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AccessScience provides collection of online science reference materials with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.  The authors are the top experts in the field, including a number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medals winners.

Look for these in AccessScience:

  • full search access of the 9th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
  • new trends and developments in science and technology ("Research Updates") from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
  • access to 110,000+ definitions from The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms
  • biographies of scientists
  • late-breaking scientific and technological news
  • bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations
  • links to evaluated related web sites
  • learning resources and study guides
  • added illustrations, animations, and image galleries
  • questions answered in its weekly Q&A forum
    Searching AccessScience
  1. Encyclopedia – Type in subject in the search bar field

Search all Encyclopedia articles plus biographies and news archive
Output:  Print or Email

  1. Science Dictionary – Type in subject in the search bar field to find definition of subject.
  1. Advanced Search
    1. Enter keyword (can do Boolean Search)
    2. Can further refine the search by marking Categories to be searched
    3. Can also further refine the search by marking Topics to be searched

Output:  Print, Email, or Save to Portable Memory Device

Note:  There is an online tutorial (video and audio) on the AccessScience website that explains in greater detail how to research AccessScience.

 

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