Table of Contents

• SciSearch® Plus: Tips on searching author names
• AIP conference proceedings available in full-text at your desktop
• Library researcher developing NISO standard for OpenURL
• International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology now available electronically
• Research Library seeks visionaries
• Computing Reviews trial
• National Academies Press electronic books
• Engineered Materials Abstracts
• New electronic journals from the Research Library
• Search engines: Reading the news

SciSearch® Plus is the latest interface from the Research Library, offering searching of SciSearch® and Social SciSearch®. Looking for literature by a certain author might seem straightforward, but there are a few tricks you may find helpful. Some "rules of thumb":

• Initials: If unsure of whether an author uses a middle initial or just the first initial, use both methods as in this example:

mitchell e <or> mitchell e?

("e" retrieves with the first initial E (and no other initials) and
"e?" retrieves the first initial E, plus one single middle initial)

If you know a middle initial is used, use both initials without a space, for example:

mitchell ea

• Punctuation needs to be included in author searching for most years...However...there
are a few years where the names were "packed" so OR together the variations to get
them all. Examples:

o'rourke <or> orourke
garcia-carmona <or> garciacarmona

• Multiple authors: This example retrieves papers by either author:

thomson bm <or> turney wr

This example retrieves papers they have co-authored:

thomson bm <and> turney wr

More information on author searching can be found under the "Tips/FAQs" tab within SciSearch Plus.

Kathy Varjabedian

The AIP Conference Proceedings are now available in full-text at your desktop. The full-text volumes are currently available from v.500, published in 2000, to the present. The online proceedings allows you to search by topic, title or author and to refine searches by adding dates or limiting to fields such as author affiliation or abstract.

Many of you will be familiar with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings. The conference proceedings report findings presented at many of the most important scientific meetings around the world. Published proceedings are valuable as topical status reports providing quick access to information before it appears in the traditional journal literature. Notable titles include Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams, International Nuclear Physics Conference and the International Conference on DNA-Based Molecular Construction.

The proceedings can be found at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/numerindex.jsp. Or, they can be accessed as LinkSeeker links through the library databases such as SciSearch® Plus and INSPEC® at LANL.

Send any comments and suggestions to eteam@lanl.gov .

Carol Hoover

The NISO Committee AX (OpenURL Standard) has released information for Public Comment on the standardization of an OpenURL for universal application. Herbert Van De Sompel of the LANL Research LIbrary has been a leader in coordinating and designing this effort.

The OpenURL idea began in the information world and is used to facilitate item-level linking from references in various online information systems/databases to resources relevant to the cited resource. [The Research Library's LinkSeeker product uses these ideas.] Due to the variation in systems and the information they provide access to, the nature and quality of data available to create an OpenURL can vary. The Committee is working to define requirements that target the greatest number of referenced items.

In everyday Web life we are now accustomed to a 'link resolver' providing different services depending on the type of resource being referenced. For instance the title of a book may be linked to Amazon or book reviews; a journal citation can link to a publisher's web site, the full-text of the article or a list of the author's other citations. Van De Sompel reported, "The Standard aims to generalize the linking we currently see in scholarly information systems (e.g. via LinkSeeker) to the Web in general." The standardization for this process will be complex and lengthy but of immense usefulness when completed. The goal is to formalize a web process that will escort users to information and related services in a manner that is focused, fast and reliable.

Donna Berg

This classic and well-known reference was originally published for the National Research Council in 7 volumes. It is now being provided to LANL staff through our subscription to knovel. Knovel contains several hundred online interactive engineering/scientific reference books and databases.

The "Tables" contain an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The original 1000-page index is hyperlinked to each entry's appropriate page. Electronic search capabilities allow you to find what you are looking for much faster.

Donna Berg

The Research Library/Library Without Walls Project is planning the next generation of electronic information products and services. FlashPoint is great but we are interested in developing that and other tools further. The first step is to gather "voice of the customer" data from Laboratory employees who are consistent and sophisticated information users. We hope you will be willing to participate in an interview session to provide new ideas and vision for the Library. We would like to discuss your individual research information needs and how these needs are being met - or not being met. This feedback session is an opportunity for you to help us create a Research Library that will be a more valuable information tool for your research.

The interview should take 30-45 minutes. Location can be your office or the Research Library. The data will be analyzed identifying customer needs and ideas for new services and products. A significant development that resulted from the last voice of the customer effort is FlashPoint, a multi-database search tool. We will, of course, provide you with a summary of the results of the survey and will share with you our plans for implementing your suggestions.

If you are interested in being interviewed, please send e-mail to Lou Pray (lpray@lanl.gov) or phone her at 665-2756. We look forward to listening to your thoughts and ideas for the future.

Lou Pray

Computing Reviews is a joint effort between Reviews.com, a publisher of reviews of academic and technical literature, and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the leading society of academic computer scientists. Computing Reviews is like the book review section of the New York Times, targeted to computer science literature.

Computing Reviews helps computer science students and researchers find items that are worth reading. There is so much published in the field that it is hard to figure out what material is quality, especially if outside one's area of direct expertise. It also gives a constantly updated overview of what is new and important in the entire field of Computer Science.

Reviews are available for books, articles, conference proceedings, theses, technical reports, and Web-only publications.

Soon Computing Reviews and the Research Library's LinkSeeker service will be connected, enabling users to access full text, and citation histories of the reviewed articles.

The Research Library has trial access to Computing Reviews until the end of April. Please try this new resource and e-mail your comments to eteam@lanl.gov .

Frances Knudson

The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes over 200 books a year issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the United States. The institutions represented by NAP attract the nation's leading experts in every field to serve on their blue ribbon panels and committees.

Hundreds of NAP books are available in full-text at your desktop. Subject areas include materials sciences, bioterrorism, nuclear waste, space science, environmental management, future fuels, groundwater contamination and bioremediation, computer science, biology, chemistry, mathematics and statistics. NAP ebooks have publication dates beginning in the 1980s and are also linked through the library catalog. These titles are browsable, full-text searchable and easy to use. Important titles include:

• Small Wonders, Endless Frontiers: A Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
• Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos:Eleven Science Questions for the New Century.

Carol Hoover

Engineered Materials Abstracts is designed for materials sciences researchers, engineers and scientists. You may search on the entire file, or on the subfiles which cover Advanced Polymers Abstracts, Composites Industry Abstracts, or Engineered Materials Abstracts. The databases specifically cover polymers, ceramics, and composites in a variety of structural and other advanced applications. Information regarding research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications of materials have been taken from 1,300 journals. This is a rich database that includes information from dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings and books since 1986. Because EMA is within the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts system your results include data from the patent literature and links to web-based resources. Global coverage makes this an extremely important information resource for the fields covered.

As with all CSA databases, you can use the LinkSeeker icon () to link to the full-text of articles to which the Research Library subscribes as well as other services. The Alert feature can keep you up-to-date on the newest publications, and related databases can be searched at the same time.

You can find links to Engineered Materials Abstracts on our site map and on the Databases & Indexes page.

Donna Berg

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

Biology
Comparative Parasitology
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-journals-list&issn=1525-2647
Epidemiologic Reviews
http://epirev.oupjournals.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml
Florida Entomologist
http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/feissues.htm
Journal of Forest Research
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=13416979
Journal of General Plant Pathology
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=13452630
Journal of Herpetology
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-journals-list&issn=0022-1511
Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=13675435
Molecular Cancer Research
http://mcr.aacrjournals.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml
Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=03034240

Chemistry
Chromatographic Reviews
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=00095907
Combinatorial Chemistry: An Online Journal
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14643383

Engineering
IEE Review
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=00135127
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15407977
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15407993
IEEE Wireless Communications
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15361284
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15420973

Environmental and Earth Sciences
Geology
http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-archive
Geological Society of America Bulletin
http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-archive
Journal of Marine Research
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/jmr/00222402/contp1.htm
Oil & Gas Journal
http://ogj.pennnet.com/search/index.cfm?Section=Search

General
American Economic Review
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/aea/00028282/contp1.htm
Journal of Economic Literature
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/aea/00220515/contp1.htm
Journal of Economic Perspectives
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/aea/08953309/contp1.htm

Mathematics and Computer Science
Applied Soft Computing Journal
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15684946
BIT Numerical Mathematics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=00063835
Computational Biology and Chemistry
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14769271
Computer Languages, Systems & Structures
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14778424
Georgian Mathematical Journal
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=1072947x
Journal of Scheduling
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=10946136

Physics
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=00207381

eteam@lanl.gov

Extremely high numbers of people are scanning the Web news sites this week. You might want to keep in touch by using the Google.com news service. For the newest articles posted Google provides the time since the appearance of the item to let you know the lag since their latest update. Google also allows for focused searching; unfortunately there is no e-mail alert service yet.

Several excellent newspaper web sites are: washingtonpost.com, latimes.com, guardian.co.uk, timesonline.co.uk, usatoday.com, freep.com. Most of these sites allow you to sign up for a free daily e-mail alert that provides top stories or perhaps allows more in-depth personalization.

Some other major news sites are: worldnews.com, daypop.com (which links to weblogs as well), Reuters.com, msnbc.com, bbc.co.uk, cnn.com and newsknife.com which rates the news sites. Many of these sites now provide audio and video links. The weekly news magazines, Time and Newsweek also have ongoing coverage.

The DOD.gov site links to all official DOD press releases and photos. The Research Library subscription to Janes.com allows detailed coverage within their new service named "Iraq Crisis Centre". This service posts twice daily updates that include analysis, maps, images, and extensive links to equipment and material.

Donna Berg

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