Featured 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.
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Subject 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.
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CINAHL Plus with Full TextInternational database indexing nursing and allied health literature. This database is also the main database for Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation and Ergonomics.
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EmbaseInternational biomedical and pharmacological database, indexing literature from 1947 to the present. Embase has a broad biomedical scope, with in-depth coverage of pharmacology, pharmaceutical science, and clinical research.
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Health CollectionFull text collection of Australian health related journal articles.
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MEDLINEInternational 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.
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PsycINFOInternational database indexing journals in psychology and related disciplines.
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PubMedComprises 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.
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SPORTDiscus with Full TextKey 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).
Citation Databases
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Web of Science
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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.
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"