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JSTOR

Despite its title, JSTOR Secondary Schools Collections is a specially created package of over 2,700 archival journals and four primary source collections covering the arts, sciences, and business that contains a range of content that will be useful for Barton Peveril students.

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Currently available until 20th May 2020.

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As well as more general, practical and analytical educational resources including an interactive periodic table, The Royal Society of Chemistry provides a range of international Gold Open Access journals that publish good quality research – these are openly accessible to all. and cover a range of chemistry topic areas. The six key titles are:

  • Chemical Science
  • Materials Advances
  • Nanoscale Advances
  • RSC Advances
  • RSC Chemical Biology
  • Royal Society Open Science

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ProQuest EBooks are now available for unlimited borrowing – meaning you will no longer have to wait to borrow an EBook.

Proquest Ebook Central is home to titles from the JISC eBooks for FE project, which aims to give sixth form students free online access to important books for their studies. Titles available cover a wide range of subjects and are presented in a full colour, easy to navigate online reader.

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

Access ProQuest EBooks with this link

The college has signed up for a ClickView subscription which provides access to a huge range of TV shows, movies and video content for students and staff to use.

It gives access to TV shows that have been on TV in the past couple of weeks but it does also allow you to request TV shows and movies too. Providing ClickView can access them, they will make it available and send you a link to access it. Just as an example, you can (at the time of writing) watch this morning’s episode of Newsround from CBBC, watch all episodes of Frozen Planet, or the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film.

You can log in with your college Google account at this link – https://online.clickview.co.uk

Access ClickView Videos for AS / A Level with this link

Annual Reviews is a non-profit organisation with over 50 topics covered in its yearly publications – these include a variety of scientific areas, psychology, social sciences, maths, computing and economics. As well as assisting researchers and academics, the reviews are aimed at students at all levels who want to gain a thorough understanding of a topic.

We’re checking how long this resource is available.

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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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Exact Editions are currently providing access to the following magazines

  • BBC History
  • BBC Music
  • BBC Science Focus
  • The Biologist
  • Chemistry World
  • Geographical
  • New Internationalist
  • Prospect
  • Resurgence & Ecologist; The World Today

Click on the “Library Card” option and use card number 049816

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

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A non-profit subsidiary of the American Institution of Physics which publishes information relating to the sciences. You can register with a free account and set up temporary free access from your profile.

Currently available until 30th April 2020.

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