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Health and Social Care: Finding Books

A Subject Guide for Health and Social Care students at the University of South Wales.
Mae'r canllaw hon hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg

Books

Books give an overview of a subject and provide information on core concepts and theories.  This makes them a good starting point for your assignments. Core books for your subject will be listed on your module reading list.  If you have an online reading list on Blackboard or another learning environment, this will show you the copies of the book available from the library.   You can also find books by searching FINDit, the Library search engine. 
 

Looking for a Book

1. To find a specific book title, enter the book title or author in the FINDit search box and select the Libraries search option. 

2. To find books on a subject, enter a keyword into the FINDit search box and select the Libraries search option. 

3. Can’t find the book you are looking for? You can request it as an interlibrary loan or Recommend the book to your Librarian 

Shelf Marks

158.3 Counselling and interviewing skills
302.2 Communication skills
306.461 Sociology
361.06 Counselling and guidance
361.61 Social policy
361.65 Welfare state
362.1 Public health
610.7307 Clinical supervision
616.8915 Family therapy

Open access e-books

An increasing number of e-books are published through open access, making them freely available online.  The library has a guide to finding free open access e-books which you can access here.

Ebooks

The Library has access to a wide variety of eBooks across all subject areas, these are discoverable and accessible via FINDit.  Type your keywords or title into the search box and choose to search 'Libraries'.

FINDit search for eBooks

Next refine your search to 'Full Text Online' on the left hand side of the search results. 

Refining to eBooks

When you have found a book that you would like to read then click on the title and access via the 'View it' link.

More information can be found in our eBooks Guide.

Recommend a Book 

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