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The Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award, known as iDEA is an international programme that helps you develop digital, enterprise and employability skills for free.

Through our series of online challenges, you can win career-enhancing badges, unlock new opportunities and, ultimately, gain industry-recognised Awards that help you stand out from the crowd. Log in with your College account via Google.

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Berg Fashion Library

Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. Content is peer-reviewed by industry and academic experts and includes interconnected major reference works, exclusive articles, scholarly eBooks, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images from museums around the world to create a rich educational resource.

Berg Fashion Library, Fashion Photography Archive, Fairchild Books Library, and Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases comprise Bloomsbury Fashion Central.

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Currently available until 20th May 2020.

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Free access to FT.com can help students with relevant and fresh ideas for essays, exams, extra-curricular activities and in interviews. Universities and employers confirm that broader general knowledge helps the best candidates stand out. With the help of teachers, FT.com highlights and guides readers to FT journalism that can enrich education and help prepare students for successful careers.

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JoVE Lab Manual offers comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for introductory biology lab courses – a great way to get a virtual experience of the laboratory environment. Videos include:

  • Animal Behavior
  • Enzyme Activity
  • Cell Structure
  • Macromolecules
  • Natural Selection
  • Extinction
  • Measuring Biodiversity
  • Microbial and Fungal Diversity
  • Population Growth
  • Community Diversity
  • Climate Change

We are currently unsure of how long we have access to this resource for – please be aware of this.

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JoVE Core is a video textbook that isolates and visually presents core concepts in Biology and Social Psychology to improve learning comprehension of core content.

We are currently unsure of how long we have access for, please be aware of this.

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JoVE Science Education is a revolutionary video library dedicated to teaching scientific fundamentals through easy to use video demonstrations. Subjects include Biology, Physics, Psychology, Environmental Science and Engineering .

We are currently unsure of how long we have access to this resource for – please be aware of this.

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The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. This is a network with over 80,000 researchers and produces health care reviews. They are also providing updates relating to the medical information about COVID-19.

We are currently unsure of how long we have access to this resource – please be aware of this.

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Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the National Theatre Collection makes this rich body of work available to students in schools, universities and libraries around the world. Featuring plays by Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Sophocles and Chekhov as well las many more.

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Access to this resource is thanks to Barton Peveril’s Performing Arts department.

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Access to 7 online databases:

  • American History
  • Bloom’s Literature
  • Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
  • Issues & Controversies
  • Today’s Science
  • World News Digest
  • Writer’s Reference Center.

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Currently available until 15th June 2020.

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Founded in 2003, British History Online has made their content freely available including all of their held 1,280 volumes. This includes transcribed content and 200 volumes of primary material, subject guides, maps and guides.

British History Online is a not-for-profit digital library based at the Institute of Historical Research. It brings together material for British history from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and academics. These primary and secondary sources, which range from medieval to twentieth century, are easily searchable and browsable online.

Access is open to all until 31 July 2020.

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