AccessScience User Guide
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Overview
 8500+ articles and Research Reviews encompassing the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science &
Technology and the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology
 115,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
 Nearly 3,000 biographies of well-known scientific figures
 17,000+ downloadable images and animations
 Curriculum maps tied to core science and engineering courses
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Search & Browse
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Universal Search Engine- Basic Search
 Instantly search across the entire site with a single query
 Optimized search to support Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT (e.g., tsunami AND
Japan)
 Exact phrase searching using quotation marks (e.g., “global warming”)
 Asterisks to match partial words (e.g., thermo*)
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Advanced Search
1.
Click ADVANCED SEARCH above
the search bar
2.
Enter keywords or phrases into
the text boxes
3.
Refine your results by topic or
content type
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Narrow Your Search With Filters
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Browse From the Homepage
 Browse by
specific Topic
 Browse an alphabetical list of
articles by topic
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Browse Articles
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2.
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Select the ARTICLES tab
from the main
navigation
Select ARTICLES A-Z
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Browse Articles by Topic
1.
2.
Select the ARTICLES
tab
Choose ARTICLES BY
TOPIC and select the
appropriate topic
from the left hand
navigation
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Browse Articles by Topic (continued)
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2.
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Select the ARTICLES tab
Select ARTICLES BY TOPIC
and choose the
appropriate subtopic from
the list on the left hand
navigation
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Browse Biographies by Name
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2.
Select the BIOGRAPHIES tab
Choose BIOGRAPHIES A-Z then browse
from the list of names
*The
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icon indicates a video biography
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Browse Biographies by Topic
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2.
3.
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Select the BIOGRAPHIES
tab
Select BIOGRAPHIES BY
TOPIC
Choose SELECT TOPIC to
view the dropdown menu
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Browse Media: Videos & Animations
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2.
3.
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Select the MEDIA tab
Select VIDEOS AND
ANIMATIONS
Choose SELECT TOPIC
to view the dropdown
menu
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Browse Media: Image Galleries
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2.
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Select the MEDIA tab
Select IMAGE
GALLERIES, then select
the set of images you
wish to view
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Browse Media: Image Galleries (continued)
 Once selected, image
gallery collections can be
downloaded to a
PowerPoint presentation
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Personal Account
 A My AccessScience personal account allows you to save articles and searches so
you can easily refer to them later. You can also save images or image collections to
your personal account. A personal account is free to all users at a subscribing
institution, and it only takes a few seconds to create.
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Create a Personal Account
 To create a new account, click
on the My AccessScience link
on the right hand side of the
homepage
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Create a Personal Account (continued)
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2.
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Select REGISTER to create
a new account
Fill in the required
information in the
dialogue box and click on
REGISTER
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Sign Into Your Personal Account
1.
Click on the My Access Science
button on the homepage
2.
Enter your email address and
password and click SIGN IN
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Sign Into Your Personal Account (continued)
 Once you are logged into your account, your saved items and searches will be
accessible from the AccessScience homepage
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Save Searches and
Images
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Save a Search to Your Personal Account
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2.
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Enter a search term into the
search bar
From the search results
page, select SAVE SEARCH.
The query will automatically
be added to your My
AccessScience account
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Save an Article to Your Personal Account
 From the Article page,
select SAVE from the list
of available actions on
the right hand toolbar
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Curriculum Maps
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Curriculum Maps
 From the FOR FACULTY tab,
select the desired Curriculum
Map from the list on the right
hand side of the page
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Curriculum Maps
Course Name
Map Author
Course Topics
Individual Topic
Relevant
AccessScience
Content
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Questions?
Please email [email protected]
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