SELECTED RESOURCES
For
PHED324-Lifespan Physical Activity & Health
PLU LIBRARY
February 14, 2002
Gail Egbers
535-8869/egbersgl@plu.edu

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BOOKS:  Our computerized catalog provides access to the materials in our library.  Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to identify the best subject headings for your topic.  Some topics that might be of interest:
 

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topic include:

CINAHL(ProQuest) Indexes and provides some full text to nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health  journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing.  Off-campus access requires PLU ePass

ERIC (via PLU Library Website) Indexes and abstracts articles, books, theses, conference proceedings, and unpublished papers (ERIC documents) in education, 1967 to present.  Some full text is available for selected journals when searching simultaneously with the Academic Search Elite database.

EBSCO (via PLU Library Website)  An index of about 3000 journals, 1000 of them available full-text.  It covers a wide range of topics.

ProQuest (via PLU Library Web site)  This is a family of databases that cover many topics.  Many full-text journal articles are included.

PsycInfo (via PLU Library Web site)   Indexes and abstracts the international literature of psychology, 1887 to present.

Sociological Abstracts (via PLU Library Web site) Covers the fields of sociology, anthropology, and related social science disciplines. Citations and abstracts are available for over 2,600 journals, books, conference papers, and dissertations  (1986 - present). Full text is available for many of the journals when searched simultaneously with EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite database.
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS  Use Journals at PLU to obtain the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books.  Journals at PLU also identifies any full-text online journals PLU has available.

 

REFERENCE BOOKS

Encyclopedia Of Aging : A Comprehensive Resource In Gerontology And Geriatrics   (ref. HQ1061.E53 1995)

Encyclopedia of gerontology : age, aging, and the aged (ref. RC952.5.E58 1996)

Encyclopedia of sports science (ref. GV558.E53 1997)

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (ref. BF76.7.P83 2001)