Science Resource Center and Times Digital Archive

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Science Resource Center and Times Digital
Archive

• Jisc Collections for Schools West Midlands
  Regional Broadband Consortium

16th September 2008
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Science Resource Center
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Award Winning Platform
Overview

• Designed for Schools
• Covers the broad spectrum of science, including
• Physical Science
• Life Science
• Earth and Space Science
• Science and Technology
• Scientist/Inventor Biographies
• Science and History
• And more!

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Science Resource Center
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Notable Features

• Three Content Level indicators (Basic,
  Intermediate, Advanced) help students
• identify the most appropriate content
• (Content level indicators may be turned off if
  institution prefers)

• 80 commonly searched topics on home page offer
  simple, one-click searching
• Provides topic introductions/overviews such as
  Photosynthesis
• Provides up to date magazine and journal articles
  on ever changing areas such as
• Global Warming

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Science Resource Center
Clicking on the link gives you access to the full
text
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Science Resource Center
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Content Overview
Nearly 60 print sets
Over 250 full-text, science-focused magazines and
journals
Continuous updating
14,600 images and line drawings
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The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985
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The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985

• Enter Your Search Term

• Limit by date / newspaper section?

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Results

• Full results in reverse chron. order

- Help option - Mark articles
Results listed by section
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Articles

• Re-size article ?

• Keywords highlighted

• View links

• Retrieval options

• Browser print article
• PDF Page vary sizes
• Email citation only

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The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
Two Hundred years of fully searchable news in
original form
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Weve Come A Long Way!
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Content Overview

• 200 Years of British and World News Covering
• Napoleonic Wars
• American Civil War
• Charles Dickens
• Emily Bronte
• Nelson
• World Wars
• Great Depression and New Deal
• Russian Revolution
• Heroes
• Villains
• Celebrities

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Notable Features

• Not Only News
• Reviews of curriculum books and plays
• Images and Photographs to provide context
• Everyone who was Famous or Infamous across all
  subjects
• Adverts
• Obituaries

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• Questions and Answers
• Thank you!
• Stephen Lewis
• stephen.lewis_at_cengage.com