PHYSICAL EDUCATION, SPORTS STUDIES, AND
ATHLETIC TRAINING
Journal and Magazine Article Indexes
Physical Education Article Indexes
Physical Education Index (1984-)
This index is available in paper format in the library. It indexes journals specifically on physical education.
ERIC (Indexing: 1966- Full-text for ERIC Digest: 1966-) EBSCOHost
Provides citations and abstracts for over 750 educational journals and for thousands of education-related documents. While not all titles in ERIC are full-text, links to full-text articles in other EBSCO databases or directly from ERIC are provided where available. Hackney Library has access to ERIC through EBSCOHost, a commercial vendor. ERIC is also available for free from several sources over the internet, however the coverage and format vary in these free services.
ResearchNow--a BePress Portal BePress
ResearchNow from Berkeley Electronic Press (BePress) is an index to a variety of articles published in electronic full-text BePress journals. Disciplines covered include law enforcement, legal information, economics, marketing, politics, science, nursing and other medical, sports, etc.
Medical / Health Article Indexes
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Indexing: 1984- Full-text: 1990-) EBSCOHost
Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals. This product includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (Indexing: 1988- Full-text: 1990-) EBSCOHost
This database provides consumer oriented information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. It includes searchable full text for over 150 consumer health journals, abstracts and indexing for nearly 175 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications, and thousands of essays covering eight major health related subjects, including adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health, and sports medicine.
In addition, Health Source also provides integrated links to the former standalone database, Clinical Reference Systems (CRS), which provides over 7,000 reports, in everyday language, describing symptoms, treatments, risks and after-effects of a vast array of medical topics and conditions. After doing a search in Health Source, click on the "CRS" link to access information from the CRS database only. This database can now only be accessed via NCLIVE through Health Source: Consumer Edition.
CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
(Indexing and Full Text: 1982- ) EBSCOhost
CINAHL with Full Text provides indexing for 2,717 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. The database also provides full text for 320 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. This is the premier index in nursing and a good source to search for nursing research articles, as well as for those helpful to athletic trainers.
Entrez: The Life Sciences Search Engine
This wonderful search engine searches a full text journal collection called PubMed Central and an online E-books collection. In addition, it also searches PubMed and other life sciences resources. Whereas Medline via PubMed does not contain many full-text articles, PubMed Central does. A great place to start looking for medical and life-science articles.
MEDLINE (Via PubMed) (1965-)
MEDLINE is one of the largest indexes to medical information and is used heavily by doctors and other health professionals. It indexes 3,500+ journals published internationally. The articles indexed tend to be very technical and are not in full text. Some of the journals covered are available in the library or in full text through other databases.
NCLIVE EZ Search (Search Multiple Indexes Simultaneously)
NCLIVE EZ Search
Searches multiple NCLIVE indexes simultaneously, listing results found in each database. To view the results for each individual database, click on the number of hits in the "All Records Found" column for each database whose results you want to view. (Hint: Not all results from EZ Search will be relevant; look at the "Database Description" and click on "more info" for a more detailed description of each database and its contents.)
Journals Grouped by Subject In Journal Finder (Requires Barton Login to Access)
The following links take you to alphabetical lists in Journal Finder of full-text journal titles that cover the following specific topics:
Warning: Although Journal Finder categorizes journals by the subjects they cover, it is not the appropriate tool to use when looking for articles on a particular topic. Instead, use the indexes listed above, including NCLIVE EZ Search, in order to search for articles on a specific topic.
Last updated February 19, 2008
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