General Collection

The following subject headings are useful for finding items:

Search the catalogue (Type keywords in the search window).

Textbooks & Recommended Readings

Course texts and selected recommended readings are held in the restricted loan collection.
Please ask for them at the front service desk. Your tutors should provide you with a full list of readings.

Course texts - two hour loan. Selected recommended readings - three day loan.

Ebooks

Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online provides access to an expansive digital collection of business and technical publications at your fingertips, available anytime, anywhere. Safari is the only service in the world that delivers entire searchable collections of books, working manuscripts, short topic PDFs, certification study guides, and instructional videos from top technology and business publishers. (around 5000 book titles availabe).
To find out how to use Safari Books, click here for the Flashdemo.

WelTec has access to:

Also, don't forget to check out Google Books - free online books via Google.
Right now, you can search the full text of some seven million books through Google Book Search. Try it out for yourself.

The Reference Collection

• Located by the front service desk..
• Contains materials such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, directories and yearbook.
• Provides concise, factual information which help you to define your subject area.
• Check out other reference resources online by clicking on the hotlink Reference Tools.

Journals

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Databases

A great way to find journal articles is to use an electronic database. Type keywords in the database search window.

• Academic Search Elite
  Provides full-text articles from over 1,500 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and more.
• Computer Source
  Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
• Masterfile Premier
  Provides full text for over 2,000 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.
  
  

Gale Cengage Suite of databases (formerly Thomson Gale) - Gale PowerSearch: Click here to search across all Gale databases.

Password required off campus for any of these:

General OneFile 1980 - JUN, 2008
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

Association for Computing Machinery - www.acm.org
A quality-assured information gateway to help you find information on on: Fine Art, Design, Architecture, Applied Arts, Media, Theory, Museum studies and conservation, Professional Practice related to any of the above.

PCWebopedia
An online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.

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