Exercise and Sports Science
McFarlin Library
This is a selected guide to resources on Exercise and Sports Science in the McFarlin Library
collection. It is not a comprehensive list. It is intended to serve as a
starting point for your research.
Approaches
to Research
For information on how to do research in general, check Constructing
a Research Paper.
Associations/Organizations
- American Alliance for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
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AAHPERD is an alliance of six national
associations, six district associations, and a research consortium which
support healthy lifestyles through high quality programs.
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- American College of Sports
Medicine
- ACSM advances and integrates
scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of
exercise science and sports medicine.
- American Council on
Exercise
- The American Council on Exercise is the largest nonprofit
fitness certification and education provider in the world. Widely recognized
as "America's Authority on Fitness," ACE continually sets standards and
protects the public against unqualified fitness professionals and unsafe or
ineffective fitness products, programs and trends.
- National Athletic Trainers Association
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The mission of the National Athletic Trainers
Association is to enhance the quality of health care for athletes and those
engaged in physical activity, and to enhance the profession of athletic
training through education and research in the prevention, evaluation,
management, and rehabilitation of injuries.
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National Collegiate Athletic
Association
- The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is
a voluntary organization through which the nation's colleges and universities
govern their athletics programs.
- National Strength and Conditioning
Association
- As the worldwide
authority on strength and conditioning, we support and disseminate
research-based knowledge and its practical application to improve athletic
performance and fitness.
- President's Council for Physical
Fitness and Sports
- Www.Fitness.Gov
is the health, physical activity, fitness and sports information website of
the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. You can find out about
the Council and its work, view our publications, and link to the resources of
other government agencies as well as to health and fitness organizations.
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias and dictionaries are a good place to start when you need
an overview of a subject or when you want a quick summary of basic ideas. They
can also be used to familiarize yourself with the vocabulary of the
discipline. Encyclopedia articles are often followed by selected bibliographies
or lists of references to other works. The following are available in McFarlin
Library:
Finding
Articles
Journal articles are important in your research. You should use periodical
indexes to identify current journal and newspaper articles published in the
professional and scholarly literature on topics relevant to your research
project. Indexes can be subject-specific for in-depth
research or can be more general in nature.
Some indexes are in electronic format and others are in print format.
All indexes provide a citation, many provide an abstract, and a few provide the
full text of the article. If the article is not available in full text,
you must use the Library Catalog to find out if McFarlin Library subscribes to the
journal that publishes the article you need.
To find out if McFarlin Library has a specific journal click on
the
Journals and
Online Sources link
on the Libraries' Home Page and choose
Journal Portal. Type the journal title in the Search box.
If McFarlin subscribes to the journal, note the location and format of the
periodical. Back issues of periodicals might be found as a hard copy, on
microfilm, or through an electronic format. If McFarlin Library does
not subscribe to the journal you need, you may request it through interlibrary
loan.
To find articles about Exercise and Sports
Science, search the following
online indexes:
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SPORTDiscus via EBSCOhost
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- SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of
sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over
600,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800.
The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references
from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference
proceedings and more. SPORTDiscus is provided by the Sport Information
Resource Centre.
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- Academic
Search Complete via EBSCOhost
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- Academic Search Elite provides full text for nearly 1,490 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,670 journals. Over 1,700 journals are peer reviewed.
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CINAHL via EBSCOhost
CINAHL is the primary resource for locating
articles in the professional and research literature of nursing. CINAHL also
covers Medical/Laboratory Technology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy,
and Respiratory Therapy. It features over 961,000 records from more than 1,700
journals, including all publications of the American Nursing Association and the
National League for Nursing.
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ERIC via EBSCOhost
ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education’s
Educational Resource Information Center database, contains citations and
abstracts for published articles from over 980 educational and education-related
journals.
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Health Source Consumer Edition via EBSCOhost
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- Health Source: Consumer Edition offers you an alternative
resource besides a hospital to find authoritative information on
health-related questions.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition via EBSCOhost
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- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550
scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also
featured are abstracts and indexing for over 800 journals.
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MEDLINE via EBSCOhost
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- MEDLINE with MeSH provides authoritative medical information on
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
pre-clinical sciences, and much more. This database contains full text
articles from over 80 leading medical journals.
- PubMed via EBSCOhost
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- The PubMed search system provides access to the PubMed database
of bibliographic information, which is drawn primarily from MEDLINE and
PREMEDLINE. In addition, for participating journals that are indexed
selectively for MEDLINE, PubMed includes all articles from that journal,
not just those that are included in MEDLINE. Finally, PubMed also provides
access to the molecular biology databases included in NCBI's Entrez
retrieval system.
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PsycARTICLES via EBSCOhost
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- PsycARTICLES is a database featuring the full text of articles
published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational
Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe
& Huber.
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PsycINFO via EBSCOhost
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- PsycINFO, produced by the American Psychological Association,
consists of bibliographic records and abstracts in the subject areas of
psychology, psychiatry, and related fields. PsycINFO provides access to
scholarly research in more than 1300 journals published in over 50
countries and in 28 languages.
To find articles about Exercise
and Sports Science, search the following
print indexes:
Finding
Books
To find books located in McFarlin Library,
use the library's online catalog. In addition to books, the Library
Catalog allows
you to search for periodicals, government documents, audiovisual material, and
Special Collections.
Call number classifications for Exercise and Sports Science are:
| Library of Congress |
GV 200- 500 RC 1200
TX 300
QP 300 |
Library materials for Exercise and Sports Science are listed on
the Library Catalog under these suggested subject headings:
Broad Terms:
Narrow terms:
Check the Library
of Congress Subject Headings for other more specific terms to search on
the Library Catalog.
- Internet
Resources
The Internet provides a great amount of
information in the area of Exercise and Sports Science. Listed below are some of the most
well-established collections:
- Sports Medicine
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mission of Sportsmedicine.com is to provide an online directory and a
reference point of information about sports medicine and all related fields.
Sportsmedicine.com is also committed to the promotion of health, wellness, and
physical activity.
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- SPORTQuest
- Information on "Sports" from A to Z, and on "Topics" such as sports
sciences, coaching, training and physical fitness. From SIRC, the producer of
SPORTDiscus.
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- Women's
Sports Foundation
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Women’s Sports Foundation is a charitable educational organization dedicated
to advancing the lives of girls and women through sports and physical
activity.
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- Exercise
Physiology Digital Image Archive
- Sampling of anatomical images related to exercise physiology such as
oxygen consumption, cardiovascular function and blood pressure.
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- MedWeb
- Go to the
Subject Index for a comprehensive directory of biomedical and
health-related web sites, with keyword search capability. Maintained by Emory
University's Health Sciences Center Library.
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Medlineplus
Health Information: Sports Fitness
- Medlineplus is also a service
of the National Library of Medicine. This is a superb web site for statistics,
organizations, nutrition, alternative therapies for specific and general
sports fitness for people of all ages.
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Medlineplus Health Information: Sports Injuries
- Excellent web site for sports
injury resources and therapies.
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NCAA Sports Sciences
- Official site containing educational information, Sports Medicine
Handbook, drug testing and injury surveillance resources.
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Reference
Materials
Reference materials include encyclopedias,
indexes, handbooks, manuals, directories, and statistical publications that are
frequently used for practical or background information. They are designed to be
used to locate specific information quickly, rather than read all the way
through as you would a novel. Reference books cannot be checked out of the
library.
The following reference materials on
Exercise and Sports Science can be found in McFarlin Library:
Citing
Sources
For information on style manuals and guides found in McFarlin Library, check
out How to Cite Sources.
