Journal Articles:

Common Database Choices

• Academic Search Premier (many full-text) All subjects. [INFO and SLIDECAST TUTORIAL]
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic (many full-text) [INFO]
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, IV & V (full-text backfiles) [INFO] [Tutorial]
• MEDLINE (links to full-text) [INFO]
• OregonPDF in Health & Performance (many full-text) [INFO]
• PubMed (links to full-text) [INFO]
• SciFinder: First time? Register with your PSU email address, or login to SciFinder. Please note: Due to the nature of SciFinder, it is not currently available from off campus.
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text (mostly full-text) [INFO]
• Web of Knowledge [INFO]

Education Databases

• ERIC (links to full-text) [INFO and SLIDECAST TUTORIAL]
• Kraus K-12 Curriculum Guides (many full-text) [INFO]

Database Choices for Special Topics

• Business Source Premier (many full-text) [INFO]
• Contemporary Women’s Issues (all full-text) [INFO]
• Counseling and Therapy in Video [INFO]
• Dissertation Abstracts Online
• FirstSearch (Ask at Reference Desk for password) [INFO]
• FirstSearch journal titles list
• PsycARTICLES (select index; all full-text) [INFO]
• PsycINFO (huge index; links to full-text) [INFO]
• Research Starters (Business)
• SocINDEX with Full Text (mostly full-text) [INFO]

News, Analysis, and Opinion:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• CQ Researcher (all full-text) [INFO]
• LexisNexis Academic (business/law/reference; all full-text) [INFO]
• New York Times 1980-present
• New York Times Digital Archive, 1851- (all full-text) [INFO]
• Newspaper Source (mostly full-text) [INFO]
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context (all full-text) [INFO]
• Regional Business News (many full-text) [INFO]
• Union Leader/NH Sunday News (all full-text) [INFO]
• Wall Street Journal 1984-present

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Reference:

• Credo reference (all full-text) [INFO]
• Encyclopaedia Britannica (all full-text) [INFO]
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia [INFO]
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (Reference E-books) [INFO]
• Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (Gale EBook)
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (all full-text) [INFO]

Web Sites:

• Google Directory — Health
• Google Directory — Recreation
• Google Directory –Sports

• IPL2 (Internet Public Library) — Subject Index

Browse Journals:

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Selected Journals by Title

[Note: This is only a partial list. To find access to other journals by title, use the A-Z Journal List.]

Journals by Subject

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• Geography. Anthropology. Recreation (~1,147)
  
  Environmental sciences (~24)
  Environmental education (1)
  Environmental management (~4)
  Environmental policy (~6)
  Environmentalism. Green movement (1)
  
  Recreation. Leisure (~479)
  Circuses, spectacles, etc. (1)
  Dancing (~9)
  Games and amusements (~18)
  Outdoor life. Outdoor recreation (~26)
  Physical education and training (~49)
  Recreation leadership. Administration of recreation services (~2)
  Recreational areas and facilities. Recreation centers (~6)
  Sports (~227)

• Medicine (~2,244)
  
  Dermatology (~20)
  Gynecology and obstetrics (~80)
  Conception. Artificial insemination. Contraception (1)
  Diseases of the breast (1)
  Functional and systemic disorders. Endocrine gynecology (1)
  Obstetrics (~3)
  Operative gynecology (1)
  Internal medicine (~640)
  Examination. Diagnosis (~2)
  Infectious and parasitic diseases (~3)
  Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid (~3)
  Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (~59)
  Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry (~113)
  Popular medicine (~2)
  Psychosomatic medicine (~2)
  Special situations and conditions (~33)
  Specialties of internal medicine (~64)
  Medicine (General) (~94)
  Biomedical engineering. Electronics. Instrumentation (~12)
  Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics (~4)
  General works (~16)
  History of medicine. Medical expeditions (~3)
  Medical education. Medical schools. Research (~9)
  Medical personnel and the public. Physician and the public (~2)
  Medical philosophy. Medical ethics (~6)
  Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine (~7)
  Medical technology (~6)
  Medicine and disease in relation to psychology. Terminal care. Dying (~9)
  Medicine as a profession. Physicians (~3)
  Practice of medicine. Medical practice economics (~6)
  Nursing (~96)
  Specialties in nursing (~3)
  Ophthalmology (~18)
  Optometry. Opticians. Eyeglasses (1)
  Particular diseases of the eye (1)
  Other systems of medicine (~4)
  Chiropractic (1)
  Miscellaneous systems and treatments (~3)
  Otorhinolaryngology (~15)
  Otology. Diseases of the ear (~3)
  Pathology (~25)
  Clinical pathology. Laboratory technique (~2)
  General works (~4)
  Manifestations of disease (1)
  Pathological anatomy and histology (~2)
  Theories of disease. Etiology. Pathogenesis (~2)
  Pediatrics (~53)
  Child health. Child health services (~3)
  Diseases of children and adolescents (~14)
  Hospital care (1)
  Nursing of children. Pediatric nursing (~6)
  Pharmacy and materia medica (~112)
  Materia medica (~8)
  Public aspects of medicine (~344)
  Forensic medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine (~5)
  Medical centers. Hospitals. Dispensaries. Clinics (~16)
  Medicine and the state (~33)
  Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine (~80)
  Toxicology. Poisons (~16)
  Surgery (~130)
  Anesthesiology (~10)
  General works (~3)
  Operating rooms and theaters. Instruments, apparatus, and appliances (~13)
  Orthopedic surgery (~5)
  Plastic surgery. Reparative surgery (~3)
  Prosthesis. Artificial organs (~2)
  Surgery in childhood, adolescence, pregnancy, old age (1)
  Surgical nursing (1)
  Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. (1)
  Therapeutics. Pharmacology (~378)
  Antibiotic therapy. Antibiotics (1)
  Diet therapy. Dietary cookbooks (~4)
  Drugs and their actions (~8)
  Other therapeutic procedures (~2)
  Physical medicine. Physical therapy (~5)
  Rehabilitation therapy (~5)

Books:

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• Catalog

• Google Books

• WorldCat

Library of Congress Classification System

Consult the Library of Congress Classification system to find areas to browse in the general collection or in the reference section.

• Library of Congress Classification
• Library of Congress Classification:Class A — General Works
• Library of Congress Classification:Class B — Philosophy Psychology Religion
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class C — Auxiliary Sciences of History
• Library of Congress Classification:Class D — History General and Old World
• Library of Congress Classification:Class E — History of America
• Library of Congress Classification:Class F — Local History of the United States and Latin America
• Library of Congress Classification:Class G — Geography Anthropology Recreation
• Library of Congress Classification:Class H — Social Sciences
• Library of Congress Classification:Class J — Political Science
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class K — Law
• Library of Congress Classification:Class L — Education
• Library of Congress Classification:Class M — Music
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class N — Fine Arts
• Library of Congress Classification:Class P — Language and Literature
• Library of Congress Classification:Class Q — Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class S — Agriculture
• Library of Congress Classification:Class T — Technology
• Library of Congress Classification:Class U — Military Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class V — Naval Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class Z — Bibliography Library Science Information Resources

Associations:

• Google — Health — Organizations
• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance