E-Resources
Essential Study Resources Access
At Barnsley College, we offer a wide range of databases, e-books, and e-journals to support your studies. To access these resources, you will need your College username and password. Some resources may require you to select Barnsley College from an A-Z list of institutions.
Discovery – is a one-stop search engine for Barnsley College books, e-books and many online journal collections.
Or you can search the e-resources 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.
- Business Source Elite is a database that has access to full text articles on finance, management, and marketing.
- The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
- Directory of Open Access Journals provides access to over 18,000 high quality, peer reviewed multidisciplinary e-journals offering freely available academic articles.
- DOAJ searchable index of Open Access journal articles.
- Drama Online online research tool for drama and literature students, combining play text content, scholarly publications, filmed live performances, film adaptations and audio plays.
- Ebook Central eBooks covering a range of subjects including business, childcare, education, fine arts, health, IT, social work, sport and tourism.
- Environment Complete offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study.
- ERIC US Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC) includes references to information on a broad range of education issues.
- 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.
- JSTOR is a collection of academic journals, primary sources and books.
- NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries provides information and guidance for a wide range of common conditions managed in primary care settings.
- PubMed has more than 24 million citations for biomedical and psychology literature from MEDLINE, life science e-journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content
- SAGE Journals is a collection of academic journals in the social sciences including education, health, media, sociology and much more.
- SPORTDiscus covers sports and sports medicine e-journals and magazines.
- Taylor and Francis Online articles covering the Social Sciences and Humanities eg music, media, education, health and social policy, sociology from ejournals.
- VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) is a free online resource for the visual arts and includes over 100,000 images available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.
- Wiley Online Library Explore millions of articles across thousands of journals, books and reference works.
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