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LIBRARY INFORMATION FOR SPORT & EXERCISE MEDICINE AND SPORTS PHYSIOTHERAPY

JOINING THE LIBRARY

You will need to join the Library if you want to:

•

Use LARS: the Library Article Request Service

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Join SCONUL Access (further registration required: see later section)

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Borrow books

To join the Library:

please contact your Subject Librarian, Peter Bradley (contactdetails on back of this guide). Your Library borrower number and PIN will then beemailed to you. You will need these if you want to renew or reserve books via theLibrary catalogue. You will also need the borrower number to use the LARSService. If you visit the Library in person: you can collect a Library card from theMain Counter on Level 2 (the Ground Floor). You will need to show your Universitystudent registration number.

PASSWORD ACCESS TO E-JOURNALS AND DATABASES

To access e-journals and databases online,

both on and off-campus,

you do

notneed to join the library. Please access these online resources via the Librarywebpages so that you are recognised as an eligible user. You will normally need toenter only your BUCS username and password. If you do not have your BUCSpassword, please complete the following online request form (or contact me):

http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/help/contact/index.html

E-JOURNALS & PRINT JOURNALS

The Library subscribes to a large number of

e-journals and print journals.

Youcan search for these, and link to e-journal websites, via the Library Catalogue at

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/catalogue/

Note the help guide on the right-hand sideof the catalogue screen and remember to check a journal’s date coverage.You can also use the

e-journals

A-Z to link to online content at

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/elin/journals/

The majority of the Library’s

print journals

for your subject are located at theshelfmark

PER 79

on Level 4

of the Library. Pre-1985 journals are shelved onLevel 1. Within each PER subject section, the journals are arranged alphabeticallyby title. The detailed catalogue entry for the journal will show the shelf mark.

ONLINE DATABASES:

find out what journal articles & conference papers have been written on a specific topic

Databases enable you to find references to articles and other documents from across a wide range of journals and other publications. Each indexes a different range of journals (though there is some overlapbetween them) so you need to search a variety of databases. You can search them by entering keywords,author names etc. Results will often feature abstracts which describe the basic content of a document. Lookout for

the following

Links

button which appears in many of our databases. Click on this to find out whetherthe Library also provides a link to the full-text of a document online:

An A-Z of all databases

to which the Library subscribes, is available at

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/elin/databases

To find

specific databases for your subject,

please see:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/subjects/ses/index.html

Databases include the following:

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Web of Knowledge:

allows you to simultaneously search the following three databases:

Web of Science:

coverage includes the Science Citation Index

Medline:

indexes health and medical articles

BIOSIS Previews:

indexes life science articles, reviews, reports, meetings…

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Cochane Library:

evidence-based information including full-text systematic reviews

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Embase:

indexes

biomedical, pharmaceutical and health journals

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PsycINFO:

indexes psychology journals

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PubMed:

indexes

biomedical journals: the largest component of PubMed is Medline

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SPORTDiscus:

covers all aspects of sports medicine, science…

E-BOOKS AND PRINT BOOKS

Access the full-text of e-books and details of printed books via the Library

Catalogue

at

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/catalogue/

If you are looking for books on a particular subject but don't knowany authors or titles, try searching by entering keywords in the

anywhere

field.

Books from the Print Collection

: the Library catalogue record will provide you with a book’s shelf marklocation and information about its availability. Books on your subject are shelved at on Level 4 of the Library.To issue a book to your library card, use the

Self-Issue machines

on Level 2 of the Library, next to the MainCounter (you will need your library card and PIN number). You can do this whenever the library is open(normally twenty fours a day, every day of the year). Unfortunately, the Library is not able to post books butyou can

request copies of chapters to be posted

to you via the Library Article Request Scheme (see latersection). We charge fines for books that are returned late. If all copies of the book are on loan, you canreserve a copy on the Catalogue by selecting

place hold

. You will then be notified by email when the bookbecomes available for you to collect from the Main Counter on Level 2. You can

renew

books via the Librarycatalogue and

return

books by post.

OTHER RESOURCES

You will find recommended resources within Moodle as well as resources for sport & exercise at

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/subjects/ses/index.html

These include data & statistics, theses and

subjectgateways

such as

e.g. Intute:

a gateway to quality websites & reports: evaluated by specialists unlike many online resources

Healia:

health & medicine search engine: you can limit your results by age and gender

LIBRARY ARTICLE REQUEST SERVICE (LARS)

Request photocopies of journal articles, or chapters from books,

held at the University of Bath. Thisservice is subject to UK copyright law, which means that we cannot supply more than one article from asingle journal issue or more than one chapter from a specific book. It also means that we must receive youroriginal signature on a completed request form, either by post or in-person - but not by email. There is anadministration charge of £2.00 for each request. Please make the cheque payable to the University of Bath.You can print the request form from the Library web pages and then return the completed form, along withyour payment to your Subject Librarian (Peter Bradley). Alternatively, on receipt of a cheque, we can sendyou the form. For more information and a form:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/services/lars/index.html

INTER-LIBRARY LOANS

If an article or book is unavailable in the Library or online:

we can request it for you via our Inter-LibraryLoans service. This is free of charge to you. However, each request costs the Library approximately £6.00so please only use this service when you are certain that you need an item. You make an Inter-Library Loanrequest by completing an online request form. 70% of articles and chapters are returned to the requestor’semail in-box as a PDF file within 2 days. For more information and an online request form:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/services/ill/index.html

OTHER LIBRARIES

SCONUL Access:

This scheme allows you to visit many higher education libraries in the UK and Republicof Ireland, either for reference or borrowing purposes. You are not entitled to use their IT facilities.

NHS Library Services Passport scheme:

If you are on a placement in Avon, Gloucestershire or Wiltshire,you can use this scheme to borrow materials from any NHS Library. If your placement is outside this region,you can visit any NHS Library for reference only. Alternatively, you can pay a charge which may entitle youto borrow materials.

For more information, please contact the individual service, trust or hospital.

Royal United Hospital Library:

open Monday and Friday, 9am - 5pm. Non-NHS users must take theirUniversity of Bath library card.

British Library reading rooms:

to visit for reference-purposes only, you must apply to the British Library fora reader’s pass. You can either apply by posting an application form or by visiting the library.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ABOVE SCHEMES:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/services/other/index.html

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