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EXS 2304 : Data Collection for Exercise Science: Other Databases

Why Search One Database at a time?

 

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Why Search One Database at a Time When You Can Search Everything at Once?

  1. You may miss some important articles if you search everything at once
  2. You will have less articles to sift through 
  3. Individual Databases have extra features not available in Search Everything

Search Results by Database

Academic Search Complete
attitudes 354,124
football players 790
exercise 27
Atl Health Watch
attitudes 3,380
football players 1
exercise 0
CINAHL Complete
attitudes 274,686
football players 61
exercise 11
Health Reference Center Academic
attitudes 167,390
football players 24
exercise 4
Health Source Consumer
attitudes 6,363
football players 5
exercise 1
Health Source Academic
attitudes 65,636
football players 28
exercise 2
MEDLINE Complete
attitudes 392,816
football players 91
exercise 23
PsycARTICLES
attitudes 23,428
football players 5
exercise 1
PubMed
attitudes 591,735
football players 185
exercise 41
Search Everything
attitudes 4,015
football players 11,434
exercise 146

Sport Psychology Databases

Searching Tip

When doing research in databases, you often need to perform several searches trying different combinations of terms before coming up with a list of good results.

Education Databases

Other Databases

MeSH


MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.

 

WHAT IS A CONTROLLED VOCABULARY THESAURUS?

A controlled vocabulary thesaurus organizes a database into pre-determined subject terms that everything about that subject falls under. You do not have to guess among a host of terms that are similar in meaning to find relevant articles.

 Example:  flu

MeSH Subject Term:   Influenza, Human

 

Example:  Wheat allergy

MeSH Subject Term:  Wheat Hypersensitivity