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Restart resources from the
Research Library
To support resumption of activities at the lab, the Research Library
will updating daily this new Resumption
Resources page that
pulls together all the pertinent safety and security resources, in
one place. In addition to a centralized source for LANL information
(LIRs, Compass resources, ISO standards, etc.) we will post the newest
articles on behavior-based safety and security-related topics, plus
list any books that could be resources for your groups.
 Lou
Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
  Aerospace
database now searchable in FlashPoint
The Aerospace database is now searched along with 13 other databases
in FlashPoint, the multi-database
search tool from the Research Library. Do a FlashPoint search and
click through to Aerospace, in the CSA interface. Use the LinkSeeker
icon ( ) on records to access full-text articles and other services,
and save a search as an alert to keep up to date.
Aerospace & High Technology
Database covers 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, Eocene, physics, communications, and electronics. It
is useful for researching materials properties in extreme environments.
The database covers journals, NASA reports, AIAA papers, and reports
issued by other U.S. government agencies, international institutions,
universities, and private firms.
The Aerospace database has 2.4 millions records covering 1962-present,
updated monthly. It is created by the American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (AIAA), and U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA).
Kathy
Varjabedian (kv@lanl.gov)
Try the journals PASA and Environmental
Chemistry for free
 PASA:
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia is
freely available online for the next 90 days. PASA is
an ISI-listed, refereed journal for new and significant research
in astrophysics. PASA focuses mainly on southern hemisphere
astronomy and astronomy with Australian instruments.
 Environmental
Chemistry is a new journal addressing chemistry of the
environment. Articles address the fundamental chemistry behind
environmental issues of interest to all environmental researchers
and policy makers in academia, government and industry. The
editorial board includes Nobel Prize winners Mario Molina and
F. Sherwood Rowland.
Free access to PASA ends October 31 and access to Environmental
Chemistry is free to all throughout 2004.
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Open access spotlight: Nucleic
Acids Research (NAR) from Oxford University
Oxford University Press (OUP), has announced that its flagship journal Nucleic
Acids Research (NAR) is to move to a full ‘Open
Access’ (OA) publishing model from January 2005. NAR will
adopt a mandatory OA model whereby authors pay a fee once their
paper has been accepted, and all articles published online are
immediately available without charge.
 NAR is
a highly respected journal, listed by ISI as one of the top ten 'hottest'
journals of the decade in biology and biochemistry, on the same list
along with such titles as Nature and Science. It
has been published for 32 years and includes around 1000 original
research papers per year, making NAR the first journal of
such stature to make a complete switch from a subscription to OA model.
The Open Access publishing model will ensure that no researcher
or reader will be barred from accessing NAR due to excessive
subscription costs and that no author will be prevented from publishing
in NAR for financial reasons.
The LANL Research Library commends adoption of the Open Access publishing
model by NAR and OUP.
More information on NAR's new OA publishing model can be found at http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/nar/narpressjun04.pdf
Send
comments to Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Computing Reviews now available
through LinkSeeker
LinkSeeker, which provides access to full-text and other services
through the button
on database records, has added a new service. You can now check for
a review from Computing Reviews.
Example record from SearchPlus:
Grid-computing portals and security issues.
Butt, AR; Adabala, S; Kapadia, NH; Figueiredo, RJ; Fortes, JAB
Source: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing; Oct. 2003; vol.63,
no.10, p.1006-14
Computing Reviews is a review service
that helps readers manage the large amount of new material published
in computer science by pointing them to the best new journal articles
and books and giving them a continually updated overview of the field.
You can also link to full text, receive customized alerts and read multiple
points of view.
Computing Reviews is a joint effort between Reviews.com and the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). It has a Web-based production
system where 1,000 highly qualified reviewers choose or are assigned
books and articles to review and then write and submit their reviews
online. Nineteen category editors, experts in fields across all of
computer science, read the reviews online and then select the best
ones.
Computing Reviews has recently gotten a new look and has created
tip sheets to orient users. Go to http://www.reviews.com/help/help_tipsheet.cfm for
links to the QuickStart guide, and a general Review (each is a 2-page
PDF).
LinkSeeker
team (linkseeker@lanl.gov)
Ulrich's offers alerting
service for new journals
 Ulrich's
Alerts is a new, free monthly e-mail notification service from ulrichsweb.com.
Find out about journals, newsletters and other serials in your area
of interest as they are added to Ulrich's. Version 1.0 offers subject-based
alerts for newly added titles, title changes, and ceased titles in
more than 100 first-level Ulrich's subject classifications.
Click on the new "Ulrich's Alerts" button on the main navigation
bar to sign up. Once you are signed up and set up your first Ulrich's
Alert, you will receive the current month's alerts on the 15th of each
month, and can access an archive of previous months' alerts by clicking
on the alert name.
Kathy
Varjabedian (kv@lanl.gov)
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:
Chemistry
American Laboratory
http://www.americanlaboratory.com/
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Clays and Clay Minerals
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/cms/00098604/contp1.htm
Engineering
Environmental Building News
http://www.buildinggreen.com/articles/index.cfm
General
Current Digest of the Post Soviet Press
http://www.currentdigest.org/
Physics and Astronomy
APS News
http://www.aps.org/apsnews/
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/baas.html
Bulletin of the American Physical Society
http://www.aps.org/meet/archives/index.cfm
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Search engines: Blinkx -
a new concept for searching
 Called
a "concept" search tool, blinkx is
currently in beta test mode and well worth a peek. This new
idea for desktop search looks at local documents, news search and
the web. Local documents searched include Eudora mail files,
Outlook and Outlook Express. A search runs through all three
content types and results appear in three windows. Document
titles appear in the windows and when you roll over the title a snippet
is shown. The software can be downloaded from the blinkx website -
check with your technical support staff as appropriate.
A tool that searches the web and news sources as well as your
own desktop for locally stored information is a very clever idea. I'm
sure there is a lot of useful information lost forever in my own computer
that will never be re-discovered. Blinkx searches are not very
deep at this point, but as they grow this will become an extremely
useful type of software. Blinkx has popped up with this idea
before the big search engine companies who are said to be working
on similar solutions. The buzz for now is all with blinkx!
Donna
Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov)
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
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