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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 Gale
™
resource 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:
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Physical science
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Life science
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Earth and space science
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Science and technology
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History of science
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Science and society
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Scientist/inventor biographies
Science Resource Center is loaded with relevant,
authoritative and easy-to-search information that can:
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Increase interaction between librarians and
science teachers
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Increase student interest in science
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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 USA
™
and U•X•L
®
, including:
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The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 3rd Edition, 6 volumes
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The Macmillan Science Library, 32 volumes, covering
animal sciences, biology, computer sciences, earth sciences,
genetics, mathematics, plant sciences and space sciences
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U•X•L Encyclopedia of Science, 2nd Edition, 10 volumes
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Beacham’s Guide to Endangered Species, North America,
6 volumes
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Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 5 volumes
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Body by Design, 2 volumes
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Notable Scientists, 5 volumes
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Chemical Elements, 3 volumes
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Experiment Central, 6 volumes
Plus …
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200 full-text, cover-to-cover magazines and journals
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80 full-text academic (peer-reviewed) journals
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Select general-interest magazines with science
coverage, such as Time and U.S. News and World Report
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Backfiles to 1981 when available
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New York Times Science section
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More than 9,000 images and line drawings
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Access to more than 880 million additional images
through Google Image Search (you may choose to disable
this function)
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50 audio and video clips
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555 links to student-safe Web sites
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Thomson Gale Science Glossary
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Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
NOTABLE FEATURES
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More than 80 home page topics offer simple,
one-click searching
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Science Standards Search (details below) directly
correlates content to state and national science
standards for grades 9-12
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Tabbed results lists segment content by type for
easy identification