Janice Winkler
Librarian for Kinesiology and Recreation Management
For today: bit.ly/7000F23
For bookmarking: https://slides.com/infolitlibrarian/kper7000_23
UMNetID
UM student ID
Database | Coverage | Platform |
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SportDiscus | Sport, sport medicine | Ebsco |
Sociological Abstracts | Sociology | ProQuest |
PubMed | Biggest health database. Medical focus | -- |
CINAHL | Nursing and allied health | Ebsco |
PsycInfo | Psychology | Ovid |
ERIC | Education | ProQuest |
Cochrane Library | Systematic reviews | -- |
Scopus | Large multidisciplinary, citation tracking | -- |
Web of Science | Large multidisciplinary, citation tracking | -- |
We do this because database search functionality is very literal.
Can physical activity reduce depressive symptoms among people with posttraumatic stress disorder?
Examples:
exercis*
depress*
step*
Examples:
"posttraumatic stress disorder"
"post traumatic stress disorder"
"physical* activ*"
Examples using Ebsco syntax:
behavio#r = wildcard character optional
organi?ation = wildcard character required
disab* N1 person* = no more than 1 word between these words
therap* N0 recreation* = no words in between these, but any order
"physical* activ*"
Use OR to combine synonyms
exercis*
"physical* activ*" OR exercis*
Use AND to combine separate concepts
depress* OR MMD
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
AND
AND
(depress* OR mdd) AND (exercis* OR fitness OR "physical* activ*") AND ("posttraumatic stress" OR "post traumatic stress" OR ptsd)
Thesaurus is located on the homepage in SportDiscus, CINAHL
Feature | Mendeley |
Zotero |
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Save publications (references, files) |
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Organize publications using folders and tags | ||
MS word integration to add in-text citations and generate reference lists | ||
Create groups to share references for team projects |
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