Exercise science, physiology and sports science

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Encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference books
Web sites and Internet resources
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Key databases

CRCnetBASE

CRCnetBASE is a library of full-text book on a wide range of scientific and technical topics. UNE subscribes to BIOSCIENCEnetBASE ENVIROnetBASE FORENSICnetBASE/ LAWENFORCEMENTnetBASE ITKnowledgeBASE STATSnetBASE.

Tick the box 'Full Access Content Only'. Try keywords such as biomechanics, sports medicine, sports nutrition, substance abuse, exercise physiology - hundreds of book chapters available on these topics.

Physical Education Index
This database indexes content relating to physical education from peer-reviewed journals, official and semi-official reports, conference proceedings, trade journals and popular magazines. ProQuest Help

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

ScienceDirect Full Text
Science Direct offers full-text access to over 200 Elsevier journals.

Scopus
Scopus provides citations and abstracts for over17,000 academic journals, with many links to full-text. Scopus also provides citation counts and other bibliographical information.

SPORTDiscus
This database indexes content relating to sport, health, fitness and sports medicine from academic and popular journals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations.

SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Taylor & Francis Full Text
Taylor & Francis journals cover the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.

Wiley Online Library Full Text
The Wiley Online Library includes current journals in a wide range of disciplines.

Worth a look

Annual Reviews Online (ANO) Full Text
ANO provides a comprehensive series of full-text reviews in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.

Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Informit Australian flag Selected Full Text
The Informit databases cover a range of topics, including architecture, education, engineering and technology, environment, history, hospitality and tourism, Indigenous peoples, law and crime, social sciences and sports. Many are in full-text.

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Tick the box next to Health. This will search across 13 different Health databases including AUSPORT and AusportMed. Full text databases include Health Collection and Australian Public Affairs Full text.

PubMed Central (PMC) Selected Full Text
PubMed Central is a digital archive of journal literature on the life sciences.

Thieme ElectronicBook Library Full Text
The Thieme ElectronicBook Library includes the Flexibook atlases and textbooks series, along with pocket guides and colour atlases in anatomy, biochemistry, genetics, immunology and neuroscience.

Encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference books

An A-Z of food and drink
An A-Z of medicinal drugs
Australian medicines handbook
Dictionary of biomedical sciences
Dictionary of food and nutrition
Encyclopedia of applied psychology
Encyclopedia of human nutrition
Encyclopedia of public health
Food and fitness: A dictionary of diet and exercise
Handbook of sports studies
Oxford companion to the body
Oxford dictionary of sports science and medicine
Visible human project

Web sites and Internet resources

American College of Sports Medicine. The largest sports medicine and exercise science organization. The site includes ACSM’s Health and Physical Activity Reference Database.
Australian Sports Commission - Exercise Physiology. Australian Government body that manages, develops and invests in sport at all levels.
AAESS - Australian Association for Exercise and Sports Science.
BASES - British Association for Sport and Exercise Sciences.
Essential Health Links - This resource provides more than 750 useful websites for health professionals, medical library communities, publishers, and NGOs in developing and emerging countries.
Exercise and physical fitness: Medlineplus - statistics, relevant resources, articles.
A Guide to Sports Injuries
SIRC - Sport Information Resource Centre. Resource center with over 6.5 million pages of sport related research
National Sport Information Centre - NCIS provides a national focus to achieve sport information, research, and knowledge outcomes for Australian Sport.
NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook
Sports Fitness: Medlineplus - statistics, nutrition, alternative therapies for sports fitness.
Sports Injuries: Medlineplus - injury resources and therapies.
Sports Medicine Australia - Information about sports medicine and related fields.
SportScience - a peer-reviewed online journal for sport research.
Women's Sports Foundation - advancing the lives of girls and women through sport and physical activity.
World of Sports Science - A-Z of sporting terminology

2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Multimedia and images

Exercise Physiology Digital Image Archive

ImagesMD Full-Text
ImagesMD is an online encyclopedia of medical images including over 50,000 high-quality images ranging across every aspect of internal medicine. Each image is accompanied by detailed description and commentary.

SMART Imagebase
The Scientific & Medical ART (SMART) Imagebase is a collection of more than 11,000 full-color medical illustrations and animations depicting human anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, and other topics.