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Starting Points for Research in Health and
Physical Education
Books
- The Libraries' book collection includes works
that offer information on Health and Physical Education topics. Use
PILOT (http://pilot.passhe.edu:8001/)
our online catalog to find books, government documents, journal titles
in our paper and electronic collections, and links to other valuable resources
on the Internet.
- To search the catalogs of other Pennsylvania
Libraries, and to borrow from them directly, search
PALCI
and log in using your 16-digit I-card number.)
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WorldCat --search the OCLC Database of paper and electronic titles. Books
located through this database can
generally be acquired through
Interlibrary Loan.
General Online Sources of Full-text
Scholarly and Popular Magazines,
Newspapers, and Books
Scholarly and popular magazines and newspapers offer concise and timely
treatment
of many issues. IUP patrons can access large collections of such
information through
the following services. (To gain access at home to the first
two, use your 16 digit
I-card number.)
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Acdemic Search Complete--access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and
newspapers, the bibliographic references to thousands more, and links to
Internet
sites and information on local holdings of periodicals.
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General
Onefile--
access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals
and bibliographic
access to thousands more.
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Book Collection: Nonfiction ----
a
rich research database that contains informative abstracts and
full-text for more than 1,600 popular nonfiction books.
Specialized Indexes
Though large general databases offering full-text are easy to use, sometimes the
source of the most scholarly and most relevant information is a specialized
index. You also
may wish to look at the complete list of these under Articles
and More, and Databases
on
our web page. Here are some examples:
- ERIC
-- most comprehensive index to educational literature available offers
access
to citations and abstracts of educational periodicals and reports.
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SportDiscus with Full Text ----
the world's most comprehensive source of full text for
sports & sports
medicine journals, providing full text for more than 350 journals indexed in
SPORTDiscus.
Style Guides
For assistance with research, come to the
reference desk or phone us at
724-357-3006.
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