SciSearch® Plus version 1.4 released
 SciSearch® Plus,
the search interface offering SciSearch, Social SciSearch and ISI Proceedings
databases to LANL staff, was released version 1.4 in September with these changes:
- Results page: the records will now be numbered and will
be consecutive from page to page.
- No duplicates: When searching two or more databases, a
record that is in multiple databases is now retrieved just once and removing
duplicates is no longer necessary, so you will no longer see the "XX duplicates
removed" statement on the Results page.
- Login: Those individuals already registered with SciSearch
Plus will be able to use either their institutional email address or their previously
selected username to login. Those registering for the first time will be using
their institutional email address to login.
- Automatic stemming works somewhat differently, so a search
in version 1.4 may find a different number of records than the same search did
previously. Plurals and verb tense variations are automatically included. Adjectival
forms of words are not retrieved, e.g. mathematics does not retrieve mathematical.
Truncation can be used when adjectives are also desired, e.g. mathematic*.
- Sorting by Times Cited has been redone for greater accuracy,
relying on the number of unique articles which cite a particular article, even
when searching several databases at a time.
 Kathy
Varjabedian
 Essential
Science Indicators
This database is an interesting tool to use for competitive analysis. Essential
Science Indicators (ESI) provides access to a compilation of science statistics
and trends data derived from the Institute for Scientific Information databases.
The chief indicators of productivity in this product are journal article publication
counts. For influence and impact measures ESI uses both total citation counts
and cites per paper. The former reveals gross influence while the latter shows
weighted influence, called impact.
Types of data that will be useful include: most cited author rankings, institutional
rankings, national rankings, and journal rankings. Many tables also include links
to charts and other data sets. A unique feature is a listing called "Research
Fronts," new areas of current science that reflect intensive research and
breakthrough areas. Highly cited papers and "hot papers" are also included.
The data is from the most recent 10 years and is updated every two to four months.
Research Library staff will be happy to teach and demo ESI for you individually
or for a group meeting (contact Carol Hoover: hoover@lanl.gov).
Access is limited, so please remember to use the "Logout" button!
This will be a very popular product.
Donna
Berg
Trial access to SPIE Digital Library
 The
SPIE Proceedings are finally available online! The Research Library is providing
free trial access to the SPIE Digital Library,
including proceedings and journals, from October 1 through October 31, 2003.
The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) has made available online
approximately 70,000 full-text papers from their optics and photonics proceedings
series back to 1998. Trial access also includes citations and abstracts for most
SPIE papers published since 1990.
You can search the proceedings or browse by year, volume number, volume title
or by technology. All four SPIE journals are also available during the trial
period.
Plans are underway at SPIE to expand the Digital Library back to 1990 by the
end of 2004, an archive of nearly 200,000 papers covering a wide scope of optical
technologies and applications.
The Research Library is interested in feedback on the value of this collection
for your work. Please send any comments to eteam@lanl.gov.
Carol
Hoover
 ISI
Chemistry databases trial
Two chemical databases are available to LANL staff during a trial from October
1 through October 21. They can be searched individually or together
through the ISI Web of Science® interface.
Index Chemicus® provides information on biologically
active compounds and natural products as reported in the journal literature.
The database contains over 1.9 million compounds from 1993 onwards with the addition
of over 3,500 compounds per week.
Current Chemical Reactions® contains single- and multi-step
new synthetic methods taken from the journal literature and patents worldwide.
The overall reaction flow is provided for each method, along with a detailed
and accurate graphical representation of each reaction step. This database contains
over 600,000 reactions from 1986 forward and is updated with over 3,000 reactions
each month.
Database records contain full bibliographic references, author abstracts when
available, and data on structures and reaction flows. In addition to text searches,
structure searches can be preformed using the downloadable structure drawing
program.
To access, go to the ISI Chemistry databases
trial page for URL, ID and password.
A feedback session is scheduled for 3:30 Thursday, October 9, at the Research
Library or simply send comments to the Chemistry
team.
Susan
Heckethorn
Cambridge Structural Database: your
input needed
We need your assistance. The Research Library has reached an impasse in our
negotiations with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre for lab-wide access
to the Cambridge Structural Database (see the product
description for more information). We would like to restart the negotiations.
To do so, we will need some supporting data. Specifically, we need to hear from
LANL researchers. If this is a product you use and/or need, please answer the
following questions:
- Any information you can provide as to the uses, quality, time saving, prestige
of this database would be most valuable to our efforts.
- How can the use of this product be related to the Laboratory's mission and
vision?
- What is the impact of not having access to this database?
Send your replies to: strbl-chemobj@lanl.gov
Thank you for your help in bringing this resource to LANL.
Susan
Heckethorn
Who's Who on the Web now available
 Who's
Who is now available on the Web for all LANL employees. Marquis
Who's Who on the Web provides access to current biographies of any person
who appeared since 1985 in any one of the following 20 Marquis print titles.
It is is updated daily and provides access to over 1 million biographies.
| Who's Who in America |
Who's Who in the Midwest |
| Who Was Who in America |
Who's Who in the South & Southwest |
| Who's Who in the World |
Who's Who in the West |
| Who's Who of American Women |
Who's Who in Media & Communications |
| Who's Who in Science & Engineering |
Who's Who in Entertainment |
| Who's Who in American Law |
Who's Who in American Education |
| Who's Who in Medicine & Healthcare |
Who's Who in American Nursing |
| Who's Who in Finance & Industry |
Who's Who in Religion |
| Who's Who in 20th Century America |
Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America |
| Who's Who in the East |
Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals |
You can search by name, or conduct advanced searches using multiple criteria
including age, gender, geography, occupation, college attended and degree(s),
and more. Biographical coverage also includes the following data: birth information,
family, education, career history, creative works, awards, military history,
achievements, current memberships, interests (hobbies) and contact information.
Send questions or comments to eteam@lanl.gov
Carol
Hoover
It's Elemental - the periodic table
 Chemical & Engineering
News celebrates their 80th year in the September 8 issue with It's
Elemental: the periodic table.
89 essayists (e.g. Harry Gray and Bob Grubbs from Caltech) were recruited
to write a personal exploration of their favorite element. Element essays are
selected from a Periodic Table and if Harry Gray's essay (1) is any indication,
it will be worth the effort to read them all. Check out Darleane Hoffman's article
on DARMSTADTIUM AND BEYOND. Oliver Sacks writes about gallium and his Uncle Tungsten.
Eric Seaborg covers his father's discovery of seaborgium.
Frances
Knudson
 Research
Library participates in AISTI Conference
The Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information (AISTI)
held their annual conference in Santa Fe this year on "Phase Shifting for
Digital Libraries." Research Library staff members joined representatives
from around New Mexico and the nation, including NASA, Naval Research Library,
NCAR, USAF, and DOE library sites. Three Research Library staff gave presentations:
Herbert Van de Sompel gave an awe-inspiring talk on the Digital Library Research
area of Open URL; Linn Marks spoke on “Visually Intuitive Interfaces for
Scientists” and Rick Luce wrapped up the conference with his talk “Synthesizing
New Directions for Digital Library Development.”
The conference was expanded an extra day, by participants' request, so that
they could come up to Los Alamos for a tour of the LANL Research Library and
an overview of our products and services. Presentations included: Library Management
Overview (Jackie Stack), Customer Relationship Management (Evelyn Kelley), Marketing
(Lou Pray), SciSearch Plus (Miriam Blake), LinkSeeker (Frances Knudson), ScienceServer
(Carol Hoover), and tours of the library (Helen Boorman) and the new Library
computer facilities (Jeff Scott).
Helen
Boorman
Collaborations in the works between Stanford
and LANL Libraries
Left to right: Mike Keller, Stanford University Librarian; Andrew Herkovic, Director
of the Stanford libraries foundation; Herbert Van de Sompel, Research Library's
Library Without Walls team; Jerry Persons, Chief Information Architect at Stanford
University;
Richard Luce, Research Library Director.
Key members of the Stanford University Digital Library Community community
met with Rich Luce and Herbert Van De Sompel at the Research Library in September
to examine and collaborate on the challenges of the changes in scholarly communication
and the post-digital library era. This successful collaboration between the digital
library innovators will be further detailed in upcoming newsletter articles.
New electronic journals from the Research
Library
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library collection
and are available from your desktop:
Biology and Medicine
IEE Proceedings- Nanobiotechnology
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14781581
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=14778939
General
Jane’s Chem-Bio Web
http://chembio.janes.com/
Jane’s Defence Industry
http://jdin.janes.com/
Jane’s Defence Weekly
http://jdw.janes.com/
Jane’s Foreign Report
http://www.foreignreport.com/
Jane’s Intelligence Digest
http://jid.janes.com/
Jane’s Intelligence Review
http://jir.janes.com/
Jane’s International Defense Review
http://idr.janes.com/
Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst
http://jiaa.janes.com/
Jane’s Missiles and Rockets
http://jmr.janes.com/
Jane’s Navy International
http://jni.janes.com/
Jane’s Terrorism and Security Monitor
http://jtsm.janes.com/
Mathematics and Computer Science
Ad Hoc Networks
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15708705
Physics
Surveys in High Energy Physics
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0142-2413
eteam@lanl.gov
Search engines: Google tests daily News
Alerts and maps to pizza
 This
summer we predicted that Google would certainly want to start offering their
own News Alerts, and now that service is in test mode. From the main Google
News page you'll find a link to "News Alerts" in the left column.
The instructions provide good advice on focusing your request. As part of the
set features you can request your alert to be delivered once a day or "as
it happens." Run your request manually for a couple of days in the News
system to determine how many articles you might be receiving daily before setting
up your alert. Now that Google contains more than 4,500 news sources there is
ample information being received to provide updates on sci/tech topics, especially
from the industry point of view. The service is also good for gleaning news from
the academic sector.
Another new service in beta test provides a small map with icons to mark
results. So far you get some wild results and there are not many local maps (the
test only contains U.S. locations). Try out the new "Search by Location" product
at: labs.google.com/location. A
request for fish and santa fe returned a Santa Fe map with locations marked for
everything from a fish fountain to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. If this
is accessible from your high-tech phone it may be the answer for all those who
are not prone to ask for directions.
Donna
Berg
Comments?
If you have comments or suggestions for other topics you would like to see covered
in this newsletter, pease send your ideas to the Newsletter
Editor.
Want to be notified of new issues?
Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna
Berg, Helen Boorman, 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. |
