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Construction training - 60 day free trial available
Digital resources that use gamification to appeal to different learning styles, mapped to construction curricula.
Digital and IT training - 60 day free trial available
Interactive digital learning resources to support learning and teaching mapped to IT curricula across the UK.
Education and childcare training - 60 day free trial available
Engaging online learning and teaching resources mapped to education and childcare curricula.
Hairdressing Training
A free online service for hairdressing and barbering teachers and students.
Health and social care training - 60 day free trial available
Innovative online learning and teaching resources mapped to the health and social care curriculum.
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Archives Hub
Search for archives held at over 300 UK institutions, and find out how to become a contributor.
e-books for FE
A collection of free e-books for all UK further education colleges.
Geospatial data
Commercial quality mapping and spatial data for universities and colleges.
Journal Archives
A single platform providing access to over 600 journal backfiles from eight publishers' archives.
Historical Texts
A single platform providing access to over 400,000 texts from four key collections.
Digital archival collections group purchasing scheme
Collectively lowering the cost of acquiring digital archival collections.
MediaPlus
More than 100,000 videos, images, and sound recordings delivered to the UK FE and HE community.
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Digitising 20th century social movements
Developing new digital collections for teaching and research.
We negotiate with publishers to procure and license affordable digital content for the UK education and research community
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Head of learning resources and e-learning, Strode College
"I wouldn’t be able to afford to buy that number of e-books if I was buying them from scratch"
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