Library - Social Science Resources
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Psychology, Sociology & Criminology
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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. -
Academic Search Elite is a rich resource spanning a broad range of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals.
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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.
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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.
We have access to the following ebooks via Browns VLeBooks (click cover images to view):
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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 texts include (click cover 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 texts include (click image cover to view):
Useful searches include:
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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SocINDEX with full text is a high-quality sociology research database with over 700 full text journals. Also available via the EBSCO Discovery Service.
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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 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.
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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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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 cover for more information:
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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
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New books in CCG libraries. Click on the cover images for more information:
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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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