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'Halsbury's Laws of England covers every proposition of English law (whether statutory or common law), and is divided into alphabetically arranged titles, making it convenient to use and enabling quick and easy research into any area of law. The text of those titles is supplemented by regularly updated annotations: all primary and secondary legislation, all leading law reports, and many specialist series of case reports are monitored for developments which affect the law set out in Halsbury's Laws.' - website information.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

Library of Congress Catalogs include bibliographic records for books, serials, music and sound recordings, cartographic and visual materials, computer files, manuscripts, thesauri of names and subjects, in-process books, National Union Catalog (NUC) 1982-1993, and PreMarc. Also contains a version of the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS).

First-grade teacher Debbie Miller chronicles her work teaching reading comprehension in her popular book Reading with Meaning. In this three-part series, Debbie takes you beyond comprehension instruction, and shows how she sustains a thoughtful primary reading program that challenges and supports readers of all abilities and needs. How does Debbie create a learning environment that fosters such sophisticated talk around texts? How is comprehension instruction balanced with teaching decoding skills? How does she help students develop the skills in independence and collaboration necessary for successful reading workshops? Debbie and her students tell this story through a wealth of classroom segments as Debbie reflects on the reasoning behind her instructional decisions and the connections between her practice and the theories that inform her work. While many examples of Debbie teaching comprehension and students practicing reading strategies are presented, they are only part of a larger portrait of how she carefully organizes the classroom environment and designs effective instruction. You will see her assessing students in the midst of teaching, tailoring instruction to emerging needs, and taking the time to build a community of learners. Program 1: Essentials: Tone, Structure, and Routines for Creating and Sustaining a Learning Community This segment documents how and why the room is organized to support readers; the basic components of readers' workshop; how to get started with students who have few decoding skills; and the rules and procedures for whole-group sharing, conferences, and small-group work. Program 2: Explicit Teaching: Portraits from Readers' Workshop This segment presents explicit teaching in a variety of contexts, including word study, scaffolding individual readers in conferences, and using observations to assess students; whole- and small-group instruction in comprehension; and small-group guided practice in decoding. Program 3: Wise Choices: Independence and Instruction in Book Choice Informed student book choice is essential to a successful reading workshop. Students need a balanced reading diet of different types of text, and when we teach them how to make good choices it fosters independence and engages and motivates them to read for longer periods of time. Nonfiction is key, and teaching students how to access it broadens their choices and helps them become successful in a variety of texts with varying degrees of difficulty."

A collection of "academic [e-books] ... about law which will enhance the study and practice of law in all its aspects".

Provides access to holdings of the Harvard University Library.

As a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.

HCPP will include digital versions of 4.2 million pages of sessional papers covering 1800-1899. It does not include debates (Hansard) or the House of Commons Journal. Sessional papers, sometimes called "blue books," were required for the work of the House of Commons, providing information on matters of policy and administration, and "ordered by the House to be printed." They fall into the following three categories: Bills--drafts of legislation, to be reviewed through various parliamentary stages. If the Bill passes through these stages, it will become an Act of Parliament. House Papers--documents resulting from the work of the House and its Committees. Command Papers--Government papers (from Ministers) conveying information or decisions the Government wishes to draw to the attention of the House, presented "by Command of Her Majesty." Both Houses of Parliament, the Commons and the Lords, produce parliamentary papers. Although HCPP is a collection of Commons papers, some from the Lords are also included. This is because the Lords often presented papers to the Commons, such as reports prepared by Lords Select Committees. These reports were then included in the House of Commons Papers, and therefore appear in HCPP.

Presents the History Data Service (HDS) located at the Data Archive, University of Essex, which is Great Britain's national social service data archive. The History Data Service collects, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching. The History Data Service is a successor service to AHDS History which from 1996 to March 2008 was one of the five centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. It provides information about the holdings and the offered services.

Consists of 6 databases: Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Cochrane reviews), Database of abstracts of reviews of effect (DARE), Cochrane central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane database of methodology reviews (Methodology reviews), Health technology assessment database (HTA), and NHS economic evaluation database (NHS EED).

A collection of major scholarly works from all areas of the humanities, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications.

Full text image-based searchable database of legal periodicals, representing four major library collections: the Law Journal Library, the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. Database coverage for each periodical is from the beginning issue to the most current allowed under contract.

"Offers more than 1200 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history ... In addition to many "classics", this collection also includes rare items that are found in only a handful of libraries around the world. The collection focuses on constitutional law, political science, and other classic topics"--About the Legal classics library.

Covers publications from the American Society of International Law and yearbooks and serials from around the world, as well as the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice series. Includes U.S. law digests, international tribunals and judicial decisions and other significant works relating to foreign and international law. Individual title coverage varies.

Contains the current constitution for every country, constitutional histories, texts on constitutional law, links to scholarly articles about constitutional development, and a bibliography of selected constitutional books. Browsable by country or resource.

"This site provides access to a series of bibliographies on post-classical Greek poetry and its influence, compiled from a database containing ca. 19,800 records. It is organized under the following rubrics: Hellenistic Poets – active between ca. 323 and 31 BCE Imperial Greek Poets – active between ca. 31 BCE and the 6th century CE Pre-Hellenistic poets – the influence of Archaic and Classical poets on later Greek poetry Latin Poets – focusing on their connections with post-classical Greek poetry History – focusing on the Hellenistic Period and Empire (under construction) Epigrammatists – spanning the Hellenistic period and the Empire Publications 2006-2010 – all recent publications listed by year, with index terms Additions – publications added to the database after 15th January 2011"

Includes a scan of the Gutenberg Bible itself, as well as the Model Book for painting manuscripts which was used to illuminate the Göttingen Bible and the "Helmasperger Notarial Instrument", a document which records the legal dispute between Gutenberg and his backer Johannes Fust. Together with other supporting documentation.

The Henry III Fine Rolls Project is a three year Resource Enhancement project, commencing in April 2005 and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It aims to publish the Fine Rolls of Henry III from 1216 down to 1248 in English calendar format, in both print and electronic form. The electronic version appears on this website and provides free access to all those interested in this resource. The web site also provides free access to digital facsimiles of the rolls. It is hoped that a second three year project will complete publication down to the end of the reign in 1272.

Marketing & management collection of seminar style talks by leading world experts. All of the seminars have been specially commissioned and are presented in a user-friendly format of animated slides with synchronized narration.

Tool to identify highly cited scientific researchers. Contains biographical information: education, faculty and professional posts, memberships and/or offices, current research interests, and personal Web sites. Also contains a researcher's full listing of publications: journal articles, book or book chapters, conference proceedings, web sites and other Internet resources. The bibliography is enhanced by links to the full bibliographic information indexed in the ISI Web of Science.

B.F. Skinner applied his unique behavioral principles to his own life. In this film, his daughter, Julie Vargas, gives us a tour of the basement study in which he wrote many of his books and articles. Skinner developed wonderfully ingenious gadgets designed to enhance his workspace, and he created clever ways of organizing the writing that was the central focus of the SKINNER WITH PIGEONS last decades of his life.

Historical Abstracts is an annotated bibliography covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in "America: History and Life") from 1450 to the present, featuring coverage of academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955. Covers over 2000 journals, including historical journals from almost every country and selections of journals in the social sciences and humanities for researchers and students of history. Over 22,000 new abstracts and citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations are added to the database annually.

The Australian Newspapers Beta service allows online access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), an ongoing project. The site contains 70,000 digitised newspaper pages for selected years between 1803 and 1954 and coverage is expanding weekly. The titles in the ANDP (as at July 31, 2008) include: Argus (Melbourne), Brisbane courier, Canberra times, Courier-mail (Brisbane), Hobart town gazette and southern reporter, Hobart town gazette and Van Diemen's land advertiser, Maitland mercury & Hunter River general advertiser, Mercury (Hobart), Perth gazette and Western Australian journal, South Australian advertiser and Sydney gazette and New South Wales advertiser. The site includes a link to the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program where full details of current coverage can be found.

Digimap is an EDINA service that delivers Ordnance Survey map data to UK tertiary education. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Digimap allows users to view and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales.

A collection of primary and secondary historical works digitized from a variety of formats, including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, and maps. Primarily concerned with Europe, but includes materials on the Crusades, World War I, etc.

Presents the History Data Service (HDS) located at the Data Archive, University of Essex, which is Great Britain's national social service data archive. The History Data Service collects, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching. The History Data Service is a successor service to AHDS History which from 1996 to March 2008 was one of the five centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. It provides information about the holdings and the offered services.

"This site contains all of the biographical, constituency and introductory survey articles published in The History of Parliament series. Work is still underway on checking and cleaning the data that has been transferred into the website from a number of sources, and the current version of the site is still provisional. In order to find out more about the articles produced by the History, click on the links in the 'Research' section above. Additional material - explanatory articles, and images of Members, Parliaments and elections - have been produced specially for the website." -- From homepage (viewed 25 January 2012)

Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of science, technology, medicine and allied historical fields. The database combines four bibliographies: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science Current Bibliography in the History of Technology Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Citations reflect the contents of over 600 journals, plus partial contents of several hundred more. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published.

The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.

HLISD - a directory of Health Library and Information Services - aims to be the most comprehensive database of its kind. The information is updated by a network of editors who are responsible for checking the currency of their entries. CILIP Health Libraries Group (HLG), the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the National Library for Health (NLH) agreed to collaborate on building a single, online directory of library services, capable of being updated by individual libraries or library networks on an ongoing basis. The directory covers the whole of the UK and the Republic of Ireland and includes all health library and information sectors whether they are NHS, Further or Higher Education, Government, Professional Bodies, Patient Information or Voluntary Organisations.

Provides access to holdings of the Harvard University Library.

The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent's Templeman Library. It has a library, archive, gallery, and is a registered museum dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. It holds more than 130,000 original editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines. The collection of original artwork dates back to 1904 and includes work by W.K.Hasleden, Will Dyson, Strube, David Low,Vicky, Emmwood, Michael Cummings, Ralph Steadman, Mel Calman, Nicholas Garland, Chris Riddell, Carl Giles, Martin Rowson, and Steve Bell, amongst many others.

HCPP will include digital versions of 4.2 million pages of sessional papers covering 1800-1899. It does not include debates (Hansard) or the House of Commons Journal. Sessional papers, sometimes called "blue books," were required for the work of the House of Commons, providing information on matters of policy and administration, and "ordered by the House to be printed." They fall into the following three categories: Bills--drafts of legislation, to be reviewed through various parliamentary stages. If the Bill passes through these stages, it will become an Act of Parliament. House Papers--documents resulting from the work of the House and its Committees. Command Papers--Government papers (from Ministers) conveying information or decisions the Government wishes to draw to the attention of the House, presented "by Command of Her Majesty." Both Houses of Parliament, the Commons and the Lords, produce parliamentary papers. Although HCPP is a collection of Commons papers, some from the Lords are also included. This is because the Lords often presented papers to the Commons, such as reports prepared by Lords Select Committees. These reports were then included in the House of Commons Papers, and therefore appear in HCPP.

The video follows a high school teacher at a second opportunity high school as she takes us through her innovative approach to education, demonstrating ways to instill academic confidence in students by addressing individual learning styles and strengths.

Designed to be used as an introduction to discussion of school and teaching practices, this film also serves as an introduction to the study of learning in introductory education and psychology classes. Factors that lead to school success are presented in a model that reflects the work of Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky without mentioning them by name. This video can thus serve as a starting point for a range of audiences interested in educational matters but leery of jargon-filled expositions.

You may ask why I want, why would I want to learn about Excel PivotTables. As a school data specialist and teacher, I'll tell you why. I frequently analyze and disaggregate students in school dataand analyzing large amounts of data can be very difficult without useful data analysis tools. A PivotTable is a data analysis tool in Excel that creates an interactive table that organizes and summarizes even large amounts of data quickly to provide different views of your data. A PivotChart is a visual representation of the data in a PivotTable. I'll be giving you a brief overview of PivotTables today.

Today we'll be learning how to embed videos into the PowerPoint Presentation to further enhance the lesson. We will start off with a video that you will download from any of thewebsites that you might use.

With Google Apps, you'll be able to create email addresses for students and staff, collaborate and documents, share calendars online and much more. So, let's get started. The first thing to do to get Google Apps Education Edition, is to do a simple Google search.

Kerpoof is an online web-based kid-friendly multimedia site, which allows us to create original art work, animated movies, pictures, cards and stories. It also gives them the ability to share their work with others in a safe environment.

This video will help you to use the SMART Board and SMART Notebook software for class read-alongs and notes.

The eHRAF collection is a web-based, multi-cultural database for disciplines with an interest in cultural diversity. For each culture included, eHRAF contains ethnographic information on all aspects of cultural and social life with diverse topics ranging from religious beliefs, bringing up children, causes and cures of diseases, to economic and political behavior. This annually-growing database is unique in that in every paragraph of the full-text source (book, article, dissertation) is subject-indexed for precise retrieval of information. Cultures range from ethnic groups in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, to indigenous and immigrant groups in North and South America.

TOCS-IN provides a searchable index of tables of contents of a selection of journals in classics and classical studies, beginning in 1992. It covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature, and Greek and Roman history, archaeology, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography, with additional coverage in the Ancient Near East and religion. About ten percent of the entries link to the full text of the articles.

Provides access to publications of the Human Rights Watch organisation, including the various Human Rights Watch series and the Human Rights Watch world reports. Reports date from 1984 onwards.

Provides access to publications of the Human Rights Watch organisation, including the various Human Rights Watch series and the Human Rights Watch world reports. Reports date from 1984 onwards.

Personal collection of Joseph Hume (1777-1855), Radical Member of Parliament. Hume's collection covers the major political, economic and social developments and reforms taking place in Britain in the early part of the 19th century along with the causes he particularly championed, such as universal suffrage, Catholic emancipation, a reduction in the power of the Anglican church and an end to imprisonment for debt.

The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.

The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.