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

Websites

The websites for Medicine 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.)

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.) There are several books on medicine, including biological sciences, anatomy and physiology, and study skills

Online Resources

 

Care Knowledge

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

EBSCO Research Databases

EBSCOhost is an online reference system with a variety of popular full text databases including one for Health Issues. Academic Source is also useful for Medicine.

EBSCO Academic Search Elite

EBSCOhost is an online reference system with a variety of popular full text databases ranging from general to subject specific ones. (Login with Athens when you are off site.

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. The Philip Allan reviews - Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Physics -are all available on Gale OneFile.

Issues Online

The UK's first comprehensive reference source addressing contemporary social and ethical issues, such as cloning, genetics, abortion, euthanasia etc . Sixty main topics with articles, news, key facts, statistics and much more. (Login with Athens when you are off site.)

 

Books

Subject Shelf Mark
Medical Science 610
Nursing 610.73
Human Physiology 612
Health 613
Pharmacy 615
Aternative Medicine 615.5
Massage 615.822
First Aid 616.0252
Diseases 616.1
Drug Abuse 616.863
Mental Health 616.89
Psychotherapy 616.891
Midwifery 618.2

Journals

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.

From end of July 2011, the Virtual Training Suite has been taken over by TutorPro, who will host the new site and tutorials and work with the content providers to keep the content up to date whilst moving the whole project forward into the world of smartphones, tablets and mobile devices. Access these via their KnowledgeBank section or vial the link at the start of this section.

ILRT will continue to host the popular Internet Detective tutorial, as well as the three JISC Digital Media tutorials.

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.

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