Online Resources
Online Library Subscriptions
*If you wish to use any of the offsite links, you will need to use your full Preston College e-mail address and your password. Your e-mail address will be your first initial, followed by your surname and your id number, and then followed by @students.preston.ac.uk, e.g. jbloggs12345@students.preston.ac.uk.
Library Catalogues Online
Search these Library catalogues to find out what resources are available.
- Preston College Library Catalogue
- University of Central Lancashire
- Lancashire County Libraries
- Edge Hill Library Catalogue
Online Databases
Ebrary
A online library of e-books available to use.
You will be required to login to this website using your normal college username and password.
- If You Are In College (Access 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers)
- If You Are Offsite (Access 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers)
The complete Encyclopaedia Britannica containing over 72,000 articles and 10,000 illustrations, with links to 300,000 selected web sites.*
Hairdressing Training
You will be required to login to this website using your normal college username and password.
Full text available for 40 newspapers and 700 journals.*
You will be required to login to this website using your normal college username and password.
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library
The largest online civil engineering resource in the world. Here you can explore the full archive of the Institution of Civil Engineers back to 1836, browse our internationally renowned journals and books, and take advantage of our powerful searching tools to find the information you need.
Issues Online is the UK's first comprehensive reference source addressing contemporary social issues.
Extensive database of careers information.
The most widely used resource on Charles Darwin.
Online resource for images of biological sciences.
A Free Archive of life sciences journals
An AS /a Level Law resource, featuring UK Law News, lectures, case studies, statistics, articles, charts, and a searchable library.
You will be required to login to this website using your normal college username and password.
You will be required to login to this website using your normal college username and password.
Listen and download a selection of spoken word, music and sounds from the British Library Sound Archive straight from your desktop
You will be required to login to this website using your normal college username and password.
- If You Are In College (Access Hairdressing Training)
- If You Are Offsite (Access Hairdressing Training)
The Online Resource for Visual Arts
Publications
