QSPIRES allows access via interactive BITNET commands to the SLAC High Energy Physcis Preprints database and a variety of other database files with information such as names, phones and computer account information of people associated with SLAC. Information requested will be displayed on the terminal or may be returned via a file if desired. Please use QSPIRES with caution as there exists the opportunity to clog the network with large result files. (try using the RESULT option before actually retrieving the data). A typical QSPIRES search might go something like this: to QSPIRES@SLACVM FIND AUTHOR PERL, M. (RESULT TYPE to QSPIRES@SLACVM AND DATE AFTER 1986 (RESULT TYPE to QSPIRES@SLACVM OUTPUT (BRIEF You'll get a quick message back from the first two searches with just your totals. QSPIRES remembers your search for about 20 minutes and allows you to narrow or broaden your search. When you've got it to something reasonable, then send for the result with an output command. '(Brief' specifies a compact format. Note that you don't 'close' the parenthesis. DETAILS---- COMMANDS: SEND QSPIRES@SLACVM request (options where request is one of the following: HELp [SUBfiles] EXPlain DISplay SEND QSPIRES@SLACVM BROwse [FirstLast] term [] ( options WHOis [AT ] WHEreis SHOw [FINd] [] value [term value...] - - Options: FILE TYPE RESULT INFO BRIEF NOSTAR STACK LIFO FIFO USING IN SELECT LIMIT PARM: HELP displays general help. If optional SUBFILE is requested then a list of available SPIRES database subfiles will be given. EXPLAIN displays a short description of the given subfile. Where "subfile-name" is the same of an available subfile. Subfile names can be displayed using the HELP SUBFILES command. DISPLAY displays a single record from the default subfile, or a alternate subfile specified in "options". Where "record-key" is key of a single record in the subfile. BROWSE will return a random sampling of index values within the specified index term. If "First" or "Last is given then the sampling will be sequential beginning at the top or bottom of the tree. If a "value" is given then a sampling of values in the general area of that value will be presented. Browse could be used to identify the type of index values expected in a search request. WHOIS displays information about the given persons name either from the local BINLIST database or from the BITNAMES subfile. Where "name" is a persons name and "node" is the BITNET node address. WHEREIS displays information about the location given from the local INSTITUTIONS database. Where "location" is the address or location your looking for such a "FERMILAB" or "CERN". SHOW to display local spires information about the subfile or environment. Used to issue commands such as SHOW SUBFILE SIZE. FIND performs a search on using the "index-term" if given. If "index-term" is not given then a default will be used. i.e. for the BINLIST database the term NAME is searched, if no records are found then the search term VM is used. index-terms use first letter for abbreviation author date citation title topic (tp) citation codens J.Math.Phys JMAPA Nucl. Phys. NUPHA Nuovo Cim. NUCIA Nuovo Cim.Lett. NCLTA Phys.Lett. PHLTA Phys.Rev. PHRVA Phys.Rev.Lett. PRLTA Prog.Theo.Phys. PTPKA Rev.Mod.Phys. RMPHA examples: PHRVA,D1,303 NUPHA,B22,157 but Phys.Rev. 133-140A/B (1964-65), Phys. Lett. and Nuovo Cim have letters after volume number PHRVA,136A,870 NUCIA,66A,606 to find other coden: Browse coden OPTIONS: FILE request data to be returned in a reader file. RESULT only reports the results of the search, no actual record data is returned. INFO Same as RESULT. BRIEF displays the records in a brief form. NOSTAR records are stacked without a "* " beginning each line. USING request an alternate SPIRES format frame to use for display. IN specifies a specific subfile to be searched. (default is HEP). LIMIT set record return limit to nnn number of records. (default is set depending on subfile, normally about 100). STACK stacks returned info FIFO. LIFO stacks returned info LIFO. FIFO stacks returned info FIFO, same as STACK option. NOTES: The QSPIRES command is a CMS EXEC on the SLAC VM system. If issuing commands from a remote bitnet node substitute QSPIRES with TELL QSPIRES at SLACVM (from VM/CMS systems). To display a list of the currently available subfiles, issue the QSPIRES HELP SUBFILES command. The list of available subfiles are: BINLIST The SLAC People directory. HEP The High Energy Physics Preprints Database INST Current addresses for affiliations used HEP subfile BOOKS On-line book catalog for the SLAC library CONF Information about past & future conferences SEMINARS SLAC compendium of bay area seminars & colloquiums PROBTRAK SCS Problem tracking and reporting BOOKS-VENDORS BITNAMES To find more information about a specific subfile name try the EXPLAIN, SHOW INDEX and BROWSE commands, i.e. QSPIRES EXPLAIN HEP QSPIRES SHOW INDEX (IN SEMINARS QSPIRES BROWSE NAME Note that if you are dealing with a subfile other than the default (HEP), then you must indicate so using the "IN " option. Access to any of the available subfiles may be accomplished via any SLAC/BITNET node. In this case, the default is to send the resultant records via punch file however you may override this with the TYPE options. Send the equivalent of a CP TELL command to the disconnected machine QSPIRES at SLACVM rather than issuing the QSPIRES command. I.e. TELL QSPIRES AT SLACVM FIND AUTHOR CRANE TELL QSPIRES AT SLACVM SHOW INDEX (TYPE TELL QSPIRES AT SLACVM HELP SUBFILES TELL QSPIRES AT SLACVM EXPLAIN HEP The CONF (or CONFERENCES) file contains information about past and future conferences on ACCELERATORS and HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS. It may be searched by DATE, TITLE, PLACE, and/or KEY phrase To find ALL conferences held in 1990, for instance: . FIN DATE 1990 . TYPE To find all conferences in Paris in 1990: . FIN PL PARIS AND D 1990 To find all conferences about HADRONS held in Ithaca after 1981: . FIN T HADRON# AND PL ITHACA . AND D AFTER 1981 The truncation symbol (#) will give you all words beginning with that string of letters: FIN TI HADRON# will yield all conferences with title words HADRON, HADRONS, HADRONIC, etc. A brochure about the CONFERENCE file is available in the SLAC Library, Central Lab, Room Y215 (x2411) If you are a conference organizer, be sure to send information to: SLAC Library, Attn: Conference Previews, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94305 If your conference is of interest to the HEP community, it will then be announced on the quarterly list 'Conference Previews' which has a world-wide readership in the HEP community 1.1 QSPIRES AND BULLETIN-BOARDS With the rapid expansion of bulletin-boards, the HEP database now also registers the relevant b-board data: the b-board code (e.g., HEPPH), b-board number (e.g., 9211083), and the b-board address (e.g., hep-ph@xxx.lanl.gov). A new index BB (or BBN, or BULL), makes possible search based on the bulletin board information: FIN BB HEPTH-9208017 FIN BB 9208017 AND HEPTH FIN BB 9208017 FIN BB HEPTH (RESULT Do not forget to append the option '(RESULT' when a large search result is expected. A new format, called FULL, allows you to display not only bibliographic data, but also abstracts of the bulletin-board papers. Try, e.g., FIN BB HEPTH-9208017 (USING FULL Note that abstracts are available only for the papers posted on various b-boards. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.2 TWO WAYS TO GET "PREPRINTS IN PARTICLES & FIELDS" (PPF) LISTING Weekly publication "Preprints in Particles and Fields" (PPF) lists selected new HE physics preprints received during the past week by SLAC Library. As you probably know, the PPF number is searchable in the HEP database. The number is a composite of a year and a week. For example, PPF 9303 denotes the PPF listing for the third week in 1993. There are two commands which produce an output resembling somewhat the format of the printed PPF copy. Try FIND PPF 9303 (OUT FILE BRIEF SEQ RS The command uses the brief format and returns up to 300 references. This is more than enough: a typical PPF has 'only' about 160 entries. It also sorts ('SEQ') the result by the REPORT-NUM sort, which puts it roughly in order by institutions ... just like PPF. An alternate search command is: FIND PPF 9303 (IN PPF OUT FILE SEQ RS This will produce a slightly different output format, and the result will again be sorted by the REPORT-NUM. (Do not use the selection 'IN PPF' for other HEP searches!) The Library staff finish proofing and correcting PPF each week on Wednesday, so Thursday is a good day to call for a new issue. Related to the proofreading process: do not be alarmed if you find errors in the description of the most recent papers. Most of the errors will be eliminated during the proofreading. Only if the errors persist for more than seven days, let us know. Contact LIBRARY@SLACVM.BITNET (or LIBRARY@SLAC.STANFORD.EDU) . ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.3 NEW HEP INDEX: DATE-ADDED (DADD) HEP searching based on the preprint's date has been possible by use of the 'qualifier' DATE. Qualifiers are special search terms that may only be used to narrow a result found previously with regular search terms, and cannot be used alone. For example, FIND AUTHOR DRELL AND DATE > 1989 is fine, but FIN DATE > 1989 will not work. A new search term has been created, based on the date when a record was added to the database: DADD (or DATE-ADDED). Unlike the DATE, the new index is a regular search term, and can be used alone in a primary search, e.g., FIN DADD OCT 1992 (RES This will show you how many records were added to the database in October 1992. Do not forget to append the option '(RESult' to your search request: more than a thousand records are added each month to HEP. DADD index can be combined with other HEP indexes in iterative and compound searches. Two examples of searches using the DADD index are shown below: FIN DADD > 11/20/92 AND DADD < 11/27/92 (RES FIN AUTHOR DRELL & DADD THIS YEAR ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.5 ANOTHER QSPIRES' INTERNET ADDRESS You may now use the following address to reach QSPIRES from Internet nodes: QSPIRES@SLAC.STANFORD.EDU The earlier version (QSPIRES@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU) may still be used. The Bitnet address remains unchanged: QSPIRES@SLACVM.BITNET ------------------------------------------------------------------