Science Resource Centre

About the Database

The reference content from Science Resource Centre comes from over 50 titles published in book form by Cengage (formerly Thomson Gale), such as the "Gale Encyclopedia of Science" and the "Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine", the "World of Biology/Chemistry/Physics" series and UXL encyclopedias. Other content includes 200 full text magazines, journals and newspapers, 500 weblinks and 8000 multimedia items.

It is ideal for school students - each article is marked with one of three symbols to denote basic, intermediate or advanced levels. They relate roughly to Upper Primary, Secondary, and Upper Secondary/Tertiary levels.

Information Guides

For a brief guided tour go to the following link.

Science Resource Center Guided Tour - (5 minutes)

For more help with advanced searching check out the search tips.

Science Resource Center Search Tips - (2 pages)

Explore

The Science Resource Centre is found on the Yarra Plenty webpage under "Science"
Go to the following link to explore it for yourself.

http://www.yprl.vic.gov.au/computers/databases.html#science

Don't forget to look at the "Timeline" link at the top of the page.

Questions to test you

1. Do a "person" search for a famous scientist. Find an entry with some useful information for a grade 6 assignment.

2. Find some information about the new status of Pluto in the solar system. What is the status and what article did you find it in?

3. Find an article in a magazine about genetic testing. List the article title, author, date and content level.