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Barnsley College Libraries... more than just books

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Barnsley College Libraries... more than just books

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As well as the print books in our LRCs, Barnsley College students also have access to a wide range of online resources. These include.. eBooks, audiobooks, online journals, articles, reports and magazines.

This page contains everything you need to know about accessing our online resources. Follow the steps below to get started on your research journey...

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OpenAthens is an authentication platform which lets academic publishers and resource databases know that you have access to content as a Barnsley College student.

The best way to access our online resources it to log in to OpenAthens directly and the follow the links to different databases.

Click the picture above to access OpenAthens. Leave this page open in order to follow further instructions.

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Submit your proposals for Access Lab 2024 by Friday 17 November!
You can submit proposals for plenary talks, panel debates, roundtable discussions and case studies. Topics may include:

Impact of climate change on library services

Impact of cost of living crisis on library budgets

Opportunities and challenges of AI/ machine learning

Browser privacy changes

User experience and product UX

Open Access

Federated authentication and seamless access

Access Lab will take place 2-6pm GTM on Monday 26 February. We will be running an additional version of Access Lab from 1-3pm AEDT Tuesday 27 February.

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OpenAthens makes remote access simple. Explore how we help libraries, service providers and publishers provide a great user experience to content.

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On the MyAthens homepage you'll find a list of all of the online resources subscribed to by Barnsley College.

Have a read through the list and their descriptions... are there any that look particularly useful to your academic or personal interests? If so leave a comment below....

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DISCOVERY is a single search solution which searches the majority of our subscriptions in one place. This means you don't need to open each database individually to search for resources.. use Discovery instead!

Open Discovery from the MyAthens list to get started...

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Discovery has a great advanced search option which allows you to combine keywords to get the exact results your looking for.  You can use AND, OR and NOT to expand or limit your search.

AND - search results include BOTH keywords when linked with  AND.

OR - results include EITHER keyword or both of them.

NOT - results will exclude the keyword following NOT.

Examples
'nursing homes OR care homes AND dementia'
'physical education OR PE AND schools NOT colleges'

Speech marks can also be used to search an exact phrase eg. "Bank of England". Rather than searching each word individually, speech marks ensure results include the exact phrase.

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Once you have searched for your keywords, you can limit your results further by using the refine results bar on the left side of the page. Refining your results is a great way to find exactly what you're looking for.

You can limit your results to show only physical copies of books by clicking 'catalogue only'. You can then limit further by selecting which library site you are using. For example, by clicking 'Sixth Form' you will only see books stocked in the Nucleus.

If you're working at home and know you can only access digital resources you can limit your results to exclude print books. Under 'limit by source type' select eBooks, academic journals and reports.

There are many other useful limiters that you can refine your results with including publication date, subject, place of publication and publisher. Have a play around with some of these limiters to see how they can improve your search results.

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Think of a topic you're studying at the moment or a subject you're really interested in.

Find 2 different sources that would be useful wider reading around your subject. Choose a book (print or eBook) and one academic journal.

Copy and paste the links to your chosen sources in the comments below.

Keep your sources open.. you'll need them later.

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Once you have found your sources, click the link below to learn how to reference them in your work... 

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Once you have found your sources, click the link below to learn how to reference them in your work... 

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Referencing (padlet.com)