NEW YORK, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading global provider of information resources for the scientific and medical communities, today announced the redesign and relaunch of AccessScience, the premiere online science and technology encyclopedia, serving students, researchers, and professionals alike. The core of AccessScience is the 10th Edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, and the new cutting-edge platform that offers 8,500 online articles and 13,000 illustrations with full-text search capability, plus tools to speed and simplify work, such as e-mail forwarding, saved image collections, and more.

AccessScience also grants access to a breadth of McGraw-Hill online references: Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology; 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms; bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations; content contributed by more than 5,000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners; plus biographies of 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography and the latest news in science and technology from Science News and ScienCentral videos.

"This second generation of AccessScience underscores McGraw-Hill Professional's commitment to covering the latest scientific developments as they happen," said Scott Grillo, vice president, Digital Product Development for McGraw-Hill Professional.

The new version of AccessScience is powered by a new semantic search engine that gathers and synthesizes vast amounts of information, and organizes it to give users fast, easy and accurate access to articles in all major areas of science and technology. With the most useful and up-to-date technology available, the new media-rich site also offers RSS feeds, Flash animations, image galleries, podcasts, videos, and more.

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