LibGuides: Exercise and Sports Science: Journals/Databases

Feature Journal

Medicine and science in sports and exercise

Official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Features original research and review articles in sports medicine and exercise science.

Key Journals

Key Databases

EBSCO Databases: Click on "Choose Databases" to mark up more than one database to search simultaneously. e.g. you can search SPORTDiscus, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, etc. in the one search.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
International database indexing nursing and allied health literature. This database is also the main database for Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation and Ergonomics.
Education Source
Embase
Covers Adverse Drug Events, Drug Efficacy Studies, Medical Device and Disease-Related Biomedical Research Information.
Health Collection
Full text collection of Australian health related journal articles.
MEDLINE
International database indexing biomedical literature. This database is useful for searching for information relating to addiction, biomedical research, human physiology, health policies, health promotion, nutrition, occupational health and epidemiological studies.
PsycINFO
International database indexing journals in psychology and related disciplines.
PubMed
Comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
Key database for sports science, indexing journals and other materials in all aspects of sport. It is suggested that to search for journal articles only, you use the limit option Journal Article (Under Publication Type). You may also wish to limit to English (Under Language).

ECU WorldSearch

ECU Worldsearch is a search engine that searches across the Library's books (print and online) and some online journal articles. This is a good place to start searching for information on your topic.

PubMed

PubMed
Comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

database is an internet version of Medline produced by the National Library of Medicine in the United States.

Open access articles are freely available in PubMed. To ensure that you also have access to journal articles available on subscription through ECU Library, link to PubMed via the Library.

Do not use Internet Explorer to access PubMed. Choose another browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

PubMed search results will then also include a FindIt link to locate full text articles available via ECU.

What's the Difference Between MEDLINE and PubMed? Fact Sheet explains the additional features of PubMed.

Using PubMed MeSH thesaurus subject terms. NLM YouTube video 2013 "Use MeSH to Build a Better PubMed Query":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyF8uQY9wys

Searching Tips

1. Find Synonyms (alternative keywords):

pediatrics OR children
teenagers OR adolescents

2. Use Truncation (putting * at the end of a word stem):

child* (child, children, childhood, children's)
adolesc* (adolescent, adolescence, adolescents)
behavio*r

4. AND (joins concepts and narrows the search)

obesity AND children
stress AND (occupation OR job)

5. "...." (inverted commas) use for a phrase

"mental health"
"health promotion"

6. "...." (inverted commas)

"exercise physiology"

Citation Databases

Web of Science
This database includes: Science citation index, Social Sciences citation index, and Arts & Humanities citation index.
Scopus
Large international multidisciplinary database of peer reviewed literature, with a focus on the sciences. Subject areas include Life Sciences, Health Sciences (with 100% Medline coverage), Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Primal Pictures Anatomy & Physiology Online

Anatomy.tv

Primal Pictures Anatomy & Physiology tutorial video
A short video on how to make best use of this Database

Table of Contents Alerts

A Table of Contents (ToC) service sends you the table of contents each time a new issue of a journal is published.

Alerts can usually be set up from the journal website or from databases such as Current Contents Connect in Web of Science suite of databases.

Website: JournalTOCs is a Current Awareness Service (CAS) where you can discover the newest papers coming directly from the publishers as soon as they have been published online. This is a free service for individual users.