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Key Databases- Health Sciences

These are the best places to start looking for articles for health science-related research topics:

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Huge multidisciplinary index of articles in over 8,500 journals, from 1989 to the present. (Includes: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index of articles related to sport, fitness and related disciplines. Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre.
* Direct export to RefWorks
* Full text articles
* Click 'Get It at StFX' icon to check for full text
* French content
* German content
* Spanish content
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index of articles from the biomedical and life sciences. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
* Includes some full text articles
* French content
* German content
* Spanish content

Tip: Knowledge of PubMed's MESH headings can vastly improve search results. Please ask for help at the Reference Desk.
CINAHL (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Central source for full-text articles in nursing and allied health (audiology, nutrition & dietetics, occupational, physical & respiratory therapy, speech-language pathology, consumer health).
* Direct export to RefWorks
* Full text articles
* Click 'Get It at StFX' icon to check for full text
* Citation tracking
* Spanish content

See here for a full list of our databases

Key Databases- Sociocultural

These are the best places to start looking for articles for topics related to the history, ethics, communications, and management of sports:

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Huge multidisciplinary index of articles in over 8,500 journals, from 1989 to the present. (Includes: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text collection of scholarly journals in multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections.
Tip: Use 'Advanced Search' to limit to the subject collections appropriate to your search.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index of articles related to sport, fitness and related disciplines. Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre.
* Direct export to RefWorks
* Full text articles
* Click 'Get It at StFX' icon to check for full text
* French content
* German content
* Spanish content

See here for a full list of our databases

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