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External Advisory Board calls Research
Library the "best in world"
Left to right: Dan Greenstein, Deanna Marcum, Martin Blume,
Gary Marchionini, Carl Lagoze,
Dan Atkins, Michael Keller, Lorcan Demsey.
The Research Library was recently named “the best science research
digital library in the world” following a review by the library's External
Advisory Board, a group of high-profile information experts. The purpose
of the group's visit was to provide an independent external assessment of the
Library’s
technical and operational capabilities and to help provide recommendations for
future developmental directions. Read the LANL
Newsbulletin article for more information.
Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center online now available
 A new Jane's service is now available to you at your desktop. Jane's Terrorism
and Insurgency Center (JTIC) is a comprehensive resource for the latest global
terrorism related content. JTIC provides a gateway to the latest news,
exclusive features, comprehensive reference material and an interactive events
database with a five year archive. This product allows you to:
- receive terrorist/insurgent related news that is updated daily
- monitor and track terrorist/insurgent activity by region or country
- read unique analysis from Jane’s global network of security and
intelligence experts
- access a comprehensive library of in-depth profiles on terrorist/insurgent
groups
Trends in terrorism and insurgency are monitored in JTIC Review, also
part of JTIC. This very useful resource provides a monthly overview of
global terrorist and insurgent activity. Published in two parts,
each edition examines prominent recent developments region by region.
 Carol Hoover
(hoover@lanl.gov)
Jane's Sentinel Security Assessment Libraries online now available
 A
one-stop source for country intelligence, Jane's
Sentinel Security Assessments enable you to identify and assess conventional
and asymmetric threats of all kinds for every state and territory in the world.
Jane's Sentinel Security Assessments combine analysis of the latest events
and trends in political, security and military affairs with a detailed breakdown
of global military and political structures on a regional basis. Broken down
by country, each region details the country profiles providing a detailed analysis
of political, diplomatic and military capabilities. Each profile includes
the latest intelligence on:
- Internal and external threats
- Political context, including personalities, parties and interest groups
- Foreign relations, disputes and alliances
- Military capabilities, including chain of command, doctrine and detailed
inventory by service
- Insurgent forces and terrorist groups
- Defence expenditure statistics, plus analysis of procurement, production
and research
- Security and foreign forces breakdown
- Strategic natural resources
- Demographic trends
- Infrastructure (roads, railways, airports, ports and waterways, telecommunications)
- Economic indicators
Access the website via world and country maps combined with enhanced search capabilities.
There are 17 Regions to choose from:
The Gulf States, North Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa,
North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean, Eastern Mediterranean,
The Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltic States, Russia and the CIS, Western
Europe, China and Northeast Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Corrections to be made to SciSearch
and Social SciSearch records
 The Research Library
has received correction records for the SciSearch and Social SciSearch databases
in SearchPlus. These 1.3 million correction records will be processed over
the next several weeks and incorporated into SearchPlus. While this processing
occurs, there may be some slowdowns in SearchPlus searching time. Cited
counts may be off during this time and times cited sorting and cited searching
may be incorrect until all records are loaded and cited counts updated.
Corrections to
numerous inaccurate records have been a frequent customer request over
the years and we are pleased that Thomson ISI, the producer of SciSearch and
Social SciSearch, is now making these corrections available.
Jeane Strub (jstrub@lanl.gov)
 Britannica
Online
Did you know that the Research Library has a subscription for LANL staff
to Encyclopædia
Britannica Online, "the world's most comprehensive reference product"?
Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia,
as well as:
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia -
28,000 short entries
- Britannica Internet Guide: a directory of over 300,000 Web sites selected,
rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
- Britannica Book of the Year
- World Atlas browse:
interactive maps charting people, land,
government, history, major cities, and landmarks
- Timeline Browse: trace selected topics through history with illustrations
and key dates
- Year in Review Browse
Search with keywords and get relevancy-ranked results. You can use * as a
wildcard before or after your query, use quote marks for exact match, and use
Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT. You can also use natural language queries,
such as "what
is the third longest river in the world?". Some entries include images
and video animations.
Kathy
Varjabedian (kv@lanl.gov)
National Institutes of Health abandons original position on public access
for authors' papers
 
In announcing its final policy on public access to medical research, the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has abandoned its original position. The
draft NIH policy would have required NIH-funded authors to deposit their final
papers in the NIH's PubMed Central database for free public access within six
months of publication. The final policy makes submission to PubMed Central
voluntary.
Beginning May 2, 2005, NIH-funded investigators will be asked to voluntarily
submit to PubMed Central the author's final manuscript upon acceptance for publication. Upon
submission to PubMed Central authors will be able to specify the date when their
work will be publicly accessible. The NIH strongly encourages posting for
public accessibility through PubMed Central as soon as possible and within twelve
months of publisher's official date of final publication.
NIH Director Elias Zerhouni initially defended the original draft of the
policy, but backed down in the face of opposition from publishers. Zerhouni
stated, "In developing this policy, we made a concerted effort to balance the
importance of this archive to NIH's public health mission, with the need to provide
flexibility for authors, their institutions, and publishers in those cases where
immediate release is not possible." "Nevertheless, we expect that only in limited
cases will authors deem it necessary to select the longest delay period."
The final NIH decision appears to please no one completely. Publishers
complained that storing papers in an NIH-funded database, such as PubMed Central,
only duplicates their own efforts. Patients' rights advocates said voluntary
instead of required submission does little to ensure real access to medical research. And
researchers may now ask themselves if they should, under "strong" encouragement
from the NIH, publish in open access journals that make results quickly accessible
and how might the NIH view a decision to publish in more prestigious journals
with more restrictive policies?
You can read the Final NIH Public Access Policy Implementation document
at:
http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm
Send
comments or questions to Carol Hoover at hoover@lanl.gov.
New American Chemical Society policy to provide free access one year after
publication
 In response to the recently announced National Institutes of Health (NIH)
policy on free public access, the American Chemical Society (ACS) will post,
for public accessibility 12 months after publication, the peer-reviewed version
of authors' manuscripts on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central
website during 2005. The ACS is introducing this policy on an experimental
basis.
Commenting on this new service, ACS Publications Senior Vice President Brian
Crawford said, "We understand that NIH-funded authors will wish to comply voluntarily
with the NIH's policy request. By introducing this service, the ACS will take
on the administrative burden of compliance and at the same time will ensure the
integrity of the scientific literature by depositing the appropriate author version
of the manuscript after peer-review."
It is the opinion of the Research Library that by emulating
the NIH-12 policy, the ACS is essentially only providing access to legacy material.
The main purpose of opening access is to make the cutting edge of research available
to all its users worldwide, not just to those who happen to be at institutions
that can afford to pay for access to that material. The ACS policy does
nothing to maximize the usage, impact, productivity or benefits of research.
ACS NIH-related press release: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nih.html
Send
comments or questions to Carol Hoover at hoover@lanl.gov.
No cell phones can be left in care
of the library staff
Planning on going into a secure area? Please think ahead and leave
your cell phone at home or in your vehicle. Due to the revised security plan
in the post-911 era and other liability issues, the Research Library can no longer
hold cell phones (or other items such as briefcases, packs, etc.) even if they
are tagged. Thanks for foresight in this matter.
Lou
Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
Journal of Immunology online available again
The LANL Research Library is pleased to announce that online access to Journal
of Immunology is once again available to LANL employees. Licensing
issues that previously blocked access have been resolved. You can access
the online journal at http://www.jimmunol.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml.
Carol
Hoover (hoover@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:
Engineering
Concepts
in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering
Journal
of Energetic Materials
Materials Physics and Mechanics
Reviews on Advanced Materials Science
General
Directory of Published Proceedings (click <DoPP
Login> to login)
MInd: The Meetings Index
Proceedings of Science
Research
in International Business and Finance
Physics
Journal
of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Search
engines: Now you can Google the weather and film facts
 Just when I think Google has run out of clever tools to fill our time, such
as a way to
zoom through satellite images of our neighborhood (Keyhole), organize our digital
photos
(Picasa), or provide step-by -step instructions to the nearest Starbucks (maps.google.com)
-- more interesting products appear. Two of the newest, weather and movies,
are tied together
for me, since I only go to a film if the weather is bad. Now I can type "weather" into
the
Google search box and then add either a zip code or the city name and a
four day forecast
will appear on the results page, along with links to additional weather sites.
If the day is
rainy, I can type "movie" into the Google box and the name of a film I
might like to see. The results page
provides me with another box for city or zip code, and then I am provided with
a list of local theaters, with
showtimes for the film and a link to a map with directions to the theater. The
original results page also provides me with many reviews and articles about the
film. By typing "movie:" into the Google box, it becomes an operator and
you can search for films related to a specific actor, director or
plot detail.
My search for "movie: Eastwood" returned a list of films with articles and reviews
linked to each.
Additionally, Google has brought their handy toolbar out of beta this
week. This tool allows individuals to search their own computers to find
e-mails, web pages, and lost documents ; in all, 200 types of files can be searched
with the new product.
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
Editor at kv@lanl.gov.
Want to be notified of new
issues?
Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna Berg, Helen Boorman, Lou
Pray, and Kathy Varjabedian. |
