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AccessScience: Authoritative Scientific Resource for Education

AccessScience is a dynamic online resource edited by over 8,900 scientists and engineers, offering high-quality reference material covering major scientific disciplines. With thousands of articles, images, biographies, and technical definitions, it provides advanced search capabilities and various content types like articles, biographies, news, and videos. Accessible, organized, and easy to use, it serves as a valuable education tool.

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AccessScience: Authoritative Scientific Resource for Education

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  1. AccessScience JOE SIegele

  2. About AccessScience • “AccessScienceis an authoritative and dynamic online resource that contains incisively written, high-quality reference material that covers all major scientific disciplines.” • Edited by more than 8,900 scientists and engineers. • Contains over: • 8,000 articles and journals • 1,600 images and animations • 2,700 biographies • 115,000 technical definitions

  3. Overview of Search Capabilities • Advanced search • Keyword search • Search by topic • Search articles alphabetically

  4. Alphabetical Search • Alphabetical organization • Articles titles • Biographies titles

  5. Topic Search • Topics are alphabetized • Leads directly to article

  6. Keyword Search • Basic keyword search • Boolean operators • Exact phrasing • Nested searches • Truncation • Search by content type • Search by topic

  7. Advanced Search • Boolean search • Author • Topic • Content type

  8. Article Format • All articles are full-text • All articles are peer reviewed • Articles are displayed with: • Author • Table of contents • Bibliographies • Related articles and media

  9. Content Types • When keyword searching, different content types can be selected. • Content types not selected will be excluded from the results.

  10. Articles • Source material from theMcGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology

  11. Research Review • Articles reviewing key research and developments in science and technology from McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology. 

  12. Briefing • Topical overviews  of newsworthy subjects, designed to engage and inform 

  13. Biography • Life histories of well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography

  14. News • Timely stories from Science News with links to relevant AccessScience content 

  15. Dictionary • Definitions from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms

  16. Video/Animations • Engaging multimedia selections

  17. My Opinion on AccessScience • Accessible • Organized • Easy to use • Wide range of information • Education tool

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