PHYSICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH GUIDE

 

Your Librarian:  Dorothy Mays

 

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Databases for Health & Wellness
 ProQuest Direct
Search for abstracts and some full-text articles from magazines, journals and newspapers.

 

ScienceDirect College Edition  
850 full text peer-reviewed science journals, can be searched as a collection, coverage is most current five years

 

WorldCat (FirstSearch)
FirstSearch provides indexes and full texts of selected content from journals, books, and other media on a wide variety of subjects. WorldCat is the most comprehensive list available of library holdings worldwide, containing millions of records.

 

 

 

Selected Web Pages for Health & Wellness in General:
HighWire Library of the Sciences and Medicine

An extensive collection of free full-text science journals hosted by Stanford University

Directory of Open Access Journals

Searchable links to free, full-text scientific and scholarly journals

Librarians' Internet Index 

A subject guide to websites, the home page lists major categories such as health

University of Calgary: Health Sciences Library 

Selected web resources from a major Health Sciences Library.

 

 

Selected Web Pages on Nutrition and Diet:

Food and Nutrition Information Center  (http://www.fnic.nal.usda.gov)
Nutrition.gov  (http://www.nutrition.gov)
Colorado State Weight Loss page   (http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09363.html)
Diets Guide   (http://www.dietsguide.com)

 

 

Selected Web Pages on Exercise and Fitness:
National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health MedlinePlus page on Exercise and Physical Fitness
           (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/exerciseandphysicalfitness.html)
Fitness Jumpsite   (http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner)
Ace Fitness   (http://www.acefitness.org/getfit/freeexercise.aspx)
Family Doctor   (http://familydoctor.org/x5216.xml)

 

 

 

Selected Web Pages on Medical Issues:

WebMD  (http://www.webmd.com)
Cleveland Clinic   (http://www.eclevelandclinic.org/health)
Mayo Clinic   (http://www.mayoclinic.com)
National Institute on Drug Abuse   (http://www.nida.nih.gov)

 

 

Print Reference Resources on Health & Wellness
Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition (Ref. QD 141 E526 1999 v.1-3)

Encyclopedia of Fad Diets (Ref. RM222.2 .B535 2003)

Physicians' Desk Reference (Ref. RS75 .P5 2006)

Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (Ref. R733 .G34 2001)

 

Databases for Sports
        
 Lexis Nexis Academic
   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a family of online databases in which you can search hundreds of full-text publications including newspapers, journals, magazines and documents from a variety of other sources.
ProQuest Direct
Search for abstracts and some full-text articles from magazines, journals and newspapers.
America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts
   Search for citations and abstracts for over 2,000 journals on the history of the U.S., Canada, and world history from 1450 to the present.
JSTOR
   JSTOR offers full-text access to back issues (going back to the first issues) of journals in the fields of African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
Project Muse 
Search for full-text articles from over forty journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
First Search (WorldCat)
FirstSearch provides indexes and full texts of selected content from journals, books, and other media on a wide variety of subjects. WorldCat is the most comprehensive list available of library holdings worldwide.

 

Selected Web Pages for Sports
 
Rollins Athletics
http://www.rollinssports.com/
 
Sports Resources at Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/sports.html
 
Swim Index
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~swim/links/
 
NBA
http://www.nba.com
 
Women's Sports Federation
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html
 
Baseball Reference

http://www.baseball-reference.com/

Baseball Archives

http://www.baseball1.com/

 
American Soccer History Archives

http://www.sover.net/~spectrum

 
Official Website of the Olympic Movement

http://www.olympic.org

Ancient Olympics

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics

 
Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games

http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html

 
Federation of Gay Games

http://www.gaygames.com/en/

 

 

 
New Print Reference Resources for Sports
 
Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Century  (Ref GV 576 .C74 2003)

Sports and Games of the Renaissance  (Ref GV 576 .L43 2004)

Baseball Players of the 1950's  (Ref GV 865 .A1 M3316 2004)

Native Americans in Sports   (Ref GV 583 .N34 2004)

 

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