For more details about locating science news, click on the link to the article on the Baltimore Sun:
Universities establish own way to tell public about findings

http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-university-wire-0916,0,6633143.story.

Penn State has created a new Scientific Search Engine call CiteSeerX. The beta version was released earlier this summer, and it can be used to search scientific literature including: algorithms, data, meta data, services, techniques, software, and even tables. With more than a million journal articles and other scholarly works, this resource, developed by Penn State’s College of Information Sciences & Technology (ITS), is accessible to anyone. It is funded by the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, NASA, as well as ITS. To access click on CiteSeerX or the link: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/

Many museums offer virtual tours – such at the Louvre at  http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee.  The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History also offers a virtual tour at http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipodtours/.

However, Apple offers free podcasts of a variety of museums.  To view the complete list, click on the link http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipodtours/ and then select The Museum Room.

Google Voice is a free plan (for calls within the US) which offers users one number to replace the collection of home, work, & cell phone numbers. Users simply distribute one number and then define which of the phones ring on their end. For example, an incoming call from family might be set up to ring on all of the user’s phones. Customers might be defined to ring on cell and work. And an annoying gossip might be set to go directly to voicemail. All voicemail is transcribed and sent to user’s email. Google Voice also sends user’s text messages to voicemail. Known unwanted callers can be blocked. This really is a catchall for communication. The drawback is by allowing voicemail to be transcribed, users lose their privacy. Once voicemail becomes email, it has the same amount of privacy as a post card.
For now, users wanting Google Voice need to place their name on a list for an invitation. For more information about Google Voice features or to receive an Invitation, click on the link:
http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html#

Google Squared Google Squared is a search tool which presents analogous results in a square or spreadsheet format. Users can update results by entering their own customized columns or rows. This is an easy way to review search results if a user were, for example, interested in comparing cell phones. Google Squared displays rows of various brand names with columns for image, description, price, etc. Users can customize the results by adding or deleting rows and/or columns. Results can be saved by signing in. However, registration is not necessary to use this search engine.

http://www.google.com/squared

Addict-O-Matic Robot Have you ever just wanted a quick overview of a topic of the day?
Addict-O-Matic is a website which provides a simultaneous search of the top results from the latest news, blog and information sites for your specific topic. This is the easiest, fastest and most convenient way to keep informed of the latest buzz. Users can run one search on any topic and instantly read the top results from Live.com News, GoogleBlog, Digg, Twitter, You Tube, Flicker, Friendfeed, Delicious, Ask.com, Bloglines, Truveo, and Technorati, to name a few. This page can be customized for news, politics, entertainment or a variety of other areas. Users do not need to register to use the preset options; simply enter a topic, for example, “Iranian Election” and view results. To try out Addict-O-Matic, click on the link http://addictomatic.com

Management students may be interested in the latest way to promote a company – virtually with cell phone applications. “Sell the Apps, then sell your company”, according to Jenna Wortham, technology writer for the New York Times. Wortham contends when a company offers a phone application in Apple’s iStore, it is tapping into a fan base of millions of users. This is a fast way for a company to break into the virtual market. This is so lucrative other mobile phone companies are expanding into Apps for their cell phones operating systems. To read more about cell phone applications and their marketing capabilities click on the link, Apps are Booming: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/technology/start-ups/08phone.html

What is Forward Citation Searching?
Forward Citation searching is a way users can quickly identify later works which cite a particular article. For instance, if a specific article or book were the cornerstone of a user’s research, any later work which refers to that original text would be significant to that research. These later writings could either collaborate or refute the original text, or even take the research in a whole new direction. Locating the later writings is referred to as Forward Citation Searching. The most important aspect to take from this posting is to simply be aware of this type of searching for your research. An example is outlined below. However, if you have questions with the actual procedure, please ask. Library contact information follows the example…

As an example, let’s perform a forward citation search for the 1989 book, Improving Higher Education Environments for Adults, by Nancy Schlossberg, Ann Lynch & Arthur Chickering.
We will be searching for any later works which refer to this text, i.e. articles or books written between 1989 – 2009. One way to perform Forward Citation Searching is by using the
Web of Science database.
From the Penn State Library homepage http://www.libraries.psu.edu ,
Select Databases by Title (A-Z)
Then select Web of Science.
From the ISI Web of Knowledge page, click on the Web of Science yellow tab.
Then click on Cited Reference Search.

Enter cited author’s name. For this example enter Schlossberg, N. Only enter the first author’s name. As the Web of Science page demonstrates, enter last name first, with no punctuation and only first initial.

The cited work entry is a little tricky. This database abbreviates everything, so you need to search for the work’s title (Improving Higher Education…) to see how this database has abbreviated it. To do this, click on the magnifying glass symbol at the end of this line. Enter the first three words of the title – Improving Higher Education. This search produced IMPROVING HIMPS EARL. Our example should come before this entry, so click the Previous button and then scroll to the bottom. There the user will see Improving Higher Ed click ADD and then click OK. This will bring you back to the Citing Reference Search page.

Next, for Cited Years, enter 1989-2009. (1989 was the year this book was published.)

Click Search button.
On the Search Results page click on Select box in front of Schlossberg N, then click on the Finish Search button.
This will produce seven results which refer to the Schlossberg text – six good references and one false hit or incorrect result.
That is how to perform a forward citation search.

Questions? Contact the Penn State Great Valley Library 610-648-3362.

Teens photograph atmosphere
There’s no limit to what students can do if challenged. In a quest to study the Earth’s stratosphere, four Spanish high school students and their science teacher captured this image of space (and others) with a $100 camera and a balloon. Making all their own weather equipment, they attached it and a camera to a helium balloon. The balloon traveled 20 miles above Earth before it began to descend. The equipment was recovered approximately 6 miles from the release site. The weather sensors and photo card were recovered. To read the full story click on the following link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html .
To see additional photos, click on the highlighted word photograph within the text of the story or click on the following link