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Welcome to the Exercise & Sports Science Research Starter. This guide will help get you started with research for your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Research Starters
Looking for a good place to start your research? Try one of these recommended resources from the Libraries:
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.