{"id":7,"date":"2021-07-19T17:04:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:01:29","slug":"finding-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting started with books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guide identifies the most useful resources for sport, exercise and rehabilitation sciences and keeps you up to date with library skills and news for your subject area.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free contact me, your academic librarian, if you need help navigating these resources.<\/p>\n<p>The best place to start searching for resources for your course is your reading list and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.kent.ac.uk\/client\/en_GB\/kent\">LibrarySearch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your online reading list can be found via your course moodle. Here is a short video with instructions on how to access and use your reading list.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7rfG2JicOoc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Links to digital resources are available from here so may require your Kent Login to access them.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on library services including how to borrow, make reservations, checking your library account etc, please see our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/guides\">full list of library guides<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Books<\/h4>\n<p>We have a large collection of sport and exercise science books in the library and related topics\u00a0 within health and social sciences.<\/p>\n<p>As well as using LibrarySearch to find specific titles, you may want to browse topics areas on the library shelves. You can use<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/infoscreen\/templeman\/floor-plans.pdf\"> the library map<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to locate broader subject areas.<\/p>\n<p>The first two letters of a classmark identify the topic within your discipline. You can look for these on end of our shelving to find an area to browse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GV<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 Sport &amp; recreation<\/p>\n<p><strong>QM<\/strong>\u2013 Human anatomy \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0RC <\/strong>&#8211; Sports medicine<\/p>\n<p><strong>QP<\/strong> -Physiology\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>RD<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; Psychology &amp; rehabilitation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/guides\/finding-books-and-library-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Find out more<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0about finding books at the Templeman.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Borrowing items<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/guides\/borrow-from-the-templeman-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-135 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation-library-guide\/files\/2023\/02\/borrowing_800w_800w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>Using your Kent One card, you can borrow up to 40 books from the Library!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/guides\/borrow-from-the-templeman-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Find out more<\/strong><\/a> about borrowing from the Templeman.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: inherit;font-family: inherit;font-size: 18px\">Ebooks<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We also have many ebooks which you can access on your PC, laptop or mobile. You can find these via LibrarySearch or browse our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory?type=E-book%20collection\">ebook collections<\/a>\u00a0for a specific topic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: inherit;font-family: inherit;font-size: 18px\">Reference works<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We also provide access to a range of online reference works that can be a good place to start on a topic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-oxfordreference-com.chain.kent.ac.uk\/browse?avail_01=free&amp;avail_02=unlocked&amp;btog=book&amp;pageSize=50&amp;sort=currentonlineversiondescending&amp;t=ORO%3ASCI00960&amp;t0=ORO%3ASCI00010\">Oxford Reference Online<\/a>: a large collection of online reference works includes dictionaries for the life sciences<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academic-oup-com.chain.kent.ac.uk\/search-results?sort=Date+%E2%80%93+Newest+First&amp;allJournals=1&amp;f_ContentType=Book&amp;fl_SiteID=192&amp;tax=AcademicSubjects\/SCI00010,AcademicSubjects\/SCI00960&amp;taxWithOr=Series\/134&amp;page=1\">Very Short Introductions<\/a> \u2013 provide concise and up-to-date introductions on specific topics within a discipline including bioinformatics, genetics and biochemistry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a class=\"customize-unpreviewable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/guides\/find-and-use-e-books\">More advice on how to find and use e-books<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guide identifies the most useful resources for sport, exercise and rehabilitation sciences and keeps you up to date with library skills and news for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56317,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sesresourceguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}