What are Online Resources?
Online Resources are useful, reliable and relevant databases that will help you find credible academic information, covering a wide range of subject areas. Some are general or cross-discipline, such as Gale Databases and Credo Reference, whilst others are specific to curriculum subject areas such as Westlaw or Info4Education.
Edinburgh College subscribes to a number of Online Resources providing you with access to current accurate and credible information. Through our Online Resources you can access encyclopedic and biographic content, peer-reviewed journals, magazine articles, national and international newspapers, reports, images, sounds, statistics, TV programmes, video tutorials, interactive content and more.
Many of our Online Resources are used directly by the industry for their credibility. This means that many of our resources have tailored, specialist information for specific subject areas and disciplines.
How can Online Resources help you?
Online Resources expand your field of research by providing access to a vast range of peer-reviewed or academic information that would often otherwise be harder to find or, in some cases, inaccessible through a search engine such as Google.
Why use our online resources as a regular part of your research?:
- Many Online Resources are only available to subscribers through your college library, giving access to information and sources that would otherwise be unavailable to you.
- Our Online Resources make it easy for you to find different sources of information from videos and images to statistics and journals.
- Some Online Resources are dedicated to a specific subject area, making related materials and topics of research more discoverable.
- Online Resources, such as Gale Databases, provide access to periodical publications including journals, magazines and local, national and international newspapers, all searchable in one place.
How do I access Online Resources?
You can find Online Resources for your specific area of study by visiting your Subject Research Guide.
Your Academic Digital Library Liaison can advise and support you in accessing and using online resources that are unfamiliar to you. You can find your ADLL’s name and contact details in your Subject Research Guide.
Some Online Resource material, and links to further online resources, will be available when searching eCore.
You can find full details of all our Online Resources and access details listed in the guide below:
Key Resources
Library Search (eCore)
eCore is an essential tool for finding, via one single search box, information from the physical and online library resources available to you, including:
- Research Starters
- Library catalogue
- Ebooks
- Magazines articles
- News and newspaper articles
- Encyclopedia articles
- Additional Online Resources
Gale Databases
Using Gales PowerSearch you can search across newspapers, scholarly journals, and general reference magazines for content on all topics and subjects.
Read current and historical newspaper coverage from local, national and international press, browse general magazine content, and explore articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.
Credo Reference
A useful resource for all subject areas, featuring reference works such as encyclopedias and dictionaries alongside textbooks.
You can display your search results in a traditional list layout, or you can choose to have them displayed in a concept map where linking themes, people, and events can be explored easily to expand upon your research topic.
Issues Online
Issues Online provides key information and statistics about the Social Issues of today.
Issues Online is a full web-based resource enhancing and supplementing mainly the PSHE and RSE curriculum as well as many other subjects. A safe and easy way for students to find information.
ClickView
ClickView is an educational video content platform.
Your ClickView account provides you access to a vast library of educational videos and resources across various subjects and levels.
ClickView Offers:
- Private Workspaces
- Over 10,000 videos
- Interactive Content
- Available 24/7 365
- Desktop & Mobile
- Easy-To-Use Mobile App
Linkedin Learning
LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform that offers a wide range of video courses and tutorials to help learners develop their professional skills and take more ownership over their learning.
- LinkedIn Learning Offers: Over 18,000 Course
- Digital Certificates available upon course completion
- 24/7, 365 access
- Desktop & mobile access
- Best of all, your college network account will grant you access today!
