Social Sciences & Humanities

Electronic Enlightenment

Publisher: Oxford University Press
The online gateway to the long 18th century... Electronic Enlightenment offers unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Electronic Enlightenment is a scholarly research project of the Bodleian Library and the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford, and is available exclusively from Oxford University Press. Cross-search letters from nearly 6,000 correspondents. Online access to over 53,000 letters and documents from the best critical editions. Original languages - includes letters in French, German, and Italian as well as English. Cross-search nearly 230,000 scholarly annotations. Over 80,000 document sources including both manuscripts and early editions. Expanding network of external links to other online resources - from Chambers' Cyclopedia to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Updated twice a year - includes published and previously unpublished correspondence. Excellent functionality and extensive links... Search or browse fields including writer, recipient, date, and location. Get involved in content and connections - contribute new letters or suggest new correspondents. Printer-friendly layout. User-friendly help pages will guide users through the resource. Subscriber services include: Extensive online help and excellent customer and technical support. Detailed usage statistics allow you to track how often your users are accessing Electronic Enlightenment. Bundle deals also available on whole range of Oxford Schools Online titles - please contact us for details. FREE TRIAL: this database is available on 30 day FREE TRIAL, simply click on the Free Trial option below and ensure you include your email address on the order form. Prices increase on 1st April each year.
Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+

Family Spending

Publisher: The Stationery Office
Last 6 years of Family Expenditure Survey reports contained in Family Spending series. Details how households spend their money, proportion allocated to food, housing, travel; differences between spending patterns depending on household incomes, composition, location. Vital tool for anyone involved in development of economic social policy, marketing, advertising, research.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
ISBN: 0116214783

Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society

Publisher: ABC CLIO Ltd
From terrorism to climate change, this new database offers context, perspectives, scholarship, and deep reference content on the most controversial issues of the day. Produced in conjunction with leading scholars and educators, the database goes beyond facts and figures to help your students develop a true understanding of how society shapes and is shaped by controversy. Features: coverage of 150 of the most controversial topics, delivers 4000 diverse entries, includes 3000+ images and hundreds of audio visual files. FREE TRIAL: this database is available on 30 day FREE TRIAL, simply click on the Free Trial option below and ensure you include your email address on the order form.
Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+

Oxford Scholarship

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Combines excellence with innovation, a unique and invaluable tool for both teaching and research. The most important scholarly books that Oxford University Press publishers in the humanities and social sciences are now accessible online for a one-time purchase fee or by annual subscription. The following subject modules are available: Biology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Music. Special features make research easier and results more relevant. Oxford has commissioned keywords, book and chapter abstract for each work. Vast majority are written by the original author, alongside journal abstracts through a variety of online services. Reference linking from bibliographies and footnotes to available online content, such as journals from wide range of publishers, helps scholars and students discover new resources. Classic works of scholarship and newly published works are more accessible than ever before, making this a unique and invaluable research tool for scholars and students. Includes: full text of 1000+ carefully selected titles, 250,000+ book pages, 100+ million words, with at least 200 new books added each year. Each book has to be approved by a board of leading academics from Oxford University. Bundle deals also available on whole range of Oxford Schools Online titles - please contact us for details. Authority wide pricing, and free trials available, please contact us for details.. Prices increase on 1st April each year. FREE TRIAL: this database is available on 30 day FREE TRIAL, simply click on the Free Trial option below and ensure you include your email address on the order form.
Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+

Questia

Publisher: Cengage Learning
The world's largest online collection of complete books. Questia School includes 28,000+ books and more than 3 million articles, journals and newspapers, all searchable by word, phrase, title, author, or subject. The number of books available can be expanded to 77,000 by subscribing to Questia Enhanced. Teachers like Questia School because it includes 350+ engaging classroom tested lesson plans; High-quality resources from over 300 acclaimed publishers in the humanities and social sciences selected by school librarians to meet curriculum needs; The librarians have compiled some 7000 reference bibliographies on frequently researched topics; Unlimited use of the books and articles in the collection no matter how many others are reading the same materials - no book is ever checked as out! Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - the library never closes; Tools to write notes in the margins and highlight passages as if you were working with actual physical books; Easy-to-use tools to create footnotes and bibliographies (never struggle with another bibliography!); Hyperlinking of footnotes and bibliographies across titles for instant access to other related titles. Questia School unlocks a world of literacy and learning, giving students and teachers online access to a trusted collection of over 28,000 full-text books and 3 million articles from journals, magazines and newspapers for school students, teachers, and their library and information community. Each resource has been carefully selected by School librarians to meet curriculum needs: More About Questia School Your students will build content knowledge in humanities and social sciences and they'll develop better research skills thanks to Questia' s exclusive digital research tools: Includes 350+ engaging, classroom-tested lesson plans, embedded assessment, and training options so students and teachers can use the programme confidently right from the start. Questia School also provides a dictionary, thesaurus and Encyclopedia so students don't have to search for definitions during their research. Key Features: Individual User logins: Highlighting :Note taking :Project folders where all information is saved : Ability to log on from any web-enabled device: 350 educator developed lesson plans to address essential curriculum concepts : Faculty can create classes and assignments within Questia School : Recommended resource for IB extended Essays : Fiction and nonfiction :Recent books as well as out-of-print titles. The World's Largest Online Library of Books: Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. School students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia. All the text in all the Questia books and articles is available to subscribers unlike Google Book Search where users can only see small parts of copyrighted books Questia provides users with an ideal online supplement to their existing library collection. Designed to provide students with easy access to the collection via the Internet, and to help research across topics both broad and narrow, Questia can improve how students formulate topics, do research, and write papers. Questia contains the full text of all books in the collection, including the front and back matter. The digital format of the collection provides access to all works in the collection no matter how many users are reading the texts or when and where they wish to do their work. Thus, users will have access to materials that you may not have in your collections or that are missing, checked out, or on reserve. For distance learners and working or part-time students who can't use library facilities during regular hours, Questia is the long-awaited answer. Students can use the Questia collection 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from any computer with an Internet connection. Questia is easy to use and efficient. A user can search the collection at no cost. A subscription to Questia provides a user with unlimited access to all of the materials in the collection and to Questia's unique research tools. Students can perform powerful searches by keyword, phrase, title, author, and subject. Advanced searches can use Boolean and truncation: Professional librarians with years of experience in academic collection development select titles for the Questia collection. Questia ensures that the electronic versions of all books mirror the original pagination to the fullest extent possible. Every text is checked and double-checked to maintain the highest level of accuracy and integrity. Questia is a great resource for librarians who routinely assist students in their research efforts. Librarians can use the free Questia search function to mine the contents of their own collections and direct students to appropriate titles in their stacks. Questia can help you help students find the right information quickly and easily. Contact us for full details. FREE TRIAL: this database is available on 30 day FREE TRIAL, simply click on the Free Trial option below and ensure you include your email address on the order form. NB: Pricing is based on the number of users you require, not full time students at your school. Schools edition = number of Student users requiring access (faculty free of charge). Enhanced edition = number of Student users plus number of faculty requiring access. Minimum order value is £100 = minimum 28 students for Schools edition, or mnimum 9 users/faculty for Enhanced edition.
Format: Online
Key stage: 4, 5
Age range: 14-18+

World Development Indicators

Publisher: The Stationery Office
Major publication provides expanded view of the world economy for 50 countries; chapters focus on people, economy, environment, states, markets, global links. This may be the only source needed for social and economic data. Provides statistics vital to those in the private sector analysing business opportunities in developing countries and emerging markets.
Format: Windows CD-ROM, Print
ISBN: 821350935