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Social Work

Library guide for Social Work and Health & Social Care students.

As well as physical books the Library also has many ebooks - these are designed to be read online although some will let you download for a set period. An advantage of ebooks is that as long as you have access to the internet you will be able to access them wherever and whenever you want. Searching on Primo will discover both print and electronic books - if you specifically want ebooks you may want to search our ebook collections.

The library also has a number of ebook collections. These are good for more detailed searches - searching in Primo itself only searches the title of ebooks, whereas you can search at chapter level within the below ebook platforms.

eBook Collections

Ebook collection (EbscoHost)

Library Ebooks covering all disciplines. TIP: change 'Select a Field (optional)' to 'TX All Text Fields' to search inside the books These ebooks offer online viewing not permanent download.

Ebook central (Proquest)

Library Ebooks covering all disciplines. These ebooks offer online viewing not permanent download.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Library eBooks covering all disciplines. Tip: Filter on the left side of search results to ‘show content I have access to’. These books can be downloaded to keep.

eBook Central

Whilst ebooks are designed to be read online you can save/download sections (within copyright guidelines) and occasionally you will be able to download books for a limited period. You can also create an account to highlight and save books to an online bookshelf.