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This guide will help you find resources relating to the Exercise Science and Sport Studies. This includes articles, books, and other resources.
Exercise Science Databases
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window The world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL.
- Cochrane Collection PLUS This link opens in a new window Cochrane Collection Plus combines two databases into one. Among the many resources are full-text reviews of health care interventions and treatment plans for health care providers and patients. Most include a literature review of research on that treatment and statistical evidence. (EBSCO)
- Health Sciences Database Collection This link opens in a new window This link combines four health databases into a single EBSCO search: 1) CINAHL Complete, 2) Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, 3) MEDLINE Complete, and 4) SPORTDiscus with Full-Text.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window The richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics, with access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more, dating back to 1857 with full-text back to 1865. MEDLINE Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals.
- OVID Nursing and Health Sciences Journals This link opens in a new window Access over 70 peer-reviewed journals in nursing, exercise science, sports medicine, and other health professions.
- SPORTDiscus w/ Full Text This link opens in a new window The world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the index - with no embargo
Other Databases
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window A multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
- OpenDissertations This link opens in a new window An open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. OpenDissertations is updated regularly and provides researchers with citations to graduate research from the early 20th century to the present.
- Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Websites
- National Library of Medicine A major resource for a wide range of medical information. From the National Institute of Health.
- Pennsylvania Department of Health The official source for health information within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.