Course resource help for Sport, Coaching, PE and Exercise Science

Use databases to search for details of articles, published in all the most important journals in a particular subject area.

Sport Discus

Considered by some to be the leading database in the field of Sport, Coaching and Physical Education, SPORTDiscus contains information on sports medicine, exercise physiology, physical fitness, sports science, sports psychology, biomechanics, training, teaching, programming and coaching material.

Comprehensive Physiology

A database that covers all aspects of physiology and includes over 30,000 pages from the Handbook of physiology series.

Web of Science

This host service provides a single route to many of the key scientific databases subscribed to by Brookes. These are: the Web of Science Core Collection (including the Science Citation Index); MEDLINE; Biosis Citation Index; Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science; and Journal Citation Reports. Databases can be searched individually or together and bibliographic records will link to any full-text content available via Full Text Finder.

Academic Search Complete

A full-text database providing full articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts, across a wide range of subjects.

Science Direct

Contains around 2500 full text journals published by Elsevier, mainly in science, technology and medicine. Full text coverage for most journals in the collection is available from 2002 to present.

Medline

Biomedicine and health care. Compiled by the National Library of Medicine (USA), MEDLINE contains bibliographic information drawn primarily from life sciences literature, published since 1966. Specifically, medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains over 12 million bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals. Full text links may be available for some records.

PubMed

A large international medical, biomedical and healthcare database which also includes veterinary, animal health and other life science journal titles.

PsycInfo

A broad based Psychology database, coverage includes abstracts of books, journal articles and dissertations. Covers material published since 1887 Contains more than 1.5 million references.

Cochrane Library

If you are trying to find out how effective a treatment is then search this database which indexes Cochrane reviews. A Cochrane review is seen as the gold standard of evidence based healthcare as it brings together every piece of research on an intervention from around the world and draws conclusions based on all of the evidence available.

Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games

A learning resource, publishing scholarly and multidisciplinary research on the Olympic and Paralympic Games. ROSO contains over 1000 journal articles and book chapters on themes including: the media, education, gender, politics, governance, management, law, business, ethics, legacies, the environment, disability studies, athletic performance and history.

Statista

Statista offers access to statistics and studies on 80,000 topics and 170 industries. It contains statistics, infographics, market surveys, consumer surveys, industry and country reports. Sources include government institutions, such as statistical offices and ministries, international organisations, market research institutes, and trade journals. Data on the gross advertising market (Nielsen) and buying and consumption behaviour/brands(VuMa) and other paid sources such as Mintel, YouGov, eMarketer, Kantar and PwC are also included.

British Education Index

Covers mostly British and European Education journals, as well as some research reports and conference papers. Lots of the articles (not all) have the full text available. EBSCO.

CINAHL

This is a large database, is easy to use and it's easy to access the things Brookes subscribes to in full text. It is North American, but includes research from all over the world, including the UK.

Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection

A collection of seminar style talks/lectures by leading world experts on all aspects of biomedical and life sciences. The talks can be searched as a whole but are arranged into subject categories. There are over 3000 talks, which vary in length from about 20 minutes to an hour. The collection is regularly expanded and updated as new series and talks are added. 

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

An online archive giving you access to thousands of recorded radio and TV programmes including films. It allows users to record programmes which will then be stored on the database. Log in when prompted with your Brookes username and password.

• Google Scholar : a way of focussing your Google search on more academic or scholarly literature

• Google : Advanced Search

• Carrot2 : a search engine that organises your results into topics. Includes visualisations and is useful for identifying alternative phrases. Also links with PubMed.

• Library guide on Evaluating web sources

• Oxford Reference Online - about 300 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including A Dictionary of Sports Studies.

Sport sites

• The Complete Sports Science Training Library (PDF) - a collection of 91 ebooks.

• BASES - British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences

• BBC Sport Online

• British Olympic Association

• British Universities and Colleges Sports

• Child Protection in Sport Unit (NSPCC)

• Coaching Science Abstracts

• Human Kinetics webinars - a collection of webinars from the specialist sport publisher Human Kinetics, covering a variety of sport and fitness topics.

• Jiscmail - search for 'sport' as a keyword to find mailing lists you may want to join.

• Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games - a learning resource, publishing scholarly and multidisciplinary research on the Olympic and Paralympic Games. ROSO contains over 1000 journal articles and book chapters on themes including: the media, education, gender, politics, governance, management, law, business, ethics, legacies, the environment, disability studies, athletic performance and history.

• Sport England (English Sports Council)

• Sports Coach - webpage of Brian MacKenzie, respected coach for British Athletics. Provides information for athletes, fitness enthusiasts, sports science students and sports coaches on many topics relating to athletic development, exercise physiology and successful coaching.

• SportScotland

• Sports Council for Northern Ireland

• Sport Wales

• UK Coaching

Basic Library Searching (video guide) - shows you how to find books, journals, your module reading list

Research your topic by using Databases (highly recommended):

Using Sport Discus database (video guide)

Using Web of Science database (video guide)

Using PubMed database (video guide)

Web Searching Guide - use LibKey Nomad to help you access full text content on the Web!
Includes tips to save you time, helping you to search effectively and efficiently and find appropriate information by using Google Advanced Search and Google Scholar (including setting up links to Brookes library). Also includes information on Evaluating web sources.

​​An Introduction to Referencing - what is referencing and why do we need to do it?

Cite Them Right Online shows you how to reference a wide range of sources (books, journal articles, web sites) using exactly the same Harvard style used at Brookes. Video - How to use Cite Them Right

Library guide to referencing using the Harvard style (PDF and Word versions available)

A Handbook of Writing and Presentation Skills for Science Students

An excellent easy to read guide book: Referencing & understanding Plagiarism

Further information available on our library referencing webpage

Some postgraduate students may be asked to use a referencing and editorial style from the American Psychological Association: Library guide to using APA 7 - a document to guide you through referencing a variety of different publication types using APA 7.

Use the EndNote software to store, manage and cite your references easily (see EndNote section below)

Endnote is a tool for storing and organising your references, and it will also work with Word or Pages to create a fully formatted bibliography from the references in your Endnote library.

It is available as a desktop version and an online version.

The desktop application is Endnote 21, and this can be streamed via Apps Anywhere.

How to Guide: Use EndNote21 (Windows)

How to Guide: Use EndNote21 (Mac OS)

A Guide to using Endnote Online.

Further information can be found on the web page: Endnote

Endnote Import Filters: A list of Endnote Import Filters corresponding to each library database for the Life Sciences. Select the appropriate one, if required, when transferring references from library databases into Endnote – mostly though you won’t need to use them.

The Interlibrary Loans service is available to all staff and students. When doing research you will come across references to items which are not held in the Oxford Brookes University Library. This services often enables us to borrow items and obtain copies of articles from other UK libraries and even abroad. Our webpages provide details of how to request items.

You can get access to libraries other than our own, including the Oxford University Bodleian Libraries and British Library. Our Access to other libraries guide provides further details, including joining information. 
For content at the Bodleian Libraries you can use SOLO - the catalogue of the major collections of the University of Oxford to find out what is available.
 

Oxford Brookes Theses:

A copy of every Oxford Brookes PhD and MPhil thesis is deposited with the Library in print format (also known as a 'hardcopy'), online format (also known as 'electronic' theses or eTheses), or in both print and online formats. Oxford Brookes theses submitted from 2021 onwards are only available from the Library in online (or 'electronic') format.

To find print and online Oxford Brookes theses you can search LibrarySearch by author, title, keyword, while for only the online theses you can browse or search our repository RADAR.

Theses from other institutions:

• EBSCO Open Dissertations: enables you to search for thousands of open access dissertations
• British Library’s EThOS project: a theses digitisation project. You can search across 500,000+ theses for free and download / order full text where available. You will need to register and log in if you want to download a thesis or to order digitisation of a thesis.
• CORE: CORE (COnnecting REpositories) is an aggregation of open access content from UK and worldwide repositories and open access journals. It includes access to theses.
• DART-Europe: provides details of European theses with access to full text where available.
• National Library of Australia Trove Service: a free repository of Australian material, including almost a million Australian theses.
• Global Electronic Theses and Dissertation Search: a database of open-access electronic theses and dissertations worldwide from the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.

A preprint is a full draft research paper that is shared publicly before it has been peer reviewed. These reports are shared publicly through preprint servers, enabling researchers to share their results quickly and freely. Do be aware that credibility concerns have been raised about some papers as they haven’t been peer reviewed. Examples of preprint services are listed below.

• SportRxiv
• NutriXiv
• ASAPbio is a directory of preprint servers
• Research Square

Open Access Databases:

• CORE
• SciELO
• Dimensions
• Lens
• DIALNET
• Journals Online project: access to peer-reviewed journals published in developing countries

• Academia.edu: academic social network, enabling free sharing of papers
• ResearchGate: academic social network for science and research. Connect, collaborate and find scientific publications, jobs and conferences.