Betty Petersen Memorial Library News News, Events and More from the Betty Petersen Memorial Library in the NOAA Science Center in Camp Springs, MD http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/ en-us Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:00:00 EST michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov Managing your citations with Endnote: a library class this Thursday at 1pm Staff in the World Weather Building are invited to attend the following webinar class this Thursday, 7/17 at 1pm in Conference Room 209.
Building Your EndNote Library -
  • Get acquainted with EndNote and learn about the user interface and setting up preferences
  • Learn four ways to add references to your library including manual data entry, online search, direct export, and importing text files downloaded from online sources
Endnote software is a software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies on the Windows and Mac desktop. Using Endnote, researchers save countless hours of typing and interpreting style requirements when creating bibliographics for curricala vitae, manuscripts, thesis/dissertations, grant proposals and other publications.

NOAA has a site license for EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager from ISI Researchsoft. All NOAA researchers and library staff are entitled to install all three software products and any updates on their desktop at no additional charge.

http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#endnote New Training Resources page added to library website A new webpage has been added to the Betty Petersen Memorial Library website with training materials for databases and from library workshops. Handouts created for library training sessions have been added to the page in html and pdf formats. External training resources have also been added to the page. The new webpage is viewable at http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/training/ and will grow as new library workshops are held. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#training Climate Change in the Encyclopedia of Earth The Encyclopedia of Earth just recently announced the addition of the Climate Change Collection. Says the Editor-in-Chief:
The Collection is anchored by an electronic version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Nobel Prize-winning reports. It also includes articles by climate experts, biographies of individuals who have made important contributions to climate science and policy, a timeline of key events in the history of climate science and policy, a climate glossary, and much more. Scientists, educators, environmental professionals and concerned citizens should find the Collection to be an invaluable resource.

We seek to expand the Collection with articles on a wide rage of climate-relate’ topics and written for a large and diverse global audience. We encourage potential contributors to contact us.
 http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#encyclopedia Making the most of ResearcherID - a library workshop on Thursday 5/29 Thomson Reuters (formerly Thomson Scientific) recently launched a new researcher identification tool called ResearcherID. Come learn how to create a ResearcherID profile and build your publication list using the NOAA-wide Web of Science database. We'll also discuss how to upload citations to your profile using Endnote Web and how to use ResearcherID locate future research collaborators.
This workshop will take place in Conference Room 209 on Thursday 5/29 12pm-12:45pm.
For any questions or concerns, please email michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#researcherid 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 http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#appliedoptics 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. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#openscience 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.

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 http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#openhouse 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.
http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#mga 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:

 http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#jstor Library orientation on Friday, 4/4 at 12pm 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. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#orientations NOAA Central Library relaunches website today, 2/4 NOAA Central Library unveiled a new look for its website today. Check it out here. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#central Library orientation on Friday, 2/8 at 12pm 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, February 7th if you are interested in attending this month's session at 12pm on Friday, February 8th. Other times/dates can be arranged by appointment. Light refreshments will be served. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#orientations New for 2008: Access to AGU Digital Library 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.
Click here for an SJR ranking of Atmospheric Science Journals for 2006. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#SJR 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! http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#agudigitallibrary 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. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#jcr 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. Donuts and juice will be served. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#webofscience Library orientation on Friday, 10/5 at 12pm 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, October 4th if you are interested in attending this month's session at 12pm on Friday, October 5th. Other times/dates can be arranged by appointment. Light refreshments will be served. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#orientations New IT Resources page added to BPML website 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. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.html#itresources New Journal Alerts Service at BPML 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) http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#journalalerts Wiley electronic journal titles available NOAA-wide 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. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#wiley Library orientation on Friday, 9/14 at 12pm 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, September 13th if you are interested in attending this month's session at 12pm on Friday, September 14th. Other times/dates can be arranged by appointment. Light refreshments will be served. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#orientations UN website on climate change 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. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#UN Climate Change and Its Potential Impacts on Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Frequency Bibliography 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 at http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#climatechangebiblio Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts database demonstration 8/23 at 12pm All researchers and personnel in the World Weather Building are invited to attend a 30 minute lunchtime demonstration of Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts in the Library (Rm 103) on Thursday, August 23rd at 12pm. Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) is a premier literature database indexing over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs in the atmospheric sciences, back to 1974. MGA is available at your NOAA workstation through the Library website at the Databases link. This is a brown bag lunch event with light refreshments provided. As seating in the library is limited, please email michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov or call 301-763-8266 if you are interested in attending. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#mgademo2 Library Orientation Friday 8/3 at 12pm New to the NOAA Science Center Building? Unfamiliar with NOAA Library resources? The Betty Petersen Memorial Library offers a 30 minute library orientation on the first Friday of 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, August 2nd if you are interested in attending this month's session at 12pm on Friday, August 3rd. Other times/dates can be arranged by appointment. Light refreshments will be served. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#orientations Library Orientation Friday 7/6 at 12pm New to the NOAA Science Center Building? Unfamiliar with NOAA Library resources? The Betty Petersen Memorial Library offers a 30 minute library orientation on the first Friday of 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, July 5th if you are interested in attending this month's session at 12pm on Friday, July 6th. Other times/dates can be arranged by appointment. Light refreshments will be served. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#orientations Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts database demonstration 5/30 at 12pm All researchers and personnel in the World Weather Building are invited to attend a 30 minute lunchtime demonstration of Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts in the Library (Rm 103) on Wednesday, May 30th at 12pm. Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) is a premier literature database indexing over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs in the atmospheric sciences, back to 1974. MGA is available at your NOAA workstation through the Library website at the Databases link. This is a brown bag lunch event with light refreshments provided. As seating in the library is limited, please email michelle.k.campbell@noaa.gov or call 301-763-8266 if you are interested in attending. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#mgademo Electronic Access to Science Magazine now activated Electronic access to Science magazine has now been activated throughout the World Weather Building. You can access Science at your NOAA workstation through Journal Holdings on the Library website. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#sciencemag New Books RSS feed We've added a new RSS feed for Library acquisitions. Subscribe to learn about new books and other additions to the library catalog as they come in. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#booksrss Library News now in RSS feed Library news is now available in RSS feed! Add this site to your aggregator or bookmark it to keep up with library events and happenings. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml#rss