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Research Library budget reductions
The Laboratory Director has begun an ambitious initiative to reduce the cost
of doing business in FY'04 and FY'05. The Research Library, along with other
G&A organizations, has been asked to support this effort by implementing
mid-year budget reductions. We have made the difficult decision to suspend new
book purchases for the remainder of FY'04, as well as postponing computer equipment
expenditures and freezing staff positions. To minimize the impact upon Library
users in meeting these budget constraints, our priorities reflect our desire
to maintain an excellent journal collection, which therefore required other difficult
trade-offs to be made. We believe this course of action will maintain our excellent
journal collection and the electronic delivery of journal articles and other
digital materials to the user's desktop.
 Rick
Luce
AGU ejournals are here!
 Electronic
journals from the American
Geophysical Union (AGU) are now available at your desktop. The Research Library
has successfully completed negotiations with AGU for access and is making this
content available for Laboratory staff.
The electronic AGU journals include Journal of Geophysical Research (all sections),
Geophysical Research Letters, Radio Science, Reviews of Geophysics, Tectonics,
Water Resources Research and Earth Interactions. The full-text of these titles
will be linked from the LANL databases (SearchPlus and Engineering Index) and
available with LinkSeeker services.
The Research Library has also added new subscriptions for four additional
AGU titles:
Send comments to eteam@lanl.gov.
Carol
Hoover
 Nature
backfiles from 1987 now available
Nature backfiles are now
available, covering January 1987 - December 1996. This includes:
* 37,000 articles from 512 issues
* articles in PDF format with HTML abstracts
Links to the full-text of Nature articles from 1987-1996 will be available
from the LANL databases such as SearchPlus (now including Inspec®), Biosis®,
Engineering Index® and DOE Energy. Full-text links will also be available
through PubMed. Nature can also be accessed at http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/.
Send comments to stbrl-lip@lanl.gov.
Carol
Hoover
 International
Code Council (ICC) Codes added to IHS
The Research Library has added the 2003 International Code Council (ICC)
Codes to the library subscription to IHS Specs and Standards, making them available
at the desktop. The following are included in the ICC Codes:
2003 International Building Code
2003 International Residential Code for One and Two Family Dwellings
2003 International Fire Code
2003 International Plumbing Code
2003 International Mechanical Code
2003 International Fuel Gas Code
2003 International Energy Conservation Code
2003 International Private Sewage Disposal Code
2003 ICC Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities
2003 ICC Electrical Code
2003 International Property Maintenance Code
2003 International Existing Building Code
2003 International Zoning Code
2003 International Urban-Wildland Interface Code
LANL staff can access from the IHS
standards page.
Jeane
Strub
Library Director Luce speaks to new
Materials Science and Engineering Council
Library Director Rick Luce spoke recently to the LANL Materials Science and
Engineering Council about new services that could increase communication and
would allow for digital archiving and peer review, especially for small cross-divisional
teams. One is DSpace, an institutional repository that has been developed by
MIT and HP and is currently in the process of being adapted by major universities
in the US and in Europe. Luce also demonstrated a portal site, developed at the
Research Library, that incorporates blog capability and RSS feeds for materials
science. Lab staff who are interested in investigating these new ideas should
e-mail Tamara McMahon at tmcmahon@lanl.gov .
Donna
Berg
Blake recognized as a "Mover and
Shaker"
 Every
year Library Journal takes nominations for Movers and Shakers in the world of
library and information science, and this year one of these awards went to our
Research Library's Miriam Blake. Blake was cited for "Simplifying Complexity" in
her role as team leader of the Library Without Walls' Development Team. She helped
implement the SFX reference linking system, here called LinkSeeker, which enables
users to click on the LinkSeeker button of a reference and get the full-text
article, if available, or request document delivery. They can also conduct citation
searches for that author or search within library catalogs. Her unique combination
of technical expertise and understanding of librarians and researchers makes
her a valuable resource, making the vision of seamless access to library resources
a reality. Read the article.•
Kathy
Varjabedian
Van de Sompel gives keynote for VALA
2004
The VALA Conference is the Australian
forum where the use of technology in libraries is discussed. Herbert Van de Sompel
of the Research Library was invited to provide a keynote address at the biennial
conference in Melbourne in early February. Van de Sompel, as well as speakers
from France and China, presented before the Conference of more than 700 delegates.
Keynote speakers were invited for their expertise and work with major projects
of significant international interest and their understanding of current key
issues. The Conference focus was on the key challenges in the field of information
technology.
Donna Berg
J. Robert Oppenheimer's 100th birthday
 April
22, 2004 is the 100th birthday of J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan
Project and first director of the Laboratory. In honor of the occasion, the University
of California Berkeley is hosting an exhibit, lectures and conference, detailed
on a Oppenheimer Centennial website.
They include a useful list of selected
links for biographical and historical information. Other events include:
A brief
overview of J. Robert Oppenheimer's life appeared in the LANL Newsbulletin
earlier this year, referring to Oppenheimer as "the pre-eminent scientist
in the world on atomic energy matters."
Sharon Smith, Kathy
Varjabedian
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
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
http://www.jacmp.org/
Chemistry
Rubber Chemistry and Technology
http://www.rubber.org/rctonline/journal/index.cfm
Environment and Earth Science
Earth Interactions
http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-archive&issn=1087-3562
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G 3 )
http://www.agu.org/journals/gc/index.html?ContentPage=/journals/gc/contents/index.shtml
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
http://www.agu.org/pubs/current/gb/
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres
http://www.agu.org/pubs/current/jd/
Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface
http://www.agu.org/pubs/current/jf/
Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans
http://www.agu.org/pubs/current/jc/
Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets
http://www.agu.org/journals/je/
Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth
http://www.agu.org/journals/jb/
Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics
http://www.agu.org/pubs/current/ja/
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/npg/published_papers.htm
Paleoceanography
http://www.agu.org/pubs/current/pa/
Mathematics and Computer Science
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics
http://ajc.math.auckland.ac.nz/
IEEE Distributed Systems Online
http://dsonline.computer.org/
Physics
Fizika A
http://fizika.hfd.hr/fizikaa.htm
Fizika B
http://fizika.hfd.hr/fizikab.htm
eteam@lanl.gov
Staying ahead of the information tsunami
The hot new way to get news and information delivered to your desktop is
called RSS, for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. These are feeds
that are being used to send information across the Internet using XML — the
de facto new standard for sending information over networks. Using this solution
allows access time to get information to be greatly reduced. You can scan the
headlines with new software programs called RSS readers, easily found on the
Web. There are also Web sites that allow users to create their own lists of feeds
and monitor them. You may have already seen on some blogs RSS feeds available
from the New York Times and other news sources. Sci/Tech information is coming
on fast — IOP has just included a feed option from their PhysicsWeb page
(see http://physicsweb.org)
To get some ideas about what might be of interest to you. you can see an
overview of the "Top 100 Most-Subscribed-To RSS Feeds" at: http://manage.townblogs.com:8080/rcsPublic/rssHotlist
Donna
Berg
Comments?
If you have comments or suggestions for other topics you would like to see covered
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Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna
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Pray, and Kathy Varjabedian.
The name and e-mail address of the Library member who contributed
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