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Title: Science Resource Center and Times Digital Archive


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Science Resource Center and Times Digital
Archive
  • Jisc Collections for Schools

15th July 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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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
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