Guide to Electronic Resources

What are E-Resources?The electronic resources are a reliable alternative source of information, statisticsand images to help you with your course.The collection of e-journals, e-books and onlinedatabases is easily accessed by logging onto the VLE, clicking on the Library+heading and selecting the Electronic Resources link. The Electronic Resourcespage is ordered alphabetically.More informationabout theresources….. Antiquity: Antiquity is an online journal. It is a quarterly review of World Archaeology. There is also a printed copy available to read in Library+. Access is currently only available within College, where you do not need to log in.Biz/Ed: A web-site for students andeducators in business studies,economics, accounting, leisure, sport& recreation and travel & tourism.Includes presentations and activities.External access is available withoutusername or password.

Childlink has been designed to give the most up to the minute, easily accessible information on Welfare, Education, Health, Lifestyle, Justice, Youth Affairs, Employment, and Benefit Issues. It will be useful for Child Care, Health & Social Care and Public Services students. External access is available. Click on ’via your institution’ then select Peterborough Regional College. Use your College username and password to log-in.Child Protection HubThis database holds UK-based legislation andinformation about children'shealth, education andwelfare. Only availablewithin College. Copac is a union catalogue. It provides access to the online catalogues of many major university research libraries and the National Libraries of the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. There is also access to specialist collections such as the National Art Library (V & A Museum). Only available within College.

Dawsonera: Full-text accessto a selection of e-books,covering a wide range ofsubjects. Search for keywordsand make notes as well ascreate your own bookshelf ofuseful e-books.External access is availableusing your College log-indetails. Digimap: Digimap for Colleges provides easy access to a range of up to date 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. Complete coverage of GB allows you to create a map of anywhere showing all sorts of different detail. Maps can be enhanced with your own information by adding points, lines, text and images. Any map you create can be saved, printed or you can create an image file to drop into a report or presentation.Ebrary: Full-text access to aselection of e-books, covering awide range of subjects.External access is available.Click on ‘sign in’ and useyour College log-in details.

Hairdressing Training The resource features thirteen classic haircuts to illustrate the NVQ material. Each haircut features a photographic step-by-step guide, a quick textual guide to the haircut and a few simple questions to test the user's understanding of the material. The lessons section of the site covers much of the theory behind the haircuts, whilst the products section looks at the equipment and hair care products that the student will need to know as part of their education. This is an ideal reference resource for students on the NVQ Level 2 course. External access is available without username or password.Histpop - The Online HistoricalPopulation Reports WebsiteThis collection provides online access tothe complete British population reportsfor Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.The collection goes far beyond thebasic population reports with a wealth oftextual and statistical material whichprovide an in-depth view of the economy,society (through births, deaths andmarriages) and medicine during thenineteenth and early twentieth centuries.External access is available withoutusername or password. The ICE Virtual Library is the most comprehensive online civil engineering resource in the world. Here you can explore the full archive of the Institution of Civil Engineers back to 1836, browse the internationally renowned journals and books, and take advantage of our powerful searching tools to find the information you need. External access is available. Click on ‘Shibboleth’ then use your College log-in details.

Issues Online contains full-colour e-books of allthe titles in the Issues series with additionalvideos, graphs, updates and images. Topicscovered include poverty, crime, LGBT, disabilities,cloning, fitness, eating disorders, mental illness,ethics in business, travel and tourism, domesticabuse, smoking and health and student choices.Infotrac comprises a selection of UK and international newspaper and journals. It is asource of news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers,current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies,humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology,and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.Updated daily. External access is available. Click on ’Shibboleth’ then use yourCollege log-in details.Jisc MediaHub is a newmultimedia platform offering awealth of digital image, video andaudio collections accessible froma single interface. It containscontent for a huge range ofsubjects. To log in you mustuse the first log-in box, via UKFederation. SelectPeterborough Regional Collegethen use your College log-indetails.

Know UK is an online service developed to provide UK reference information, which isauthoritative and current. It is the most comprehensive resource of its kind, offering acomplete library of UK information. External access is available. Please use yourCollege log-in details. Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross- searchable, reference works, covering a wide range of subjects including social sciences, business, the sciences, the arts, languages and history. External access is available. Please use ’Click Here’ link on the VLE then use your College log-in details. Times Higher Education: A rich source of intellectual stimulation, essential reasoning and intelligent comment on the current issues in Higher Education External access is available. Username: [email protected] Password: Peterborough13

VADS is the online resource for visualarts. It currently provides access to over100,000 images from art and designcollections held in universities, colleges,museums, libraries and archivesthroughout the UK. The imageresources are free and copyrightcleared for use in UK Higher andFurther Education and personalresearch. External access is available.No username or password required. VOGUE ARCHIVE contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day. More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists, and illustrators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Vogue is a unique record of American and international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive is an essential primary source for the study of fashion, gender, and modern social history – past, present, and future. External access is available. Please use your College log-in details.

Online Journal access detailsAdults Learninghttp://www.niace.org.uk/For the link to the latest edition and archive please ask library staff.Username: [email protected]: library12Antiquityhttp://antiquity.ac.ukOnly accessible within college. No Username or password requiredBBC Focushttp://sciencefocus.comNo Username or password requiredBBC Gardeners Worldhttp://www.gardenersworld.comNo Username or password requiredBritish Journal of Special Educationhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8578/issues NoUsername or password requiredBuildinghttp://www.building.co.uk/Username: Peterborough Regional CollegePassword: peterborough11Business Standardshttp://www.businessstandards.comNo Username or password requiredCurrent Archaeology:www.archaeology.co.ukNo Username or password requiredEconomic & Labour Market Reviewhttp://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/index.htmlPlease search for “Economic and Labour Market Review”No Username or password requiredEnglish Teaching Professionalhttp://www.etprofessional.comLink to latest edition and archive:http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?PBID=2f48b1b8-6212-4c8f-b7c1-a546178d344fUsername: [email protected]: library12Equality Reviewhttp://www.equalitydiversityresources.co.ukUsername: Peterborough Regional CollegePassword: Vermont

Firehttp://www.fire-magazine.comLink to latest edition and archive: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?PBID=848fe28a-9f83-435a-8a9b-a56596b7a27fUsername: [email protected]: library12Make: Technology in your timehttp://make-digital.comPlease ask library staff for the latest link if this does not take you to the latest digitaledition.Marketing Week:http://www.mad.co.ukNo Username or password requiredNursery Worldwww.nurseryworld.co.ukFull access currently available in College onlyThe Psychologisthttp://www.bps.org.uk/publicationsNo Username or password requiredSight and Soundhttp--sightandsounddigital.bfi.org.uk-custompages-SightAndSound-subscribe.aspxEmail: [email protected]: sightandsoundSound on Soundwww.soundonsound.comNo Username or password requiredSurveyorhttp://transport-network.co.uk/No Username or password requiredTravel Weeklyhttp://www.travelweekly.co.ukNo Username or password requiredWhichwww.which.co.ukUsername: K915747504Password: libraryplusYour Doghttp://www.yourdog.co.ukNo Username or password requiredIf you have problems accessing any of these online journals, please check theVLE in the first instance then speak to staff as logins sometimes change assubscriptions are renewed.

If you have any problems or need help using any of the electronic resources please see a member of staff in Library+ Library+ 01733 762137 [email protected] @prclibraryplus