Monday, August 20, 2007

AccessScience has a new interface

From the folks at McGraw Hill: (see AccessScience @ UConn)

Dear AccessScience User,

Today, McGraw-Hill launched AccessScience on a new online platform, which features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. You will immediately notice a new look to the home page, with improved topic organization and features so you can find what you are looking for and put it to use quickly.
• Over 8,500 online articles the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition, from over 5,000 contributors, including 36 Nobel Prize winners
• Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
• 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
• 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations
• Biographies of 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®
• The latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos

The AccessScience team interviewed both users and librarians and incorporated the enhancements to site design and functionality most often requested. The new site features and enhancements include Flash® animations, image galleries (including images that can be saved to your personal space on the website), videos, federated searching, OpenURL, RSS feeds, and our brand new, fast, sophisticated search capability

Our new librarian resource center highlights news and features, and will direct you to easy-to-access online user statistics reports.

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Best regards,
The AccessScience Team

see AccessScience @ UConn

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