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Books Relevant to Your Course

Books in Barnsley College libraries are shelved in a carefully selected order which aims to place books on similar subjects together using Dewey Decimal Classification:


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Here is a list of where to start looking for the books on the library shelf for sport. To find whether a book is available in one of the Barnsley College libraries or look for other subject areas on the shelves use Discovery, or Heritage our library catalogue.

300.72 Research methods
306.483 Sport in society
378.170281 How to succeed at university
612.044 Physiology and medicine for sport
613 Health promotion
613.7 Sport and health
613.7071 Physical education
613.71 Sport and exercise science
613.71072 Research methods for sport and exercise science
650.1 How to succeed in your career
796 Sport
796.01 Sport psychology
796.06 Sport development
796.072 Research methods for sport
796.077 Sport coaching
796.0941 UK sport policy
796.334 Football
796.42 Athletics
808.066 Writing at university

E-Resources Relevant to Your Course

Barnsley College has lots of databases, e-books and e-journals to help with your studies. To log on you will need your College username and password. Some resources may ask you to choose Barnsley College from an A-Z list of institutions.

These databases contain a wide range of academic sources. If you are not finding the information you want, learn more about searching online. Help pages will also be available within each database, or ask a librarian helibrary@barnsley.ac.uk.

Discovery is a one stop search engine for Barnsley College books, ebooks and many online journal collections.

Or you can search these e-resources and websites individually:

Anatomy TV provides three-dimensional, interactive models of human anatomy.

Annual Reviews is dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.

Brown’s E-Books is a collection of academic textbooks from Barnsley College reading lists, available online.

The Cochrane Library a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

Consumer Health Complete a health information resource designed to support patients information needs and foster an overall understanding of health issues.

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) helps to drive growth, enrich lives and promote Britain abroad

Directory of Open Access Journals provides access to over 18,000 high quality, peer reviewed multidisciplinary ejournals offering freely available academic articles.

Ebook Central Ebooks covering a range of subjects including business, childcare, education, fine arts, health, IT, social work, sport and tourism.

Issues Online Up-to-date articles, statistics, videos, e-books and links, from a variety of different sources: newspapers, charity groups, Government reports, blogs, magazines.

NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries provides information and guidance for a wide range of common conditions managed in primary care settings.

PE Matters Archive Official journal of the Association for Physical Education. Please email helibrary@barnsley.ac.uk for the username and password.

Psychology and Behavioural Science Collection provides extensive coverage of full-text articles from magazines and ejournals for psychology and behavioral sciences.

PubMed more than 24 million citations for biomedical and psychology literature from MEDLINE, life science ejournals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content

SPORTDiscus covers sports and sports medicine ejournals and magazines.

Sport England an arms-length body of government responsible for growing and developing grassroots sport and getting more people active across England

For further help contact: helibrary@barnsley.ac.uk

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