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A range of eBook resources and collections made available by Manchester University Press. These include

  • Manchester Film Studies
  • Manchester Gothic
  • Manchester History of Medicine
  • Manchester Literature Studies
  • Manchester Medieval Sources online
  • Manchester Political Studies
  • Manchester Religious Studies

Access is open to all until 30 June 2020. You can access via institutional login but you may need to reset your password. Please email library@barton.ac.uk for access assistance if required.

Link for access.

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.

Please use Username: distancelearning and Password: trial

Currently available until 15th June 2020.

Link for access.

Free online access to all of their Press Journals.This includes full access to online journals including

  • Case Studies in the Environment
  • Civic Sociology
  • Classical Antiquity
  • Collabra: Psychology
  • Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal
  • Film Quarterly
  • Journal of Medieval Worlds
  • The Journal of Musicology
  • New Criminal Law Review
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Sociology of Development
  • Studies in Late Antiquity

This is currently available until June 2020.

Link for access.

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.

Link for access.

BBC iPlayer lets you watch BBC content from your computer, Smart TV or mobile device.


BBC iPlayer isn’t just for catching up on last night’s Eastenders or rewatching Gavin & Stacey for the 17th time, you can also find a lot of educational material in its depths. You can watch the latest episodes of QI to learn more quirky facts about the world or explore the hundreds of episodes of Science and Nature documentaries. There’s also great comedy and entertainment shows for when you have finished your work for the day and need to relax.

David Attenborough alone can take you through Climate Change for your Science lesson research, the different ecosystems around the world for your Geography research or even the early years of making nature documentaries for Media lesson research.

Some more examples of programmes that can aid your research are below:

Criminology – Jack the Ripper

Engineering – The Limit: Trickiest Tunnel

Music – Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Sport – Shane Williams: Rugby, Concussion and Me

Dance – The Royal Ballet: Mayerling

Don’t forget though that some episodes are only available for a limited time and can be removed from iPlayer at any time.

You can look through all the episodes and series available for each subject on the BBC iPlayer website or click one of these categories; History, Documentaries, Science & Nature, Music.

Socratic is a Google app where you can simply take a photo of a problem and get an instant explanation and step-by-step solutions.



It’s easy to give it a try, download the app and take a photo of one of the questions below:

SCIENCE

How long will it take a 1500 W motor to lift a 300 kg piano to a sixth-story window 20 m above?

What are the differences between active and passive transport?

In the reaction of lead nitrate with magnesium chloride, what is the spectator ion?

An electric device delivers a current of 5.0 A for 10 seconds. How many electrons flow through this device?

MATH

√3x−13=5

−12x+9y=73x−4y=2

State the possible rational zeros for the function f(x)=3×3+11×2+5x−3

Find the distance between points ( -3 , 7 ) and ( 4 , 1 ).

LITERATURE

What does the green light symbolize at the end of the book?

Who is Anne Hutchinson? How does Hawthorne feel about her?

Why does Elisa begin to trust the stranger and invite him into her garden?

What does Crusoe’s second trip to Guinea reveal about his character?

HISTORY

What was one purpose of the Marshall Plan of 1948?

Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

Why was 1968 a year of turmoil in US history?

What part did Washington play in the French and Indian War?


Google Arts & Culture is an online platform that allows you to view high-resolution images of artworks from around the world.



The Google Arts & Culture app hosts content from over 1200 museums and archives from across the world with tens of thousands of individual pieces of content including 360 degree videos of places and events, street views of locations like the Taj Mahal or Machu Pichu, or even inside views of the Palace of Versailles for example.

You can look for historical street art or narrow down your search by a specific colour or time.

The Chrome Extension shows you a new piece of art each time you create a new tab in Chrome.

Now with VR and AR, you can walk around museums and other amazing buildings from around the world.

The mobile device app allows you to use VR/AR to view art in a new way, some of the features are listed below along with video examples of how to use them:

  • Art Selfie
    • Take a quick selfie and the app will compare it with thousands of pieces of art from throughout history to find someone who looks like you.
  • Colour Palette
    • Take a photo of an item nearby then the app will search for more art with the same colours, perfect if creating a moodboard based on a specific colour.
  • Pocket Gallery
    • Use AR to walk round already created art exhibits without having to leave the room.
  • Art Projector
    • Use AR to place paintings and artwork infront of you so you can see the true scale of the pieces.

Art Selfie

Colour Palette

What is VR, AR and Google Cardboard?

Pocket Gallery

Art Projector