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One for all the social carers out there. The good folk at the Social Care Institute for Excellence have spent time and energy putting together several series of online learning resources just for you. Topics include law and social work, the mental health of older people, poverty, parenting and social exclusion, children of prisoners, residential child care and communication skills. Each topics has a series of activities including videos, quizzes, case studies and interviews. So go and have a look .You might learn something

Diabetes Journals- free online

A freebie. We all love ‘em. Essential reading for anyone interested in diabetes nursing. Get yourself along to the Diabetes and Primary Care website for free access to Diabetes and Primary Care as well as the following free journals: Diabetes and Primary Care, the Diabetic Foot Journal, Diabetes Digest and Primary Care Diabetes Society. You’ll need to register with the site and then you can have lots of lovely articles, for free (did I mention that?)

MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) Style Guide

The second edition of the MHRA Style Guide  is available for download free of charge at:

http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml 

This book is on the reading list for DRAM1102.

Great news folks. We now have PsycBooks available for staff and students. This is a collection of 1,566 full text books and 24,161 chapters relevant to anyone interested in psychology, mental health or learning disabilities. It also includes over 800 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology, and more than 1,500 authored entries from APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

And the really good news? Because they are all electronic books they are all available 24 hours a day from a computer near you. No travel to Peirson building, no library fines, no need to make reservations or renew. You can search for the topic you’re interested in and really widen your reading for an assignment or simply read books and chapters that are of use to you.

To access, get yourself to Resources Online (the library catalogue) and click on E-Resources. Choose your subject from the list, then select PsycBooks. And enjoy (party hat optional).

New digital version of Blueprint Magazine now available

The digital version of Blueprint is now available at http://www.wdis.co.uk/blueprint/ A separate user name and password is needed to access this. Please ask at the Enquiry Desk for these.