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Newsletter February 2001 
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Quality New Mexico's Board of Directors announced the 2000 New Mexico Quality Awards in January. This year, only eighteen New Mexico organizations were recognized as Roadrunner recipients to reward their quality efforts. This is the second time the LANL Research Library has been recognized for its quality focus from the Quality New Mexico Organization and the only library to receive any Quality New Mexico recognition. The New Mexico Quality Roadrunner Award recognizes those organizations and businesses in New Mexico that have made significant progress on the road to excellence and have undergone an in-depth assessment and evaluation by a team of New Mexico Quality Award Board of Examiners. Why did we receive this award? In 1995 the Research Library first started down the path of quality improvement. The Research Library's customer-focused, process-driven business solutions have helped us excel in our quest for high customer satisfaction and continued product innovations to better serve the LANL community.
More material has recently been added to the APS Physical Review Online Archive know as PROLA (http://prola.aps.org/). This month we have news from Mark Doyle that there are new improvements to PROLA's functionality and interface as well as additional content. The 1981-1997 volumes of Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics are now available. We've also learned that the pre-1985 material has been scanned to make the files of much higher quality. By June APS expects to have all their journals on line, back to 1893!
The Chemical & Biological Defense Information Analysis Center is the DOD center tasked with collecting classified and unclassified research about all aspects of CB (Chemical & Biological) warfare and terrorism. Some of the research areas are: analysis of manufacturing processes, chemical and physical properties, chemical identification, counter-proliferation, counter-terrorism, decontamination, domestic preparedness, force protection, medical effects and treatment, NBCCS, smoke and obscurants, toxicology as well as other areas. The Research Library Report staff has access to the Center's resources. If you need information on any of these topics, contact the Report staff for help: 7-4446, reports@lanl.gov.
Have you ever wanted to limit your SciSearch®/Social SciSearch® results to just records that have abstracts? There's a quick and easy way to do just that. Records without abstracts have the phrase "no abstract" in the abstract field. Eliminating records with this phrase limits retrieval to abstracts only. In the Title/Abstract/Keyword field enter: "light scattering" <not> "no abstract" Now you can easily read the abstracts. (Note: This technique applies to just SciSearch and Social SciSearch and does not apply to the other locally loaded databases.)
Do the new retirement age factors have you considering leaving the Lab for adventures elsewhere? Maybe just moving to a new office, or starting your spring cleaning early to try to rush the snow season? If you're considering sending your personal copies of books or journals to the Research Library, contact Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov; 7-3061) about the disposition of your journals or Marie Harper (mharper@lanl.gov; 7-3065) about your books. We'll be glad to talk with you about your collection or go to your offices to help you through the sorting process.
Each week the Research Library announces new books, both print and electronic, on our new book list. To let library users know what's available in the growing body of e-books, we are starting a monthly column in this newsletter highlighting some of the top titles. This month's feature on e-books highlights two "in the news" documents of interest to the Laboratory. The breakup of the Soviet Union left the world in a precarious situation related to nuclear weapons: maintenance, dismantlement, disposition and/or proliferation. The Energy Secretary directed a panel of the Energy Advisory Board to report on the current situation and make recommendations that would help to ensure this nation's national security and the security of those former Soviet weapons. That report, authored by Howard Baker and Lloyd Cutler, is called A report card on the Department of Energy's Nonproliferation Programs in Russia, and was released January 10, 2001. The full document is available at http://www.hr.doe.gov/seab/rpt.pdf In December of last year, the Government Accounting Agency (GAO) released a document evaluating particular aspects of the DOE's stockpile stewardship program: the planning process; the new budget structure; and the organizational framework. Nuclear weapons: improved management needed to implement Stockpile Stewardship Program effectively (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0148.pdf), in a fashion typical of the GAO, methodically analyzes each of the areas, points out shortcomings and advancements, then makes recommendations for improvements. If you would like to see what new books - both print and electronic - are added to the Research Library's collection each week, you can subscribe to the new books list.
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop:
For more information, visit the Open Archives Initiative at http://www.openarchives.org .
A recent New York Times article reports that current search engines have access to less than one percent of all the pages on the Web. Purportedly, up to 500 billion pieces of content are hidden from the ordinary search engines we are using such as Google, Northern Light and Yahoo. This vast un-indexed region is called the "deep Web" and there are estimates that it may be 500 times larger than the surface Web that search engines cover. All signs point to the deep Web as the dominant paradigm for the next generation of the Internet. A new breed of engine is emerging that drills down into this area, usually focusing on a specific subject. The most prominent entry point for science searching using one of these new engines is Biolinks.com, which covers the world of biology. Visiting this site can provide you with a flavor for using a deep Web search engine. Deep Web sites tend to be narrower with deeper content than conventional surface sites; almost half of deep Web content resides in topic specific databases, and this part of the Web is the fastest growing area for new information on the Internet. A young company known as BrightPlanet is studying the deep Web and developing search tools to access this information. Their white paper is available at their web site (brightplanet.com/newsroom/deepweb.asp) and it contains some astonishing statistics about information available "in the deep." BrightPlanet believes there are nearly 550 billion individual documents in the deep Web versus about 1 billion in the "surface" Web. They say the deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information compared to 19 terabytes in the surface Web. Perhaps of most interest is their statement that 95% of the deep Web is freely accessible information, no fees or subscriptions. If you want to experiment with a trial search engine, the BrightPlanet site has further information. 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
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The
LANL Research Library, on the heels of winning the 1999 Federal Library
of the Year Award, is again a recipient of the prestigious New Mexico
Roadrunner Quality Award. 
Version
1.4 of 
OAI
Protocol 1.0 was released at the January 23, 2001 meeting of the Open
Archives Initiative in Washington. Formally called Open Archives Initiative
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the goal of this architecture is to
provide an easy way for data providers to expose their metadata
and for service providers to access that metadata and use it as
input to value-added services. One OAI-compliant Open Archive will be
inter-operable with all other OAI-compliant Open Archives. This means
that it no longer matters where papers are archived: the papers in all
OAI-compliant Archives can be harvested into one global "virtual archive".