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Furniture Making
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Academic Search Elite is a rich resource spanning a broad range of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals.
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Aesthetica Magazine showcases inspirational content on art, design, photography, architecture, music, film and performance. The archive is searchable from 2009 to the present.
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Art & Architecture Source is a full-text art research database which covers fine, decorative and commercial art, architecture and architectural design. It includes access to journals, images, art dissertations and art reproductions. Also available via the EBSCO Discovery service.
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Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts offers access to over 170 books which aim to inspire and offer practical advice on idea generation, research techniques, portfolio development and more across the visual arts disciplines. Useful for students of fashion and design, photography, design and illustration, film and animation, marketing and architecture/interiors.
Please click on the book image to access the book:
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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.
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Ebook Central has hundreds of full-text books to download or read offline.
Useful books (click image to view):
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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.
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More than 5,000 eBooks from leading UK publishers and authors including text books for A-Level and other courses.
Useful books (click image to view):
Search for ebooks on (click link to view):
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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).
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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.
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The Oxford Academic : 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Springer link is a full-text database which provides access to academic journal articles which can be downloaded as pdf documents. This resources includes the following disciplines:
Business, Management, Economics, Law, Biomedical Sciences, Environmental & Life Sciences, Chemistry & Physics, Computing, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Social Sciences, Education and Philosophy.
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Statista provides access to market and consumer data, offering over one million statistics and facts in a variety of subjects.
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A completely searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images.
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Wiley online journals cover a wide range of subject areas including arts, humanities, health, science. engineering, technology and social sciences.
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Click on the Library Guide covers for more information:
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The books and journals are arranged on the shelves by subject. Each subject has a shelf number, known as a class number.
Useful numbers are:
Chair design 749.32 Crafts 745 Furniture construction 684.104 Furniture design 749.22 History of furniture 749.2 Interior design 747 Wood 674 Woodworking 684
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This lists all the resources in the library. 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
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New books at CCG Libraries : click on the image to go directly to the library catalogue.
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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.
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