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A collection of 53 e-books relating specifically to petroleum engineering/science but of potential wider interest to earth and environmental sciences.
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A variety of reference works, including dictionaries, which tutors may well prefer to Wikipedia, and it even tells you how to set out a reference to what you find. Try out the 'Mind Map' feature to see how your keyword links to others - useful for essay planning and dissertation work.
These short videos show you how Credo can speed up your research:
- Search tips
- Using the automated mind map
Additional access instructions:
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Contains full-text ebooks in many subject areas.
Although this is not subject specific, it is our largest ebook collection and will almost certainly contain material of use to you.
This book is a 10-volume collection of hundreds of new previously unpublished authoritative research articles contributed by thousands of experts and researchers from around the globe covering a full range of perspectives, applications, and techniques. With critical perspectives on the impact of information management and new technologies in modern settings
Access around 800 e-textbooks from Cambridge University Press. Titles cover many subjects across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine and Nursing. Anyone with a UoP username can access all the content but if you want to take advantage of extra features such as bookmarking, annotations, reading on a mobile device and copying/printing up to 15% of any title, you should register for a personal account on the Cambridge package. This short video shows how you can use bookmarking, highlighting etc. available via the Read online button.
You can store up to 20 books for offline reading on a computer or mobile device and features such as bookmarks and highlights will sync between your online and offline versions. To take advantage of this select the ‘Add to offline bookshelf’ button on the book page. Once this is done, you will receive a message to confirm it has been added for you so that you can read the book using the Cambridge Spiral app.
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Knovel enables you to manipulate engineering data from a wide range of sources. In addition to full-text ebook content it also provides access to equations, materials and substances data, and interactive charts and graphs. Its materials database covers everything from mechanical to chemical properties data, corrosion data and material properties. Knovel provides interactive engineering tools that enable data analysis, and specialized data search and taxonomies that make it easy to discover answers to technical questions.
This is a video tutorial to get you started with Knovel.
https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14354/c/10545/supporthub/knovel/
This LibGuide from Elsevier provides more help and support. And this marketing page from Elsevier gives a good overview of the support for learning and teaching that Knovel and Engineering Village can offer to all "engineers of the future".
This video has been recorded specifically for Mechanical & Design engineering students and shows several key features. The passcode is: %K*P7$?k
Over 250 unlimited access in-depth guides to current and classic research across a range of subject areas. If you can't access something via this site, put the book title into our general Portsmouth catalogue as we have some titles via Ebook Central instead.
Free online texts for Research Methods.
Open access ebooks on a variety of topics.
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