eBooks

Browns e-books– access off campus. Sign in with Google.
Extensive range of e-books to help with course work covering most subject areas. Access at home or in college.

ProQuest – access off campus.
Your library service has access to all of the e-books and other authoritative materials provided by ProQuest for the JISC e-books for FE project across a wide range of subject areas, including many core text books.

EBSCO eBooks – access off campus.
EBSCO Discovery features nearly 4,000 e-books in addition to articles on a wealth of subject-relevant topics. Use the ‘full text’ advanced search option to explore and access the e-books.

 

Online TV and Radio for Education

BoB National– access off campus
Bob (Box of Broadcast) is a shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions.

eStream Cambria– access off campus.
eStream is multi-media platform that can stream archived television and radio recordings.

 

Online dictionaries and encyclopedias

Britannica Academic – access off campus.
Find reliable information from this comprehensive and accurate online encyclopedia

Britannica Image Quest – access off campus.
Over three million high quality, rights-cleared images for educational use

Business Insights:Global – access off campus.
Company and industry profiles, case studies, scholarly journals and business news covering global economies. Also includes Thomson Reuters company financial reports.

Oxford Dictionaries– access off campus.
Current English dictionaries (English/World English/US English), large current English thesauruses, audio pronunciations, unabridged Spanish/English bilingual dictionary and compact bilingual dictionaries in French, German and Italian. Help with grammar and usage and professional language resources.

Human Atlas – access off campus.
Anatomy and Physiology Online with interactive 3D images, narrated animations and quiz questions

 

Journals, newspapers and magazines

Dynamic Learning
Access info here.
Full text articles from the archives of the ‘Review’ series of journals on a range of subjects from the Sciences (including Biology, Chemistry and Physics), Humanities (Modern History and Geography), Law, Politics, Economics and Business, Psychology, PE and more.

Issues Online
Access info here
Access to hundreds of articles on contemporary issues with a multimedia archive.

Vogue – access off campus.
The American Vogue Archive is fully searchable  from the first issue in 1892 to the latest issue featuring the world’s greatest photographers, stylists and designers. To access the archive, click on the ‘Arts’ tab

 

Academic research

Springer HE – access off campus.
Higher level e-books and research papers for HNC and above

Gale – access off campus.
News and periodical articles on wide range of topics.  Millions of articles are full-text, many with images, updated daily.

Discovery – access off campus.
Instant access to high quality articles and information on a range of topics. Discovery also features nearly 4,000 ebooks. See our guide to finding ebooks on Discovery

SAGE Journals – access off campus.
Gateway to world-class research journals

Taylor and Francis – access off campus.
Leading academic online content from major publications. Peer reviewed and scholarly articles for most subject areas covered.

JISC CORE – access off campus.
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers, peered reviewed and constantly updated.

Business Insights Global – access off campus.
Detailed company and financial reports. Case studies, business news and industry profiles.

 

TV, drama, media, music & art

Digital Theatre – access off campus.
Leading theatre productions, interviews with production teams and a range of study guides for Shakespeare, classics, new writing and musicals. See the Accessing digital theatre guide for accessing Digital Theatre off site. From home you will need to login with your College Google account to access the guide.

Drama Online – access off campus.
More than 1000 plays and over 100 scholarly works available in e-book format ready for you to view and download.  The site also include a photo archive

ScreenOnline – access off campus.
Definitive guide to Britain’s film and television history with hundreds of hours of film and television clips, recorded interviews. You can view the entire database on site but there is restricted access to some areas from home.

MediaHub – access off campus
Audio visual resources from a wide range of collections. Some of these are licensed for educational use by JISC Collections, some are made available by other providers.

 

Child, health and social care

Childlink – no off-campus access
The most up to the minute information on Welfare, Education, Health, Lifestyle, Justice, Youth Affairs, Employment, and Benefit Issues affecting children and young persons

InterEd Extra – access off campus.
InteredExtra contains the complete range of education titles from MA Education, providing lesson plan ideas, news, reports and features for teachers and education professionals working in early years, primary and secondary education, including selected content from two key titles: Headteacher Update and Nursery World

Intermid – access off campus.
Intermid contains all content from the British Journal of Midwifery from 1996 onwards. It also exclusively includes access to its sister title, African Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health

Health and Social Care Training – access off campus.
Quality resources aimed at Levels 1 and 2 includes activities, useful guides and templates.

Child care – access off campus.
Videos, guides and learning activities to support the development of children and young people. A range of resources for L2 – L4 included.

 

Geography and maps

Digimap for colleges – no off-campus access
Ordnance Survey digital mapping for Great Britain. You can access detailed maps showing building outlines, street level maps, road atlas style maps and maps for outdoor activities.

 

Law & legal information

eLaw Student – access off campus.
Lectures, cases, statutes, articles and e-books covering the law in England and Wales

XpertHR – access off campus.
Employment law, HR resources, templates & guidance

 

Languages

Gut
Guide to accessing Gut
Language site for German which provides topics with exercises that will help with reading, writing and listening skills.

Zut
Guide to accessing Zut
French language site which provides topics with exercises that will help with reading writing and listening skills.

 

Hair, beauty and holistic therapy

Hairdressing Training– access off campus.
Videos, cutting guides and help-sheets for students and practitioners

 

Engineering and construction

IHS  Construction Information Service – access off campus.
Comprehensive source of technical information for the construction industry includes access to some British Standards.  From home you will need to login with your College  Google account to access the guide

Safety Care videos – access off campus.
Themed collection of HD Videos covering Health & Safety, Building and Construction Site Safety, First Aid, COSHH and more.

Construction – access off campus.
Videos, guides and learning activities to support L2 and L3. Topics include plan and monitor projects, construction site operations and sustainability.

 

Land based

Land based learning – access off campus.
A range of resources supplied to support equine, hort and agriculture.