Access Science Ashley & Hope

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

Published AccessScience 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, , 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.