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Exercise Science and Health Promotion Databases

Subject Specific Databases

HealthSource

Health Source provides mainly full text access to the leading scholarly journals focusing on the medical disciplines. The Lexi-PAL Drug Guide is also included and provides patient education sheets for generic and brand name medications. This database can be searched in conjunction with Academic Search Premier and other databases by clicking "Choose Databases."

ProQuest Family Health

This database, which is entirely available in full text, offers information covering a variety of aspects of family health. Some topics include nutrition, sports medicine, dentistry, and midwifery. ProQuest Family Health can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

ProQuest Health Management

ProQuest Health Management provides access to journals, magazines and dissertations relating to the health management field. Primarily, this database provides searchable information about hospital management, health administration, public health and safety and other related fields. Topics such as finance, personnel management and population studies are also covered in the ways they relate to the medical fields. ProQuest Health Management can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source is meant to be used in both academic and healthcare settings. Much of the information is available in full text, and it ranges from general to very specialized information. Topics include nursing, nutrition, radiology, public health and more. ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source can be searched with any other ProQuest database.

PubMed

PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature, many with links to full text documents. MEDLINE, the premier bibliographic database for the life sciences, is accessible through PubMed and dates back to 1950. Use the Journals Database to search for journal articles by subject relating to the biomedical field and other life sciences, or use the drop down menu on the first page to search proteins, genomes, cancer chromosomes and more.

General/Related Databases

Academic Search Premier

This multidisciplinary database is a good place to start your research. For extra search capabilities, click "Choose Databases" and select more subject specific databases to simultaneously search.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides full-text coverage of current social issues. The main goal is to provide a balance of opinions on these issues through original pro and con articles, articles from academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, podcasts, statistics and more. Browse popular topics or search by keyword. When searching use the advances search to limit your results to peer-reviewed publications or to the intermediate or advanced content level. Opposing Viewpoints is also a series that we carry in print; add "opposing viewpoints" in the series box in your Cavalog searches to find relevant materials in print.

ProQuest Research Library

ProQuest Research Library provides citations and/or full-text access to 3,000+ scholarly journals and magazines in a wide range of subject areas. In addition to general interest publications, the database covers the Arts, Business, Children, Education, Health, Humanities, Law, Military, International and Multicultural interests, Psychology, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Women's Interests.

WorldCat

Use WorldCat to find books about a research topic that are not available at Holy Spirit Library. Search by title or author if you are looking for something specific, or search by keyword or subject to find something new. Click "Borrow this item from another library" to request a book from another library.

Exercise Science and Health Promotion Websites

American Association of the History of Nursing, Inc.

Contagion: Historical Views of Disease and Epidemics

Genes and Disease
HealthCentral.com
Smoking & Health Resource Library
Special Populations: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness