Sports Management & Development

• The Cochrane Library 

What:

• The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making and is the leading source to support evidence based practice

Why:

• Locate systematic reviews, clinical trials and find abstracts of economic evaluations of health care interventions.

How:

• Keyword and Thesaurus searching with ability to refine results by database searched;
  • The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects,
  • The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
  • The Cochrane Methodology Register
  • Health Technology Assessment Database
  • NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
• Help pages available 

• Google Scholar 

What

• A variant of Google that searches for academic literature

Why

• Provides access to articles, books, conference papers and preprints
• Links to Full-text @ Portsmouth where available when settings are applied

How

• Simple or advanced searching allowing refinement by date, author etc
• A Library Guide to this resource is available

• JSTOR 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

JSTOR is best known as an academic journal archive containing thousands of articles on a wide range of subjects. To find the most recent years, you will need to search other databases like Discovery or go to the journal sites themselves. JSTOR also contains ebooks, research reports and 1000+ collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums and archives around the world. 

For some tips on searching JSTOR, watch this short video. If you use JSTOR a lot, it's worth setting up a free, personal account so that you can use JSTOR's Workspace to store articles and notes. A personal account will also give you access to JSTOR's own AI tool which searches across JSTOR content for you, summarising articles/chapters and recommending related sources (it does not look outside JSTOR). 

• PsycInfo 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

What:

• PsycInfo contain journal article abstracts with links to the full-text where available

Why:

• Locate articles from the psychological, social, behavioural, and health sciences subject areas. Useful for those looking for materials related to psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work

How:

• Keyword and Thesaurus searching with ability to refine results by date, peer reviewed, age, gender, author, language
• Cited reference search and links
• Help pages available
• This database is available to search on its own from the link above, plus you will find PsycArticle articles when searching Discovery

• Science Direct 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

ScienceDirect's extensive and unique full text database covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, published by Elsevier. More than 2,500 journals and more than nine million full-text articles are available in ScienceDirect providing access to the physical sciences and engineering life sciences. This resource is also available through the Discovery service. A Science Direct Advanced Search guide video is available.

• Scopus 

What:

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. 

Why:

This database can be searched by keywords to find relevant articles. It is also possible to perform a cited reference search allowing you to snowball through the literature to find articles using citations. 

How:

Online help for this database is available via the Scopus website.

• SPORTDiscus 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

SPORTDiscus covers all aspects of sport including sport development, sport medicine, sport journalism. 

• Web of Science 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

What:

Web of Science - part of the Web of Knowledge collection of databases - consists of a number of databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports and conferences.

Why:

This database can be searched by keywords to find relevant articles.  It is also possible to perform a cited reference search allowing you to snowball through the literature to find articles using citations.

How:

Online help for this database is available via the Web of Science website.

Additional access instructions: