Sport and Exercise Science Resources

a select list of resources available on the Internet and World Wide Web

JCU Library Resources
Library Guide | Catalogue | Databases - General Information | Indexing/Abstracting Databases | Full text databases | Electronic Journals |

Sport and Exercise Science (Specialised) Resources
Reference/Research | General | Anatomy/Physiology | Biomechanics | Internet Directories | Psychology
Sports Medicine | Statistics

JCU Library Resources

• InfoHelp home page - questions answered, assistance given online, or by phone or email
• Sport and Exercise Library Guide

  Catalogue

• Tropicat - JCU's library catalogue

Databases - General Information

• Electronic Databases - a listing of all databases available through JCU
• How To Guides - read them online or print out for help on how to use internet resources better

Indexing/Abstracting Databases

Off campus access is available for most databases and electronic journals. Simply click on this link, and follow the instructions. You will be returned to this page and can then simply click on the required resource to access it. If a password is required, this can be obtained from InfoHelp

• CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature covering 1200+ journals
• Informit - indexes published and unpublished Australian articles (password required from InfoHelp) including those in these health related databases: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 via Ovid - the premier database for every aspect of health
• Medline - the premier database for every aspect of health via the PubMed service
• PsycINFO - indexes and abstracts the psychological literature

Full text databases

• Eric - The Education Resources Information Center
• Infotrac - indexes more than 2,000 journals with full-text articles from over half available online
• 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

• Electronic journals - hot-linked, alphabetical listing of full-text journals available to members of James Cook University
• You can also link directly to journals via Tropicat: the JCU Library Catalogue using the web (but not the text) version
• World Wide Information on Serials in Health - information on the electronic versions of English-language peer-reviewed journals
• Exercise physiology Journals (American Society of Exercise Physiologists)
• Free Medical Journals
• HireWire Press - free full-text journals ( Stanford University )
• International journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism
• Journal of applied biomechanics
• Research quarterly for exercise and sport
• Scholarly Sport Sites - EJournals ( University of Calgary , Library)
• Sport Periodicals - EJournals (Australian Sports Commission)

Sport and Exercise Science (Specialised) Resources on the Web

Reference/Research

• Australasian Sport Information network
• Australia Sports Commission - Sports Scientists links
• Australian Sports Courses
• Australian Sports Science Directory
• How to Write a Literature Review
• How to Write a Research Paper
• Medical Dictionary (National Library of Medicine - MedlinePlus)

General

• Australian Sport WWW (including sporting topics . Each topic may have slightly different types of information, but most will have a short introduction, weblinks, full-text sites and organisations relevant to the topic.) (Australian Sports Commission, Library)
• Canadian Sport Information Resource Centre
  (Sport Information Resource Centre)
• eMedicine World Medical Library Sports Medicine – Medical Reference
• HealthInsite (Information on health topics, life events and expert views on key health issues)
• Human Kinetics (Physical education and physical activity)
• Scholarly Sport Sites ( University of Calgary , Library)
• Sportscience (Peer reviewed site for sport research)
• Sports Science & Sports Medicine (Australian Institute of Sport)

Anatomy/Physiology

• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (Bartleby.com edition)
• Internet Resources for Anatomy ( University of South Australia , Library)
• Resource Links for Anatomy  (American Association of Anatomists)

  Biomechanics

• Biomechanics World Wide ( University of Alberta )
• Internet Resources for Biomechanics ( University of South Australia , Library)

Internet Directories

• BIOME - quality Internet resources for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners in the Health and Life Sciences.
• SOSIG - Psychology Gateway
• SOSIG - Social Science Methodology

Psychology

• AAASP Online (Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology)
• Exercise and Sport Psychology  (American Psychological Association)
• Internet Resources for Sports and Exercise Psychology ( University of South Australia , Library
• Psych Web Resources

Sports Medicine

• American College of Sports Medicine (publications)
• Internet Resources for Sports Medicine ( University of South Australia , Library)

  Statistics

• Australia's Health 2004 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare)
• Internet Resources for Health Statistics ( University of South Australia , Library)