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SPORTDiscus   Sport Information Resource Centre          1975-              Updated Monthly
A comprehensive, international database covering sport, physical education, and physical fitness literature from 1975 to the present Topics included are: sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, and related topics. The EBSCO version provides links to full text from 225 periodicals including 112 Scholarly Journals, 97 Magazines, 7 Trade Publications, 9 Industry Reports, 1 Health Report, and 9 reference books. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection - Gale - 1980 -
Access to authoritative content that includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. It covers a diverse topics in the field,
including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses and many more.

ProQuest Health and Medical Completee - ProQuest    Varies
Designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information -- from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers. The database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties. Search Guide

ProQuest Health Management -  ProQuest CSA    1990s-    Updated Daily
Designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration. The database provides full-text coverage for more than 550 key journals and more than 4,500 Doctoral Dissertations and Theses. Search Guide

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source - ProQuest    Varies
Search full-text journals and dissertations in ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source alongside Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets from the renowned Joanna Briggs Institute. Search Guide

Other Periodical Indexes

Academic Search Premier  Ebsco               1975-                    Updated Daily
The world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000 peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. The database includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.  Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social  sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Academic OneFile - Gale                     1995-                                     Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.  Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP - Gale                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,500+ journals and magazines including more than 2,100 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

MEDLINE  - (Ebsco version) National Library of Medicine   1966-  Updated Monthly
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals and to link to full text for articles contained within the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic database.  It includes the entire MEDLINE collection and uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, and the Index to Dental Literature. This database is updated monthly on EBSCOhost. Search Guide | Video Tutorial    See also the PUBMED version from the National Library of Medicine.

PubMed - U. S. National Library of Medicine           1966 -       Updated Monthly.
Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Indexes over  3,500 journals (most with abstracts). Now includes a backfile covering 1966­1984,  increasing the coverage to 196-present.  WWW Search Guide  Journals List

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic  - Ebsco                                    Updated Monthly
Provides access to 100 full text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences. All 100 full text journals contained in the database are also indexed in MEDLINE. Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within MEDLINE. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Health Reference Center Academic - Gale        1980-     Updated Monthly
A multi-source database for health and wellness research. Rich with full-text documents, this database includes medical and consumer periodicals (approximately 887 fully indexed with 675 providing full text), health newsletters, reference books, referral information, topical overviews, and pamphlets. Designed especially for lay researchers to provide information in terms that the nonmedical professional can understand. Also contains 7,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish)  WWW Search Guide

Health Source: Consumer Edition - Ebsco                 1990-                            Updated Daily
Covers the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Coverage includes: searchable full text for over 190 journals plus abstracts and indexing for over 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

CARDS (Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements) - National Institutes of Health 1999-
A database of current and ongoing dietary supplement research funded by the federal government

PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset - NIH Office of Dietary Supplements and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Current File
Replaces the International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database, 1999-2010, which was a collaboration between the two U.S. government agencies, ODS and United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library. The subset is designed to limit search results to citations from a broad spectrum of dietary supplement literature including vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, ergogenic, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition and animal models. Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets


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