E-Resources

User Guides

For instructions to download an ebook for the following publishers, just click the relevant publisher.

Ebook Central 

Online Library Catalogue

Browse what's on offer in our library system by clicking the image below. You can find out what books we have available to loan, as well as find and read a wide range of e-books!

Explore our wide range of E-Resources. Click a heading/ image below to get started!

Use your Data No. and Password to access these resources.

The Blended Learning Consortium GSuite  has been set up to support colleges in moving forward to meet accredited guidelines and allow members to benefit from the creation and sharing of FE specific resources.  For example, Vocational · Care Profession · Catering, Hospitality and Tourism · Engineering and Motor Vehicle · Hair and Beauty · ICT and Business · Media and Arts · Sports and much more.

Ebook Central offers an ebook experience that’s intuitive for you and your patrons? They manage all aspects of the collection — discovery, selection, acquisition, administration, and reporting — all on one platform. The platform provides access to more than a million ebooks, with 100,000 new titles added each year. It’s all possible with Ebook Central from ProQuest. Click here for instructions to download an ebook.

Sage Journals

Sage Publishing is the natural home for leading authors, editors and societies. Publishing more than 1,000 journals, from a wide range of disciplines, SAGE is here to meet our needs. 

Royal Society of Chemistry 

Chemistry is at the centre of everything you can see, smell, touch and taste.  Whether studying the chemistry of life, or developing the advanced science behind modern technology, chemical scientists use their expertise to improve our health, our environment and our daily lives.

JSTOR has more than 4,000 Open Access ebooks are now available at no cost to libraries or users. These titles reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content and are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Users won’t need to register or log in, and there are no DRM restrictions or limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing. The ebooks are also preserved in Portico, ensuring that they will be available to researchers in perpetuity. To access the ebooks click JSTOR ebooks 

Springer is a global publisher dedicated to providing the best possible service to the whole research community. They help authors to share their discoveries; enable researchers to find, access and understand the work of others and support librarians and institutions with innovations in technology and data.

They use their position and influence to champion the issues that matter to the research community – standing up for science; taking a leading role in open research and being powerful advocates for the highest quality and ethical standards in research.

The Vogue Archive is an exclusive partnership between ProQuest, Vogue, and Condé Nast (the global publisher of Vogue) to present the full run of the American Vogue, 1892 to present. Every page, cover, advertisement, image, and fold out is indexed, searchable, and viewable in beautiful high-resolution color. 

This is a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the 20th and 21st centuries. 

CENTURY is an award-winning teaching and learning platform for primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities to learn and improve your English and Maths. Use your college Google email account detail to login.

ICE virtual Library is the most comprehensive online civil engineering resource in the world. You can explore our archives back to 1836, browse ICE Publishing's internationally renowned journals and access over 1500 eBooks to find the information you need.

JISC Historic Archive 1874-1998 is made available on IOPscience which s an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content.  IOPscience has been designed to make it easy for researchers to discover relevant content and manage their research information. 

National Careers Service provide information, advice and guidance to help you make decisions on learning, training and work. 

Basic Skills Bulletin is a weekly publication bringing news and analysis of developments in basic skills. 

Citizen Maths is for people who want to improve their grasp of maths, and become more confident in using maths at work and in life. 

Exam Solutions Edexcel A-level maths and further maths video tutorials. Short lessons to help you learn and revise to get you the grade you deserve. 

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. 

Corbett Maths offers maths videos, worksheets, 5-a-day and much more.