Oxford Brookes UniversitySport, Coaching and Physical Education
Databases - use these when you have a topic and want to find out what journal articles have been written about it
SPORT Discus - considered by some to be the leading database in the field of Sport, Coaching and Physical Education, SPORTDiscus contains information on sports medicine, exercise physiology, physical fitness, sports science, sports psychology, biomechanics, training, teaching, programming and coaching material.
Comprehensive Physiology - a database that covers all aspects of physiology and includes over 30,000 pages from the Handbook of physiology series.
Academic Search Complete - a huge multi-disciplinary database indexing some 9,300 journals, over half of whose articles have immediate full-text links.
Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games - a new learning resource, publishing scholarly and multidisciplinary research on the Olympic and Paralympic Games. ROSO contains over 1000 journal articles and book chapters on themes including: the media, education, gender, politics, governance, management, law, business, ethics, legacies, the environment, disability studies, athletic performance and history.
Education Research Complete - full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas and levels of education in the U.K. and internationally. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text for more than 950 journals.
MEDLINE via PubMed - all areas of medicine, including sports medicine, clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, nutrition, psychiatry, and health service administration. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Covers material published from 1966 onwards.
PsycINFO - psychology, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education and pharmacology. Covers material published from 1806 onwards.
Web of Science - arts and humanities, behavioural and social sciences, natural, physical and biomedical sciences, and some engineering. Covers material published from 1970 onwards.
Zetoc - British Library's electronic table of contents. Covers about 20,000 current journals and conference proceedings published since 1993, and is updated daily. Note that records do not have abstracts; only bibliographic details are given.
N.B. The Library's electronic databases page provides a complete list of all our databases with brief details of subject coverage and access information. You may also find it useful to look at other subject help pages for details of more subject specific databases.
Electronic journals - use these when you already have a specific journal article or journal titles that you want to look up
Many full-text journals to which the Library subscribes are available electronically over the internet, allowing you to read articles on the screen.
The Library Catalogue gives details of e-journals we have access to, as well as all the printed journals held in the Library. Enter the journal title into the keyword or title search box and select Electronic & Printed Journals Catalogue as the collection.
The catalogue entry for an e-journal connects to the A-Z list (a complete listing of full-text e-journals available to Oxford Brookes staff and students). This shows the range of years that full text is available and the host service (or collection) that provides access to that individual journal title.
If you are looking for journal articles on a specific topic, you should use a database.
Note: most of our e-journals (and databases) require confidential passwords, enabling secure access for members of Brookes. In most cases this is the Athens security system. Some of the e-journals or databases require other confidential passwords. Your PIP page (Personal Information Portal) also provides details of the relevant passwords, through the Library Electronic Resources section, and can be accessed from off-campus. Before you start trying to access e-journals or search databases, you should log in to Athens. From off-campus we also recommend that you set up the institutional cookie on your home computer.
Electronic books - use these when you want to read the whole text of a book online
The vast majority of our electronic books are listed on the Library catalogue. By changing the collection to 'Electronic books catalogue' you can search solely for electronic books.
Dictionaries and thesauri - includes the Oxford English Dictionary as well as Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
Encyclopaedias - access to multidisciplinary encyclopedias including Wikipedia, plus some on specific topics.
News and current affairs - contains links to the websites of all the major English broadsheet newspapers. Also links to Factiva, where you can search an extensive archive of articles from a range of UK and international newspapers, including the major tabloids.
Statistics - links to key local, national and international statistical sources.
E-books - this page gives information on other e-books you may find useful.
Internet sites - key Web sites to find resources related to sport, coaching and physical education
Some of these internet sites belong to individual bodies or associations. Others provide gateways to general sport related, or to more subject specific sites.
British Universities Sports Association
Intute: Social Sciences - sport and leisure practice
Jiscmail - search for 'sport' as a keyword to find mailing lists you may want to join.
Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games - a new learning resource, publishing scholarly and multidisciplinary research on the Olympic and Paralympic Games. ROSO contains over 1000 journal articles and book chapters on themes including: the media, education, gender, politics, governance, management, law, business, ethics, legacies, the environment, disability studies, athletic performance and history.
Sportengland (English Sports Council)
Sports Council for Northern Ireland
Sprig: "promoting information in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism"
See also Barton, P. (2001) Sport. Part of Thegoodwebguide series. London: The Good Web Guide Ltd. This is a guide to 100 sports-related websites that include general and individual sport websites. There is a reference copy at Harcourt Hill library, as well as a copy that can be borrowed.
Library guides and information skills
Sport, Coaching and Physical Education: a guide to finding information (Word document)
Sport, Coaching and Physical Education: a guide to finding journal articles (Word document)
Citing your references using the Harvard (Author-Date) system (Word document)
Information skills: getting started
Information skills: further research
EndNote: reference management software for assisting with studying, research and creating bibliographies
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