Welcome!

Welcome to the Department of Health & Sport Sciences (HSS) home page!

This website is designed for students majoring in one of the HSS majors and for HSS faculty.  It is designed to make your research experience more efficient and more comprehensive.  For questions about the library or suggestions to improve this web site,  please contact Mr. Robb, the Health & Sports Sciences librarian liaison at grobb@salisbury.edu. You may also reach him by phone at 410-543-6234.

Books

Reference books of potential interest to Health & Sport Sciences (HSS) majors:

Athletic Training

Bernier, Julie N., 1964- Quick reference dictionary forathletic training / Julie N. Bernier.
              Thorofare, NJ : Slack, c2002.  SU Blackwell Library : Reference - RC1206 - .B475  2002

Databases

Databases by Health & Sport Sciences (HSS) Subdivision

GENERAL 'DO IT ALL' DATABASES
Academic Search Complete (This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.)  This general database covers just about any topic you can imagine and includes many full text articles with links to other full text articles on our other databases.  If you don't know what database to go to, Academic Search Complete is a good place to start!

ArticleFirst (Indexes articles on business, science, humanities, social sciences, medicine, technology, and popular culture.) This not a full text database, but it does have links to full text articles on our other databases. What makes this general database special is that it covers about 12,000 journals and it has a function in the 'advanced search' mode that allows the searcher to designate only those articles that are in the SU print journal collection (1,100+ journals). This is the only database at SU that has this function.

Web of Science (Citations on science, technology, social sciences and arts & humanities.) While this is a wide ranging database, it includes articles on many HPEHP related topics. The special thing about this database is that it offers many links to articles that cite the original articles, as well as some links to articles that the original article has cited.  This is unique among all our databases.
 

HEALTH EDUCATION DATABASES
ERIC (EBSCO: Educational Resource Information Center) Comprehensive education database includes articles and documents on physical education.
Web version at www.eric.ed.gov/  The web version does not link to full text articles available through our subcription databases, so it is usually better to use the EBSCO version.

Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition  (Scholarly journals, many full text, focusing on many medical disciplines.)

MEDLINE (EBSCO: Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, etc.  Very comprehensive medical database, but many articles may need to be ordered through Interlibrary Loan which may take anywhere from a few days to 2 weeks to get here. albeit that a few days is more common.

Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest: Find complete, full-text information from leading nursing, allied health, and related publications. Designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as students enrolled in nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions.)

ScienceDirect (Mostly Full-text scientific database on physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.)

Web of Science (Citations on science, technology, social sciences and arts & humanities. See notation above.)

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
ERIC (EBSCO: Educational Resource Information Center) Comprehensive education database includes articles and documents on physical education.
Web version at www.eric.ed.gov/  The web version does not link to full text articles available through our subcription databases, so it is usually better to use the EBSCO version.

Physical Education Index (Abstracts from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, etc. featuring content on physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology, health education and physical therapy.)  [Download a PDF handout]

Web of Science (Citations on science, technology, social sciences and arts & humanities. See notation above.)

HUMAN PERFORMANCE (EXERCISE SCIENCE; also useful for Athletic Training)
Physical Education Index (Abstracts from peer-reviewed journals (see notation above). This is not a full text database. but there are links to some full text articles from our FIND IT function.  This is the only SU database dedicated specifically to a wide spectrum of physical education topics. [Download a PDF handout]

Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition  (Scholarly journals, many full text, focusing on many medical disciplines.)

MEDLINE (EBSCO: Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, etc.  Very comprehensive medical database, but many articles may need to be ordered through Interlibrary Loan which may take anywhere from a few days to 2 weeks to get here. albeit that a few days is more common.

Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest: Find complete, full-text information from leading nursing, allied health, and related publications. Designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as students enrolled in nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions.)

ScienceDirect (Mostly full-text scientific database on physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.)

Web of Science (Citations on science, technology, social sciences and arts & humanities. See notation above.)

MISCELLANEOUS DATABASES (that might be useful to HPEHP research)

JSTOR (Collections for Arts & Sciences I, II, III, Business and Botany and Ecology)  This database is not generally oriented to HSS topics, but it does overlap into some HPEHP areas.  The most recent articles are 3 to 4 years old.  What makes this database special is that essentially all articles are scholarly and full text, and these articles go back a long way, even into the 19th and 20th centuries, in some cases.  This database is very good for getting historical background information if you can find something on your topic.

Newspapers (National)  Allows one to cross search five major U.S. newspapers, several of which have historical components. Older coverage of four national newspapers can be found individually under the Historical newspaper section.  The New York Times has article extending back to 1851, the Baltimore Sun back to 1837! 

Journals

Journals covering Health & Sport Sciences (HSS) topics can be found several different places.  First, there is our print journal collection (see list below).  Second, there is our online collection accessed through our numerous Databases.  Third, there is the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) option from which you can request articles from libraries across the U.S.

Getting an article from this latter option can take anywhere from a few days to two weeks, plus or minus. If the article comes through the mail it can take two weeks or more, but usually most ILL articles are delivered electronically by email within a few days.

ILL, also known as ILLIAD here at SU, can be accessed by two ways.  One through a direct link to ILLIAD found on our home page and a second method where you can click on the amber button accessed from within the record of an article found in ONE OF our many databases. The 'FIND IT' button will link you to information that tells you whether the article is available 1) Online OR 2) In Print or 3) must be ordered through ILLIAD.  If you have any questions about this process, please email Mr. Robb at ggrobb@salisbury.edu.

Outdoor Education - Associations and other Websites

American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation  (AAPAR) Teacher training, resources in adapted physical education, outdoor recreation, aquatics, senior fitness.

Association for Experiential Education (AEE)  The Association for Experiential Education (AEE) is a nonprofit, professional membership association dedicated to experiential education and the students, educators and practitioners who utilize its philosophy.his is a website, not an organization per se, but has a lot of useful information.

OutdoorEd.com - The Outdoor Education Professionals Resource  As it says in the title, this is a website for Outdoor Education Professionals.  This website is still being updated, but there is already a lot of potentially useful information.

Wilderdom.com  Tools for Human-Environment Transformation  - a useful site for Experiential/Outdoor Education includes ideas for group activities and games.  It covers theory and practice and also news in this field.  Definitely worth a look.


Physical Education

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)  A broad organization allied with several associations including AAPAR & NASPE. AAHPERD’s mission is to promote and support leadership, research, education, and best practices in the professions that support creative, healthy, and active lifestyles.

National Association for Sports and Physical Education (NASPE)  Mission: To enhance knowledge, improve professional practice and increase support for high quality physical education, sport and physical activity programs.