E-Resources
On this page you can find a list of the E-Resources we have available here at the college.
There are several methods that may be used to access the individual resources, please read the instructions below for each access method before viewing a resource.
Ways of Accessing the E-Resources
Resource Specific
These resources have specific login details, to be able to see the individual usernames and passwords used for these resources you must first log into the Student Intranet.
Shibboleth
These resources require you to log in using your Student network username and password. You will usually be taken to a login screen after clicking the resource link, if not look for a link on the resource page entitled "Login via Shibboleth", or "Login via the UK Federation".
Unrestricted
Access to this resource is unrestricted, this means that you can access this resource without the need for entering a username and password.
Website Temporarily Unavailable
This resource is temporarily unavailable, keep checking here for availability.
Full List of E-Resources
| Name | Description | Category | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autodata-Online | Autodata covers a number of subjects including: Technical data, vehicle identification, service adjustments, lubricants and capacities, ignition system, fuel system, tightening torques, brake discs and brake drums, repair times, wheel alignment, timing belts, timing chains and gears, tyre sizes and pressures, service illustrations, service schedules, service interval indicators, key programming, diagnostic trouble codes, engine management systems, pin data, trouble shooter, airbags/SRS, air conditioning, ABS, electrical component locations and wiring diagrams | Technology / Engineering | Log in to see username and password |
| Berg Fashion Library | The Berg Fashion Library is the only resource to provide integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Invaluable for scholars, students, professionals, and anyone interested in dress, it includes the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, an extensive E-Book collection, a vast image bank, extra reference resources and more. TRIAL UNTIL 29th FEBRUARY 2012 | Fashion / Clothing | |
| BFI InView | One thousand hours of non-fiction moving image titles to view or download, alongside eight thousand pages of related documents.
Carefully selected from the BFI National Archive together with help from its content partner institutions, InView’s collections capture diverse perspectives on events, developments, and debates through the 20th and into the 21st century | Multimedia / Music | |
| biz/ed | Biz/ed is a free online service for students, teachers and lecturers of business, economics, accounting, leisure and recreation and travel and tourism. | Business | |
| bookboon.com | Download free ebooks + no catch + no registration = bookboon.com | E-Books | |
| Britannica Online | Online version of Encyclopaedia Britannica including websites, articles images and videos | Reference | |
| British Journal of Social Work | Published for the British Association of Social Workers, this is the leading academic social work journal in the UK. It covers every aspect of social work, with papers reporting research, discussing practice, and examining principles and theories. It is read by social work educators, researchers, practitioners and managers who wish to keep up to date with theoretical and empirical developments in the field. | Medicine / Health / Social Sciences | Log in to see username and password |
| Careknowledge | CareKnowledge is the place social care professionals gather to find and share information, communicate and collaborate. | Medicine / Health / Social Sciences | |
| CENSUS.AC.UK | Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides services to allow users in UK higher and further education institutions to access data from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses. | Reference | |
| dawsonera | Ebooks published by Dawsons. | E-Books | |
| E-Brary | Collection of over 3000 electronic textbooks to meet the needs of further education students and support Diplomas, GCSE's, NVQ's/SVQ's, A levels, Foundations Degrees and more. | E-Books | |
| E-law Student | Provides up-to-date legal materials for AS/A Level Law according to the AQA and OCR specifications. | Law / Crime | |
| Essential Articles | Essential Articles covers a wide range of topics and current issues from a variety of viewpoints. | Reference | Log in to see username and password |
| European Sources Online | Information service that focuses on the European Union, the countries of Europe and issues of concern in the Europe of today. | Politics / World Affairs | |
| Examstutor | A resource developed specifically for AS/A2 students including theory, exam questions and mark schemes, for 8 subject areas including sciences, business, maths, literature, psychology and history. Also includes Driving Test Theory. | Reference | Log in to see username and password |
| Factfile | Covers a wide range of topics including alcohol & drugs, education, environment, family & relationships, financial issues, food & drink, health, law & order, leisure, science & technology, travel & transport, war & conflict. | Reference | Log in to see username and password |
| FENC | fenc is a leading online application, providing adaptable learning materials and bespoke content management solutions. These have helped universities, schools, colleges and training organisations both in the UK and internationally to provide excellent results in a virtual learning environment. | Uncatagorised | Log in to see username and password |
| Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Report | Covering the period 1974–1996 in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe, the JISC selection of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports includes a wealth of transcripts of broadcasts and news from around the world all translated into the English language | Politics / World Affairs | |
| Global Markets & Companies | Our coverage includes 200,000+ reports on 185,000+ companies (including 150,000+ private) across 200+ countries and 29 industries. The key industries include Alternative Energy, Construction, Oil & Gas, Clean Technology, Technology and Telecommunication, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, Power, Financial Services, Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods and Transport. | Business | |
| Hairdresser Training | Reference resource for students on the NVQ Level 2 course. | Hair / Beauty | |
| History Study Centre | History Study Centre is an online resource providing a vast collection of digitised primary and secondary sources for the study of history. It is suitable for a wide range of users, from high school students looking for quick and reliable facts on a historical topic, to researchers examining hard-to-find primary source texts. | History | |
| IHS | Resource for students, needing online access to British Standards, legislation and other guidance information related to construction, health and safety. | Technology / Engineering | Log in to see username and password |
| Institution of Civil Engineers Virtual Library Arc | Free online access to the full text of every paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers between 1836 and 2001, representing over 200,000 pages of information | Technology / Engineering | |
| Interactive Biology - making biology fun! | Interactive biology resources inclusing video, quizzes and study guides. | Biology / LifeSciences | |
| Internet Archaeology | Internet Archaeology is an independent, fully refereed academic online journal, which is published by the Council for British Archaeology and hosted by the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. The journal was founded in 1995 and publishes international research that utilise the potential of electronic publication. As well as the recently purchased Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006 JISC Collections has purchased a licence to Internet Archaeology through to the end of 2012 on behalf of UK higher and further education institutions, which means they can now have access to rich | Archaeology / Anthropology | |
| Issues Online | Resource for contemporary social issues including articles, key facts, statistics, lobby group links, newspaper archives, reference sites, research guides and assignment suggestions. | Politics / World Affairs | |
| Jisc Content | This website provides an introduction to digital collections designed for education. They are mainly aimed at university students, researchers and librarians but many of the online archives are open to anyone. The collections cover areas such as history, | Reference | |
| JISC MediaHub | MediaHub provides search results for video, images and sound resources from many different collections | Multimedia / Music | |
| John Johnson Collection | Provides access to thousands of items from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | Politics / World Affairs | |
| Jorum | Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Jorum encourages sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials created by the community for the community. Jorum is a service in development, run jointly by EDINA and Mimas National Data centres and funded by JISC | Education | |
| KnowUK | Contains UK facts and figures including local information. | Politics / World Affairs | |
| Literature Online Reference Edition | A collection of literature resources, ranging from author biographies, student guides and dictionaries of literary terms to articles from specialist full-text journals. | Journals | |
| Living Books | A series of 21 ‘living books’ has been launched online as part of an initiative designed to provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. The books, which have been written and produced by humanities scholars around the world, re-package and re-present open-access science-related research material to make it more accessible to a humanities audience. The books include interactive maps, podcasts and audio-visual materials. | E-Books | |
| Newsfilm Online | Over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories on events that shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. | Multimedia / Music | |
| Oxford Art Online | A vast encyclopaedia of art including artists and their works, periods, schools and styles of art and gallery information. | Art | |
| Oxford Reference | A complete reference resource covering Arts to Sciences and everything inbetween. | Reference | |
| Philip Allan Magazines Online | Online access to Psychology Review; Physics Review; Business Review; 20th Century History Review; Chemistry Review; Biological Sciences Review; Geography Review; Politics Review; Sociology Review | Journals | Log in to see username and password |
| Rock’s Back Pages | The ultimate rock & roll library – an archive of interviews, features, and reviews by the best rock writers of all time. | Multimedia / Music | |
| Scran | Access to digital materials representing our material culture and history | History | |
| Spellzone | Spellzone is written mainly with older students in mind: teenagers and adults. The spelling course is used to teach and improve English spelling in schools, colleges and adult training centres. Spellzone is suitable for helping students with dyslexia. It is also used to help teach English worldwide. | Reference | Log in to see username and password |
| Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Compu | Synthesis is an innovative information service for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science This is a trial resource that will expire on 27th February 2012. | Technology / Engineering | |
| The Poetry Archive | The Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded. | Language and Literature | |
| UK Newsstand | NewsUK is an online service developed to provide national and regional news, combining the most popular British newspaper titles in one database | Journals | |
| v a d s | An online resource for visual arts. | Art | |
| Vimeo | Video sharing site. Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. | Multimedia / Music | |
| Vogue Archive | A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. Your trial is now available and runs until 19 February 2012 | Archaeology / Anthropology | |
| WGSN | Fashion resource providing design and fashion guidance, trend forecasting and analysis. | Fashion / Clothing | |
