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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.
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- Using the automated mind map
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Contains full-text ebooks in many subject areas.
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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.
Read authoritative, peer-reviewed, regularly updated entries written by experts covering education across the world. Topics include education and society, curriculum and pedagogy, educational theories and philosophies, education, gender and sexualities, educational administration and leadership, research and assessment methods and much more.
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A collection of over 500 full-text social science textbooks from SAGE.
You will find 113 books covering all different areas of Education and Childhood/Early Childhood Studies, plus 71 on Psychology and 116 on Study Skills and Research Methods and 31 on Criminology.
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