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3 September 2010
Blackpool sixth student captains the England National Colleges’ team to two victories
Former Beacon Hill High School student Brett Whitehead achieves national rugby league honour.
19 August 2010
Art Stars Lead the Way in a Fantastic Set of Results
Read about our students A level success
9 August 2010
Essential Information for students and parents/carers 2010/11
Have you received your copy of our Essential Information document for students enrolling in August 2010?
10 July 2010
English students experience 'Bard and Breakfast' tour
Staff and students from the English Department enjoyed their summer pilgimage to Stratford and London.
9 July 2010
Artwork to be displayed at the Annual Exhibition of British Artists in London
Artwork from a Blackpool Sixth student is set to be displayed at the prestigious Annual Exhibition of British Artists at the...Announcements
Welcome Evening for New Students and Parents
23rd September 5.45pm - 8.00pm
North Fylde Music Circle Concert
24th September 7.00pm - 10.00pm
Open Evening
20th October 5.30pm - 9.00pm
How to access our e-resources
The Learning Resources department subscribe to a number of e-resources which will help you with your studies and research. You can access these using the college's Virtual Learning Environment First Class.
- Log onto First Class with your user name and password.
- Enter the Learning Resources Area on your desktop.
- Click on 'Your Library'.
- Here you will find links to E-books (an online library of thousands of books), Infotrac (a huge collection of academic journal articles), the FYi Library catalogue and the Oxford English Dictionary as well as a guide to referencing. Just click on the icon for the resource you wish to use and the link will take you there.
Evaluating results from Infotrac and other e-resources:
- Scan the article titles which come up to evaluate if any are useful: what are you actually looking for?
- Data?
- Theories?
- Ideas?
- Quotes?
- Scan the citation: if the magazine title is Grocer's World, you can be sure it's not what you're looking for! Save yourself some time.
- In this instance you need to do a Publication Search – try ‘sociology’ as a search term. When the results appear, select the magazine you want to look through.
- Then do a Quick Search, and tick the 'within this publication' box.
- Now enter ‘fear crime’ as your search terms – is this more successful?
- Try the Subject Guide Search for the same stuff – does it get you more relevant results?
Found a good article?
WRITE DOWN THE REFERENCE if you plan to quote something from it. The reference is the article title in your search results.
