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Welcome to the Neath Port Talbot College e-library. A collection of top quality online sites and resources that have been selected to help you with your research and study.
To access some of these resources you will need to obtain an ATHENS username and password. Scroll to the bottom of this page for details of how to get yours.
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E-books: a collection of electronic text books. Search and read online, print or download the books that you need. | On and off campus: login via Athens |
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E-books: a collection of electronic textbooks. Read online or print sections that you need. New titles being added regularly. | On campus: go straight to
MyiLibrary Off campus: login via Athens |
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E-books: a collection of over 2,000 textbooks covering a huge range of subjects. | On campus: go straight to ebrary Off campus: login via Athens |
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E-books: over 100 top quality reference books for fast research of facts and figures. Collection includes dictionaries, encyclopaedias and directories. Search the entire collection or individual titles. | On campus: go straight to Credo Off campus: login via Athens |
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E-books: up-to-date information about contemporary social issues. Over 60 topics covered in subjects such as crime and disorder, health matters, the environment, drug abuse, the family and relationships, rights and discrimination, and more. Includes articles, statistics and study guides. | On and off campus: login via Athens |
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Database: articles, opinions and statistics covering a wide range of topics and contemporary social issues. | On and off campus: go straight to Complete Issues Note: Please contact library staff to obtain a password. |
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E-journals: full text access to the ‘Reviews’ archive. Hundreds of articles covering 14 A level subjects | On and off campus: go straight to Philip Allan Magazines Note: Please contact library staff to obtain a password. |
 Gale Custom Newspapers |
E-journals: full-text content of 40 national and local newspapers; updated daily. Archives date from 1985 | On and off campus: login via Athens |
 Gale General Onefile |
E-journals: 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. | On and off campus: login via Athens |
 Gale Virtual Reference Library |
E-books: specialist research materials covering the arts, business, history, social sciences, health, science and more. | On and off campus: login via Athens |
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E-journals: Contains thousands of full-text articles from more than 20 Welsh and over 350 U.K. daily and weekly newspapers. Includes the Western Mail, The South Wales Evening Post, The Times from 1985 forward, Economist, Financial Times, and The Guardian. | On campus: go straight to Newsbank Off campus: login via Athens |
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Video collection: selected news stories and videos from the archives of ITN and Reuters news agencies. Over 3,000 hours of video footage covering approximately 60,000 stories. Films date from the early twentieth century to the present day. | On campus: go straight to Newsfilm Online and click on 'Login by direct access' Off campus: sorry, not available |
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Article discovery service: access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis. (Please note: Zetoc does not contain any full-text articles. Ask a member of library staff for information about obtaining copies of articles.) | On campus: go straight to Zetoc Off campus: sorry, not available |
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Access to library services across Wales. Includes Cat Cymru: a facility that allows you to search all of the online catalogues of Welsh libraries in one go. Search the library catalogues of universities, public libraries, FE colleges and the National Library of Wales. | On and off campus: go straight to library.wales.org |
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Step-by-step illustrated guide to creating classic haircuts and the products that are needed to create and maintain them. | Off and on campus: go straight to Hairdressing Training |
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Consumer market research news and reports. | On and off campus: login via Athens |
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Full access to the online version of the popular magazine. Includes access to the archive. | On and off campus: login via Athens |
Can't find what you're looking for? Try searching the College library's Heritage Online Catalogue to see if we have a book on your topic.
Some resources in the electronic library are accessible from any PC: at home, at work, in the garden, or wherever you prefer to study. To use these resources you need an Athens username and password. This means that you have just one password to access all of the resources instead of registering with each one individually.
To get your Athens password, e-mail your name, enrolment or staff number and a contact telephone number to libraries@nptc.ac.uk
Afan campus: libraries@nptc.ac.uk
Neath campus:libraries@nptc.ac.uk
When you receive your password, login to Athens by clicking on the link given below to see a complete list of all of the resources that you can access. You can also check and amend your account details or change your password.
