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| FlashPoint multi-database
search tool: now with subject approach and LANL filter |
FlashPoint version 3.0
was released Dec. 3, 2002. This multi-database search tool is a
great place to start when you are unsure what database to use to
find journal articles and other research literature. Version 3.0
offers these enhancements:
- Subject approach: You can direct your search to the subject
area you're interested in, and the system will select the relevant
databases for you. Focusing your search in this way will speed
up the search. Or you can select specific databases of your choice.
- LANL filter: After you enter your search terms, check the "LANL
research only" box, and your search will return only material
by or about Los Alamos National Laboratory. This capability replaces
the "Los Alamos Unclassified Publications" database,
with greater coverage of the literature.
- Interface improvements: a new look and feel, and revised help
files. Check the Help file for details on how search queries are
handled in particular databases.
FlashPoint searches the following eleven databases: BIOSIS, DOE
Energy, Engineering Index, INSPEC, MathSciNet, Nuclear Science Abstracts,
PubMed, Science Server, SciSearch, Social SciSearch and the Library
Catalog. You can see at a glance which database contains the most
matches to your query. As you click on specific results, you enter
the native environment of each database. You can then view records,
go to full-text documents online, mark records and download or e-mail
search results.
Send comments and questions to the FlashPoint
team.
 Kathy
Varjabedian, Irma Holtkamp
The LANL Research Library has arranged for free trials for LANL
staff for the online versions of The Energy Daily and Inside Energy
publications. The trials will begin December 9 and continue through
December 20 from the Research Library web site.
Energy Daily delivers daily analysis and breaking
news on energy business, congressional hearings, regulations, market
intelligence and trends. Energy Daily reports changes on Capitol
Hill, at the White House, within DOE, FERC and in the private sector
of the US and worldwide.
Inside Energy is a weekly newsletter that reports
on major energy policy developments in the U.S. government that
affect the production, delivery and use of various energy resources—oil,
natural gas, electricity, coal, nuclear energy, renewable energy
and energy efficiency. Coverage includes policy and legislative
developments in Congress and the executive branch (the White House
and federal agencies, including the Energy Department, the Interior
Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission).
Trial access will be available from the following link beginning
December 9, for two weeks. As these publications are each quite
costly we would like to strongly encourage you to provide feedback
on the usefulness of these publications through the e-mail link
from the Energy News trial
page.
eteam@lanl.gov
You may have accessed NTIS from the Research Library back in the
Telnet days. Today, it is available via the CSA web search interface.
Like Aerospace, GeoRef and others from CSA, NTIS can be searched
alone or in tandem, can be used set up alerts, and has links to
library holdings (including any reports that are available online)
via the LinkSeeker icon .
NTIS,
from the National Technical Information Service, contains U.S. government-sponsored
research, development and engineering reports from the Department
of Energy, Department of Defense, NASA, and many other agencies.
It indexes research reports, journal articles, data files, computer
programs and audiovisual products from Federal sources. Additionally,
information is available from international government departments
and other international organizations including those from Canada,
Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries.
Subjects span the physical, biological and social sciences and
engineering. The database of over two million records covers 1964
to present. You'll find this database also via the library's site
map or Databases & Indexes
page.
Please
send your comments to the Chemistry team.
The
Polymer
Library is one of the new online indexes the Research Library
is subscribing to from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
It is the only database exclusively covering rubbers, plastics,
adhesives and polymeric composites. It contains over 700,000 records
and began in 1972. The service is updated every two weeks. More
than 500 journals are indexed from over 30 countries and the database
also includes citations from books, tech reports and the trade literature.
Since 1994 patent information has also been included. This very
useful resource also includes legislation and regulations pertaining
to the field.
Like other databases through CSA, Polymer Library can be searched
alone or in tandem, can be used set up alerts, and has links to
library holdings through the LinkSeeker icon .
Please
send your comments to the Chemistry team.
If you have not yet started using the resources of www.knovel.com,
here is a holiday temptation. Each person who sends an e-mail about
their experience will get a new computer calendar from the Research
Library; and on December 16th there will be a drawing of all those
who have sent in e-mail to win a knovel "K-Bear". Send
comments, experiences, ideas to: donna.berg@lanl.gov.
The Knovel organization has created a database of over 400 of the
leading scientific reference handbooks, databases, and conference
proceedings. Their site is unique because Knovel has combined all
these resources with an indexing structure that allows these books
to work together with full text searchability. Additionally, you
can search text and numeric property values within the system and
many of the documents, tables, graphs and equations are interactive.
This feature is extremely useful in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry
and Physics, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook and Lange's Handbook
of Chemistry.
Another Knovel title of use to Lab staff, the Chemical Properties
Handbook, contains information on how chemicals behave at different
temperatures and under different conditions. This text provides
data for both organic and inorganic substances. All tables are live
and most contain live equations for easy calculation and plotting
of the properties.
Juran's Quality Handbook is the essential reference in quality
engineering and management practices. Juran's covers the newest
methods in planning, control and results.
New volumes are integrated into the Knovel system each month.
Donna
Berg
 The
Current
Protocols family of laboratory manuals is the international
standard by which all other laboratory manuals are judged. Online
versions of these protocols, updated quarterly, are now available
courtesy of the Research Library in our electronic journal collection.
Current Protocols include:
- Step-by-step protocols with annotations that alert you to special
considerations, tips, and optional procedures
- Alternate and support protocols to accommodate different equipment
and desired results
- Materials lists for each protocol
- Detailed recipes for reagents, solutions, and culture media
- Expert commentaries with scientific insight, including troubleshooting
instructions and planning considerations
- Tables and figures to clarify complex procedures
- Appendices of useful reference material
- Online searching of complete set or within one specific title
Specific titles:
Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
Current Protocols in Cytometry
Current Protocols in Food Analytical Chemistry
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Current Protocols in Immunology
Current Protocols in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
Current Protocols in Protein Science
Current Protocols in Toxicology
Please
send your comments to the Chemistry team.
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop:
Biology
Current protocols in Bioinformatics
Current protocols in Cell Biology
Current Protocols in Cytometry
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Current Protocols in Immunology
Current Protocols in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Current protocols in Molecular Biology
Current protocols in Neuroscience
Current protocols in Pharmacology
Current protocols in Protein science
Current protocols in Toxicology
http://www.mrw2.interscience.wiley.com/cponline/
tserver.dll?command=doGetDoc&sUI=&database=CP&useScheme=
WIS_Framed.Scheme&getDoc=cp_toc_fs.html
Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=0090466x
Chemistry
Catalysis Surveys from Asia
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15711013
Current protocols in food analytical chemistry
Current protocols in nucleic acid chemistry
http://www.mrw2.interscience.wiley.com/cponline/
tserver.dll?command=doGetDoc&sUI=&database=CP&useScheme=
WIS_Framed.Scheme&getDoc=cp_toc_fs.html
Environment
Geographie, Economie, Societe
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=1295926x
Journal of Hydrometeorology
http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-archive&issn=1525-7541
Engineering
Heat Recovery Systems and CHP
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=08904332
Mining Engineering
http://me.smenet.org/issuearchive.cfm
Mathematics/Computers
Information Visualization
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/journal/yearlist.html
Journal of Computational Electronics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15698025
eteam@lanl.gov
 AltaVista
has some new features to help them compete with Google and it might
be time to pop in and investigate their site.
The newly re-designed web page and logo are cleaner and make it
easier to focus quickly on the search box or major search centers.
Their translation service is easier to find than the Google offering
— AltaVista puts it right on the front page. A ban on pop-ups
certainly endears them to me and they also offer a search service
for "MP3/Audio" sites. Now you can discover which site
has Jaguar motor sounds and how to say in hello in every imaginable
language. A news feature is now on the home page as well as a choice
to search for video; so even if you can't swim with dolphins you
can view the film. AltaVista will be dropping their free e-mail
service so they can use all their resources to compete in the search
engine arena and it appears they are using many lessons learned
from Google.
Donna
Berg
The Research Library will provide uninterrupted electronic access
to the electronic resources available at the desktop during the
upcoming holidays. This includes databases
such as SciSearch at LANL, INSPEC and the library catalog. From
database records you can get to full-text journal articles by using
the Linkseeker icon. Electronic journals are also available through
the Electronic Journals page,
or through Science Server
for key publishers like Elsevier, IEEE, Kluwer and Wiley.
The physical facility will also be accessible to LANL badgeholders
during the holiday closure. Computer terminals and photocopiers
will be left on for use by badged Laboratory staff. The unclassified
elevator in the Study Center, SM-207, will not be operating during
the closure. Document delivery service will not be available during
the holiday closure.
If you're planning to come in during the holidays, check ahead
of time that your badge works in the Study Center badge reader.
If you haven't used this badge reader in the last month or two call
667-7840 (CCN-4) to verify that you're in the system. Library customers
have reported problems so it never hurts to check.
Happy Holidays from the
Research Library!
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of new issues?
Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna
Berg, Helen Boorman, Lou
Pray, and Kathy Varjabedian.
The name and e-mail address of the Library member
who contributed an article appears at the end of the article. If
you have comments or further questions, please contact that person.
If you have general questions or comments about the Newsletter itself,
please contact the Newsletter Editor, Kathy
Varjabedian.
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