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Subject Guides : Sports Medicine
Selected Reference Books in McQuade Library (First Floor):
- ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (REF RC684 .E9 A45 1995)
- ACSM's Heath/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines (REF GV429 .A45 1997)
- A Dictionary of Sports Injuries and Disorders (REF RC1206 .P68 1996)
- Dictionary of the Sport and Exercise Sciences (REF GV558 .D53 1991)
- Oxford Textbook of Sports Medicine (REF RC1210 .O96 1994)
- Oxford Dictionary Of Sports Science and Medicine (REF RC1206 .O94 1994)
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (REF Q121 .M3 1992)
- Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia (REF Q121 .V3 1968)
- Facts on File Dictionary of Biology (REF QH302.5 .F38 1999)
- Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (REF QH307.2 .C36)
- Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences (REF QH13 .G7 1970)
- Dictionary of Life Sciences (REF QH302.5 .D52 1984)
Selected Reference Books in Electronic Format:
- Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray from Bartleby.com
- Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation The Virtual Hospital
Search the NOBLE Web Catalog for more print and electronic books owned by McQuade Library. Try these sample subject headings:
Selected print indexes and periodicals:
Reader's Guide To Periodical Literature [1890 -] (REF AI3 .R48) is a subject and author index of
approximately 200 popular and general interest periodicals, including Nutrition Science News; Runner's World, Science; Science News; Sports Illustrated and Current Health.
The McQuade Library Periodicals List is available in the library and on the Web site under "Journal Finder."
Titles held include:
- Journal of Athletic Training -- Periodicals RC 1200 .A8 v.30 1995 +
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise -- Periodicals RC 1200 .M4 1995 +
- Physician and SportsMedicine -- Periodicals RC 1200 .A4 1995 +
Selected journals, magazines, and newspapers on the Web:
- Athletic Insight - The Online Journal of Sport Psychology - an online journal devoted to topics in the growing field of sport psychology and in particular performance enhancement through psychological preparedness.
- FreeMedicalJournals.com - has a good index by subject specialty.
- Journal of Exercise Physiology online - a professional peer reviewed Internet-based journal devoted to original research in the field of exercise physiology.
- The Sport Journal - a publication of the American Sports Academy in cooperation with the International Coaches Association and the International Association of Sports Academies.
- SportScience - a peer-reviewed site for sport research hosted by the International Sports Sciences Association.
Search these databases to find articles:
- EBSCOhost - a collection of databases that provides indexing and selected full-text to a
wide variety of subjects, including the humanities, science, business, medicine, and education. Several databases may be relevant to the study of Sports Medicine: Academic Search Elite; Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; MEDLINE; PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES. Some journals indexed include: American Journal of Sports Medicine; American Fitness; Athletic Therapy Today and The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
EBSCOhost On Campus Access | EBSCOhost Off Campus Access
- INFOTRAC - a collection of databases covering general reference, literature, health, business, science
and more. Some full-text is included. Choose either Expanded Academic ASAP or Health Reference Center Academic. Look in Health Reference Center Academic for online editions of the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary.
INFOTRAC On Campus Access | INFOTRAC Off Campus Access
- LexisNexis Academic - contains full-text articles from medical & health news sources covering healthcare; articles from medical & health journals covering a wide range of medical topics and abstracts from the National Library of Medicine's Medline database.
LexisNexis On Campus Access | LexisNexis Off Campus Access (Enter your Merrimack email username and password)
- FirstSearch - offers more than 70 databases in 15 topic areas, including arts, business & economics,
education, humanities, law, news & current events, public affairs, social science, science & medicine. Some full-text is included. One of the online indexes is CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) which is an excellent database for students in the Allied Health disciplines.
FirstSearch On Campus Access | FirstSearch Off Campus Access
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information. Please be ready to provide your ID number when you call. This is the barcode number on the
back of your Merrimack College ID card.)
- Wiley InterScience - provides full text of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals published by John Wiley & Sons. Search journals in the subject category " Life and Medical Sciences." Available on campus only.
Wiley InterScience On Campus Access
General Guides
- Health Web: Sports Medicine Guide From the University of South Dakota a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation, supported in part by the National Library of Medicine(NLM).
- FirstGov for SCIENCE A gateway to authoritative selcted science information provided by the U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
- MedWeb Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library of Emory University - this site has an extensive subject index and lists over 75 resources in the sports medicine specialty alone.
- My Virtual Encyclopedia: Health & Medicine - from refdesk.com.
- The Physician and SportsMedicine Resource Directory - helpful sports medicine industry directories, plus indexed links to other web sites that represent the diverse sports medicine community from the journal of the same name.
- PUBMED - database from the US National Library of Medicine - provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid -1950's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Topics in Sports Medicine
- National Center for Drug Free Sport - specializes in athletics-specific drug testing program support to help high schools, colleges, universities and other athletic organizations ensure drug free environments.
- About.com Guide to Sports Medicine
- NCAA Sport Sciences - information on programs and many of the association's publications.
- National Center for Health Statistics - the Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency.
- Therapeutic Recreation - resources for therapeutic recreation professionals.
- Institute for Preventative Sports Medicine
- MEDLINEplus: Sports Fitness
- Your Orthopaedic Connection from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Local Resources
- Athletic Trainers of Massachusetts
- McQuade Library
- Department of Biology and Allied Health, Merrimack College
Professional Organizations
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