Leeds University is launching a new MOOC, “Critical Thinking at University: An Introduction”. This is a two week course that will run on Future Learn as part of its Study Skills. Primarily aimed at first year undergraduate students it would be ideal for EPQ students.
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Recommended online resources
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MyJSTOR – Register for a free account to access up to six article a month for free. These are peer reviewed, academic journal articles, ideal for your EPQ research.
Unpaywall An open database of more than 18,000,000 free Open Access scholarly articles from over 50,000 publishers and repositories.
Get the Research A brand new search engine developed by ImpactStory (who make Unpaywall), Internet Archive and the British Library. You can apply for early access now.
CORE CORE’s mission is to aggregate open access research from repositories and journals and make them available to the public, facilitating free, unrestricted access to research for everyone.
JStor Open Content Explore academic content on JSTOR that is open to everyone, everywhere. Search thousands of free journal articles and open access book chapters.
White Rose Research Online
Shared, open access repository from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York (the White Rose of Yorkshire).
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Multi-disciplinary online directory of open access, peer-reviewed journals
Europe PubMed Central Biomedical and health sciences
arXiv arXiv is an e-print service from Cornell University in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Cambridge Journals free content
Multi-disciplinary
Oxford Journals Open Access Multi-disciplinary
Stanford University/Highwire Press free content
Sciences
Sage Journals free trials
Multi-disciplinary
Wiley Open Access
Multi-disciplinary
Elsevier Open Access
Multi-disciplinary
Free Medical Journals
Health and medicine
Open Access Journals Multi-disciplinary
ABC Chemistry
Chemistry
BioMed Central Journals
BioMedical
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My JSTOR
MyJSTOR
With a MyJSTOR you can read 6 articles for free per calendar month. JSTOR provides access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines and is one of the leading academic subscription databases.
Philip Allan Magazines
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You can access the Philip Allan Magazines archive online from anywhere by following the links below. The username is provided. You will need to enter the password which is available from the Librarian or by logging on to Rickypedia.
Username: library@rickyschool.com
Password: *********
Philip Allan is the leading publisher of magazines specifically aimed at A-level students. The magzines are full of clear, concise article written for A-Level students by university lecturers and sixth form teachers. As well as looking at topics from the syllabus, there are lots of articles on research, essay writing, revision and exam technique, including model answers with examiners’ comments.
We have access to the complete archives in the following subjects:
- Biology
- Business
- Economics
- Geography
- Law
- Physics
- Politics
- Psychology
- RS
- English