city college norwich work based learners library introduction
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An introduction to The Information Store at City College Norwich for Work Based Learners, including how to request an Athens accountTRANSCRIPT
Work based learners
eBooksThere are several ways to access our eBook collection of 3,000+ eBooks. Choose which suits you best.
Browse all eBooks via the Information Store catalogue:
1. Go to heritage.ccn.ac.uk
2. Choose “Advanced search”
3. Change “Medium type” to
“E-Book”, and enter your search
4. Click on the title and then the URL
of the eBook you want to read*
NB these eBooks currently work best on PCs.
Or browse eBooks by individual provider*:
http://lib.myilibrary.comhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/ccnorwich/home
*Logging in: you will need an Athens username and password to access eBooks off-campus.
Access all the resources you need to complete your course, from work or home, without the need to travel to college.
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Please email [email protected] if you haven’t already been given a Athens username and password.
eJournalsAccess to thousands of online journal articles via the Athens website
www.openathens.net
Step 1
Select “Login to MyAthens”(email [email protected] for your username and password)
Step 2
Making sure that you are on the Resources page (see arrow above), click on the title of a database (in the middle section) that interests you. We recommend Infotrac as an easy to use database, which covers all subject areas.
Select Infotrac > General OneFile > enter one keyword per box.
Please call us if you would like us to talk you through this.
Borrowing Books
To browse the Information Store catalogue, go to
http://heritage.ccn.ac.uk If you would like to borrow resources, please contact your assessor to see if they can be delivered to your workplace. We appreciate that being a distance learner has its challenges, so we will issue items to you for longer than we would for our campus-based learners.
Book Suggestions
We are always interested to hear your suggestions about books for your course. Please email [email protected] and we will look into it.
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