A few things you need to understand about Athens before you start…

If you’re looking for a little extra help finding library resources or want to develop your research skills further, we are running two different workshops this semester.

Introduction to Finding Journal Articles

For students new to searching, this session is a quick and easy introduction to finding journal articles using Solar. Maybe you’re new to university or returning after a long time away, perhaps you’ve got an assignment coming up or just need a bit of a refresher – this session will help you to use the library catalogue to find journal articles. We’ll also show you to how to plan your search and save your results in Solar using My Library. read more

Bored with the place you usually choose to go and study? Want to escape shared houses/halls/families/other distractions? Or maybe you just have some time between classes and need somewhere to read a book.

The Clifford Whitworth library has a number of study spaces and zoned areas to suit your needs. You can choose to work in total silence, or use some of the collaborative working space to do group-work and brainstorm ideas. There are also group rooms you can book so you can work with your course colleagues on joint programmes or just study together. read more

The University can now offer access to Community Care Inform, a resource for social workers and other professionals working with children, young people and their families.

 
For more information about the resource, see here : https://www.ccinform.co.uk/sources/

You can go directly to the resource here https://www.ccinform.co.uk/

Or you can search on SOLAR

Access is available both on and off campus – you will always need to login with your network username and password :

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If you are researching a medical or health subject you might need to know some background on the condition or issue you are investigating before you can do any in-depth literature searching.

NICE produce Clinical Knowledge Summaries which give you a good overview of key clinical topics. You can access these directly at http://cks.nice.org.uk/ or via the Evidence Search website.

Choose from an A-Z list of clinical topics such as common medical conditions, or use the Clinical Speciality option to browse through specialist areas such as cancer or child’s health. read more