R. James King

James.King@nrl.navy.mil

Ruth H. Hooker Research Library

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

The NRL Research LibraryThe NRL Research LibraryOnline Bibliography ProjectOnline Bibliography Project

Main Campus - Washington, D.C.131-acre Campus 111 Buildings

Subject FocusPhysics, Chemistry, Electronics, Oceanography, Meteorology, Space Sciences

Remote Campuses

Stennis, MS; Monterey, CA; and Office of Naval Research

The Navy and Marine Corps’The Navy and Marine Corps’Corporate Research FacilityCorporate Research Facility

NRL Research LibraryNRL Research LibraryStrategic PlanStrategic 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 CollectionsMajor 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 - 2Major 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 TORPEDO UltraUltra Digital Archive 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

Capturing corporate knowledgeCapturing corporate knowledge