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Science Resource Center

Navigation Guide

Science Resource Center is an exciting new online database designed for use in high school libraries and classrooms, community colleges and public libraries. Similar in concept to other Thomson Galeresource centers, Science Resource Center combines many different types of content, including full text journals, multimedia, reference books and links to select Web sites that focus exclusively on science topics.

Science Resource Center brings together topic overviews, biographies, experiments, and magazine and academic jour- nal and newspaper articles to offer students a comprehensive research tool that covers the major science disciplines, and more:

Physical science

Life science

Earth and space science

Science and technology

History of science

Science and society

Scientist/inventor biographies

Science Resource Center is loaded with relevant, authoritative and easy-to-search information that can:

Increase interaction between librarians and science teachers

Increase student interest in science

Increase student comprehension of the school’s science curriculum

CONTENT

Science Resource Center delivers more than 50 print sets totaling more than 150 print volumes from Thomson Gale, Macmillan Reference USAand U•X•L®, including:

The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 3rd Edition, 6 volumes

The Macmillan Science Library, 32 volumes, covering animal sciences, biology, computer sciences, earth sciences, genetics, mathematics, plant sciences and space sciences

UXL Encyclopedia of Science, 2nd Edition, 10 volumes

Beacham’s Guide to Endangered Species, North America, 6 volumes

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 5 volumes

Body by Design, 2 volumes

Notable Scientists, 5 volumes

Chemical Elements, 3 volumes

Experiment Central, 6 volumes

Plus …

200 full-text, cover-to-cover magazines and journals

80 full-text academic (peer-reviewed) journals

Select general-interest magazines with science

coverage, such as Time and U.S. News and World Report

Backfiles to 1981 when available

New York Times Science section

More than 9,000 images and line drawings

Access to more than 880 million additional images through Google Image Search (you may choose to disable this function)

50 audio and video clips

555 links to student-safe Web sites

Thomson Gale Science Glossary

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

NOTABLE FEATURES

More than 80 home page topics offer simple, one-click searching

Science Standards Search (details below) directly correlates content to state and national science standards for grades 9-12

Tabbed results lists segment content by type for easy identification

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