Sports Science

Faculty Information Adviser:
Michael Veitch

email : LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

Information Skills Adviser for student enquiries:
Katherine Dike 020 7815 6605
email: LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

Core E-resources

Anatomy TV [electronic resource].
Interactive 3D model of human anatomy.

BioMed Central [electronic resource].
An independent publishing house providing free access to peer reviewed biomedical literature. It publishes over 50 on-line journals and also hosts affiliated journals.

Psycarticles [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals - 50 published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF) - and 13 from allied organisations. It includes all journal articles and book reviews. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Psycinfo [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. From 1974. Includes details of articles with abstracts from over 1300 psychology journals, from 1974.

Pubget [electronic resource].
PubGet is an online service which allows users to directly access PDF article records from PubMed Date Coverage: 1951- present. Occasional articles predating 1951. Subject Coverage: Life, clinical and biomedical sciences In addition to being able to view full text articles to which LSBU subscribes, users can preview the full text of articles from journals which LSBU does not subscribe. Access Restrictions: Basic access available to all, increased full text available to LSBU affiliates only.

Sport Discus Database [electronic resource].
Via EBSCO. Coverage begins from 1975. International sports database covering exercise, physiology, medicine, biomechanics, coaching, counselling and sports medicine.

Background E-resources

Index to Theses [electronic resource].
Covers dissertations accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of UK and Ireland, from 1716 to the present. Gives abstracts of theses published 1970 and onwards.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

E-Books

MyiLibrary [electronic resource].
MyiLibrary provides a faster and easier way to access collections of books, reports, journals, bulletins and other documents published by inter-governmental organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and International Labour Organisation.

Journals Collections & Newspapers

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Emerald [electronic resource].
Access to management research journals from MCB University Press. The service provides access to over 20,000 management articles, with a full text archive going back to 1994.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource].
References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes:
SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX:
Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

Medline - via EBSCO [electronic resource].
The US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database of over 16 million references from more than 5,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 80 other countries. Subject coverage is from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, and is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Records date from the 1950's onwards, many include abstracts. The database includes links to some full text articles, but this is not a full text database.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

SpringerLink [electronic resource].
Provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.

 

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Selected Websites for this area.

American Society for Nutritional Sciences
Includes a searchable archive from the Journal of Nutrition.

Gatorade Sports Science Institute
A U.S. site with a seful library of articles.

Radiographers Reporting
Many appendicular skeletal images.

Scirus
The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web.

Sportscience
A peer reviewed site for sport research.

Xray2000
More images.

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