OPPIE search and discover tool debuts

You can now can search for journal articles and other documents faster and more efficiently with a new search and discovery tool the Research Library has released May 6, 2008.

Called OPPIE, it will replace SearchPlus as the Research Library's primary search tool in the coming months. It is being released as a "perpetual beta," which means additional functionality and new services will be added every two to three months.

The initial functionality includes:

· Basic, fielded, and cited searching
· Full record display
· Facets, which allows you to narrow your search by date, document type, and database
· Times cited counts
· Ability to limit search to LANL authors only
· Record marking across searches
· Permalinks
· LinkSeeker links to full text articles and related information.

Features to be added in the near future include:

· Search history
· User accounts and preferences
· Results sorting
· Alerts
· De-duplication, which eliminates redundancy
· Browse
· Tagging/ social features
· Additional output options.

"I am excited about releasing OPPIE, because it is an implementation of theoretical ideas that have been proposed by leaders in information science," said Research Library Director Miriam Blake. "OPPIE is faster, has a better design, and is less expensive than SearchPlus, so it is a major achievement for the library."

Try OPPIE today at http://oppie.lanl.gov .

Los Alamos Authors new database available

Los Alamos Authors, a new search service for Laboratory publications, debuts today. Los Alamos Authors offers an updated interface and new search capabilities for finding unclassified data that previously were stored in the former Classification office (SAFE-1) database. This data was created at the Laboratory and covers any Laboratory publications that were submitted for classification review. The earliest records are from 1943 and the repository includes data for records through this year.

The search tool is housed on the yellow network and is available to Laboratory staff only. Los Alamos Authors data is stored in an open-source, standards-based repository managed by the Research Library.

You can
· search by author, title, group, document number, document type, meeting information, program codes, or across all words in the record.
· use Facets, which allow narrowing and targeting search results
· view the Full record display, which contains links to fulltext where available.

"This release is an important step toward realizing the library's vision of becoming information stewards for the Laboratory's intellectual history in addition to data from outside sources," said Research Library Director Miriam Blake. "I'm also pleased because we were able to use the same tools and model that were developed for OPPIE and apply it to a different dataset in a short period of time with minimal resources. This shows how extensible OPPIE is."

Try Los Alamos Authors at http://lasearch.lanl.gov/ .

AGU backfiles now available online back to 1896!

The Research Library is providing access to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Digital Library. Now available online, it contains more than 100 years of Earth and space science research going back to the first issue of Terrestrial Magnetism in 1896.

Records for AGU Digital Library journal articles are linked to the online full text through SearchPlus and are available for browsing and searching at the AGU website.

Nature online back to 1869!

The complete Nature archive is now available online from 1869 to the present. You now have access to an additional 417,000 articles from 6,617 issues in 384 volumes.

All editorial content from the print issues is available including Articles and Letters, Review material, News and Views, News and comment, Literature and Essays, plus supplements. All images have been included when available within online copyright.

Nature articles are linked to full text through SearchPlus and are available for browsing at the Nature website.

LANL Research Library joins Open Access consortium for particle physics publishing--SCOAP3

The LANL Research Library has joined several libraries in the US and internationally in expressing support for the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). SCOAP3 aims to make articles in selected high energy physics (HEP) journals free to read for everyone. It is a proposed mechanism for a field of science (in this case particle physics) to pay for its own publishing costs, rather than make the readers of its journals pay via subscriptions or authors pay via author fees.

In this model, HEP funding agencies and libraries, which today purchase journal subscriptions to implicitly support the peer-review service, federate to explicitly cover the base costs of publishing and peer-review, and the associated publishers make the electronic versions of their HEP journals free to read widely across the globe.