancement that affects all LANL mounted databases is that users will be able to move through an entire answer set in increments of 25, 50, 100, 250, or 500. The increment is selected by the user. Several enhancements only affect SciSearch and Social SciSearch:
Frances
Knudson
The publishers of the journal Nature have announced their policy for access to the online version of this title. The LANL Research Library will have to pay $12,300.00 on an annual basis to continue online access to Nature. Here is what we will get for our money: access to the articles, letters to Nature and the brief communications will be available on the date of publication. Here's what we get after a 12-week delay: access to the news, opinion, scientific correspondence, commentary, book reviews, features, special essays (e.g. Millennium Essay), news & views, news in brief, reviews, careers and recruitment and review articles. Also note that this fee only covers access to Nature; it does not include online access to the complete family of Nature titles: Nature biotechnology, Nature cell biology, Nature genetics, Nature medicine, Nature neuroscience, or Nature structural biology. The LANL Research Library strongly believes this policy to be unreasonable and backward. A 12-week delay in delivery of the essential news-type of information for which we all read Nature has the effect of weakening the value of the online product. In addition we believe this policy to be harmful to the research process when researchers are given this type of second class access. The Research Library would like to encourage Nature to provide a policy that offers access to a complete and up-to-date online product at a reasonable cost. Therefore we would like to encourage everyone who has an interest in access to Nature online to contact the Library Relations Manager at Nature and express your opinions on their new site license policy. The contact at Nature is: Donna
Muscatello Carol
Hoover
You may
access these volumes through the Research Library's Catalog. Donna
Berg The July 2000 issue of Hyperfine Interactions contains a unique article from the fall International Conference on the Applications of the Mossbauer Effect. Held in Garmisch, the highlight of the conference was an evening lecture by Rudolf L. Mossbauer on early ideas and experiments which led to the discovery of the "M-effect". The talk is available online at: http://www.baltzer.nl/hyper/contents/2000/126-1,4.html#hfi2738 Donna
Berg Check out the About.com mathematics web site at http://math.about.com/science/math/mbody.htm. This site categorizes mathematical resources into 22 areas including combinatorics, geometry, number theory, statistics and topology. About.com employs subject experts to build and maintain their web pages. Frank Bria, the math expert, is an internet consultant with an M.S. in mathematics from Purdue University and four years of college teaching experience. Frances
Knudson
The University of Chicago Press is offering free trial access to current issues of the following electronic journals. You will be able to access the full-text without charge until January 2001. Back issues of these titles (and many others) are now available from the Research Library through JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/ American
Journal of Sociology http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/journal/
Carol
Hoover
The following
new electronic journals have been added to the library collection and
are available from your desktop: General
Carol
Hoover
FirstGov, www.firstgov.gov, which officially opened September 29, consolidates about 27 million government Web pages. The site allows searching for government information by topic, rather than by agency. FirstGov allows users to search or browse for information of all kinds and also enables users to conduct government business online, such as applying for student loans, tracking Social Security benefits, or comparing Medicare options. The FirstGov site presents a main list of 16 Interesting Topics, including items like Business and Economy, Consumer Services and Safety, Federal Benefits and Grants, and Money and Taxes. Clicking on one of these leads to a screen with subtopic links. It also provides a keyword search box prominently at the top center of the screen, with a Search Tips screen a click away and some phrase searching. Users can also click directly to the three branches of government or to two new sites: Workers.gov and Mapstats.gov. The Workers.gov site is an easy-to-use site that's designed for connecting American workers and their families to government services and information. Nine core categories take users to Internet job postings, medical information, family services, and much more. The categorized and annotated list of Government Gateways here is particularly helpful. The Mapstats.gov site provides easy data access tools to a range of government statistics from over 70 agencies, and gives state and county profiles. Lou
Pray 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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The
Institute of Physics has published a comprehensive series of three reference
works that are an exceptional resource in computational intelligence.
The Handbook of Neural Computation, Handbook of Evolutionary
Computation and the Handbook of Fuzzy Computation are published
in print and are also available online to give easy access to the information
they contain.