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Academic Search Elite
Access to full text for more than 2100 journals across all
major subject areas, from English literature to Sports and from
Graphic design to Education. Backfiles to
1985.
 Video
tutorial
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 Art
& Architecture Complete.
Full text of over 400 books and periodicals covering costume
design, decorative arts, graphic arts, photography, painting,
architecture and sculpture. For use by designers,
artists and college students.
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Business Insights
Over 350 strategic management reports covering a range
of sectors such as healthcare, consumer goods, technology,
financial services and creative industries.
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via Mimas
Covers several 1991 Census datasets plus 1981 Census Small Area
Statistics for Great Britain. Also aggregate 2001 Census Key
Statistics for England and Wales.
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| CHCC Historical
Census Collection
Provides access to primary census resources
and learning and teaching materials.
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Cochrane Library
Information to inform healthcare decision-making. It
includes systematic reviews and clinical
trials. The gold standard in evidence-based health
care.
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Guide
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Computer
Source
Over 300 fulltext journals and magazines covering computer
science, programming, software, information systems, graphic design
and animation.
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| COPAC
National, academic and specialist Library Catalogue. Copac
includes the catalogues of all the UK National
Libraries, major University libraries and specialist
collections such as the National Art Library.
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Dawsonera (ebooks)
One of our two e-book sites. Visit this link to find
out what we have. Can't find what you want here - try
Ebrary.
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Digimap: Ordnance Survey maps
online
Find and print maps or create your own. Please ensure you
read the terms and adhere to conditions of use.
Tutorial
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Ebrary (ebooks)
Over 2900 e-books on a wide range of topics to read
online. You can take notes online, highlight text you
want to re-visit and bookmark your favourite books. You
can print off too - so long as you keep to copyright
guidelines. Can't find what you want here try
Dawsonera our other e-book site.
Tutorial
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| Economic and Social Data
Service (Onsite access only)
Umbrella for the UK Data Archive
(UKDA) and Institute for Social and Economic
Research (ISER). Access
to 5,000 datasets covering a wide range of key
economic and social data. Select "Login by UK
Federation", select Doncaster College, then enter your College
login. You will also need to register. This will
entail activating a link sent to your email account.
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Education Research
Complete
The deifinitive resource for education research. 1200 full
text journals and 500 e-books covering early childhood to higher
education; instruction as well as administation, policy and
funding; and specialities.
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E-Lawstudent
Legal information, including cases, lecture notes and
UK law news, on all aspects of law.
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Electronic Journals Service
Find full text articles from Learning Resource Centres'
online subscribed journals collection.
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Emerald
Over 25,000 full text articles in the fields of business,
management, economics, marketing, hospitality, training, education,
quality management and engineering. A full archive of articles
back to 1994 is available.
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ERIC
This education database provides access to information from
journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and
Resources in Education Index.
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Film & Sound Online
Downloadable films and videos. Film segments can be
used freely in learning, teaching and research. Viewing
requires QuickTime or Windows Media.
Getting
started guide
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General Onefile
Over 60 million full text articles covering all
subject areas. You can e-mail articles to yourself or print them
off.
Tutorial
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Greenfile
Over 384,000 references and links to 4,700 full text
articles on the human impact on the environment. Covers global
warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture,
renewable energy and recycling.
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tutorial
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Hairdressing Training
Learn about hairdressing with this interactive
resource.
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IHS Technical Indexes
Comprehensive source of technical information for the
construction industry
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Infotrac Fulltext Newspapers
Newspapers online. Includes backfiles of broadsheets such
as the Guardian, Times, Telegraph as well as tabloids and
foreign press.
Tutorial
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International Bibliography for the Social
Science
Comprehensive resource that lists over 2 million references
to research material in the social sciences. It span is
wide and covers areas as diverse as agriculture to education
and law to family studies. Not full text.
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International
Bibliography of Theatre & Dance Full Text
The deifinitive research tool for the study of theatre and the
performing arts. Includes 150 full text journals and 330
e-books.
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| Intute: the best of the
web
Intute is a free online service providing you with a database of
hand selected Web resources for education and research.
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Issues Online (Onsite access
only)
This site has information and statistics on lots of topical
issues. Anything from binge drinking and refugees, to
vegetarianism, sport and abortion
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Library and Information Abstracts
References to articles on librarianship, classification,
cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval and
information management. Backfiles to mid-1960s.
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Literary Reference
Centre
31,000 plot summaries, 69,000 poems, 18,000 short stories,
632,000 book reviews and 8000 classic texts online along with
biographical information about authors and their works.
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Marketline
Over 2,500 market reports and 10,000 company profiles covering
50 countries. It covers a wider range of subjects than
Business Insights and is more concise. Links to the
latest new and anaysis.
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Mudpie (MPDclick)
Global fashion predictions and fashion trends database.
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News and Film Online
Over 3,000 hours of footage and 60,000 news stories to choose
from the ITN/Reuters archives. Includes scripts. You
can playback
or download.
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19th Century British Library
Newspapers
Complete runs of over 48 influential 19th century national and
regional newspapers representing the different political and
cultural segments of British society.
Tutorial
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Psychology &
Behavioural Sciences Collection
Comprehensive database of online materials for the study of
emotional and behavioural characteristics, psychology and
psychiatry and anthropology.
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PubMed
Over 18 million bio-medical references with some links
to full text articles and other related resources.
Useful resource for health care, physiology, sports, dance and
fitness topics.
Video
tutorial
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Research starters (Sociology)
Study and research guides for sociology students. They
consist of comprehensive, yet concise summary articles written
by researchers and scholars.
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SPORTDiscus
World's most comprehensive source for the study of sport and
sports medicine. Full text for over 490 journals with
backfiles to 1985.
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Turnitin (onsite
access only / your tutor will supply login details)
Turnitin is an online plagiarism detection tool. Staff and
students can submit assignments to detect where text matches have
occured. The reports generated highlight areas of concern and
can be used to refine academic writing skills and ensure that all
sources are cited and referenced correctly.
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Westlaw
Comprehensive resource for law and criminology.
Covers cases, legislation, legal news, current awareness
updates and fulltext articles.
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Zetoc
Lists the contents of over 20,000 journals held by the
British Library. It covers the period 1993 to the present.
Useful tool for dissertations or for tracking
down references. Not full text.
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