R. James King Ruth H. Hooker Research Library U.S. Naval Research Laboratory The NRL Research Library Online Bibliography Project
Main Campus - Washington, D.C. 131-acre Campus111 Buildings Subject Focus Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Oceanography, Meteorology, Space Sciences Remote Campuses Stennis, MS; Monterey, CA; and Office of Naval Research The Navy and Marine Corps’ Corporate Research Facility
NRL Research Library Strategic Plan VISION: “Your Partner in Research” MISSION: The Ruth H. Hooker Research Library exists to enhance & support NRL scientists in accomplishing their research objectives across a range of ongoing Navy and DoD programs through a mix of information services. GOALS: Providing access to all published information Building the NRL Digital Library Capturing the NRL research portfolio
Major Collections Journals: Print journals (1800-present, 1,682 titles) Online journals (1683-present, 2,574 titles) TORPEDO Ultra (1826-present, 3,190 titles) Books: Books/Proceedings – 46,000 print titles w/~15k proceedings RFIDs on entire book/reference collection
Major Collections - 2 Reference Tools: 3k print (Who’s Who, encyclopedia, handbooks, citation indexes, Chemical Abstracts, etc.) 3k online including INSPEC, Web of Science, SciFinder, Scopus Research Reports: Print (unclassified and classified) – 600,000 reports Digitized (SIPRnet) – 200,000 reports Microfilm – 1.5M reports
TORPEDO Ultra Digital Archive 3,100+ journals from 17 publishers 6,000 tech reports 7.5M+ articles locally loaded Full content search across all content Integrated citation linking Convera RetrievalWare Concept Searching
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