The Library holds collections of journals in both online and printed format.
British Journal of Healthcare Assistants - online
Click here to access the journal 'Healthcare Assistants' that contains current information on the latest developments in the field for HCAs and assistant practitioners. Click this link for details of how to access from home.
This covers the latest news from the profession, clinical subjects, professional development and the latest job updates. Click this link for details of how to register for this service. You will only need to do this on one occasion.
A magazine covering critical and reflective thinking on counselling and psychotherapy, written by practitioners, researchers, educationalists and academics.
Journals are a good way to stay up to date with academic research or developments in a subject or profession. Like magazines they come out at set times throughout the year. For example every month or every 3 months. There are published more frequently than books but are checked by publishers like books. In fact some journals are peer reviewed that means another expert in the topic of study checks the articles are accurate. Journals can be online or physically in our libraries. Journal articles often make suggestions and use academic discussion to develop the author's view.
All print journals are listed on the Library catalogue and the records will show which site they are located at and how long we have kept the title for. A catalogue record for a print journal will look something like this:
You can see that the current copies are kept at Dearne Valley library and UCR and that we also have archive copies. It is also clear when a copy is on loan.