June 2004 Newsletter - LANL Research Library

Research Library Newsletter
June 2004

Table of Contents

Library budget update
Cited searching in SearchPlus
The Lancet backfiles to 1823 now available at your desktop
Backfiles for Angewandte Chemie available at your desktop
Elsevier decides to allow open access for author self-archiving of papers
Find mathematics literature back to 1868 in Zentralblatt MATH
Searching for materials research just became easier
Library staff speak on developments in digital libraries
Local AISTI meeting draws top speakers
New electronic journals from the Research Library
Search engines: New things from Google and Mooter.com

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Library budget update

At the end of March, the Research Library, along with other G&A organizations, had a mid-year budget reduction. We made the difficult decision to suspend new book purchases for the remainder of FY'04 (representing 35% of the required cut), 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 our excellent journal collection and the electronic delivery of journal articles and other digital materials to the user's desktop.

We are pleased to report that we have received a partial restoration of funding that we will use to purchase books. Thank you to all the library users who expressed their concern and support. If you have suggestions for books that you would like to see the Library purchase, please send them to book.suggestions@lanl.gov.

Cited searching in SearchPlus

Looking for cited counts on papers where you may not have a full reference? Not to be confused with Cited Browsing, Cited Searching allows you to find papers that cited a work when you only have limited information. Let's say you know the journal name, the year it was published and maybe the starting page number. You aren't exactly sure about the author, however. No problem in cited searching! Just enter the information you do have in cited searching. Here are pieces of information you can enter if you don't have a full citation but want to get a cited count:

The journal name or part of the journal name
Year of publication
Volume
Starting page

This kind of search can be helpful when you already know the author but this particular author may be cited under various name spellings. This is very common with Asian names, hyphenated names and last names containing an apostrophe.

Another use of Cited Searching is locating the number of times a particular patent has been cited. Just enter the patent number in the patent box and click submit.

SearchPlus is the search interface to Inspec, ISI Proceedings, ISI SciSearch and ISI Social SciSearch databases developed by the Research Library for searching, getting to content, alerts and other services.

Lou Pray

The Lancet backfiles to 1823 now available at your desktop

180 years of The Lancet are now available with a click of your mouse. The Lancet backfile contains 390,000 historical full-text electronic articles beginning with volume one, issue one in 1823.

This content can be searched or browsed through Science Server at LANL, SearchPlus and BIOSIS.

eteam@lanl.gov

Backfiles for Angewandte Chemie available at your desktop

The Research Library has made available at your desktop backfiles for Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English from volume 1 (1962) to volume 36 (1997). This content includes more than 18,000 full-text electronic articles. This includes all book reviews as well as conference reports.

The backfiles are available through Science Server at LANL, SearchPlus (including Inspec), Engineering Index, BIOSIS and DOE Energy.

Carol Hoover

Elsevier decides to allow open access for author self-archiving of papers

The publisher Elsevier Science has recently made the decision to allow authors to post their own published articles. This represents a major change in Elsevier's policy regarding the growing open access movement in scholarly communication.

The new Elsevier policy on published articles is said to allow an author to post his or her version of the final refereed paper on a personal web site and on the institution's web site (including its institutional repository). Each posting should include the article's citation and a link to the journal's home page (or the article's DOI). The author does not need Elsevier's permission to post in this manner, but any other posting (e.g. to a repository elsewhere) would require permission. "His version" apparently refers to the Word or Tex file, not a PDF or HTML downloaded from Science Server at LANL or ScienceDirect, however the author will be allowed to update the version to reflect changes made during the refereeing and editing process. Elsevier will continue to be the single, definitive archive for the formal published version.

Elsevier will be gradually updating public information on their policies, including copyright forms and information on their web site.

The LANL Research Library congratulates Elsevier on this step towards Open Access (OA) publishing. Elsevier is the publisher of such titles as Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A and B, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Physica A-E, and Nuclear Physics A and B as well as hundreds of other journals.

Send comments or questions to hoover@lanl.gov.

Carol Hoover

Find mathematics literature back to 1868 in Zentralblatt MATH

The Zentralblatt MATH database now goes back to 1868, since integrating the data of the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik. The Jahrbuch, covering the period 1868 - 1942, has been re-keyboarded, re-edited with comments, title translations and MSC classifications. Previously Zentralblatt MATH provided comprehensive indexing of the mathematics literature from 1931 to the present.

The Zentralblatt MATH Database contains more than 2.0 million entries drawn from more than 2300 serials and journals. The entries are classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification Scheme (MSC 2000). Zentralblatt MATH is sponsored by the European Mathematical Society, FIZ Karlsruhe, and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Subject coverage is: Pure mathematics (e.g. algebra, logic, topology, geometry, analysis), probability theory, statistics, mathematical physics, classical, solid and fluid mechanics, numerical mathematics, mathematical programming, theoretical computer science and automata theory, systems theory, control, operations research, economics, information and communication, circuits, coding, cryptography, applications in biology, chemistry, sociology, psychology.

Kathy Varjabedian

Searching for materials research just became easier

The CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX is now available through the Research Library's subscription with CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). CSA has collected eight major databases in materials science, with a combined total of 2 million records going back to 1966. Select CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX and you can do a combined search of:

Aluminium Industry Abstracts (1972+)
Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts (1975+)
Copper Data Center Database (1965+)
Corrosion Abstracts (1980+)

Engineered Materials Abstracts (1986+)
Materials Business File (1985+)
METADEX (1966+)
WELDASEARCH (1967+)

The databases have been consolidated so that no duplicate records appear in the search results.

Other advantages of CSA Materials Database are:

a search will also find material in Recent References Related to Technology, MicroPatent Materials Patents, and Web Resources Related to Technology
a search can be saved and run as an alert
search results are LinkSeeker-enabled, so LANL users can click on the button to access full text and other services
search results can be saved to RefWorks bibliographic management software.

Kathy Varjabedian

Library staff speak on developments in digital libraries

Left to right: Jean-Claude Guidon, University of Montreal, Canada; Theresa Velden, Max Planck Society, Germany;
Helio Kuramoto, IBICT, Brazil; Johann van Reenen, University of New Mexico;
Mauro Sergio Miskulin, University of Campinas, Brazil and ISTEC President; Rick Luce, LANL

Rick Luce delivered a keynote talk at the 2nd International Symposium on Digital Libraries in Campinas, Brazil, and Henry Jerez gave a technical seminar there on the Research Library's new approach to creating a digital repository infrastructure. In addition to digital library discussions, the conference theme centered around the issue of open access to scientific and technical literature. There was an unexpected unanimous grass-roots vote from the participants urging all Brazilian funding agencies, research institutes, and universities to support open access through education, reallocated funding and dedicated digital library projects. In addition, both the Brazilian Institute for Information Science and Technology (IBICT) and the Ibero-American Science and Education Consortium (ISTEC) agreed to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html).

Library staff member Herbert Van de Sompel provided the keynote lecture on the need for new infrastructure models at CRIS 2004, the 7th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems in Antwerp, Belgium. Because of the dramatic changes in scholarly research that are being influenced by improvements in such areas as computing and network technologies, the need for a natively digital, network-based scholarly communication system that can capture, make accessible and preserve the digital scholarly record becomes evident. Van de Sompel discussed the infrastructure requirements for such a system including an intellectual property rights framework, repository models, and characteristics of a new system.

Donna Berg

Local AISTI meeting draws top speakers

The Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information (AISTI) recently held their 5th annual conference in Santa Fe. The topic was "Forces of Innovation on Digital Libraries." Highlights were talks on informatics in the drug field by Tudor Oprea, former LANL post-doc — now at UNM Biocomputing; Johan Bollen from Old Dominion University spoke on "Mining Digital Library Usage Patterns"; and Wendy Selzer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation brought a radical view of intellectual property to the meeting. LANL Library Director, and founder of AISTI, Rick Luce, presented a model for the future of the AISTI organization.

Donna Berg

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:

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Search engines: New things from Google and Mooter.com

Google always has something up their sleeve, and you can investigate their latest ideas by visiting http://labs.google.com. This is the Google sandbox and it provides you with an opportunity to think about and try new services. Right now you can set up e-mail alerts that would be useful to monitor a competitor or industry. You can choose daily or weekly alerts. If you have already used the new Froogle shopping service, you might want to try Froogle via your cell phone. This sounds like a service that could be really hot during post-holiday sale shopping at the mall. Google is also offering you the opportunity to allow your computer to help solve challenging problems by volunteering your home computer to be a part of a distributed computing process. They are currently working with Stanford University on a protein structure problem. One of the newest Google services is not quite available; you will be able to search by voice with a phone call and the results will appear on your screen — definitely a new idea worth tracking.

If you would like to try a new search engine, look at Mooter.com. The results for sci/tech searching are not extensive, but the displays and search navigation ideas are creative and focused.

Donna Berg

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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.

Research Library Newsletter June 2004

Research Library Newsletter
June 2004