Databases
- Articles
- Mental Measurements
- Table of Contents Notification & Document Delivery Services
- Dissertations
- Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Library Catalogs
Articles
- Provides citations and abstracts for exercise physiology, sports sciences and related professional journals.
- Dates of coverage vary going back to 1975. No full-text available.
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- Covers physical fitness, health, and sports medicine.
- Indexes journals, conference proceedings, web sites, books, reports, dissertations, and patents.
- International in scope.
- Links to Scholar Universe, which lists scholars who have done research in the field.
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ERIC
- Provides citations and abstracts to all aspects of educational research and resources taken from professional journals and education related reports, conference proceedings and other non-journal literature (ERIC Documents)
- Covers 1966 to present.
- More info on ERIC via EBSCO
- More info on ERIC via Institute of Education Sciences
Health Source Consumer Edition
- Provides citations and abstracts for 325 consumer health, international health and nutrition periodicals, numerous pamphlets, reference books and other information.
- Includes unique or more in-depth full text coverage of about 175 health-related articles.
- Useful for topics such as sports, physical fitness, biomechanics, volleyball, wounds and injuries.
- Largely English-language materials. Most materials in Jackson Library.
- Dates of coverage vary by title; full text from about 1990.
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- Covers articles from more than 1,800 scholarly and popular periodicals, two-thirds of them full text, in all subject areas.
- Includes unique or more in-depth full text coverage of about 20 exercise and sport science titles.
- Useful for topics such as sports medicine, exercise, muscles and swimming.
- 1984-present; full text since 1990 but varies by title.
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- Provides citations and abstracts (5,156 full-texts titles), from over 9,200 periodicals, newspapers and wire services titles.
- Dates of coverage, 1980 to present.
- Includes scholarly journals dealing with all subject areas including education, library science, physical education, and psychology.
- Includes full text coverage of a few education journals not indexed elsewhere.
- Good coverage of general topics and current events.
- Most materials available in Jackson Library.
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- Mix of 2,500 scholarly and popular journals from a variety of disciplines including physical education and sports medicine.
- Includes unique or more in-depth full text coverage of about 15 exercise and sport science titles.
- Useful for topics such as sports injuries, exercise, athletes, and physical fitness.
- 1971 to present
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Science Citation Index: SCI (Web of Science)
- Provides citations (no full-text), author abstracts, and cited references (footnotes to a scholarly article) to more than 6,000 peer-reviewed science journals.
- Dates of coverage: 1955 to present.
- Covers biology, chemistry, nursing, medical sciences, scientific disciplines in education, sport sciences, and substance abuse.
- Includes the capability to perform a cited reference search, which allows you to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent, or another article.
- Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more.
- Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Science journals by using Journal Citations Reports.
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- Indexes and abstracts articles from more that 3200 medical, health, and nutrition journals
- Years of coverage vary; PubMed covers 1966-present and is updated daily
- More info on PubMed
- Abstracts over 1,300 periodicals, book chapters and books in psychology, psychiatry, counseling, and related areas. Useful for topics such as sport psychology, stress, mental health and competition. Both animal and human aspects are covered in most disciplines. Full-text not available.
- Large number of foreign language titles.
- Jackson Library owns many of the core English-language titles.
- Covers 1872-present.
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- Full text of about 50 journals from the Amer. Psychological Assn, Canadian Psychological Assn, and Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
- Covers all aspects of psychology. Includes related areas such as sports psychology, leisure, and rehabilitation
- Mainly 1988 to present but varies by title
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- Searches Education Full Text and Education Index Retrospective simultaneously.
- Indexes almost 500 English-language periodicals and yearbooks as well as some books
- Strong on educational and psychological topics including all educational levels, educational administration, child development, and counseling
- 1929 to present; abstracts since 1994; full text since 1996
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- Provides detailed statistical information (impact factor and total cites) to more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science journals.
- Dates of coverage: 1997 to present.
- Corresponds to the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index.
- Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Social Sciences (includes Education) journals and for the Science journals.
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Mental Measurements
- Contains full text information and reviews about all English-language standardized tests covering health risks, physical health, physical education, athletes, lifestyles and related areas.
- Does not have full text of the tests.
- 1972-present.
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Table of Contents Notification & Document Delivery Services
Ingenta (formerly Carl UnCover Reveal)
- Provides a searchable database of the tables of contents from over 25,000 journals.
- The records in this database are not searchable by subject; however, you can search for keywords in article titles.
- Useful for locating citations to articles available in a few of the core library and information science journals.
- Ingenta also provides a notification service that delivers the table of contents of your favorite journals directly to your e-mail box.
- The library underwrites document delivery service through Ingenta. On request, the full text of an article can be sent to any UNCG student, faculty, or staff member.
- Dates of coverage: 1988 to present.
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Dissertations
OregonPDF in Health and Performance (Formerly Kinesiology Abstracts)
- Please Note: The full-text pdf are not available at this time.
- Theses and dissertations in kinesiology, focusing on the causes and effects of physical activity, from colleges and universities in English-speaking countries.
- Dates of coverage: indexed citations date back to 1947; abstracts to the mid-1980s.
- The full text of some entries is available in PDF format.
- When the full-text PDF for an individual thesis or dissertation is not available online, search for the title in the Library Catalog. Jackson Library has microform copies of the complete text for many entries, especially among more recent works.
- When the full text is not available online or in Jackson’s microform collection, use Interlibrary Loan.
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Please note:
- This resource is also available in print under multiple titles:
- Volumes 1-4 (1949-1982): Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Microform Publications Bulletin;
- Volumes 5-6 (1982-1992): Microform Publications Bulletin: Health, Physical Education and Recreation;
- Volumes 7-15 (1992-2002): Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Exercise and Sport Science-- Microform Publications Bulletin, issues downloadable in PDF format from Kinesiology Publications;
- Volumes 16 and following (2002-present): Kinesiology Abstracts, issues downloadable in PDF format from Kinesiology Publications.
- Jackson Library has copies of Volume 1 through Volume 12, Issue 1 (1949-1999, call number GV1 .H430)
- Indexes dissertations (no full-text) accepted at accredited US institutions; includes abstracts for dissertations since July 1980.
- Dates of coverage: 1861 to the present date.
- Selectively covers dissertations from Canada, the United Kingdom, and a few other countries.
- Also indexes masters theses, with abstracts for theses since 1988.
- Can limit to Institution and type in University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- Like most academic libraries, UNCG owns few dissertations and theses completed at other institutions. If you need such a dissertation or thesis, use Inter-Library Loan.
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- Online full text of UNCG dissertations and theses published after 1996.
- Abstracts available for earlier years.
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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
Food and Fitness : a Dictionary of Diet and Exercise
- Part of Oxford Reference
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Provides the full text of the many specialized encyclopedias, including:
- Encyclopedia of Education
- World Education Encyclopedia
- Child Development
- Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
- Encyclopedia of Public Health
- Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
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Library Catalogs
WorldCat
- Union catalog of materials held in libraries world-wide
- More info
Exercise & Sport Science Resources
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ESS Librarian
