Research Databases
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SportDiscus
This link takes you to 2 databases: SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 415 journals. With more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a research tool for all areas of sports and sports medicine literature. SPORTDiscus Select focuses to provide information for doctors, allied health professionals, educators and researchers in the field of sports medicine, physical education, sport law & legislation, injury prevention & rehabilitation and other related areas. This database contains 169 full text journals with PDF coverage back as far as 1887 including 130 peer-reviewed publications.Source of full text in sports medicine, physical education, injury prevention, rehabilitation & more. -
CINAHL Nursing Index
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheet. Searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals are also included. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text 337 of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.Includes coverage of rehabilitation, sports injuries & more. 500+ journals are searched. -
Science Direct
ScienceDirect? is a large electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. Subjects covered include physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences & humanitiesCoverage in many areas of science. Polk subscribes to approx. 1700 full text journals from 2006 - present. -
Medline with Full Text
Medline with Full text offers indexing for over 4,800 biomedical journals, with full text for over 1,470 of these journals. More than 1,400 of those journals have cover-to-cover indexing.Includes coverage of sports medicine, rehabilitation, injury prevention & more. More of a physician-focus to the articles here. -
Nursing Consult
Mosby's Nursing Consult is an online resource for nurses offering authoritative information to help provide better patient care. It includes: Latest Drug Information, Patient Education, Professional Journals, Reference Books, Current News, Clinical Practice, Evidence-based Content, Care Planning Tools.A comprehensive online resource for nurses offering authoritative information to help provide better patient care.
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Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
There are two versions of this database, a Consumer edition and a Nursing edition.?Between the two editions there are abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 consumer health, nutrition and professional periodicals. Over 200 periodicals are covered in full text as well as over 1,000 health pamphlets. Also included is USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient which provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language and 17 health books published by the People's Medical Society.550+ full text scholarly journals are searched, including 450 peer-reviewed journals in many medical disciplines. -
Science Citation Index
Search for references and cited references in Science Citation Index.Comprehensive search tool that lets you do a cited reference search. -
ERIC
Contains citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center.For best results limit your search to "Journal Articles". Access to ERIC *documents* before 2005 is currently limited. For more information about this issue.A large source for education articles, including physical education, coaching, and health education in schools.
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Academic Search Complete
Gain access to information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and education. The upgrade from Academic Search Elite to Academic Search Complete has been partially funded in 2007-08 by the UW Oshkosh Student Technology Fund.
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Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Multi-topic tool with full text for nearly 4,500 journals including 3,700+ peer-reviewed journals. -
Masterfile Premier
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text for more than 1,500 active periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, multicultural and more. Total coverage includes over 4 million articles.
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Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Multi-topic tool includes full text of popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, and more. -
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to nearly 5,000 publications on a wide range of topics: news, business, legal, and reference information. In Business, it includes company financials, SEC Filings and reports, directories, accounting journals & more.
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Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Full-text news & newspapers, business, legal, medical, and reference information. -
Credo Reference
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
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Reference & Background Resources
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
