Sunday, January 31, 2010

Science Resource Center


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Science Resource Center is an in-depth resource for all science-related research that combines Gale’s reference resources with primary documents and full-text science magazines. It offers both general and scholarly resources as well as multi-media records including pictures, illustrations, audio and video clips.

Science Resource Center covers everything from earth science to life science, mathematics, space, technology, science history and biography. It also contains science experiments, useful for school projects.

The search results are conveniently marked according to content level: Basic, Intermediate and Advanced.



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For more information about Science Resource Center go here:

http://www.gale.cengage.com/SciRC/




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Access is through the Information on the web page under Science and Technology or Databases A-Z.

http://ezproxy.wev.vic.gov.au/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/wh_manningham?db=SciRC



Test me

1. Find some biographical information on Australian scientist Howard Florey. (TIP Person Search)
2. Find a basic level reference article on ‘solar power’. (TIP Advanced search, Content Type)
3. Find some recent newspaper reviews on the e-book reader ‘Kindle’.
4. Find a science experiment that demonstrates the ‘Greenhouse Effect’ (TIP Advanced search, Subject: Science experiments)