TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY Pickler Memorial Library Truman State University

Information for Exercise Science Majors 

   ►Exercise Science Research Guide - Information sources for your major.  There is one for

Exercise Science and also one for Sports.

  • SPORTDiscus - Comprehensive coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines provided by the Sport Information Resource Center (SPIRS).  Includes over 700,000 records of monographs and journal articles going back as far as 1800.

  • MedLine - Abstracted articles from 19,000 medical journals. Also free to the public from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed.  GoPubMed searches the same databases as MedLine and PubMed but adds a neat index for concept searching.

  • PsycINFO - Citations and abstracts of articles from journals in Psychology and other social science disciplines including Anthropology, Education, Medicine, Nursing, and Psychiatry, from mid-19th century to present.  Also includes citations to books and book chapters from 1987 to present.

   ►Basics of keyword searching in electronic databases.

   ►Search Box in the Center of the Library Website

  • Catalog   Tab - Our library’s collection of books, videos, periodicals, etc.
                            30-day checkout for most books
                            Renew online

                 MOBIUS - Missouri academic library consortium - ONLY LOANS BOOKS
                        Request online, items arrive usually within 3-4 working days
                        Notified by Truman e-mail when item arrives
                        21-day checkout, 2 renewals (if not needed elsewhere)
                        When requesting, note that we are part of LANCE. 

  • Databases  Tab Searches EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite to tell you which magazines, newspapers and journals have published articles on the topics you want.

    • More Databases   Provides lists of the 152 databases on all subject areas that Pickler Memorial Library subscribes to for Truman students, faculty and staff.  

  • Journals  Tab Provides a search box for specific magazine, newspaper or journal titles.  For example:

  Hough, Paul A.  "Effect of Dynamic and Static Stretching on Vertical Jump Performance and
Electromyographic Activity." Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 23.2 (March 2009):50.

              
        ►Citing Sources

        ►Just For Undergraduates 

 

Ask for help at the Reference Desk!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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