Welcome to the most trustworthy, broad-based, online scientific reference available today.
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.
An award-winning editorial team continuing the tradition of McGraw Hill's world-renowned science publishing program.
AccessScience's dedicated editorial team comprises staff editors with subject-matter expertise, in collaboration with thousands of prominent scientists and engineers, including 46 Nobel Prize winners as well as recipients of other major scientific prizes, such as Franklin Institute Awards. With its roots in McGraw-Hill's world-famous scientific publishing program—encompassing the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology—AccessScience draws on and continues a deep tradition of presenting rigorously vetted scientific knowledge and concepts in ways that are both engaging and accessible.
What AccessScience offers:
- THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES covering all major scientific disciplines, regularly reviewed and updated
- 115,000+ DEFINITIONS from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, built into search results
- CURRENT NEWS about relevant concepts in science and technology—a great starting place for research topic ideas
- 3000+ TEXT BIOGRAPHIES about well-known scientific figures
- 20,000+ IMAGES, VIDEOS, AND ANIMATIONS illustrating key concepts in engaging and meaningful ways
- VIDEO BIOGRAPHIES highlighting the life and work of award-winning scientists
- 21 BOOKS including 10 textbooks and 11 Schaum's Outlines that faculty can use with students in their classes, and more on the way
- PERSISTENT LINKS TO CITABLE LITERATURE supporting research assignments through primary sources of information
- DYNAMIC CITATION GENERATORS using popular style formats save time and effort when preparing papers
- REMOTE ACCESS allows easy, anytime site access when away from campus
Consulting editors
A board of Consulting Editors, comprising internationally recognized leaders in their respective fields, is committed to choosing the highest quality and most rigorously vetted content for inclusion in AccessScience.
Contributing authors
The thousands of highly distinguished contributors to AccessScience reflect the editorial team's firm belief that readers are best served by solicited expositions of topics written by identified, acknowledged experts in these topics, based on the knowledge of the factual, original literature. The list includes 46 Nobel Prize Laureates and dozens of Franklin Award winners.
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