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Access AIP ejournals back to Volume 1, Issue 1
The Research Library is pleased to provide access to the complete online
archive of all AIP (American Institute of Physics) electronic journals. You
can now get full-text articles for every AIP ejournal from volume 1, issue 1
to the present at your desktop. These articles will be
linked in SearchPlus. The
following titles are included:
  Applied
Physics Letters - from 1962
Chaos - from 1991
Journal of Applied Physics - from 1931
Journal of Chemical Physics - from 1933
Journal of Mathematical Physics - from 1960
Physics of Plasmas - from 1958
Review of Scientific Instruments - from 1930
 Send
comments to Carol Hoover, hoover@lanl.gov.
SIAM online journal archive now available
 SIAM,
the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, has made available the electronic
full text for every SIAM journal article published from the journal's inception
through 1996. This content is now available at your desktop courtesy of the Research
Library. The SIAM archive, called Locus,
contains over 14,000 articles, about 285,000 pages and over 250,000 reference
links. These
articles are available as fully searchable PDFs and, combined with the current
articles online, provide access to over 50 years of SIAM journal content.
Articles published between 1980 and 1996 contain reference links to Mathematical
Reviews, Zentralblatt für Mathematik, and to the cited article via CrossRef
(when available). Reference links back through the 1952 content will be added
to Locus by 2007.
SIAM ejournal backfiles are linked
through SearchPlus.
Send
comments to Carol Hoover, hoover@lanl.gov.
Using comparative data in Division
Reviews
With the season for Division Reviews on its way, now is the time to explore
the wealth of comparative data available in Essential
Science Indicators (ESI) via the LANL Research Library.
ESI uses journal article publication counts as the chief indicators of output
or productivity. For influence and impact measures, ESI employs both total citation
counts and cites per paper scores. The former reveals gross influence while the
latter shows weighted influence, also called impact.
Using this tool, you can determine how LANL compares with other institutions
(across broad subject areas) using ESI's citation data for competitive analysis
in the following areas:
- Total Times Cited by subject area and institution
- Total Number of Publications
by subject area and institution
- Average number of cites per paper by subject area
Using this information and the charting ability contained within can offer
another perspective to your division review presentations. If you are interested
in a demonstration of the capabilities of this product, please contact the LANL
Research Library at library@lanl.gov.
Lou
Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
Concerned about scholarly communication?
The LANL Research Library is hosting a forum in March (TBA) on the topic
of "the crisis in scholarly publishing." We will have representatives
from various organizations from around the world here for the half day session
to discuss the need for exploring different models of sharing scientific information,
including institutional repositories, the open access movement and other ways
both scientists and publishers can have a hand in shaping the future of scholarly
publications.
We encourage
all viewpoints on these issues and would welcome a lively debate on these topics,
pro or con. If you are interested in taking part in these discussions,
please contact us at library@lanl.gov.
For more information on Open Access,
visit http://lib-www.lanl.gov/openaccess/.
Lou
Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
 Update on Google Scholar
Google Scholar is still making news although mostly from reviews and comments
that are packed with questions such as: what does it really contain,
what date ranges are covered and where does the information actually come
from?
Well, remember that this is a beta site and we can presume that Google
will enhance the product as time goes by. One major enhancement has occurred
— you can now search more efficiently by using the "Advanced Scholar Search." This
phrase is to be found in extra tiny print immediately to the right of the search
box. The page is similar to the advanced search options available at the Google
Web search page, with spare layout and good wording leading you through the new
options. You may also want to review their Advanced Scholar Search Tips for a
bit more information.
I was fairly disappointed when I searched a well published Los Alamos
author with a very unique name and my results were 6, or 9, depending on how
you entered the search. Using the Search Tips actually decreased my results.
I also tried searching by date just to see what might turn up. Many book titles
are listed as part of the Google/OCLC relationship and you can click on Library
Search to discover the closest library that owns that title, and how far away
it is from you [another oddity, they seem to think the UNM Library is 58
miles from LANL]. On the up side there are many small conferences being
picked up by this database, as well as older technical reports.
Donna
Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov)
 Science of Tsunami Hazards available online
The December 26th, 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean sparked a flurry in interest
in tsunami research. The Science of Tsunami Hazards, the International Journal
of the Tsunami Society, is one of many online publications dedicated to increasing
and disseminating knowledge about tsunamis and their hazards. All
issues of this journal (1982-present) are available online at: http://epubs.lanl.gov/tsunami/. The
most current issues (2003-2004) are also available
from the Tsunami Society.
Irma
Holtkamp, isholtkamp@lanl.gov
Blogs for communication and collaboration
Blogs began as online diaries, but today they are thought of as Web sites
containing reflections and comments by individuals or groups.
An important use for a blog is to easily and quickly communicate information such as research,
product and industry news. This fresh information can be extremely critical because it affects relationships
with collaborators and funders, as well as internal decision-makers. A blog allows an entire group to be
current about data and trends. It provides them with a strategic advantage because they share a common
information base that allows them to respond faster to their rapidly changing environment.
More and more blogs are being used as managerial tools to coordinate and annotate
project information, to provide a single location to hotlink to internal reports
and presentations and as a major communication tool. They can be used as a resource
for online documentation and FAQs. They serve an important role for managing
communication, coordination and collaboration,
and can foster change within the team or group utilizing the blog. When a blog
is used to record ideas and experiences about a specific project it can be called
a "plog" for project-log. This kind of record allows a team to easily and quickly
communicate information among the team members and provides a detailed history
for new members.
The Research Library is building and testing such blogs for specific programs
within the Laboratory. Contact the library to see the weblog protoytpes
we have set up with other divisions.
Donna
Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov) and Lou Pray (lpray@lanl.gov)
External Advisory Board to assess
the Research Library
An
external advisory board of library and information experts, representing diverse
background and expertise, is being established to assess, review and provide
recommendations to key Laboratory leaders on February 8th and 9th.
The purpose of this group will be to provide an independent external assessment
of the Library’s technical and operational capabilities and to help provide
recommendations for future developmental directions.
The members of the External Advisory Board have been selected for their diverse
backgrounds and excellence of expertise in their professional areas. The group
will be comprised of the following eight members:
Michael Keller (Chair of External Advisory Board)
Stanford University and HighWire Press
Dan Atkins
University of Michigan
Marty Blume
American Physical Society
Lorcan Demsey
OCLC |
Dan Greenstein
University of California – California Digital Library
Carl Lagoze
Cornell University
Gary Marchionini
University of North Carolina
Deanna Marcum
Library of Congress |
Helen
Boorman (hboorman@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:
Biology and Medicine
AIDS Reviews, 1999 - prior
to the latest 12 months
Engineering
AIAA Journal,
1997+
Journal of
Guidance, Control and Dynamics,
1997+
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 1997+
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 1997+
Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 1997+
JSME International Journal.
Series B. Fluids and Thermal Engineering
Mathematics and Computer Science
Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society
Physics (backfiles)
American Journal of Physics, 1975+
Applied Physics Letters, 1962+
Journal of Applied Physics, 1931+
Journal of Chemical Physics, 1933+
Journal of Mathematical Physics, 1960+
Physics of Fluids,
1958+
Review of Scientific Instruments, 1930+
Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Search
engines: Clusty and SNAP deserve your attention
Several new search engines have appeared recently, but two are worth a second
glance.
 Clusty is from the Vivisimo family. I reviewed
Vivisimo quite some time ago and liked the product for its clustered results.
Clusty seems to be a nickname for "cluster", but what a choice — even Google responded
back to me "don't you mean crusty?" Clusty has a new approach to the huge
amount of information on the web by first providing tabs for categories to help
you navigate the immense number of hits for most searches. If you search
for snow in Google, you get a list of the most popular results. Clusty
also provides a list, but additionally provides topic specific folders on the
left side of the screen that allow you to drill down into the information. There
is also a clever pull-down box at the top of the cluster column to provide
another way to focus the information.
 SNAP is not a search engine to use for sci/tech information at this point
in development. It is an interesting product because of many new
features that may start showing up in other search engines. The front page
is a scary mix of lists of Top People (Paris Hilton!), Top Music and Top
Products as well as charts covering statistics about page views and visitors.
If
you can get past the home page, or at least ignore it, type a favorite topic
into the search box and look at the results page. Right on top is a grouping
of related keywords and number of hits for each, a great way to re-focus your
search immediately. The upper bar has a pull-down box to provide alternate
sorting of the results; you can also e-mail results from this location and take
a very educational tour of SNAP. Results are displayed by rank, based on
their own click-stream data. Other unusual ways to sort and filter the
results are by average page views, cost to the advertiser, and domain. This
would be an interesting way to gain competitive information about specific products
and companies.
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.
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