STEM Access

Learn about Science and Scientists through Graphic Novels

Did you know that Baylor Libraries has graphic novels in their collection?  Did you know that they are not just about superheros?  Did you know that you can learn about science through graphic novels.  Below are just some of the graphic novels we have in our collection. Some of them are Biographies Logicomix about Bertrand Russell Feynman Darwin : a graphic biography : the really exciting and dramatic story of a man who mostly stayed at home and wrote some books Primates : the fearless science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas Some of them focus on...
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Library 411

Zotero will make your life easier!

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool that will make your life a whole lot easier. Zotero is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that allows you to quickly collect, manage and cite your research resources. With one-click you can download citation information for books from BearCat, Amazon, or another library catalog, articles from a large number of the databases the Baylor Library subscribes to, like Jstor, Academic Search Complete, Science Direct or IEEE (for starters!). You can also collect citation information for newspapers, videos from YouTube, pictures from Flickr, or even archive web pages that you have found...
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Use Wolfram|Alpha to Make College Easier

Wolfram|Alpha made a splash on the internet when it was released this past year. In fact, some claimed it would be a “Google-killer.” But the creators of Wolfram|Alpha disagreed. They have other plans for their website than just being a search engine: Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of...
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