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 Engineering Index® now in SearchPlus, back to 1884
Engineering Index® is now in SearchPlus,
the Research Library's cross-database search interface.
Engineering Index is the most comprehensive database
for engineering, including chemical and process engineering, computers and data
processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, civil, mechanical
and materials engineering. Percentage of major subject areas:
Having Engineering Index in SearchPlus means that LANL researchers can take
advantage of the extra features of the SearchPlus interface. You can search Engineering
Index by itself (from the Advanced Search screen), or simultaneously search across
more than 54 million records, from six databases. You can take advantage of tools
for setting personal preferences, downloading search results, and keeping up-to-date
with alerts on new literature on a topic, by a particular author
or in a particular journal.
Also, Engineering Index now goes back all the way to 1884. 80 years of historical
entries were re-keyed, providing access to
hard to find historical information never before available electronically. This
literature includes articles such as:
The new east river bridge
Source: Iron Age, Sept 24, 1896
Abstract: An illustrated account of the new bridge to be built from near the
foot of Broadway, Brooklyn, to a point near the foot of Grand St., New York.
Some aeronautical experiments
Wright, Wilbur.
Source:
Journal of the Western Society
of Engineering, Dec. 1, 1901
Abstract: An interesting illustrated address
reviewing the difficulties met and the work of various aeronauts, and giving
an account of the experiments made by the writer.
Chemical affinity and atomic valence
Clamician, G.; Padoa, M. Source: Scientific
American Supplement, Sept 6 1919; v.88, no.2279, p. 154-155
Abstract: Relation
between chemical and thermal energy and modern views of constitution of atom.
Translated from Jour. de Chim. Physique (Geneva).
Kathy Varjabedian (kv@lanl.gov)
More older ejournals! Academic
Press and Harcourt Health Sciences
 The
Research Library has just added to its collection even more of the stuff you
love - older electronic journals! LANL staff can now access over 3 million
articles from back issues of titles from Academic Press and Harcourt Health Sciences
such as:
Atomic
Data and Nuclear Data Tables - back to 1973
Biochemical
and Biophysical Research Communications - back to 1959
Journal
of Colloid Science - back to 1946
Journal
of Combinatorial Theory - back to 1971
Journal
of Computational Physics - back to 1967
Journal
of Magnetic Resonance - back to 1969
Journal
of Molecular Biology - back to 1966
Journal
of Nuclear Materials - back to 1959
Organizational
Behavior and Human Performance - back to 1966
These articles are linked to fulltext through SearchPlus and
are available for browsing in ScienceServer
at LANL.
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
More
Nature backfiles at your desktop!
More Nature is now available in fulltext right at your desktop. You can
now access Nature articles from 1980 to 1986, in addition to all years from 1986
to the present.
A sample of papers published in Nature includes:
 1980 First human oncogene identified - Weinberg
1981 Superstring theory – Green & Schwarz
1982 Prion hypothesis proposed – Prusiner
1983 AIDS virus identified – Barré-Sinoussi et al.
1985 Genetic fingerprinting invented – Jeffreys
1985 Ozone hole discovered – Farman et al.
1986 First high temperature superconductor – Bednorz & Müller
Nature articles are linked to fulltext through SearchPlus and are available
for browsing at the Nature website.
Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
 ANSI Z136.1, Safe Use of Lasers, now searchable
ANSI
Standard Z136.1, Safe Use of Lasers, is now available as a searchable PDF
file at http://rlcd.lanl.gov/ansi/z136.1/.
ANSI Z136.1 is the basis for LIR 402-400-01.3, provides laser safety information
and is designed to assist laser users in developing laser safety programs. ANSI
Z136.1 provides information on laser classifications, hazard analysis and control
measures needed for the development of a comprehensive laser program.
Send comments to Carol Hoover, hoover@lanl.gov
ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
The 2004 ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC), including PDFs
and cross-reference information, has been released and has an effective date
of 3/31/05. The BPVC establishes rules of safety governing the design, fabrication,
and inspection of boilers and pressure vessels, and nuclear power plant components
during construction.
 There are two NEW sections to the BPVC with the 2004 release: Section II:
Part D, metric version and Section XII.
Section II is a service book to other
Code Sections, providing tables of design stress values, tensile and yield strength
values, and tables and charts of material properties. Part D facilitates ready
identification of specific materials to specific Sections of the Boiler and Pressure
Vessel Code. Part D contains appendices which contain criteria for establishing
allowable stress, the bases for establishing external pressure charts, and information
required for approval of new materials.
Section XII covers requirements for construction and continued service of
pressure vessels for the transportation of dangerous goods via highway, rail,
air or water at pressures from full vacuum to 3,000 psig and volumes greater
than 120 gallons. "Construction" is
an all-inclusive term comprising materials, design, fabrication, examination,
inspection, testing, certification, and over-pressure protection. "Continued
service" is an all-inclusive term referring to inspection, testing, repair, alteration,
and recertification of a transport tank that has been in service. This section
also contains modal appendices containing requirements for vessels used in specific
transport modes and service applications. Rules pertaining to the use of the
T Code symbol stamp are also included.
The ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code is now incorporated into IHS
Specs and Standards and can be searched using the IHS search function. For
a Table of Contents view, use the pull-down menu under "Quick
Searches," and select "Table
of Contents" to choose the desired BPVC version.
Tips (http://www.ihserc.com/help/txta/tap_migration_tips.pdf)
for using the IHS Personal Documents and Referenced Documents features are available.
Jeane
Strub (jstrub@lanl.gov)
American Institute
of Physics announces new Open Access initiative
The American Institute of Physics has announced that it will offer on a trial
basis an open-access publishing
option to authors contributing to three AIP journals: Journal of Mathematical
Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, and Chaos: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Nonlinear Science. The initiative has been named "AIP Author Select."
Beginning on January 1, 2005, JMP, RSI, and Chaos will permit authors (or
their funding agencies) to pay a $2000 fee prior to publication, for articles
that will be freely available to anyone on the Web. AIP says the main goals of
this experiment are to determine if the idea of Open Access has any traction
in the physical science community and to determine whether prepublication article
payments produce enough revenue to allow AIP to hold down, reduce, or perhaps
even eliminate library subscription prices. While the AIP Author Select experiment
will have no effect on subscription rates for 2005, AIP plans to reduce future
online subscription prices proportionately to the percent of open-access articles
published. If a quarter of the articles published in a given year are open access,
then a future year's online subscription will cost 25% less than what it would
cost otherwise.
AIP is already considered a "green" publisher, in that it allows authors to post
e-prints to their personal or institutional websites. AIP may expand the
Open Access option to other journals, depending upon reception from its authors.
The Open Access movement has grown out of the diminished ability of libraries
to acquire published content due to a number of factors, not the least of which
is that subscription prices have consistently outpaced inflation over the past
twenty years. You can read more about Open Access at the Research Library's
OA web page: http://library.lanl.gov/openaccess/.
Send comments to 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:
Biology and Medicine
Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
http://journals.iucr.org/f/contents/backissues.html
Chemistry
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jctcce/index.html
Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/asm/15477037/contp1.htm
Engineering
Journal of Optical and Fiber Communications Reports
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=16198638
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=16134982
Environment and Earth Sciences
AAPG Bulletin
http://bulletinnet.petris.com/contents.html
General
Journal of Financial Stability
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=15723089
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=journal&eissn=1742-5662
Nature backfiles (1980-1986)
http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/
Physics
Small
http://sciserver.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=16136810
Carol
Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov)
Search
engines: Google Scholar: coverage, features and caveats
 Possibly the hottest news in the world of research and scholarship right now
is the new service called “Google Scholar” (http://scholar.google.com/).
Librarians and publishers have been discussing and reviewing the site and
while mystery makes most things more intriguing, it does not give me confidence
in a database. After reading every review, blog, and e-mail I could find about
the product here are some of the facts as they are currently known about Google
Scholar. First off, they do not provide us with their definition of what is “scholarly”;
so you need to be knowledgeable about sources and versions, since the Web can
provide many versions of a single paper, often depending upon where the paper
is posted. We do know that there are citations provided by IEEE, ACM, PubMed,
PubMed Central and book titles are provided by OCLC. We have not been told what
precisely is available, nor the date ranges covered. We have been told that the
database includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts,
and technical reports. These are obtained from websites of academic publishers,
open repositories, professional societies, and universities. We do not know the
size of the database. Results are minimal for the arts, humanities or social
sciences, the emphasis is on science and technology.
More successful searches need to be narrow and focused, and for author searching—try
everything. Results include items written in English, German, French, Italian,
Spanish and Portuguese. Search results are ordered by relevancy, most useful
references at the top of the page. Google is able to analyze and extract citations
of information that is not online, but only appears in books or offline publications.
There is a citation count of sorts. Google analyzes citations within the database,
counts them, and links to those citations. The “Cited By” leads directly
to articles citing the article record displayed.
Be sure to review the FAQs at http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html.
A recent Research Library visitor commented that he was using the database but
deploying another window open to the Library Web page so that he could determine
whether he had access to content via LANL’s Research Library.
There does seem to be a large amount of dated material, especially in certain
subject areas, so our recommendation is to do some searching in areas that you
know well so that you can determine the accuracy and timeliness of the information.
Donna Berg (donna.berg@lanl.gov)
Holiday closure
The Research Library will provide uninterrupted access to the electronic
resources available at the desktop during the upcoming holidays. This includes
database interfaces such as FlashPoint, SearchPlus and the library catalog, and
to electronic journals and other full-text content through the library website
or the LinkSeeker icon in database records. All resources are accessible off-site
with a LANL CryptoCard and a VPN client installed on your workstation (see remote access instructions).
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. Research assistance, document
delivery, interlibrary loan, & report retrieval will not be available during
the 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.
Also, note that access is restricted to personnel
on the Special Access List. See the Dec.
13 Newsbulletin for details.
Happy Holidays from the Research Library
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