The NRL Research Library
Online Bibliography Project
R. James King
James.King@nrl.navy.mil
Ruth H. Hooker Research Library
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
The Navy and Marine Corps’
Corporate Research Facility
Main Campus - Washington, D.C.
131-acre Campus 111 Buildings
Subject Focus
Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Oceanography,
Meteorology, Space Sciences
Remote Campuses
Stennis, MS; Monterey, CA; and Office of Naval
Research
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
Capturing corporate knowledge