Facilities

When it comes to equipment, BITE has spared no expense. BITE has state of the art computers and laptops in the centre with the latest cutting edge software applications.The institute is committed to the practical exploitation of teaching and learning technology on all its courses. At BITE's Avicenna House Campus, there are five computer laboratories, containing more than 400 PCs, most of them with flat screen TFT monitors. A whole spectrum of software including office tools, compilers, browsers, as well as specialist database, data mining, and systems analysis/design software are installed on all machines. All the client machines have Windows Operating Systems and there are postscript laser printers and line printers in all labs. A number of Linux servers provide file storage, domain-wide services, databases and web development tools as well as other commercial or public domain packages.

When registering a course with BITE, you will get free access to all these facilities

All these facilities are managed by the Institute's system support group.

As well as the computing facilities, BITE students get access to learning resource centres which house a myriad of different literature including text books and journals. The library has been carefully selected to cover the specific areas related to the courses run at BITE.

Any registered student of BITE can use the library facilities. The students need to register his or her details with the librarian in order to do so. To register, the students need to produce their ID cards and fee receipts. The library is open with normal Institute opening hours.

BITE has a rich, cohesive and focused library service. The Institute itself is focused around its mission in developing the e-community; this means that because of the constant change and new development in the e-commerce area up to date books are vital for research and further development. Students enrolled on the BSc Technology & E-commerce programme at BITE are able to access the library and resource facilities of our partner: the University of East London.

UEL Library & Learning Resources

BITE's MSc Innovative Technology and BSc Technology & E-commerce students (with a valid UEL student ID card) have access to the full range of learning resources of the University of East London.

The range of resources services and facilities that UEL provides including books, journals videos and electronic sources as well as IT and media facilities backed by flexible training programmes with supporting handouts will assist the students to successfully complete their studies and enable them to extend their knowledge, acquire new skills and competency by offering them opportunities to engage in a wide variety of learning activities.

More information about UEL's library and Learning Support Services can be found here:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/lss/index.htm

Electronic Resources

When the Libraries of BITE and UEL are unable to satisfy the research required by the students, access to other libraries is provided through a letter of reference. For more information please contact subject, site or campus librarian.

Using online catalogues can greatly hasten research tasks.

EBSCO

EBSCO is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text journals, covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, ICT, management, MIS, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Turn It In

TurnitinUK is an online service which compares student assignments with online sources including web pages, databases of reference material, and content previously submitted by other users across the UK.

The software makes no decision as to whether plagiarism has occurred; it is simply a tool which highlights sections of text that have been found in other sources. The assignment  which has been submitted to TurnitinUK and an Originality Report (the report which identifies the text matches found) are displayed for the member of staff to view. The member of staff can see whether resources have been appropriately referenced and hence whether plagiarism has occurred. You will be able to view your own Originality Report only if the member of staff enables this.

ATHENS Electronic Library

Athens is the name of an authentication service developed by NISS for the UK Higher Education community.

Admission to the British Library
For university students and academic staff.

The British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC)
An extremely valuable resource. This service provides simple searching and ordering of documents from the British Library's extensive collections.

British Library website
The website for the national library.

University of Bath Library
University of Bath Library and Learning Centre

Newham Libraries WebPAC
Newham's online library catalogue.

COPAC
COPAC is a union catalogue. It provides access to the merged online catalogues of 22 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland PLUS the British Library.

OLIS
Access to OLIS, Oxford Libraries' Union Catalogue.

Oxford Digital Library
The ODL website offers central access to Oxford University Libraries digital collections, and informs about the ODL services and developments

Search Engines & Portals
A selection of the major WWW Search Engines, Internet Directories and Subject Gateways

Digital Initiatives
Some of the interesting digital initiatives currently taking place in different sectors of Oxford