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Exercise, nutrition and health resources and support

Your Subject Librarian

Your Subject Librarian

Jez Conolly

Other Arts and Social Sciences Library staff can answer your more general library queries.

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Exercise, nutrition and health resources are available in these branch libraries

Although the Department of Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences is in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, the topics it is concerned with are frequently of a medical or scientific nature. As a result, you may find resources of interest in a number of our branch libraries. Remember you may borrow material from any of them.

  • The Arts and Social Sciences Library, which is close to the Department, holds much relevant material, with many of the core works being found at classmarks RA, RC, RJ, RM and TX.
  • The Medical Library will certainly also have resources of use to you on the subjects of nutrition, diet, physical activity and community health.

Course based materials

Materials to support Exercise, Nutrition and Health courses are available in the Arts & Social Sciences Library. Recommended textbooks (books in high demand for essays, for example) are kept in the Short Loan Collection (SLC).

Thesis collection

University of Bristol PhD theses are held in the Arts and Social Sciences Library thesis collection, kept in a locked cage on the first floor. They may be consulted within the library, and you will need to complete a slip for each one. Please ask at the library issue desk.

How to find books, journals, and more

Inter-Library Loans and ILL vouchers

The Inter-Library Loans (ILL) service can be used to obtain Items not held in print in the University's branch libraries or available online. There is a charge for this service, though it may be possible to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this:

  • Exercise, Nutrition and Health academic staff should be able to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher from CD8.
  • Exercise, Nutrition and Health taught postgraduates should always consult their personal tutor in the first instance before applying for an Inter-library loan. If the tutor deems the request reasonable, it may be possible to issue the student with an Inter-library loan voucher (though these are generally reserved for use by academic staff and researchers).

Information for academic staff and researchers

  • Our Research support pages cover finding information, managing information, and exploiting your research, together with sources of further help and advice.
  • Each academic department in the university has its own library representative, whose duties are detailed in these guidelines. In the Exercise, Nutrition and Health Science department the Library Representative is Ms Sue Baic.
  • Suggestions for book purchases, or for new subscriptions to journals or electronic databases should be made via the departmental Library representative. Note that to fund any new subscription it may be necessary to cancel an existing one, so consider this when you make your request.
  • If you are new to the department, please feel free to contact your Subject Librarian to arrange a session to discuss how the library can support you, your researches and your students. You may want to discuss, for example, information literacy sessions for students; or perhaps want some instruction yourself in using a particular database. Whatever your library needs - run them past us, and we'll see if we can help!

Databases and other resources

Information skills training for postgraduates

  • A number of Self-learning resources are available below.
  • A number of general 'Self-learning resources' are available below, including video tutorials, downloadable library guides, and web resources.
  • Find out about referencing in your written work and EndNote referencing software in 'Referencing help'.

Self-learning resources

  • Video tutorials - topics include the Library Catalogue, understanding references on reading lists, using the MetaLib resource gateway, off-campus access to eResources, etc.
  • Finding and using information pages - covering key aspects of information skills, including researching a topic, effective use of Google, evaluating your search results, avoiding plagiarism, etc. Also includes a Jargon-buster page.
  • Library guides - downloadable guides to each branch library, our main search tools, special library services, etc.
  • External resources for developing your information skills - including online tutorials and downloadable guides.
  • Find out about referencing in your written work and EndNote referencing software in 'Referencing help'.

Referencing guidance

Writing for the subject, and how to avoid plagiarism

EndNote referencing software

EndNote is the University of Bristol's recommended bibliographical management software, which can be used to collect, store, organise and manage references, and to output them as reference lists or bibliographies. A particularly useful function is 'Cite While You Write', enabling you to format Word documents, producing bibliographies and adding references within the text.