Academic Resources Part II:

Exercise Prescriptionfor Special Populations

Frederic Murray Assistant ProfessorMLIS, University of British ColumbiaBA, Political Science, University of Iowa

Instructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu

ReviewTools of Scholarship

Content• Books• Articles• Journals• Citations• WWW

Tools• Catalogs• Databases• Lists• Indexes• Search Engines

Review

• Keywords– General– Specific– Synonyms– Antonyms

• Boolean– And/Or/Not

• Search Strings

Boolean Operators

• Connect keywords only• Must be placed between keywords• AND

– Narrows your search• OR

– Expands your search with synonymous terms

• NOT– Excludes words from your search– If used too much, it can work against you!

Scholarly Popular Trade

INFORMATION LITERACY

Philosophical Transactions The world's first peer-reviewed

journal

1665

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~estec/tutorials/scholarly.htm

Databases Journals

145 Databases 27,000 Online

12,000 Physical

Journals Periodicals

List 27,000 Online12,000 Physical

A- Z Subject

Periodical List

• Search in the List– Exercise– Fitness– Sports– Medicine– Nutrition

Remember: We have 39,000 Journals in the Library!Can you find the ones relevant to your field…?“AND”

Periodical List Subject Headings

• Medicine and Health Sciences –   Physical Fitness and Hygiene (73)–   Sports Medicine (22)–  Nutrition and Dietetics (115)–  Physical Therapy (39)– Physically Impaired (46)

• Education– Physical Education (53)

Periodical List• Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

–  LWW Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection

• Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport–  E-Journals from EBSCO/ Paper  

• American Journal of Cardiology

–  IDIS/Web  

• Circulation–  Free Access Journals (HighWire)

• Journal of American Dietetic Association– Paper

• Journal of exercise physiology online– SPORTDiscus with Full Text

Remember: We have 39,000 Journals in the Library!Can you find/search/use these..?

Web Searching

• Grammar of the Web – URLs

• Google Scholar

• Google Site Searching

Exercise and Obesity site:edu site:gov

Anatomy of a URL

Web Searching

• Grammar of the Web – URLs

• Google Scholar

• Google Site Searching

Exercise and Obesity site:edu site:gov

Google Wonder Wheel

Google Site Search

• Locate scholarly information using Google site search

( i.e. exercise and special populations and programs)

• Select Page 8

• Is it a journal article? A website? A syllabus?

• How do you know if it is peer-reviewed or not?

• When and where was it “published”

Wikipedia

• Participation maps popular, not academic concerns

• It is a working community…but is it a good resource for medical information?

• Lack of Critical Analysis• Problematic as a sole source of

information • Like all encyclopedias…ok to start,

terrible place to stop. • Benefits are to its active participants,

not its readers.

APA Citations

• Citation GuidesEasy to use guides on how to put your citations into APA format

• Diana Hacker: Research & Documentation Online

Study Like A Scholar

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Questions?

• Contact me:

• Frederic Murray• 774-7113• frederic.murray@swosu.edu

Web Sites • The Kinesiology Network At Kinesiology Net you will find useful information about manual

muscle testing kinesiology, addresses to schools, associations and journals, a muscle database, links to research-papers, and many www-links to other web sites about kinesiology.

• Exercise A Guide from the National Institute on Aging• Exercise and Physical Fitness An extensive list of links from the MedlinePlus site containing

news, summaries and overviews, diagrams and pictures, nutrition and therapies ....• ExRx.net ExRx.net (Exercise Prescription on the Net) is a free resource for the exercise

professional, coach, or fitness enthusiast." ExRx.net consists of over 2000 pages, most of which are found in the Exercise and Muscle Directory.

• Fitness.gov The health, physical activity, fitness and sports information website of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

• Human Kinetics Human Kinetics’ partners and programs reinforce sports and physical activity on an international scale.

• PECentral.org The premier Web site for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students. Their goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.

• Shape up America Shape Up America! is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization committed to raising awareness of obesity as a health issue and to providing responsible information on healthy weight management.

• Sports Fitness A specific page devoted to Sports Fitness which has an extensive list of links - from the MedlinePlus site.

• Wellness Letter Access to the table of contents, a feature article, and "Ask the Experts" column from UC Berkeley's monthly newsletter of nutrition, fitness, and self-care. Other free resources include guide to supplements, wellness recipes and wellness books.

Career Resources• American Kinesiology Association• American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Educati

on• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recre

ation and Dance (AAHPERD• American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM)• The American Physiological Society (APS)• American College of Sports Medicine• National Strength and Conditioning Association• National Athletic Trainers Association• North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)• North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM

)• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NAS

SS)

Career Resources

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