EH1100 - Foundations of Health and Physical Education

Instructor: Judy Fynewever jmfynewe@mtu.edu

Librarian: Amanda Binoniemi abinonie@mtu.edu

Resources in the Reference Collection Second Floor

The Reference Collection is a good place to collect background information on an issue or start your research. It is arranged by Library of Congress Subject Headings http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco.

 

Dictionary of the sport and exercise sciences GV558 .D53 1991 REF

Encyclopedia of sports science GV 558 .E53 1997 REF

Encyclopedia of physical education, fitness, and sports GV567 .E49 REF

Gale encyclopedia of medicine RD 41 .G35 2006 REF

 

Resources on the Librarys Web Page - http://www.lib.mtu.edu

MTU Online Catalog contains records of materials owned by the MTU Library. To use the Librarys Catalog, go to the home page and click the Catalog button.

Two search interfaces, Basic and Keyword, allow the user to search for items by author, title, subject, call number, ISBN/ISSN, or keyword(s).

Most books are located in the Main Collection on Third Floor.

Some possible Library of Congress Subject Headings to use in a Basic Subject search:

 

 E-Resources

Access to electronic indexes/abstracts, online books, e-journals and selected websites.

To find citations to recent articles from journals, conference proceedings, and other publications, go to the Librarys web page at http://www.lib.mtu.edu and select E-Resources & E-Alerts.

E-Resources are searchable by name or keyword using the box at the top of the screen, or by subject area or collection using the pull-down menus lower down on the screen. Here are some of the databases that may be useful for this course.

CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Covers nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals 1982-.

Thomson Gale

Expanded Academic ASAP Cross-disciplinary access to scholarly journals. Includes science and technology. Advanced Search can limit to peer-reviewed titles.

Health Reference Center Academic Scholarly and popular research in consumer, nursing and allied health fields. Includes some full text.

 

FirstSearch (Life Sciences databases)

BioAgIndex Leading publications in agriculture, biology, forestry and ecology.

EducationAbstracts, Leading publications in all fields of education, including teaching methods and curriculum; career and employment trends.

PerAbs Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals.

 

CSA ILLUMINA

CSA is a collection of databases in the science and social sciences subject area. Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, & MEDLINE are appropriate for this course.

 

(Search tips for these and other library databases are available on the Librarys web page under Database Keyword Search Tips.

 

 

E Books

NetLibrary:Digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction. The J. Robert Van Pelt Library provides access to over 12,600 individual titles. Requires users to have a MTU IP address, an ISO password or to have established an individual user account through JRVP.

 

Resources on the Web

USA.gov: www.searchusa.gov. This is the official government site that searches over 87 million sites. Can search for just federal, federal and a specific state, federal and all states, all states, or a specific state. Advanced Search gives the most flexibility. Occupational Outlook Handbook is available on this site. Note:

Paper copies of this are also available at HF 5381 .A1 O1 in Reference and Main Collections.

 

Note: Remember that Government Documents are an especially rich source of information for research topics in the biological sciences, so be sure to utilize both the paper and web sources for these. Some materials are not listed in the JRVP Online Catalog. Go to the Government Documents page at www.lib.mtu.edu/govdocs for additional online resources. See the Reference Desk for further assistance.

 

Finding Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journals

Periodical Directories Identifying Peer-Reviewed Journals

Ulrichs Periodicals Directory Z 6947 .U5 REF DESK

Magazines for Libraries (Katz) Z 6941 .K2 REF DESK

Periodical Indexes - Some of the periodical indexes listed under E-Resources on the Librarys web page (http://www.lib.mtu.edu/) allow you to limit your search to peer-reviewed journals.

Consult these sites provided by other institutions:

Identifying Research Articles: http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/lsx/tutorial/section3.html

Identifying Refereed Journals: http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/lsx/tutorial/section3_1.html

Identifying Scientific Journals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_journal

Evaluating Web Sites: http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html

 

Citation style guides:http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/citations.html- A site on citation styles produced by Concordia University Libraries.

 

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) To request material not available at the J. Robert Van Pelt Library.

To request books and articles from other libraries, complete the appropriate New Request form, available by selecting Interlibrary Loan on the Library's website and logging into ILLiad (Inter-Library Loan Internet Accessible Database). When using ILLiad for the first time, click on First Time Users to set up your account.

 

ILL requests may also be made directly through some database providers such as FirstSearch and Thomson Gale.  Follow the HuskyFetch menu options and select "Get Item from another Library via ILLiad."  Please be sure to check the JRVP Library holdings before submitting a request directly from a database.

 

Note: The ILL process can take time (longer than 10 days in some cases.) Plan your research time accordingly.

 

For Assistance

For a copy of this guide and for lists of resources recommended for specific classes, select Course Guides.

For individual assistance or instruction from a librarian, visit the Reference & Information desk on 2^nd floor, phone 487-2507, or use e-mail or instant messaging by clicking Ask a Librarian on the Librarys website.