This Subject Guide page contains Websites, Online Resources, Books, Journals and a Toolbox.

Websites

The websites for Child Studies are listed on a separate page.

E-book collections

The college has access to the following 2 e-book collections:

Ebrary

The collection of Further Education e-books supplied by JISC. (Login with Athens when you are off site.)

You can access relevant titles as follows by clicking on title required:

Stretch, B. National Diploma in Health and Social Care Book 1

Bulman, K. BTEC First Children's Care, Learning and Development.

Myilibrary

Myilibrary is a growing collection of electronic books or ebooks bought by the college to support your course. The full texts of these books are available electronically and the collection is expanding all the time. (Login with Athens when you are off site.)

Online Resources

Care Knowledge

A gateway for up-to-date information about social care issues in England.

EBSCO Social Index

EBSCOhost is an online reference system with a variety of popular full text databases including this one for Social issues.

Every Child Matters

The Government's programme of reform for children and young people.

Gale Databases

The College Library subscribes to a large number of electronic journals and magazines through a service called 'Gale Databases'. If you have never used 'Gale Databases' and need help here is a short user guide.

Intute

With millions of resources available on the Internet, it can be difficult to find useful material. Intute is a free online service that helps you to find the best web resources for your studies and research.

Intute and the Virtual Training Suite

Intute provides you with subject based websites recommended for academic study. Its Virtual Training Suite has a tutorial on Social Work, which provide you with a collection of useful recommended websites in your subject.

Issues Online

The UK's first comprehensive reference source addressing contemporary social issues. Sixty main topics with articles, news, key facts, statistics and much more. Some of the many subjects covered are: Abortion, Bullying, Cloning, Euthanasia, Homeslessness, Refugees and Vegetarianism. (Login with Athens when you are off site.)

U.K. National Statistics

The official U.K. statistics site drawn exclusively from government sources.

 

Books

Subject Shelf Mark
Child Studies
Child psychology 155.4
Religion 200
Sociology 301
Young people 305.23
Gender 305.3
Race 305.8
Family 306.8
Health and social care 361
Health and social care for different client groups 362
Child protection and child care 362.7
Health and safety 363.11
Education 370
Special education including dyslexia 371.9
Early childhood education 372.21
Reading 372.4
Creative arts 372.5
Literacy 372.6
Mathematics 372.7
First aid 616.0252
Child care including careers with children 649

Journals

Child Studies

Toolbox

How to use the Internet
The Intute Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research. The tutorials are written and updated by a team of subject specialists based in universities and colleges across the UK. Click the list of tutorials and then chose the one that interests you, or have a look at the Internet Detective which will also help you to evaluate the reliability and usefulness of web pages.

Athens
Some of the Learning centre's electronic resources will require you to log in using the Athens validation service (especially if you use them outside College). You will need an Athens username and password to do this. Click on the Athens Information link on the front page of the Virtual LRC and complete and send the relevant application form. You will receive notification of your account through your student or personal e-mail account.

Words used in assignments
The words used when questions or assignments are set can be confusing if you are not used to them. This list explains what tutors and examiners are looking for and what you should write about.

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