JCU - Sports Science Library Guide

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This guide is a select listing of information resources in Sports Science. For a more comprehensive view of the collection please consult the online catalogue, Tropicat. A more complete general guide Finding Information and subject guides are available from InfoHelp.

The location prefix R denotes the Reference collection. are held in both Townsville ( TSV ) and

Cairns ( CNS ) unless otherwise indicated.

Dictionaries & Other Reference Materials

Anshel, M.H. & Freedson, P. (Eds.). (1991). Dictionary of the sport and exercise sciences. Champaign: Human Kinetics.	TVL R 613.7103 DIC
Dulbecco, R. (Ed.). (1991). Encyclopedia of human biology. San Diego: Academic Press	TVL R 612.003 ENC
Glanze, Walter D., Anderson, Kenneth, 1921-, Anderson, Lois E. (1998). Mosby's medical, nursing and allied health dictionary. (5th ed.). St.Louis.: Mosby. [6th ed online via Xrefer database]	610.3 MOS 1998
Huber, J.T., Boorkman, J.A. & Roper, F.W. (2004). Introduction to reference sources in the health sciences . (4th ed.). New York.: Neal-Schuman Pubs	R 610.72 ROB 2004
Miller, B.F. & Keane, C.B. (1997). Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and dictionary of medicine, nursing and allied health. (4th ed.). Philadelphia: Saunders.	R 610.3 MIL 1997
Smith, S.L.J. (1990). Dictionary of concepts in recreation and leisure studies. New York: Greenwood.	R 790.03 SMI
Tver, D.F. & Russell, P. (1989). The nutrition and health encyclopedia. (2nd ed.). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.	TVL R 613.203 TVE

Database Resources

Many journal indexing and abstracting services are available via the Internet. Some services also provide the full text of journal articles. Databases may be access from off campus via the Remote Access page at: http://www.library.j c u.edu.au/Resour c es/remo t eaccess.shtml .

Direct links to the services listed below are available at: http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/Resources/datasets.shtml

• CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature covering 1200+ journals

• Eric - provides extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) .

• Infotrac - indexes more than 2,000 journals with full-text articles from over half available online. Contains the Health Reference Centre databases with many full text articles.

• Informit - indexes published and unpublished Australian articles contains data from 12 Australian databases: including those in these health related databases:

APAIS: Health - covers legal, social, economic and ethical (but not clinical) aspects of Australian health and medicine

AUSPORT – Australian Sport Database

Health & Society - covers health policy, services, social, ethical, psychological, and legal issues connected with health.

• Medline - the premier database for every aspect of health via the PubMed service

• PsycINFO - indexes and abstracts the psychological literature

• ProQuest 5000 - another indexing and full-text database complementing InfoTrac

• PSYCArticles - Applied psychology, developmental psychology, personality

• SPORTDiscus [ Please logout as there is a limit on the number of simultaneous users. ]

Electronic Journals

Most full text electronic journals subscribed to by the Library are listed in Tropicat. An alphabetical list of ejournals is also availailable at: http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/Resources/ej.shtml Access may be by individual title, or by service provider, e.g. InfoTrac. Please contact InfoHelp . if passwords are required. Note that the library has many titles in print; some are available in both print and electronic versions.

Journal Indexes

AMI : Australasian Medical Index [online via Informit Database]	Online
APAIS : Aust. Public Affairs Information Service 1950+ [online via Informit Database]	R 919.40016 P2
CINAHL : Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature1984+ [online via Ovid Database]	R 610.73016 P1 & Online
Index Medicus 1965+ [online via Medline]	R 610.16 P1 & Online
Psychological Abstracts 1927-1998 [online via PsycINFO and PsycArticles Databases]	R 150.16 PSY & Online

Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics. Catalogue of publications and products. (current issue) [online via AusStats database]	R 319.4 P1 1101.0
World Health Organisation. World health statistics annual. 1990+ [online via http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm]	R 614.021 P1

The Faculty Librarian also maintains links to Library and Internet Resources for Sport and Exercise Science

Theses and Style Guide

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