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Google Experimental Search

January 30th, 2008

Take a look at Google Experimental Search. They’re offering five experimental features to enhance your searching: alternate views for search results, keyword suggestions, keyboard shortcuts, left-hand search navigation, and right-hand contextual search navigation.

I tried two. First, the keyword suggestions:
googlesearch2.jpg

For a librarian, this wasn’t a very interesting option.

Next I tried alternative views. This was nice:
googletimeline2.jpg

Once again I searched for “gold rush,” and although it’s hard to see in the example above, with the timeline view, you have a visualization of the 19th century and its related gold rush activity. I think this will be a nice aid for the students in our California Gold Rush class.

What do you think?

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LANL SearchPlus maintenance outage

January 16th, 2008

LANL will be doing necessary upgrades and maintenance on their SearchPlus and FlashPoint systems. They will be unavailable beginning at 5pm on Thursday, January 17 with resumption of service on Tuesday, January 22nd.

If you need to access SciSearch you may do so through ISI’s Web of Science.

Posted by julie Filed in Events
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AGU digital library

January 9th, 2008

The AGU Digital Library is here!

Contents include:

  • 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 [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

    • Socrates records will be updated soon to reflect the new electronic content, but right now, the best way to access the articles is by clicking on individual journal titles from the AGU contents page. Full articles are available as pdfs. The AGU search engine covers 1988-present currently, but will allow you to search for content back to 1896 soon.

    Let us know if you have any questions.

    Posted by sam Filed in Electronic Resources, journals
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