Brief overview of LANL Research Library products and services

 

 

                             Over 7 TB of locally stored content .                     Over 70 Million records.

 

A&I vendors include:

 
  • SciSearch 1945-present : ~30 M + 4 k weekly
  • Social SciSearch 1973-present: ~15M + 1k weekly
  • Arts & Humanities 1975-present: ~5M + .5k weekly
  • ISI Proceedings 1990-present : ~3M + .5k weekly

                   All ISI databases have citation records

 

  • BIOSIS : ~15M + 3k weekly

 

  • INSPEC : ~8 M + .5k weekly
  • Engineering Index : ~5.5M + .5k weekly

 

  • Dept. of Energy, Energy Citation Database : ~4 M + .2k weekly

 

 

 

   Over 7 Million full-text electronic journals locally loaded (metadata, full-text sgml/xml markup, and PDF):

 

   
                                                                          
    Elsevier Science (metadata, full-text xml, PDF); acquired Academic Press content
                                       
    American Chemical Society (metadata only)
                                                   
    IEE/IEEE (metadata + PDF)
                                                                              
    IOP (metadata + PDF)
                               
    Kluwer (metadata + PDF) - acquired by Springer
                                                             
   Springer (metadata + PDF)
                       
   Wiley (metadata + PDF)

 

 

  • Each Vendor has their own "internal" format / markup
  •      Example
  • Within a vendor, formats and data handling changes over time
  •      Example
  • LOTS of duplication across providers