Welcome...
Betty Petersen Memorial Library is a branch of the NOAA Central Library jointly funded by the
National Centers for Environmental Prediction and NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research.
The library contains a specialized meteorological and oceanographic collection of about 5,000 volumes. A small number of those volumes cover physics,
mathematics, historical weather information, and computer science support. In addition, the library has atlases, a collection of World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) publications, NOAA and NESDIS technical notes and technical reports, NWS/NCEP technical notes
and reports, and weather and ocean related publications from other government organizations, from other countries, and from universities.
Library News:
- Electronic access to Applied Optics now available in Camp Springs
Staff at the NOAA Science Center in Camp Springs will now be able to access the entire archive of Applied Optics back to 1962 from your
desktop. To access this journal, click on the link from the Betty Petersen Memorial Library journal holdings webpage here
- Over 13,000 Open Access Science Journals now available in Open Science Directory
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission/International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IOC/IODE), with the support of EBSCO and
Hasselt University Library, has created the Open Science Directory as an access point to sources of open access scientific journals. Over 13,000
journals are now available in Open Science Directory. When the project is completed, over 20,000 journal titles will be included. According to
the OSD website, "Open Science Directory contains collections of Open Access Journals (e.g. Directory of Open Access Journals) and journals in
the special programs (Hinari, Agora, OARE). Other programs will be added in the near future: INASP-PERI, eJDS." Access the directory
here.
- Library Open House on Friday, April 18th
Come celebrate the end of National Library Week with muffins and juice in the library 10am-11am on Friday, April 18th.
Orientations and tours of the library will be given upon request.
Public, school, academic and special libraries make a difference to millions of Americans, today more than ever.
National Library Week is April 13 to the 19th. Celebrate today by visiting your library - in person or online.
Join the circle of knowledge @ your library.
A message brought to you by the American Library Association’s Campaign for America's Libraries and Betty Petersen
Memorial Library.
- Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts database demonstration on 4/17
On Thursday, April 17th at 11am-12pm, Betty Petersen Memorial Library will hold an information session on Meteorological and
Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) database, demonstrating how to search for journal articles and proceedings, how to set up
article alerts, and how to check for full-text access to materials available through the library.
MGA, available at your desktop through a NOAA Central Library subscription, indexes over 600 journals, plus conference
proceedings, technical reports, books, and other monographs, with coverage back to 1974. MGA is a product of the American
Meteorological Society and is published by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). Subject coverage includes climatology,
glaciology, meteorological observations, and physical oceanography. To access MGA, please select the link from
http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/databases/
This information session will take place in Conference Room 209. Space is limited, so please RSVP to
michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov by Wednesday, April 16th.
- JSTOR launches new platform
Scholarly archives site JSTOR has launched a new platform today, April 4. The new platform
allows for greater customization through the use of MyJSTOR,
which allows users to manage and store citations online. Other changes include greater search and retrieval options and improved
pdf viewing and printing. For more information about the new changes to JSTOR:
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/newFeatures.jsp
For a listing of journals available through NOAA Libraries JSTOR subscription:
http://www.jstor.org/action/showJournals?browseType=title
There are currently 1109 journal titles in the JSTOR collection, with new items added daily. A sampling of some of the science titles
available through the NOAA Libraries subscription:
- New to the NOAA Science Center Building? Unfamiliar with NOAA Library resources?
The Betty Petersen Memorial Library offers a 30 minute library orientation once every month.
Come familiarize yourself with the library collection and learn about resources available to you from your workstation desktop.
Please RSVP to michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov by Thursday, April 3rd if you are interested
in attending this month's session at 12pm on Friday, April 4th.
Other times/dates can be arranged by appointment. Light refreshments will be served.
- NOAA Central Library relaunches website today, 2/4
NOAA Central Library unveiled a new look for its website today. Check it out here.
- New Journal-Ranking Tool
A new open-access journal-ranking database was launched in December 2007, providing users with an alternative source of citation
statistics. The SCImago Journal and Country Rank database utilizes data retrieved from Scopus, Elsevier's subscription-based
abstracts database. This database ranks journals according to a new metric, the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), which analyzes
data in a method similar to that of Google's PageRank algorithm
SJR emerges as a competitor to Thomson Scientific's impact factor, which draws its data from Thomson's Web of Science database
and utilizes an algorithm calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that
journal during the previous two years. SJR differs from this by also analyzing the citation links between journals iteratively.
Click here for a description of Thomson Scientific's imact factor
Click here for a description of SJR's algorithm (pdf)
The NOAA Science Center in Camp Springs has access Thomson Scientific's
Journal Citation Reports, courtesy of a NOAA Central Library subscription.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank is an open access database freely available.
- New for 2008: Access to AGU Digital Library
For 2008 only, researchers in Camp Springs have access to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Digital Library of back issues.
This new AGU product includes over 115,000 items and includes material dating from 1896 to 2002. Below is a list of journals
and issues included in the library:
Earth Interactions: 1997-2003
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems: 1999-2002
Geophysical Research Letters: 1974-2002
Global Biogeochemical Cycles: 1987-2002
International Journal of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy [later in 2008]: 1998-2002
Journal of Geophysical Research: 1949-2002
Terrestrial Magnetism: 1896-1898
Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity: 1899-1948
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics: 1994-present
Paleoceanography: 1986-2002
Radio Science: 1969-2002
Reviews of Geophysics: 1963-2002
Tectonics: 1982-2002
Water Resources Research: 1965-2002
To access the digital library, select the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Digital Library link from the
library's Databases webpage.
Please contact the librarian if you have any questions or problems with this new feature!
- Journal Citation Reports now available NOAA-wide
ISI's Journal Citation Reports database can now be accessed from your desktops in the World Weather Building (and NOAA-wide).
You can access this resource from the library's Databases and Electronic Resources page here.
Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation
data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.
If you are interested in learning more about this valuable new resource and how it can benefit your own research, you are
invited to attend a Brown Bag information session on Friday, November 30th from 12pm-12:45pm in Conference Room 100. Please
RSVP to the librarian by 5pm on 11/29 if you would like to attend.
- Web of Science Seminar in Conference Room 100 on October 31, 10am-11:30am
Are you interested in discovering who is citing your work or the work of others? Learn about recent changes in the Web
of Science platform, as well as how to use Web of Science to utilize your research time more efficiently.
A trainer from Thomson Scientific will be at the World Weather Building on Oct. 31st to provide training in Web of Science.
For more information, please email the WWB Librarian at michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov
or phone 301-763-8266.
- A new IT Resources page has been created and added to the Betty Petersen Memorial
Library website. Check out the new page for links to Free eBook sites and titles for software programs used in the World Weather Building.
- Betty Petersen Memorial Library is pleased to announce a new Journal Alerts service for patrons in the World Weather Building:
Would you like to be notified when the latest print issue of a particular journal arrives in the library? Sign up for a Journal Alert
and you will automatically receive an email when new issues are added to the library collection! Just complete the attached form,
checking off your favorite journal titles, and email it to the librarian or drop it off in the library in WWB Room 103.
Please call 301-763-8266 or email the librarian at michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov if you have any questions.
Journal Alerts Form (opens as .doc file)
- Betty Petersen Memorial Library at the NOAA Science Center in Camp Springs is pleased to announce 208 Wiley electronic journal titles are available NOAA-wide as part of NOAA's participation in the National Research Libraries Association (NRLA) consortium. NRLA is a consortium of federal libraries or libraries funded by the Federal Government whose mission is to support scientific research.
Full-text holdings for these titles go back to 1997 and you can search the titles by going to the
Wiley Interscience home page. Relevant titles will be added to the library's
Journal Holdings page. For a list of all 208 titles, please contact the librarian
at michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov.
- On August 22, 2007, the United Nations launched Gateway to the UN System's work on climate change
that provides
easier access to climate change information, such as fact sheets, news, calendar of events,
and links to the pages describing the work on climate change issues by various UN System organizations and specialized agencies.
- Chris Kinner, Librarian/Contractor at NOAA Miami Regional Library, has created a bibliography of scholarly research
entitled, "Climate Change and Its Potential Impacts on Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Frequency," which is now available to the public through the
NOAA Miami Regional library webpage here.
New Books and Acquisitions
Helpful Search Tips and Links
Helpful Search Tips and Links for How to Properly Cite Electronic and Print Resources, and Management Issues electronic resources.
NOAA Library and Information Network Catalog (NOAALINC)
Online catalog of 27 NOAA libraries around the country.
Databases & Electronic Resources
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