Table of Contents

• PubMed now available via FlashPoint
• GeoRef through CSA
• Aerospace & High Technology Database through CSA
• New sites for e-books in math and computer science
• New electronic journals from the Research Library
• Search engines: What are people using?
  

FlashPoint, the Research Library's multi-database search tool, has added PubMed to its eleven other research databases. Search some of all all of these at the same time and view the results found in each database.

The PubMed search system provides access to the MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE databases. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It indexes approximately 4000 journals. PREMEDLINE provides basic citation information before full records are added to MEDLINE. PubMed also provides links to protein, nucleotide, structure and genome data. Links to full text sources are provided when available. Date coverage begins in 1966.

Searching by Source/journal in PubMed is a bit tricky. You need to enter the full journal title. For example, New England Journal of Medicine will return 0 hits. The full title is The New England Journal of Medicine. This is true in searching PubMed directly.

Please send questions and comments to the FlashPoint team.

flashpoint@lanl.gov

The Research LIbrary now offers access to the GeoRef database through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). The CSA interface provides a number of special features, such as a searchable online Thesaurus, links to web resources related to your searches, and the ability to set up alerts on saved searches. Clicking on the LinkSeeker button (red and cream S-shape) which appears in the upper right corner of record displays will give you access to full-text of an article, when available to LANL staff, and related information.

The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences, containing 2.3 million references to journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, and Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities. It corresponds to the print publication Bibliography and Index of Geology.

To maintain the database, GeoRef editor/indexers regularly scan more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports. Records include index terms and GeoRef classifications which describe broad areas of the field of geology.

Please send your comments to the Chemistry team.

The Aerospace & High Technology Database is available to LANL staff on the web through the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) interface. The Aerospace database provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. It is useful for researching materials properties in extreme environments. The database covers journals, NASA reports, AIAA papers, and also reports issued other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms.

The Aerospace database has 2.4 millions records covering 1962-present, updated monthly. 348 serials are reviewed and indexed. The database is the equivalent of the printed International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) and Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) (1986-1993).

Please send your comments to the Chemistry team.

AMS Books Online - http://www.ams.org/online_bks/onbk_list.html

This is an experimental program providing monographs on the American Mathematical Society web site from AMS's book publishing program. It includes classic titles like Dynamical Systems by George D. Birkhoff published in 1927 and very recent titles like The Convenient Setting of Global Analysis by Andreas Kriegl and Peter W. Michor, published in 1997.

Andamooka! Open Support for Open Content - http://www.andamooka.org/
This is a collection of support/development communities for Open Content/GFDL books. Readers can find online, downloadable, and printable versions of open books along with support materials (such as source code, images, etc.). Readers can also contribute to the work by submitting suggestions, comments, criticism, missing parts, etc. These contributions will become the subject of further commentary by other web site visitors. All of this material is stored in a searchable archive. You must register to use the annotating feature.

Current titles cover Linux, KDA, and Python. Also available is How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (C++ Version) and How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (Java) by Allen B. Downey.

Frances Knudson

The following new electronic journals have been added to the library collection and are available from your desktop:

Biology
Biosystems Engineering
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15375110

Chemistry
Phytochemistry Reviews
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15687767
Silicon Chemistry
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15690660

Earth and Environment
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/00045608?config=jstor

Engineering
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15361225
Journal of Structural Control
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=11228385

General
Background on World Politics
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/15336689?config=jstor
Bell Journal of Economics
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/0361915X?config=jstor
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/13530194?config=jstor
Comparative Politics
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/00104159?config=jstor
History and Theory
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/00182656?config=jstor
International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0891-4486/current
Isis (1913-1996)
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/00211753?config=jstor
Middle East Report
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/08992851?config=jstor
Philosophy of Science (1934-1996)
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/00318248?config=jstor

Mathematics
Applied mathematics and mechanics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=02534827
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/10798986?config=jstor
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15361233
Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15701166

eteam@lanl.gov

Nielsen//NetRatings is one of the leading internet audience information and analysis services. Their most recently reported figures are for June 2002, for both home and work users. For the United States, the top engines in terms of audience reach are:

U.S. Web Audience Reach

Another way to look are use and popularity is to count the time people spent searching, and this gives a very different picture.

Average Minutes Spent Searching per Visitor

By this measure Google receives far more use than any other search engine.

For more information, see Nielsen//NetRatings Search Engine Ratings by Danny Sullivan, SearchEngineWatch.com, July 25, 2002.

Kathy Varjabedian

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