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    • Online resources

    • A Level review magazines 

      A-Level Review Magazines (Hachette Learning : Hodder Education Magazines) archive offers access to articles which are designed to deepen students' subject knowledge in over 14 A-Level subject areas. The articles are written by teachers and examiners.

      A-Level Review magazines (Hodder Education Magazines)

    • Academic Search Elite

      Academic Search Elite is a rich resource spanning a broad range of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals.

      Academic Search Elite

    • Biomed Central

      BioMed Central is an open access publisher of over 300 scientific journals which cover biomedicine, chemistry, environment, life sciences, medicine, nursing, health care and public health.

      BioMed Central

    • Browns VLebooks

      VLeBooks is an ebook platform from Browns Books which consists of over 280,000 full-text books on a variety of subjects from leading UK publishers and authors including text books for A level and other FE courses.

      Browns VLeBooks

      We have access to the following ebooks via Browns VLeBooks (click cover images to view):

      AQA A Level Sociology Book 1 AQA A Level Sociology Book 2 Degrees of choice Criminology Book One for WJEC Criminology Book two for WJEC Applied Psychology Revision Guide

       

    • CORE

      CORE is the world's largest collection of open access research papers consisting of millions of papers. This service, which covers a variety of subjects, is provided for the academic community by JISC in partnership with the Open University.

      CORE

    • Ebook Central

      Ebook Central has hundreds of full-text books to download or read offline.

      Ebook Central

      Useful texts include (click cover image to view):

      Gross Psychology : the science of mind and behaviour (2020) Psychology the basics Psychology in Practice Pearson BTEC Applied Psychology Book 1 Rev ed Pearson BTEC Applied Psychology Book 2 Rev ed
      AQA A Level Sociology Book 1 AQA A Level Sociology Book 2 AQA A Level Sociology Guide 3 AQA A-Level Psychology (Year 1 and Year 2)
    • EBSCO Discovery Service

      EBSCO Discovery provides an easy way to search online journals, books and articles by providing a single search box to explore many databases and the library catalogue. 

      EBSCO Discovery Service

    • EBSCO books for FE/HE

      More than 5,000 eBooks from leading UK publishers and authors including text books for A-Level and other courses.

      Ebsco eBooks for FE/HE

      Useful texts include (click image cover to view):

      Aiming for an A in Psychology Violence and crime in the family The sociology of deviance Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World

      Policing Race, Ethnicity and Culture: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Europe

      Cyber Resilience: Defense-in-Depth Principles
      Childhood Exposure to Violence and Psychological Implications Evidence Based Counselling & Psychotheraphyt for the 21st Century Practitioner How to Bew Angry: Strategies to Hellp Kids Express Anger Constructively Rich Crime, Poor Crime: Inequality and the Rule of Law The Spectacle of Criminal Justice: Mass Media and the Criminal Trial Sugar Rush: Science, Politics and the Demonisation of Fatness

      Useful searches include:

      Crime Scenes

      Religion and society                                           

      Gross guides to psychology   

    • European Newsstream

      European Newsstream provides access to the most recent UK, Irish and European news content with archives back to the 1990s. It provides a diverse collection of news from over 430 sources including newspapers such as the The Guardian and The Times (London).

      European Newsstream

    • Exact Editions : Black Lives Matter

      Exact Editions have developed a collection to support Black Lives Matter that is free to access. It consists of articles from the digital archives of over 50 publications and supports Art, Film, History, Literature, Music and Politics.

      Exact Editions : Black Lives Matter

    • Gale FE Bundle

      Use Gale FE Bundle to access magazines, newspapers, journal articles and ebooks and much more via a single search box. Also available via the EBSCO Discovery service.

      Gale FE Bundle

    • Issues Online

      Issues Online provides a wide range of easy-to-read information on social and topical issues. It includes articles, news and views, key facts and statistics, lobby group links, newspaper archives, reference sites and general research help.

      Issues Online

      Cover image: Book image Cover image: Book image Cover image: Book image Mental Health and Well-Being Global Health
      Challenging racism Cost of living crisis Sexism and misogyny Understanding eating disorders
    • KORTEXT

      KORTEXT offers a collection of Open Access books and Open Educational Resources, numbering over 10,000 eTextbooks and academic materials for the Further Education and Skills (FES) sector. 

      KORTEXT

      To access KORTEXT for the first time, click in the box below Sign in to browse your institution library, type/choose Chichester College Group and click on the purple arrow. You will be asked to create an account with your College email address. You only need to do this once for your first log in.

    • Massolit

      Massolit works with university lecturers to produce high-quality, short video lectures in a variety of subjects for A Level students and teachers. Subjects include Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English Language, English Literature, Geography, Government & Politics, History, Law, Maths, Media Studies, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology and Sociology. Videos can be searched by topic or exam specification. Teachers can create a list of lectures from any course and assign them to a class or group of users.

      Massolit

    • Media Plus

      MediaPlus is a service delivered to the UK higher and further education community in association with JISC, bringing more than 100,000 videos, images and sound recordings to your screen.

      MediaPlus

    • Oxford Journals Collection

      The Oxford Journals Collection for FE is produced by Oxford University Press and comprises over 360 journals in six subject collections: Medicine, Life Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Law.

      Oxford Journals Collection for FE

    • Planet estream

      Planet estream is the College's own video recording and streaming service. The content includes uploaded college recordings and Freeview broadcasts recorded by college staff. Use the search facility to find videos.

      Planet estream

    • Sage Journals

      Your gateway to world-class research journals. SAGE Journals publishes 1,000 journals in the social sciences, humanities, life sciences, health sciences, materials science and engineering.

      SAGE Journals

    • Science Direct

      A full text journals database of articles on Science, Engineering, Business and Economics, Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences.

      The library subscription to Science Direct has lapsed but thousands of articles in open access journals are available.

      Science Direct

    • SocINDEX

      SocINDEX with full text is a high-quality sociology research database with over 700 full text journals. Also available via the EBSCO Discovery Service.

      SocINDEX

    • Springer link

      Springer link is a full-text database which provides access to academic journal articles which can be downloaded as pdf documents. This resource includes the following disciplines:

      Business, Management, Economics, Law, Biomedical Sciences, Environmental & Life Sciences, Chemistry & Physics, Computing, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Social Sciences, Education and Philosophy.

      Springer Link

    • Statista

      Statista provides access to market and consumer data, offering over one million statistics and facts in a variety of subjects.

      Statista

    • Wiley Online Library

      Wiley online journals cover a wide range of subject areas including arts, humanities, health, science. engineering, technology and social sciences.

      Wiley Online Library

    • Click on the Library Guide cover for more information:

      Library guide : Psychology, Sociology and Criminology

    • Class numbers

    • In CCG libraries, the books, journals, CDs and DVDs are arranged on the shelves by subject. Each subject has a shelf number, known as a class number.

      Useful numbers are:

      Child psychology 

      155.4-155.418

      Counselling 

      361.06

      Crime 

      364-364.4

      Families 

      306.85

      Forensic psychology   

      364.3

      Forensic science

      363.25

      Health psychology 

      612.8

      Poverty 

      362.5

      Psychology 

      150

      Religion

      200-299 

      Research methods & statistics

      150.72

      Social casework  

      361.32

      Social psychology 

      302

      Sociology 

      301

      Stress 

      155.9042

      The staff in the library are always happy to help, please ask at the desk.

    • Library catalogue

      This lists all the resources in CCG libraries. Search for books and other resources by author or by keyword using the catalogue in the library or via the link in CCGOnline.

      You can also go to the catalogue at https://catalogue.chigroup.ac.uk

    • New Books

    • New books in CCG libraries. Click on the cover images for more information:

      WJEC Criminology Level 3 Criminology Soc Intro Understanding deviance Criminology 6th ed Applied Psychology R Essential Concepts in Sociology
      Gross psychology Sociology for AQA Vol 2 Year 2 AS and A level Psyhology revision Sociology by Giddens Sociology : introductory readings (2022) Sociology of children (2016)

    • CCG libraries subscribe to many of the journals listed below. Some of the journals are available online.

      British Journal of Educational Psychology

       370.15

      The library has print issues from 2010-2013. Access the archive online from 03/01/2001 to present ( with a 12 month delay) via the Academic Search Elite resource.

      British Journal of Social Work

      361.3

      The library has print issues available Jan 2010 - Dec 2014.

      Online you can search the articles or browse the archive. Issues up to 2014 are available as full text.  Login using Institutional access, UK Access Management Federation then follow the link to access the college login page where you can use your usual college username and password.

      New Internationalist

      Online only

      Online only via Academic Search Elite

      Child Poverty

      362.5

      The library has print issues from Summer 2017  onwards.

      A selection of articles are available online.

      Psychology Review

      150

      The library has print issues from 1998 onwards.

      Online you can access the complete archive via the A Level Review Magazines (Hachette Learning : Hodder Education Magazines) resource.

      Psychology Teacher’s Update

      150

      The library has print issues only from Nov 2010 to Nov 2024

      RS (Religious Studies) Review

      210

      The library has print issues for September 2015 to April 2018

      Online you can access the complete archive via the A Level Review Magazines (Hachette Learning : Hodder Education Magazines) resource.

      Sociology Review

      301

      The library has print issues from 1997 onwards.

      Online you can access the complete archive via the A Level Review Magazines (Hachette Learning : Hodder Education Magazines) resource.

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      Referencing banner

      Referencing your assignments is an important academic skill. Most courses in the College follow the APA 7th edition system in the style used by the University of Portsmouth.

      Click here for guides to referencing.

      Referencing & Plagiarism

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