Science Reference Center
The Science Reference Center is a comprehensive online resource designed to support science education and research. It offers full-text access to a wide array of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, and reference books, making it an invaluable tool for students and educators alike. This platform covers diverse scientific disciplines, including life sciences, technology, biology, applied sciences, and health, providing users with thousands of documents, essays, and biographies of notable scientists.
Additionally, the Science Reference Center features the Science Image Collection, which includes high-quality images from reputable sources like National Geographic and NASA. This collection enhances the learning experience with vivid visuals of wildlife, environments, and scientific illustrations. Furthermore, the resource is aligned with educational standards in the U.S. and Canada, offering tools like Lexile reading measures to match content with students' reading levels and aiding teachers in curriculum development.
Accessible 24/7 on various devices, the platform integrates seamlessly with Google Classroom, making it easy for educators to incorporate its resources into their teaching. It also includes user-friendly features such as search function tools, citation generators, and options for saving searches, catering to the needs of all learners, including those with different learning styles. Overall, the Science Reference Center serves as a vital educational resource for anyone engaged in scientific study.
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Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images, making it an essential resource for science educators and students. This collection includes thousands of full-text documents drawn from science periodicals, reference books, encyclopedias, essays, and scientist biographies, in addition to other resources such as lesson plans and science videos, and covers a wide range of scientific topics including life science, technology, biology, applied sciences, health and medicine, and many others.
Science Reference Center: Main Edition
Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center: Main Edition is a valuable source for a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content. With hundreds of full-text resources covering science topics ranging from life science to technology, Science Reference Center: Main Edition is an excellent resource for any student or educator studying anything in the field of science.
High Quality Content and Images
In addition to full-text coverage, Science Reference Center includes the Science Image Collection, a database of high-quality science images from National Geographic, UPI, Getty, NASA and Nature Picture Library.
Based in the U.K., Nature Picture Library provides thousands of stunning photographs from more than 300 of the world’s best nature and wildlife photographers. The collection features images of wild animals and plant species from around the world, pets, people, landscapes, and the environment. The Science Image Collection also includes hundreds of proprietary science illustrations, charts, and graphs.
School Curriculum & Instructional Support
By providing a wide range of topics, Science Reference Center satisfies the demand for standards-based content by providing teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards. Lexile reading measures simplify discovery of texts that match students’ reading abilities, and other features, such as the Curriculum Standards Module, help teachers in the US and Canada easily correlate EBSCO content to fit Common Core, state, or provincial curriculum standards.
Superior Functionality
Science Reference Center is accessible 24/7 via desktop, smartphone, or tablet through a mobile-friendly interface, allowing users to conduct their research for anywhere. Smooth integration with Google Classroom allows educators to incorporate Science Reference Center resources into the modern digital classroom, and other features, such as text-to-speech for HTML articles, support the needs of auditory learners, struggling readers, and ESL students. Different functions, such as a simple search box, autocomplete and spell checking for search terms, and easily browsable categories, enable users to quickly and easily find relevant content, and other tools, such as a citation generator and the ability to save searches in password-protected folders, allow students to easily save their progress and correctly cite their sources.
About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books, and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For more than seventy years, EBSCO has partnered with libraries to improve research with quality content and technology.