Access Science

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Subject Areas

Articles- source materials

Research Reviews- articles reviewing key research and developments in science & technology

Briefing- overviews of newsworthy subject which are designed to engage and inform

News- timely stories from ScienceNews with links

Biographies- life histories of well-known scientists

Videos & Animations- engaging multimedia selections that will play on any device

Dictionary- definitions from latest editions of McGraw-Hill Dictionary

Major Features of the Interface

Articles

Media

Biographies

PublishedAccessScience is a trademark of the McGraw-Hill

Global Education Holdings.The biographies were published in 2013

Search Methods

Operates by seeking matches with search terms from two distinct types of data. 1. Layer of semantic metadata related

with each article or feature. To supplement the semantic research

results, search engine provides all articles & other types of content that contain exact matches to the search terms.

2. Exact matches of words or phrases in the text.

Periodic articles- search in specific topics

Limiters or expanders- they are brought up on the side after the initial search

Boolean Operators

Boolean search techniques are supported; examples such as AND, OR, and NOT.

Search results are organized by relevancy, but can be filtered by the content type and topic.

Using Articles

Information given: Abstraction Example Usefulness Relation to object-oriented paradigm Bibliography Additional readings

Have the ability to save, cite, email, share, and print

Link is given to review article

Interesting Facts

AccessScience has 9000 scientists and engineers working with it including 39 Nobel Prize winners

The editorial team has a Sagan-Award recipient on counsel as a leader

They offer more than just articles. They offer educational videos and maps

They also have a feature called mobile access.