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McGraw-Hill’s AccessScience features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Over 8,500 articles cover all major areas of science and technology. In addition, AccessScience includes over 110,000 definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, approximately 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
The Encyclopedia Britannica is available to members of the Stanford community. It consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of hundreds of authoritative articles. It also includes a video collection, a world atlas with country data, and notable quotations. Links are provided to current news, to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus and to Britannica’s Year in Review.
Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology provides a reference to the theories on which the biotechnology industry is based and applications of biotechnology. Included are articles on fermentation, biocatalysis and bioseparation, manufacturing technology, process and facilities engineering, and worldwide regulatory requirements.
Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) features more than 4,000 peer-reviewed articles covering all aspects of life sciences. ELS articles cover: biochemistry, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, plant science, science and society, structural biology, and virology. All articles are accompanied by color illustrations and tables. Appendix and glossary material provides information for the non-specialist, including biochemical and taxonomic information, acronyms, synonyms, units and other technical data.
Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology presents more than 1,000 articles covering all aspects of molecular biology. Topics include: antibiotics, binding interactions, catalysis, molecular evolution, gene expression, immunity, signal transduction, techniques in molecular biology, toxins, and viral molecular biology.
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January 31, 2008
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