The Naval Research Laboratory's
(NRL's) Ruth H. Hooker Research Library announced the official
launch of TORPEDO Ultra on January 19, 2000. TORPEDO Ultra
is available at desktop computers throughout the Laboratory and
at Office of Naval Research (ONR) Headquarters through the Research
Library's InfoWeb homepage: http://infoweb.nrl.navy.mil.
TORPEDO Ultra is a powerful
new retrieval system for searching NRL's "Digital Library."
It currently allows researchers to search full text or fielded
data, such as title and author, of 275,000 journal articles and
6,000 technical reports. TORPEDO Ultra has been designed
by the Ruth H. Hooker Research Library to provide the NRL and
ONR research community with convenient Web access to electronic
journals and other digital information. It offers a single, intuitive
interface for browsing and searching hundreds of journals and
thousands of NRL publications.
To coincide with the release
of TORPEDO Ultra, the Science Citation Index Expanded
database, one of the most popular of the Library' Web-based reference
tools, has been enhanced with links pointing to the full text
of all locally mounted articles. This capability permits researchers
conducting a database search to retrieve not just a citation,
but the entire content of any article from the 240 journals currently
in TORPEDO Ultra. These journals include such high-interest
titles as:
Physical Review Letters and Physical Review E from
the American Physical Society, and Aerosol Science and
Technology, Applied Ocean Research, Atmospheric
Research, Chemical Physics and Chemical
Physics Letters, Materials Research Bulletin,
Materials
Science and Engineering, Optics and Laser Technology,
Optics Communications, Physics Letters,
Remote Sensing of Environment, Sensors and
Actuators, Solid State Communications, Surface
and Coatings Technology, Surface Science, and Thin
Solid Films from Elsevier. American Institute of Physics journals,
including such high-use titles as Applied Physics Letters
and the Review of Scientific Instruments, are in the
process of being added.
Most journals in TORPEDO
Ultra are licensed
by the Library for use of the NRL and ONR research community;
some have been digitized in cooperative projects with publishers
to build Web-based archival collections. Since agreements with
many publishers for local mounting of journals are still under
negotiation, the Library also provides access to hundreds of
other electronic journals through InfoWeb links connecting to
remote web sites. These journals are not currently searchable
through TORPEDO Ultra.
NRL publications available
through TORPEDO Ultra
include: NRL Formal and Memorandum Reports, NRL-authored journal
articles and conference papers, and NRL Press Releases. These
publications have been digitized by the Library to provide Web
access to retrospective as well as current information. All materials
are presented in PDF (Portable Document File) format. To support
the Laboratory in disseminating the results of NRL research,
the Library plans to make the 'NRL publications' sections of
TORPEDO Ultra openly available for public
browsing and searching.
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