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Copy of AccessScience: Using AccessScience

What is AccessScience?

AccessScience is an authoritative and dynamic online resource that contains incisively written, high-quality educational material covering all major scientific disciplines. An acclaimed gateway to scientific knowledge, AccessScience is continually expanding the ways it can demonstrate and explain core, trustworthy scientific information that inspires and guides users to deeper knowledge.

Content Types in AccessScience

Articles:

AccessScience articles are written by world-renowned scientists and experts in their field. Thousands of expert scientists and engineers have contributed, including over 40 Nobel Prize Laureates. Articles are skillfully edited to be engaging and informative and contain pedological features to increase student understanding.

Biographies:

AccessScience contains a collection of text and video biographies of prominent scientists. Video biographies are all under six minutes and describe the featured scientist’s background and developing interest in science as well as their significant contributions.

Books:

AccessScience contains a growing collection of upper-level science books and Schaum's Outlines for math and science courses. Correlations of book chapters to AccessScience articles support deeper exploration of concepts.

Editorial Briefings:

AccessScience briefings are shorter, topical articles written by AccessScience editors on the latest discoveries, phenomena, and scientific breakthroughs. With their engaging content and highly relevant topics, briefings are a great tool for helping students pick a topic for a research assignment.

News Stories:

AccessScience includes curated content from Science News magazine, an independent source of accurate information. Browse stories by year or by topic to stay on top of the latest news of science, medicine, and technology.

Videos:

AccessScience includes over 700 videos and animations to illustrate and explain various scientific concepts. Videos include a curated collection from the American Chemical Society on the chemistry of everyday life.

Additional Features Include:

  • Tools to generate a citation, share a direct link, or save the item to your personal account
  • Related content sections with links to additional AccessScience content
  • Contributor information including institutional affiliations
  • External links to related primary literature and references to additional readings and websites (Articles & Briefings)
  • Key Concepts and Self Test sections help you learn (Articles)