Educational books

[elspedo]

Morning,

 

I start my second year on an online BSc in Arb next week.

 

Last year I did start purchasing a few books but this soon became very expensive and the uni library is a good two hour round trip, which I don't want to be doing every weekend as most books are a 7 day loan only.

 

Does anyone know of a good online resource for books/papers which has public access?

 

Cheers

[Logrod]

Does your Uni not give you online access to journals / papers? I know I've used two of my son's access (they are on full time courses) to access a few papers I've been interested in:)

[10 Bears]

elspedo - as a remote student, you will be able to loan the books via post i.e. they will send them out to you, and then you can inevitably do a renewal on your loans via your on-line hosted library account. I'm not suggesting you keep the books indefinitely, but you will likely be able to keep them for longer than a week if you need.

 

As Logrod says, you *will* have access to online journals etc through your Uni. Probably through the Athens or Shibboleth systems - just contact your uni library (or look on their website) and ask for help with this, but its usually very straightforward. I have personal experience with UCLan/Myerscough and the University of Cumbria - are you attending either of these? If so, I could give you a bit of help gaining access. Just let me know where you are attending and I will guide you through - perhaps PM me for this?