Our Learning Centre is organised to support self-study and to enhance English learning and teaching skills for both students and professionals.
Our facilities include
Arrow, small E-brary (online books)
E-brary provides hosted information on management and education that features a growing selection of more than 9,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic and professional publishers.
Users can personalise the database by keeping items on their personal ‘bookshelf’ and can make their own notes on the items they select. This is an incredibly powerful tool for researchers
Arrow, small Online databases are just one click away! They include:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
This is the world’s most famous and authoritative source of information. It includes the complete encyclopaedia, dictionary, thesaurus, student encyclopaedia, multi media and Internet guide. You can also use this to search an Internet Directory that includes more than 200,000 links to websites selected, reviewed and updated daily.
Ashridge Virtual Learning Resource Centre
It's very useful resource to develop your career with access to over 60 learning guides, 60 pocket books, 300 book reviews on management and business, software guides, career development self development excercises, country and industry trends and useful websites.
It also inculdes Infotrac journal database which provides more than 2.5 million articles from 1984 to present from 250 business and management journals
Oxford English Dictionary
An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
Oxford Reference Online
This brings together 175 language and subject dictionaries and reference resources offering coverage of everything from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.
Oxford Scholarship Online
It is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which ow offers quick and easy access to the full text of 2,125 oxford books.
Oxford Art Online and Grove Art Online
These are two databases on art which provide details on arts artists and images. It contains more than 45,000 articles and 500,000 bibliographies contributed by 6700 scholars.
Oxford Music Online and Grove Music Online
These are two gateways on music, musicians, music reference subscriptions and publications. It also includes dictionary of opera. It has above 84,000 articles.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
You can view 56,000 biographies of people who contributed to the history of Britain from earliest time to 2004.
Economic and Social Data Service
The catalogue provides access to over 5000 computer readable datasets for research and teaching purposes for many different disciplines. Comprehensive online information, and links to access data, are available for each dataset.
English Language Practice materials
We have five CD-Roms with creative exercises to practise and develop your English.
Network English develop your vocabulary and grammar through a range of integrated activities, suitable for all language levelsIELTS Exam practice materials
We have two CD-roms to develop your language and exam skills through a range of structured tasks.
Study skill success Reading, writing, listening and speaking skills are practised alongside a range of tasks to improve your exam techniqesBecome a member and start working on our online resources. As an additional service, you can also have access to E-brary and varieties of online databases from your home or work.
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