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Newsletter April 2002 
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In addition to the availability of ACS bibliographic data through Science
Server® at LANL, you can receive tables of contents and alerts two
to three issues ahead of their appearance in the scientific databases
such as SciSearch or BIOSIS. Set up a Science Server alert today--you
will be glad you did.
Need an article the LANL Library doesn't own? The Research Library has created a new web page with a list of companies that can provide photocopies of articles that are not available from LANL. By using your Lab purchase card you can create an account with these organizations and order photocopies. By placing orders directly you will speed up your request, and by using the purchase card your order will save time and money by not using additional staff in the order/recharge process. When placing your own orders you can select the delivery option and turnaround time that is most convenient for you. Some professional societies are also providing document delivery as well as some database services. See the new web page. Contact the library at 667-5809 or by e-mail at library@lanl.gov if you have questions about using any of these services.
As many of you already know, the library subscribes to some 5,000 electronic journal titles. Of these titles, some we have loaded on LANL servers for better speed and reliability; some we can only get via the publisher's site. When you execute a search in PubMed you may see something called LinkOut on the citations. LinkOut allows publishers, aggregators, and other Web resource providers to display links to their sites. If you click on LinkOut, then on "full-text online", you will go immediately to the article, provided the LANL library subscribes to the journal via the publisher's web site. If this doesn't work, remember that many biomedical journal titles are
locally loaded on servers here at the LANL library. To get to these, go
to our e-journal page (/ejournals/ejournals.htm)
and look up the e-journal title, clicking on the yellow "E"
button to go the the full-text content (this page also includes a link
to our print journal listing). Keep this page bookmarked and handy when
searching PubMed.
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library collection and are available from your desktop: Biology Chemistry Earth Sciences/Environment Engineering Mathematics/Computer Science Physics
Even the New Mexican picked up the news that Teoma is going after Google. Whether or not they are successful they have stirred up a lot of buzz over their new product. The home page (at: www.teoma.com) is as nice and clean as the Google page and advertises the main thing that makes them unique: "one search, three responses". The Teoma search identifies "communities" or "hubs" by looking at text analysis and link analysis. The search results looks very similar to Google; by squishing the site descriptions into a column on the left side of the screen the right side has been freed up to allow a short list of alternate search terms (and their related communities) and under the term list is a nice list called Link Collections from Experts... So far so good. Unfortunately the Teoma dataset is still quite small, 200 million to Google's 2 billion. While I agree with Teoma that there are not 2 billion useful pages on the web, when it comes to looking for information on many of the very focused subject areas that LANL researches, Teoma just cannot supply the content I need. Will this turn into a search engine "War of the Worlds"? Maybe not, but as users we will all benefit from the efforts of Teoma and the push they will provide to Google. A very interesting distributed computing project is in progress with Google and Stanford University. Individuals can donate spare computer cycles to a project that simulates protein folding to study folding-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow disease and Parkinson's. The software is part of a test version of the Google Toolbar. There are several similar experiments underway in the bio area. Lastly, there have been some funny stories recently about authors trying to increase their rankings in Amazon. Now it appears that some web users have discovered a way to "bomb" Google to improve the rankings of specific web pages. What is interesting to me is that people are using this technique not only to improve the chance of your visiting their sites but as a way to raise awareness about political or social issues. Webloggers have been particularly successful using this technique. Want to be notified of new issues? 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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LANL
Family Day has been scheduled for Saturday, April 13, 2002. The Research
Library will be welcoming LANL staff and their families from 10am-2pm.
The public terminals will be available for use, and we have created a
special page for kids with family-friendly web sites. The Kids' Sites
page will be accessible from any Lab site during Family Day. We will also
have handouts with internet safety guidelines and information about Research
Library products and services. 
The
Research Library recently hosted a visitor from Australia's Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, CSIRO. Tricia Larner
is the Library Services Manager of CSIRO's Sustainable Ecosystems programs,
based in the 
