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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
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
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
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)
Central source for full-text articles in nursing and allied health (audiology, nutrition & dietetics, occupational, physical & respiratory therapy, speech-language pathology, consumer health).

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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
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
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
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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