AccessScience

Scrennshot of AccessScience homepage  

AccessScience provides an outstanding collection of science reference materials available online from your home computer! It offers easy access to full text articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, and the latest Science News ® headlines. There are thousands of biographies, illustrations, videos, tutorials, and even podcasts. 

This online encyclopedia is tailored to both students and researchers looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of science information available. Use AccessScience for all your science information needs!

Some examples of what you can find on AccessScience include:

  • A biography of Albert Einstein
  • An image gallery of a young supernova, also available as a PowerPoint presentation
  • Current science news with titles such as “Vitamin D: Some people need much more” and “Sister Planet: Mission to Venus reveals watery past
  • An article in the study center that answers the question “How does flouride affect teeth?”

To get to AccessScience from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library homepage (www.ebr.lib.la.us)

  1. Choose Online Databases from the left sidebar on the homepage. If you are home or outside of the library, you will need to enter your library card number.
  2. From the Database Page, choose AccessScience near the top of the left hand column.

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