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http://homer.gsu.edu/blogs/sciencenews

Topics include Ethanol, Hurricane Katrina, Buckyballs.

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Robert Tomaszewski
Office: Library South 5th Floor (Room 542)
Phone: (404) 413-2870
E-mail: rtomasze@gsu.edu

PubMed:  An new Advanced Search option seems to merge History, Preview, Index, with Limits and Field searching together.... 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj08/mj08_advanced_search.html

"A new study suggests that your political attitudes are wired in from the beginning..."

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-politics19-2008sep19,0,514047.story

...every science video on ScienceHack is screened by a scientist to verify its accuracy and quality.

http://sciencehack.com/

Check it out...

http://video.yahoo.com/network/100743807?v=3265004&l=100000248

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/biologists-on-t.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/08/04/nasa.mars/index.html

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080805-money-residue.html

"SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations.

- Individuals & organizations upload presentations to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses.
- Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them. They can tag, download, or embed presentations into their own blogs & websites.

SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment - start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking!

Some of the things you can do on SlideShare

  - Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
  - Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
  - Synch audio to your slides.
  - Market your own event on slideshare.
  - Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests
  - Download the original PowerPoint / Pdf file"

http://www.slideshare.net/about

http://blog.slideshare.net/2008/01/

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2490221586&b

E.g., How does SlideShare look on our CMS?

"Citation Mapping • Be the first to see the beta version of this powerful new Web of Science visualization tool. Visualize citation relationships and understand the meaning of a cited reference search. Map citations by author, institution, country, subject, and more!"

ONLINE TUTORIAL (approx. 6 min):
http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=198303851

Mars lander finds bits of ice, scientists say...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-04-21-life-span-study_N.htm

Side Note:
Life-expectancy calculator:
http://www.fis.org/public/obiterdicta/lecalc.html

"British physicist Peter Higgs, who more than 40 years ago postulated the existence of the particle in the makeup of the atom, said is visit to a new accelerator in Geneva last weekend encouraged him that the Higgs boson will soon be seen."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4609570

Also, checkout from the National Geographic:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/god-particle/achenbach-text

"Cited by" feature (i.e., Articles Citing This Article) for PubMed can be downloaded onto the FireFox browser.

"This script takes each result in a PubMed search and then queries Google Scholar to get the number of times it has been cited. Then it places a link with this info next to each search result, linking to the citations in Google Scholar."

http://www.plutosforge.com/blog/projects/ncbi-scholar

Backfiles for Acta Chemica Scandanavica, 1947-1999 are available in PDF or DjVu formats, free of charge!

http://actachemscand.dk/

Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market is mentioned in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080102/full/451006a.html

The journal-ranking tool itself is open-access:
http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php

SureChem-Chemical patent searching database

http://www.surechem.org/

Search more than 7 million unique chemical structures

Complete full text collections of US, European and WO/PCT patents

Structures updated within days of new patent issuance

Advanced chemical structure and patent search tools

Export structure and text search results

Powerful result filtering and query navigation tools

Bentham Publishers recently launched over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals (i.e., mainly in the Sciences).

Bentham Open Access:
http://www.bentham.org/open/