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March 3, 2008
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AccessScience makes learning easy!
www.cityofaustin.org/library/databases.htm

AccessScience provides online and fully searchable science reference materials to make your research easy. The database includes 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, the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.

Look for these important features in AccessScience:

• full text and illustrations of the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
• research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
• access to 100,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms
• biographies from Huchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
• study guides for Advanced Placement tests
• essay topics to guide research and reports
• data, tables & tools – collection of pointers to scientific and technical tables and tools
• late-breaking science and technology news
• more than 10,000 mathematical and chemical equations
• Visual learning tools, podcasts, and Flash® animations and tutorials
• questions answered in a weekly Q&A
• RSS feed – new content automatically appears in your browser

  APL Cardholders can access AccessScience from their home and office computers 24 hours a day. It is available to everyone at all Library locations. To find out more call 974-7400 or stop by and ask any of your neighborhood librarians for more information.

  
  

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