Stewart Library - Weber State University


Research Guide:Athletic Training and Sports Medicine

Finding Books

Using Catalogs:  Books about athletic training and sports medicine are located on level two of the library in the General Collections under the call numbers beginning with the letters GV, QM 23-191, RC 1206-1245, and RD 97-97.6.

You can do subject searches in Stewart Library's Online Catalog using:

  • Sports Medicine
  • Sports Injuries
  • Athletic trainers
  • Kinesiology

 

Interlibrary Loan:  If we do not own a particular book or article you need, we will borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary Loan.


Reference Resources

Reference resources include encyclopedias, dictionaries and other materials you use to "refer" to.  Use these resources for background information on a topic.  Examples are:

The Encyclopedic Atlas of the Human Body Ref.QM25.E53 2005
Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies  Ref.GV567.E486 2005
The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine  Ref.RC1206.O355 2005
Encyclopedia of Sports Science   Ref.GV558.E53 1997
Gray's Anatomy     Ref.QM23.2.G73 1995
Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science and Medicine Ref.RC1206.O94 1998
Quick Reference Dictionary for Athletic Training 

Ref.RC1206.B475 2002


Finding Articles

Article Databases

Use Article Databases to find magazine and journal articles.  You may search by subject or keyword in these indexes.  SPORTDiscus Full Text is great for full-text articles online.  All databases and most articles are available off-campus.  To access from home, go to the library's webpage (http://library.weber.edu), click on Database Finder under Quicklinks, choose your database and click on the link.  You will be asked to enter your student ID and password (the same one you use on the portal and for Wildcat mail.)  

  • Academic Search Premier
  • CINAHL
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  • Medline
  • PubMed
  • SPORTDiscus Fulltext

Newspapers

Use Newspaper databases to find newspaper articles by subject or keyword.  Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune, and the Standard Examiner are all on the Web.  For a list of WSU newspaper databases, go to the Database Finder, click on the Subject menu, scroll down and click on Newspapers.  

 

Browsing Current Periodicals 

Current magazines and journals can be browsed in the GV, RA, and RC area of Current Periodicals on the Middle Level of the library.  Bound volumes of older issues are shelved on the top level in the General Collection, also under GV, RA, and RC in the General Collection Stacks.  Some of the journals are:

  • Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology   GV1.J6852
  • Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness   RA1.J867
  • Athletic Therapy Today   RC1.A871
  • Journal of Athletic Training   RC1.J855
  • Sports Medicine   RC1.S764

Electronic Journals

The WSU Stewart Library also provides access to thousands of periodicals.  Most articles can be read directly on your web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox), although for many you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader.  Most computers come with the program, but if yours doesn't, you can download it for free here:  download Adobe Reader.

Some titles are:  (Please note that dates available vary - check Ejournals for all options)

If you already know the title of the journal:

  • Go to the library's Ejournals list.
  • Enter the title of the journal in the search box and click on search.
  • You may also search our electronic journals holdings in the online catalog using the Journal Alphabetical search; an icon saying Ejournals will appear in the catalog record if the journal is available online.

 


Web Resources

 

  • Scirus  http://www.scirus.com  
  • MEDLINEplus-Sports Injuries   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sportsinjuries.html
  • MEDLINEplus-Sport Fitness   http://nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sportsfitness.html
  • ADAM Health Illustrated Encyclopedia   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
  • National Athletic Trainers' association   http://www.nata.org
  • Health Web: Sports Medicine   http://healthweb.org
  • NCAA: Health and Safety   http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/ed_outreach/health-safety/index.html

 


Research Tips

As you do your research, keep the following tips in mind:

  • Clearly identify your information need
  • Identify key words and search terms to match your topic
  • Develop search statements using advanced search techniques
    • Boolean logic, adjacency searching and truncation
  • Use the Online catalog to find books
  • Use Education and Social Sciences Databases to find magazine and  journal articles
  • Go back to the online catalog to see if the journals are in Stewart Library and where they are located
  • Use Interlibrary loan to get materials that are not in Stewart Library
  • Use search engines to find Web information
  • Carefully evaluate the information you find for usefulness and quality
  • Revise your search terms and strategy to expand or narrow your results, be creative, look in other areas
  • Use appropriate style to document and cite your research
  • Ask for HELP via phone or email

Updated May 3, 2007 . Please send comments to Evan Christensen
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