Welcome Students!

AccessScience has developed this area of the website to support your full engagement with this platform.

Create a Personal Account

AccessScience has several features that are available only after signing up for a free personal account. Personal accounts are an optional feature and are not required to view or use any of the content on the site. Personal accounts do not replace authentication to the site; you must first be logged in through your institution to use AccessScience.

Personal account features include:

• Adding bookmarks or labels to help you organize and easily retrieve content.
• Saving searches and setting up email alerts for new content that matches your search terms.
• Selecting your interests to receive updates when new content is added in those areas.

To register for a free personal account:

• Click on My Account in the top menu to open the Manage Access window, where you will see your subscribing institution's information.
• Select log in via email/username.
• Register for an account by entering the required information.
• You can reset your password if needed using the “Forgot password?” link on the login screen.

How to Annotate Content

You can highlight text, take notes on any content page, and share your annotations using Hypothesis, an open-source collaborative tool that can be used across any digital resource. This Student Resource Guide will help you create a free Hypothesis account that you can use to save, share, and access annotations in AccessScience and across any other websites you use. (Note: Viewing highlights and annotations within AccessScience is “off” by default. Click the “eye” icon at the left side of the Hypothesis sidebar to show highlights inside AccessScience.)

About the "Listen" Tool

With ReadSpeaker's webReader, the text on each content page can be read aloud to you with just one click. As a user, you don't have to download anything. Find out more about this helpful tool here.

Answers to "Test Your Understanding" Questions

The more popular articles in AccessScience include a set of self-assessment questions at the bottom of the page. You will find answers to these questions here.

What are Schaum's Outlines?

These books by McGraw Hill provide easy-to-follow outlines and offer practice problems complete with answers and solutions for a variety of STEM topics, including physics, chemistry, math, and biochemistry. Plus, most of the Schaum's Outlines on AccessScience include videos showing how to arrive at selected problem solutions. Millions of students trust Schaum's to help them grasp course content and prepare for exams.

Browse available Schaum's Outlines here.

Webinar Recordings

From time to time, AccessScience hosts informative webinars on subjects of general scientific interest presented by selected contributors, most of which are faculty members. You may be interested in the following recordings.

• Climate Change—Scientific Consensus and New Frontiers
  Presented by Dr. Rachel Licker, Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists

• Lessons Learned from the 1918 Influenza and COVID-19 Pandemics
  Presented by Dr. Teri Shors, Professor of Biology & Microbiology, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

• Low-Impact Hydropower
  Presented by Staff of the Low-Impact Hydropower Institute

• Nightmare Bacteria: Antibiotic Resistance and its Threat Worldwide
  Presented by Dr. Marcia Pierce, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University

• The Physics of Music
  Presented by Dr. Andy Piacsek, Associate Professor of Physics, Central Washington University 

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