Internet Resource: Science 360

The latest wonders of science, engineering, technology and math are now available at the Science 360.gov website. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Science 360 gather videos on a variety of scientific topics. Each topic includes anywhere from a handful to more than 100 videos submitted by the National Science Foundation and more. The videos are arranged by topic and can also be searched.

The site also offers a news service that has a science video of the day in addition to links to the latest science news stories from popular and peer-reviewed journals. All this and more at http://science360.gov/files

New Online Resource: Science Online

Southwestern College students and staff now have electronic access to Science, one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in its field.

Science Online includes full text news stories, research reports and commentary articles. The resource is also enhanced with web links, multimedia and includes access to Science journal articles from 1997 to present.

You can access Science Online from both on and off campus locations. Visit our Articles and Databases website to access Science Online.

Access Science

AccessScience 2.0 includes searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. This online science platform provides over 8,500 online articles, more than 110,000 definitions of scientific and technical terms, biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists, illustrations and graphics and the latest news in science and technology.

One of the featured articles in AccessScience this month is Accelerating universe, by Robert P. Kirshner, Professor, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It explains how astronomers used evidence from exploding stars to show that the expansion of the universe is not slowing down, as would be expected from the pull of gravity on matter in the universe, but is instead speeding up. Learn about the history of this understanding, and how type 1a supernovae are used as "standard candles" to track expansion.

AccessScience is available on our Articles and Databases webpage http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm. For information on how you can access library resources from off campus locations visit our remote access webpage http://www.swccd.edu/~library/Lvl2/index.asp?L2=26

Access Science - Online Science Information

Take an online visit to Access Science and view their new redesign of their science information website. Access Science includes the 10th Edition of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and other online science reference resources like: the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology; the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms and the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

AccessScience also includes late-breaking science and technology news, RSS feeds, flash animations, image galleries, podcasts, videos and more. Let AccessScience help you keep up to date in all the major areas of science and technology.

Online access is provide through the Southwestern College Library's website. To use this online resource visit our Articles and Databases webpage http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm and click on AccessScience . Select the Access Off-Campus link for information on how to use this resource from off campus locations.