SPIRES News Continued
- January 3, 2000
- SPIRES-HEP Mirror Site Hosting is available
We have the capability for running mirror sites of the SPIRES-HEP
system. If you are interested, please read the
requirements for running a SPIRES-HEP mirror site.
- January 7, 1998
- Particle Data Group Announces:
- September 16, 1997
This morning SPIRES-HEP passed another milestone: the
350,000th entry has been added to the database!
It was only two-and-a-half years ago that we announced our
300,000th record (see the February 21, 1995 entry below).
Quite an achievement for the small crews at SLAC and DESY, don't
you think?
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September 12, 1997
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Bob Gex, one of the key people from the first generation of
SLAC librarians, has recently retired. Bob was working on PREPRINTS
and other SPIRES databases since the very beginning. Although it will
be a bit of a struggle to fill Bob's well-worn shoes, he can take comfort
in the fact that he and other pioneering 'cybrarians' have established
a firm track on which the current library staff can continue to run.
Bob's retirement present was a T-shirt with a huge sign
Discarded from SLAC Library on the front, and a much smaller
Gone but Not Forgotten statement on the back side.
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July 31, 1997
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Have you noticed a new format, called Default-2, on our
HEP-database search pages? If your network connections to Middle East,
or Far East, or South America are better than your connections to
Cornell or Europe, consider using this format. It provides links to
'mirrors' of the arXiv.org site in your vicinity, and can save
you some loading time. We hope to have a better solution, based on
'cookies', soon.
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July 30, 1997
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Ever tried to prepare a LaTeX version of your List of Publications by
using the regular SPIRES-HEP output? This probably was not a simple task!
But, did you know that this could be done more easily if you use
our BibTeX output? Courtesy of Jacques Distler, we now have a simple
instruction files
describing the procedure. Try it!
(Note that all the SPIRES-HEP data are originally stored
in ASCII form. Therefore, you will occasionally
have to do some 'translation' of ASCII into TeX markup,
particularly for the particle names and reactions. However, this still
may turn out to be much easier than starting from scratch).
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April 2, 1997
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We were called names in the past, but nobody ever called us granddaddy
before. Now we have lived to see even this happen! The Web Watch
section in the April issue of Physics Today declares that
the SPIRES-HEP database is "the granddaddy of [all the] preprint
databases". Dear Physics Today, we love you too! Find the
Web Watch in the journal (p.58), or check the Physics Today pages
online.
In spite of being a granddaddy now, we do not feel like a
geriatric case yet. (However, if you notice any signs of aging, let
us know immediately).
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March 1, 1997
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SPIRES goes Unix!
After long and careful preparation,
the production of the SPIRES high-energy physics databases was moved
from the mainframe to a dedicated Sun workstation on March 1, 1997.
The transition was coordinated and lead by the Library consultant,
Louise Addis. SLAC's SPIRES databases lived on the mainframe machine
(SLACVM) for 20+ years, but since the mainframe is to be turned off by
the end of the year, it became necessary to find a new home for the
databases. Dick Guertin, one of the co-developers of the SPIRES
database management system, rewrote the software, and SPIRES now
successfully works under the Unix system. We hope that this first stage
of the transition to Unix won't cause any inconvenience for our users.
The databases will continue to be served by the SLACVM Web server
till the end of Summer, when an exclusive SPIRES Web server is
scheduled to begin operating on the Unix side. (Note that the new server
will keep using the current name, www-spires.slac.stanford.edu).
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January 1, 1997
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The 1996/97 edition of the document describing top-cited HEP articles
has been posted at:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/.
The document has three parts:
a list of journal papers with the most citations
in the last three years, a list of the most-cited e-prints, and
a list of all-time HEP favorites. The results are based on the
number of citations in the HEP(PREPRINT) database. Enjoy!
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December 18, 1996
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Check our brand new browse function
for the SPIRES-HEP(PREPRINTS) database. Try it while it is still in the
test phase, and if you have ideas on how to improve it,
write to us.
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November 12, 1996
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Recent CERN and DESY regular reports listed in the SPIRES-HEP
database now have the 'on the fly' links to the appropriate
document depositories at CERN and DESY. You can often find one or more
'electronic' versions of the documents
(e.g., compressed or uncompressed postscript, pdf, etc.)
in the depositories. If you notice some anomalies
with those links, or some of the links don't lead anywhere, please
let us know. We hope to be able to make similar 'on the fly' links
to the Fermilab and SLAC depositories in near future.
If an automatic linkage based on the institution's report numbers
works at your place, please send us a note and we shall gladly add
to SPIRES-HEP the links to your institution's depository.
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November 12, 1996
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Do we still have your e-print or preprint
marked 'unpublished' although a journal version appeared long ago? If so,
please send us a note to:
library@slac.stanford.edu, and we shall promptly update the record.
Furthermore, for a published e-print, we shall pass your note on to
the appropriate archive, and you won't have to do it
yourself. (Similarly, if you send the 'published' command to one of the
high-energy physics archives, we will get a copy from arXiv.org,
and you won't have to send a separate note to us).
Your note should clearly identify the SPIRES record by, e.g.,
the e-print or the report number. Please tell us the journal name,
volume number (and letter, if applicable),
the year of publication, and the complete range of pages,
not just the first page of the published article.
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April 22, 1996
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KEK Library is involved in a project of scanning of all the high-energy
physics preprints received at KEK from 1974 to the present. In an effort
to make this material available to a wider audience, the Library has
kindly allowed us to add pointers to the scanned images. You can find
pointers to the KEK files in the regular (WWW) SPIRES-HEP output format.
Try, for example,
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FIND REPORT IFAE-UAB-95-05
Currently, about 30,000 papers are available in the electronic form from
KEK. More will be added in future. We hope you will find this new
SPIRES-HEP feature useful. Please, send your questions/comments about the
scanning project to:
keklib@kekvax.kek.jp
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March 15, 1996
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Courtesy of the Physical Review D editorial office, we are now
getting the lists of accepted papers and the advanced tables of contents
for this journal. All of the accepted but not yet published
papers are marked immediately ('to be published in Phys. Rev. D'),
and can be found by a simple search,
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FIND STATUS ACCEPTED
The volume/page-numbers are added for published papers to HEP
several weeks before a printed copy of the journal actually appears.
We are also getting the PACS codes assigned to the accepted papers,
and we are displaying them. You can find all the papers with the same code
by using the 'FIND PACS ...' search, e.g.,
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FIND PACS 04.70.Bw
Note that we only began adding the PACS to the database on March 1, 1996.
With time, the PACS search will become more and more useful. For more
information about the Physical Review D, please visit their Web site at
http://publish.aps.org/PRD/prdhome.html
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Dec 31, 1995 [superseded now by the Jan 1, 1997 announcement]
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The 1995/96 edition of the document describing top-cited HEP articles
has been posted at:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/.
The document has three parts:
a list of journal papers with the most citations
in the last three years, a list of the most-cited e-prints, and
a list of all-time HEP favorites. The results are based on the
number of citations in the HEP(PREPRINT) database. Enjoy!
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July 17, 1995
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At long last: some progress with the form interface for the HEP database.
Mark Lakata, from UC Berkeley, prepared a form page based on SPIFACE.
If you have a browser that can handle forms, please check
Mark's page,
at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/form/lblhep1.html.
Try also a
slightly revised version
of Mark's form at:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/form/hepspif.html (this one is
by Chris Spenner). This is still in a very experimental stage, and your
input to: library@slac.stanford.edu, is welcome. [Updated on July 20,
1995]
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July 10, 1995
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Ever wanted to restrict a search in the HEP database to published
articles only? (Our definition of 'published' denotes journal articles,
but does not cover papers printed in e.g., books or proceedings).
This is now possible! Simply add '... AND PS PUBLISHED'
to your search request. For example,
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FIND AUTHOR JOANNE HEWETT AND PS PUBLISHED
The term PUBLISHED may be shortened to P ('... AND PS P'). We keep adding
features to our databases, but rarely hear your reactions. It took two
people ten weekends to make the above-described searching possible.
Do you find it useful? Do you have some other suggestions or comments?
Write to:
library@slac.stanford.edu
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July 3, 1995
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Here is another try on 'forms search' for our
BOOKS, or
CONFERENCES,
or INSTITUTIONS,
or HEPNAMES (e-mail addresses) databases.
The forms are based on Tony Johnson's
SPIFACE
interface, and prepared by Christopher Spenner.
If you like forms, check also the other (still) highly experimental
SPIRES forms.
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June 26, 1995
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As many of you know, SLAC has been providing postscript versions
of high-energy physics related e-prints since January 1993. During that
time more than 15,000 postscript files were created from (LaTeX) sources.
Effective June 30, 1995, SLAC will stop the e-print processing, because
the postscript of new and old e-prints is now available directly from
the arXiv.org e-print archives (as of June 1). To view and/or print
an e-print, select the arXiv.org link in the HEP-database output,
and then use the 'Postscript' pointer. Find more information about the
change here.
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March 15, 1995
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Two new Web formats for the HEP database are now available: WWWBRIEF, and
WWWSIG. The first one may be useful if you are preparing a list of publications.
It shows a basic bibliographic information, but doesn't have all the
additional pointers, e.g., to list of topics, citations,
etc. By 'selecting' any of the title words in the WWWBRIEF
display you can bring up the full (default) display.
The second new format (WWWSIG) is useful if you are pointing to a
SPIRES result from your own Web page. Technically speaking, this format
doesn't produce the IsIndex markup, and thus, unlike the default
WWW format, doesn't open the 'search' or 'find' windows on your
browser. In the following examples the same search result is
presented by using the default, WWWBRIEF, and WWWSIG formats.
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FIND A DIXON, L. AND DATE 1993
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FIND A DIXON, L. AND DATE
1993 (USING WWWBRIEF
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FIND A DIXON, L. AND DATE
1993 (USING WWWSIG
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February 27, 1995
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A SPIRES-based list of HEP institutions with Web servers
is available now as an additional tool to help you 'surfing' the
Internet. The list, as you may expect, is far from being complete, but you
are invited to help us keeping it as accurate and up to date as possible.
If we are missing a Web server of a HEP-related institution with a
stable URL, please let us know. Write to:
library@slac.stanford.edu
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February 21, 1995
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Entry number 300,000 has been added to the HEP database today!
(HEP is our flagship database which covers preprints and articles
related to high-energy physics). Big thanks go to Louise Addis and
Bob Gex for years of devotion to the database, to
our brave past and present input persons, proofreaders, and controllers
(onsite and offsite), to people in SLAC Computing Center
who provided the world-wide access to the database, to our sister-lab
DESY for an enormous and constant contribution, to other providers of
information from Fermilab, CERN, Kyoto, and KEK (the list is incomplete!),
to SLAC top management and Director's Office for kind support
in these difficult times, and finally -- to you users and the whole
high-energy physics community whose friendly criticism and constant
encouragement and praise keep us going.
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September 30, 1994
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New index in the HEP database: JOURNAL.
This index helps restricting
a search to articles published in a given journal. Works both via QSPIRES
and on the Web. Use popular variations of journal names, for example,
Physical Review, or Phys. Rev., or PR, etc.
To see how this works, find for example papers by the SLD
Collaboration published in the Physical Review Letters. Use indexes
CN (for collaboration name) and J (allowed abbreviation for JOURNAL),
and make the search:
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FIND CN SLD AND J PRL
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September 30, 1994
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New 'button' in the HEP database via Web: "Display References".
Lists of references from all HEP-related preprints received by the SLAC
Library are stored in the HEP database (they serve as a source for
the citation search). You can now see references from an article by
selecting the Display_References pointer in the standard HEP output on
the Web. To see how this works, find for example the HEP record of
the paper published in the Class.Quant.Grav.11: 621-648, 1994,
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FIND SPICITE CQGRD,11,621
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Then select the pointer to the reference list.
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September 30, 1994 [updated Jan 1, 1997: the following
announcement is now obsolete]
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HEP records corresponding to articles published in
Classical and Quantum Gravity
since 1994, have now pointers to source files at the
CQG WWW Depository. Find, for example, the HEP record of
the paper published in the Class.Quant.Grav.11: 621-648, 1994:
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FIND SPICITE CQGRD,11,621
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Note that the retrieval of full text information from the depository
is only enabled to institutions subscribed to Class. and Quant. Gravity.
Find more information about the access
here.
See also the note on access to Nucl. Phys. depository below.
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September 16, 1994
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All HEP records corresponding to articles published in Nuclear Physics
A and B since 1993, have now pointers to source files at the
Nucl. Phys. WWW Depository. Find,
for example, the HEP record of the paper published in
Nucl.Phys.B421: 111-124, 1994:
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FIND SPICITE NUPHA,B421,111
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Note that the retrieval of full text information from the depository
is only enabled to institutions subscribed to Nucl. Phys.
Find more information about the access
here.
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August 18, 1994
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The list of top-cited articles in the HEP
databases is now available. Have fun (and don't forget: it's not all in
the citation)!
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August 3, 1994
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The TOPIC (TP, KEYWORD) search in HEP is not particularly convenient
if you don't have a full list of topics. This list is now
available even to non-SLAC users. To get it, use the anonymous ftp
server preprint.slac.stanford.edu (login-name: anonymous,
password: your-userid), then
cd preprints/Miscellaneous , and then
get hep.keywords
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Note that this is a huge (1.2 Mb) ASCII file. Share it with your
colleagues. [July 17, 1995 update: a 'gunzipped' file,
hep.keywords.gz (0.2 Mb), is now also available]
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August 3, 1994
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PARTICLES database is no longer available in SPIRES. Web users
can find the full postscript version of the latest edition of
the Review of Particle Properties on the LBL Particle Data
Group (PDG) server: visit the
PDG Home Page.
To search the corresponding database,
use Telnet to reach the
PDG public access
account at MUSE.LBL.GOV (or 131.243.48.11). Login as PDG_PUBLIC.
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May 9, 1994
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Users of the CONF database can now find more
than just elementary information on upcoming conferences. When available,
we post additional information, such as lists of lectures, application
forms, announcements, etc. To see how this works, select more
information in the following example:
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FIND PLACE BRIJUNI
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Please send all information on future particle physics oriented
conferences to conf@slac.stanford.edu
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April 29, 1994
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The citation search is now possible for the bulletin-board papers in the
HEP database. Try, for example,
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FIND C HEP-TH 9401030
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Once a b-board paper is published, the citations from the bulletin-board
phase get added to the regular, journal citations.
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April 27, 1994
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Abstracts and papers from the new HEP-EX bulletin board, devoted to
experimental high-energy physics, are the latest addition to the
ABSTRACTS database.
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To get more information on the HEP-EX, send e-mail to:
hep-ex@arXiv.org , with Subject: HELP .
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April 26, 1994 [Note (1997): the links are no longer valid]
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The CDF's 'top-quark' paper, submitted to Phys. Rev. D, can be found in
SLAC's preprints depository. You can view abstract, or
View_Paper on the Web, or use ftp to get the postscript file. SLAC's
anonymous ftp server is at
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preprint.slac.stanford.edu,
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and the path to the paper is pub/preprints/hep-ph/9404/top.ps.Z .
The 1Mb, 153 pages paper, has figures imbedded.
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Note that the 'official' copy of the paper can be fetched from the
Fermilab WWW server.
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(Note added Sep 30, 94: This paper has been published in
Phys.Rev.D50: 2966-3026, 1994)
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April 18, 1994 [revised May 25, 1995]
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The 'forms search' is now possible in the HEP and some other databases.
Still in a highly experimental phase. If your browser can handle forms
interface (use e.g., MidasWWW, or Mosaic), get a taste of the new way
of searching by selecting
SPIRES Forms
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March 25, 1994
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A completely revised format for the Experiments
database has been introduced.
References are now "clickable" and have pointers to bibliographic
data in the HEP database (where available). New elements, RELATED
experiments, EMAIL contact, and URL for experiment's Web Home Page have
been added. To see an example, click
here. (May not
look so good on a linear browser).
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March 7, 1994
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End of an era:
Louise Addis,
SLAC's Head Librarian, officially retires. Louise played the crucial
role in a development of SLAC-SPIRES databases, installation of the
QSPIRES server, and bringing the databases as well as the full postscript
preprint server to the Web. Louise will stay at SLAC as a part-time
advisor and coordinator.
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The new Head Librarian is
Patricia Kreitz,
coming to SLAC from SSCL.
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March 1, 1994 (revised April 19, 1995)
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A listserver has been established for those interested in receiving
the weekly lists of newly arrived preprints, PPF ("Preprints in
Particles and Fields"). To subscribe, send e-mail to:
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listserv@slac.stanford.edu
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The machine ignores the Subject: line. Type
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subscribe PPF-L
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in the body of your e-mail. (Similarly, to unsubscribe, send the
request: unsubscribe PPF-L , to the same address).
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This week's, and
last week's PPFs can be found on the
Web as well.
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March 1, 1994
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Authorization is no longer needed for the use of QSPIRES server. Anybody,
from any node accessible from SLAC, can now search HEP and several
other SLAC-SPIRES databases via QSPIRES.
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QSPIRES was introduced ten years ago. Hundreds of physicists and
non-physicists worldwide served as local 'QSPIRES node managers' in
the past. Our sincere thanks to these volunteers for their help
in making QSPIRES a useful and important tool.
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Please report any future problem with QSPIRES to:
qspi@slac.stanford.edu .
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February 20, 1994
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The new SLAC-SPIRES Home Page
has been created. It leads to several SPIRES related databases and
information pages. It also has a pointer to Stanford FOLIO.
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(Note that the FOLIO link opens a Telnet connection, and some simpler
browsers might not be able to handle such a connection properly. In
addition, FOLIO is open only to the Stanford community, and one can use
it only with a proper access code.)
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