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Human Physiology 102
Exercise and Wellness
Spring 2005 * Science Library Resources

Databases and Indexes

To look for articles in journals, newspapers, or magazines, you should start with an index. They let you look for articles by subject or keywords that describe your topic. You can also find things written by a specific author. Picking the best index depends on what you are hoping to find. These are some of the most useful for this class.

The primary database for the medical sciences, indexes 3,700+ journals in all areas of medicine.

Excellent coverage on nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and much more.

Has full text for over 1,250 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,880 journals. This is a good if you're researching a multidisiplinary aspect of exercise or sport.

This is a multidisciplinary database that can be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. It allows you to see who has used an article in their bibliography, or who has "cited," a particular published paper. You can trace a specific work by tracking the papers that quote it in the literature and identify more recent articles on the same topic. It can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work.

Sport Discus provides extensive, interdisciplinary coverage of sport-related topics from approximately 300 sport and physical education periodicals from 1949 to present.

Lexis-Nexis Academic provides comprehensive coverage of current news, business and company information, government and legal information, and medical information from over 6,000 sources.

· Medic Latina

Medical research and investigatory journals in native Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology.

Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It provides the full text of more than 140 publications.

Other resources

Human Physiology Research Guide
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/sport/

Searching the web
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/searchweb/

Evaluating what you find
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/searchweb/evaluating.html

Creating your bibliography (how to cite electronic resources, like web pages)
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/citing/

Getting Journal articles electronically
http://breeze.uoregon.edu:9003/citation/findtext

Access academic search engines off-campus
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dbs/proxy/

Boolean Logic(using ice cream)
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/course/expert.html

(other examples)
http://www.lib.utah.edu/instruction/handouts/keyword.html



created by Annie Zeidman-Karpinski, University of Oregon Libraries
April 17, 2005, URL:http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scilib/handouts/hp102_sp05_handout.htm