Updates to Science Online

The latest update to Science Online includes more than 250 new or updated color illustrations, more than 25 new photographs, more than 300 biographies and essays, and more.
Looking for science experiments, videos, essays, images, definitions, and more, turn to Science Online for complete, visual science coverage!


Hundreds of New Essays
This latest update adds more than 300 biographies and essays focusing on topics in Earth science, space science, and scientific exploration. Based on the NSES Content Standards, this new content is the perfect complement to the material typically taught in high school and college science classes. Students can refer to this information for clear explanations of everything from ecology, oceans, sociobiology, and conservation to geological and astrophysical phenomena--along with profiles of the people behind the development of these sciences.
New essays include:
North American geology
Stellar evolution
Black smoker chimneys




Hundreds of New or Updated Color Illustrations
The more than 250 new or updated full-color illustrations--each with clear labels--enhance the already highly visual, accessible Science Online and help to clarify important science concepts. As with all the material in Science Online, the illustrations can be enlarged, saved, emailed, or printed and feature dynamic citation information.New illustrations include:
Aqueducts in California
Main Causes for Mass Extinctions
Separation of Electrical Charges in a Storm Cloud.



New Photographs
This update to Science Online adds more than 25 new full-color photographs, providing vivid, colorful images of core-curriculum science topics. Students can take an up-close look at the Lena delta in Russia, the Helix Planetary Nebula, and many other fascinating real-life examples of the science studied in class. Explanatory captions provide pertinent information about each photograph.New photographs include:
Helix Planetary Nebula
Protalus Ramparts
San Andreas Fault.

Spring/Summer Database Updates 2010

Reference database publishers often update their products in the spring and then provide that information to their customers. Here are the updates for some of the databases we subscribe too.

EBSCO NoveList and NoveList Plus . Effective July 2010, a new interface incorporates the use of appeal terms for elements such as pacing, mood, writing style, and tone. For browsers, new genre pages feature book that are well known in the genre along with immediate links to NoveList content and articles as well as award lists specific to the genre. An expanded "Teaching with Books" section supports school librarians and teachers.

Fact on File Science Online. New essays on subjects within the physical sciences as well as new color illustrations.

Gale, part of Cengage Learning Grzimek's Animal Life. New biomes map with Google integration allows users to select a biome and see an overlay of it on the world map. New content includes the Encyclopedia of Biomes (2d edition.)

World Book Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos. Relaunched with a new design, a search engine, updated content, and new interactive features.
Advanced Differentiated feature offers read-aloud capability and translation into 30 languages for World Book Kids, World book Online Reference Center, and World Book Discover.
Time line feature on World Book Discover now allows students and educators to add their own images.

Science Online Adds New Content

Science Online has recently added new content which further broadens the scope of this outstanding database, adding coverage of several core-curriculum subject areas--marine science, chemistry, and physics . As always, the new content comes in a variety of student-friendly formats--including more than 250 new or newly colored illustrations, more than 60 new photographs, and more than 440 new essays. In addition, a record URL has been added to the Advanced Search page, allowing users to easily bookmark and link directly to this page.

New Marine Science Subject Page:

A new marine science subject page has been added to Science Online , easily accessible from the "Explore Subjects" menu on the home page. From this page, students and researchers will find the perfect starting point for exploring the wealth of newly added content on this topic--including new or newly colored illustrations, new photographs, and hundreds of new essays. The helpful suggested searches give ideas for important topics and terms to research, and the links to diagrams and images, experiments, biographies, videos, and a timeline that will help educators liven their lesson plans while clarifying important concepts.

Examples of some of the new content include:

· Formation of the Hawaiian Islands:Use this clear illustration to help explain how the drifting of the Pacific tectonic plate over a hot spot resulted in the formation of the Hawaiian Islands.
· Ocean currents:Get an informative overview, with links and illustrations, of this important part of marine science.
· Marine sextant:Learn exactly how this navigational tool works with this clear diagram and labels.

New Chemistry Content:

With new essays as well as new or newly colored illustrations, the new chemistry content provides an overview of some fascinating areas of research. Coverage ranges from the most fundamental fields of chemistry, such as the origins of matter and of the universe, to those with important applications to everyday life, such as the composition of foods and drugs, to hot topics such as forensic chemistry, and more. The new material will be helpful to teachers looking to supplement coursework in general science, physical science, and chemistry classes.

Examples of the new content include:

· Chemistry of interstellar space
· Chemistry of water pollution
· Synthetic foods.

New Physics Content:

Studying matter and energy and their interactions is an integral part of science. The new physics material added with this update makes it easy for students to grasp the fundamental science by providing accessible real-life examples to which they can relate. New essays along with new or newly colored illustrations cover the wide world of physics, from the smallest particles that make up matter to the immense forces that move the continents. Use this new material to teach this core-curriculum topic in an entertaining way.

Examples of the new content include:

Observing the night sky
Household energy use
Radioactivity.

Remember this new content when students start back to school and Science Fairs and projects roll around!

New Features and Content for Science Online

Science Online has recently added new features and content to their database. These updates includes many exciting new features that make Science Online even more accessible and user-friendly for students and researchers. Check out their useful new "Did You Mean...?" feature and other search enhancements. The new easy-to-use conversion calculator, the handy new site map, more than 150 new or newly colored illustrations, and more than 500 new entries on a variety of topics, from artificial intelligence and robotics to hot issues such as climate change will help in all areas of science and nature.

Science Online has been enhanced with several powerful search features that help users navigate the extensive range of material in the database. For example their new "Did You Mean...?" feature suggests another search term ("did you mean...?") when a user's search does not yield results. In addition, users are now able to sort the search results for news articles and Today's Science articles by either relevancy or date from the Science in the News page or the Advanced Search page. Search results for videos can now be filtered for those with closed-captioning only. The new site map easily accessible at the top of the page offers quick navigation to the key browse pages in the database, and the Science Standards link--which allows users to search for science education standards and then find entries in Science Online related to those standards.

Click here to enter Science Online and view these new features.

First Day of Hurricane Season- June 1st

Today is the first day of Hurricane season. There are many sites and databases that can help you and your customers with information as well as research for hurricanes, both past and present. Do you have a student who needs hurricane and weather information. Steer them towards Facts on File Science Online. http://www.fofweb.com/Science/default.asp?ItemID=WE40 The Weather and Climate page on Science Online has links to many kinds of natural disasters, including hurricanes. Do you need to know the predictions for the 2008 hurricane season, or what hurricane names have been retired? Go to the NOAA free site http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
for this information as well as radar readings, tracking maps, and how to prepare for a hurricane. The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/ will provide you with local as well as national updates. So keep all these sites in mind when helping your customers over the next several months. Let's keep our fingers crossed that it is a quiet season!

Science Online Adds New Content

Facts On File is pleased to announce that we have just added a significant amount of new content to Science Online.
The new content and features added to Science Online come just in time for anyone prepping for final exams and standardized tests. This update includes new searching and sorting options, new page features, more than 600 visual and video aids, and content from 56 of their print titles.
Users who need to narrow their research will find more options in the Advanced Search page. They may limit their searches by type of entry (essays, biographies, diagrams and illustrations, etc.), as well as locate news articles published between any dates they select. Our Science in the News articles may now be sorted by subject or by date. A featured news article box has also been added to the top of the page. Those writing papers will appreciate the American Psychological Association (APA) style now included in their How to Cite pop-up page. Finally, their editors have added permanent Record URL links to each of the "Explore Subjects" pages.


More Advanced Search Options: Limit searches by entry types and news articles by date range.

Science in the News: Sort by date or by subject, plus locate a featured news article box at the top of the page.

APA Citation Style: Find American Psychological Association (APA) citation style information.
Explore Subjects Record URLs: Link directly to the Explore Subject pages.

New Illustrations, Images, and VideosScience Online's outstanding collection of visual and video learning aids is now even larger. The editors have added more than 600 new images as well as new videos on topics such as cyber safety, security, and ethics. These records are often very colorful and help grab and hold on to the attention of learners. They also convey concepts in a clear manner that allows users with different learning styles to better understand scientific ideas.
Examples of new records include:
Color illustration: Evolution of Mammalian Jaw
Photograph: Kilauea Volcano
Video: Online Identity Thieves.

Many essays have been added on a variety of topics including hurricanes, biomes, biohazards, spaceflight, plant biotechnology, forensic science, physics, and mathematics. It is easy to print, email, and save the essays to a folder using the "Page Tools" available at the top right-hand side of each record. Some essays also include embedded images and tables that help illustrate the content of the text.

New essay records include:
Farms and cities as ecosystems
Recording and storing music and movies
Genetically modified plants.