Health & Sports Science Education
Databases by Sub-Topic
Although not necessarily an exhaustive list, the following databases are relevant to the subject of Health & Sports Science Education:
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
- Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality open-access, peer-reviewed journals.
- Elsevier Open Access
All articles in open-access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
- JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students.
Through through JSTOR, we subscribe to three multidisciplinary collections focused on social and life sciences. - Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
Retraction Watch is an open-access database of peer-reviewed articles that have been retracted, or about which concern has been formally expressed. Database entries contain citation information, the article’s current status, and the reasons why the article has been retracted or is considered questionable.
Education Databases
- Education Source
Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals, and policymakers.
- ERIC
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, is an online resource to education literature and research.
- Professional Development Collection
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Health Databases
- Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PALS Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Medical Databases
- CINAHL with Full Text
CINAHL with Full Text is one of the world’s most comprehensive sources of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 603 journals indexed in CINAHL.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full-text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimize bias.
- MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre–clinical sciences, and much more.
- PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life-science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
- PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free, full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection.
Mental Health & Psychometrics
- APA PsycArticles
APA PsycArticles from the American Psychological Association (APA) is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to thousands of contemporary testing instruments.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
News & Current Events
- MasterFILE Complete
MasterFILE Complete contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, and much more.
- Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles.
- Newswires
EBSCO’s Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.
- TOPICsearch
This current-events database allows researchers to explore social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms.
- Web News
EBSCO’s Web News provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe.
eBooks & Reference Works
- Consumer Health Reference eBook Collection
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general health topics including cancer and diabetes; weight management and exercise; allergies; senior care; social–emotional health; developmental disorders; and natural health.
- Directory of Open Access Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.
The directory links to thousands of full-text, peer-reviewed books from hundreds of publishers. - eBook Academic Collection
This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of eBooks covering a large selection of academic subjects and features eBooks from leading publishers and university presses.
- eBook Collection
Search and view the full text of eBooks.
- MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection
This eBook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects.
- NCBI Bookshelf
Bookshelf is an online, searchable collection of more than 8,000 books, reports, databases, and other scholarly literature in biology, medicine, and the life sciences developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health.
Theses & Dissertations
- EBSCO Open Dissertations
EBSCO Open Dissertations now includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.
- Open Access Theses and Dissertations
OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open-access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Student Databases
The Oklahoma Digital Prairie includes several reasearch databases aimed at students elementary through high school.
- MAS Complete
Designed specifically for high-school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 540 popular high-school magazines.
- Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle-school magazines.
- Primary Search
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary-school libraries and public-library children’s rooms, contains full text for more than 70 popular elementary-school magazines.
Nonfiction eBooks
Our nonfiction eBooks include collections aimed at students elementary through high school.
- Book Collection: Nonfiction Elementary School Edition
Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition is a rich research database for school and public libraries. A cross-curricular database, it provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers.
- Book Collection: Nonfiction High School Edition
Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition is a rich research database for school and public libraries. A cross-curricular database, it provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers.
- Book Collection: Nonfiction Middle School Edition
Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition is a rich research database for school and public libraries. A cross-curricular database, it provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers.
- MAS Reference eBook Collection
This eBook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high-school students.
- Middle Search Reference eBook Collection
This eBook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for middle-school students. Topics include social studies, math, history, language arts, technology, geography, culture, and science.
- Primary Search Reference eBook Collection
This eBook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for primary-school students. Topics include social studies, history, language arts, geography, culture, math, and science.
Explora Databases
Explora is a user-friendly and visually appealing version of the EBSCOhost interface designed for public and school libraries.
- Explora Educator’s Edition
Explora is an interface from EBSCO designed for school and public libraries. Subscriptions to Explora automatically include the Educator’s Edition, which gives instant access to all of EBSCO’s education-related databases available at NWOSU as well as curriculum standards and sample lesson plans.
- Explora Elementary Student Research
This version of Explora is intended for elementary-school students and includes the full text of the Salem Press Primary Encyclopedia.
- Explora Middle School Student Research
Intended for secondary-school students, this version of Explora includes primary-source materials, a suite of Salem Press reference works, and reports and conference proceedings as well as popular magazines, eBooks, and peer-reviewed journals.
- Explora Public Library Search
Intended for public libraries, this version of Explora includes reports, conference proceedings, and a suite of reference works from Salem Press as well as news articles, eBooks, magazines, and journals.