Rosetta Stone Presentation
The presentation scheduled for Wednesday 11 November has been cancelled.
News and events from Penn State's Life Sciences Library
The PubMed redesigned interface is now available. The goal of the new design is to simplify the search interface. More information is available http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html.
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Rosetta Stone, the company that offers language learning products, will be giving a demonstration of their online product on Wednesday, November 11 from 1-3 p.m. in Foster Auditorium.
This month in our Audubon Display case on the 4th floor of the Paterno Library we are featuring three different birds, the Western Kingbird, the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, and the Say's Phoebe. The Western Kingbird is a conspicuous bird of open habitats that breeds in the western United States and winters in southern Mexico and Central America. It occupies a variety of habitats including riparian forests and woodlands, savannahs, shrublands, agricultural lands, deserts, and urban area. Typical of tyrant flycatchers, this kingbird forages by aerial hawking and perch-to-ground flights, often with acrobatic flying maneuvers. Insects make up the majority of its diet.
This month in our Audubon Display case on the 4th floor of the Paterno Library we are featuring the Pine Grosbeak. The Pine Grosbeak is a large, unwary finch, the Pine Grosbeak inhabits subarctic and boreal forests from eastern Asia to Scandinavia and, in North America, from eastern Canada to western Alaska. Pine Grosbeaks are most abundant in open forest, a condition occurring near treeline in taiga and montane forests, and near natural and human-made openings elsewhere. A short, conical bill allows this species to nip buds and growing tips of conifer branches and to crush seeds, although it feeds its young mainly on insects captured on the ground, in vegetation, and by fly-catching.
The libraries currently has trial access to Elsevier's Scopus database. The trial runs through the middle of August. Access is limited to Penn State folks on campus, or accessing resources through the VPN. The Scopus database is a direct competitor to ISI's Web of Science. The libraries will NOT be able to afford subscriptions to both databases, it would have to be one or the other. Comments on the database can be left here on this blog, or let your thoughts be known directly to your librarian.
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A strikingly marked and conspicuous bird of the cold, shrub-steppe environment of western North America, the Black-billed Magpie has attracted much attention and had a colorful association with early Americans. It frequently followed bison-hunting Native-Americans and lived on the refuse of their hunts. When Lewis and Clark first encountered magpies in 1804 in South Dakota, these birds were bold, entering tents to steal meat and taking food from the hand.