health and human performance

Health and Human Performance Subject Page

Lisa Callaghan

My name is Lisa Callaghan and I am the subject librarian for the School of Health and Human Performance at DCU. These pages (below) contain information specific to your subject area. You will find links to general information on the left hand side of the screen. Please feel free to contact me if you need any assistance.

Telephone: 700 8247
Email: lisa.callaghan@dcu.ie

Main lending books (3 week and 1 week) for your subject may be located on the first or second floor of the library, depending on the subject. Have a look at the floor plans or ask at the information desk if require assistance. Search the Library Catalogue to find out what books we have or browse the shelves at the relevant number.
Here are some of the main shelfmark numbers for sports science and related topics.

Subject	Book Shelf Mark
Anatomy	611
Biology (General)	570
Exercise Physiology	613.7
Genetics	576.5
Health Promotion	613 + 362.1
Health Psychology	610.19
Immunology	616.079 + 571.96
Nutrition	641.1
Physical Education	613.7
Physiology	612
Sociology	301
Sports Coaching	796.077
Sports Injuries	613.711
Sports Training	796

E-books

The library currently provides access to thousands of e-books. When you search the library catalogue you can refine your search by choosing "E-Books" on the left hand side of the screen. When you click on the link to view the book you may be asked to verify yourself as a registered student by logging in with your computer username and password (Novel login).

Apart from individual titles accessible via the catalogue, we also have searchable collections of e-books. Have a look at our e-books page for a full listing.

All our e-books can accessed off-campus.

Can’t find the book you are looking for?

Ask for help at the information desk. If we don’t have books listed on your recommended reading list you can contact your Subject Librarian or fill out the book suggestion form.

Reference Books

Reference books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries can be a great place to start your research. Reference books are located on the ground floor beside the information desk and may not be borrowed. We also have a number of general reference books available electronically .

Some recommended reference books

Encyclopedia of international sports studies

Oxford handbook of sports medicine

Oxford dictionary of sports science and medicine

Gale encyclopedia of medicine

Encyclopedia of Human Biology

World of sports science

Journals

The A-Z of journals is a listing of all our print and e-journals. It will tell you if the journal you are looking for is available in print here in the library and/or electronically on one of our databases. You can search this list by entering the title of the journal or you can get a list of journals in your chosen subject area by browsing.

Remember – search by journal title NOT article title.

See what journals are available for the following subjects:

Health and Biological Sciences

Recreation & Sports

To search for articles on your topic carry out a search on one of our databases

Databases

The following is a list of the most important databases for sport science and health and related subjects. A full list of all our databases is available from the A to Z of databases.

Some databases contain the full-text of the articles others provide you with a citation/abstract only. In the case of citation/abstract databases click on the this will search all our databases to see if the article you require is available

Key Databases – start your searching here

SPORTDiscus
An international database containing of references to literature in all aspects of sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment.
E-tutorials: Basic Searching (5:25) | Advanced Search (8:13) | Create Search and Journal Alerts (3:52) .

MEDLINE
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

MEDLINE via OVID Help Guide
PubMed: freely available version of Medline. Tutorial
MEDLINE via EBSCO

Web of Science
Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes over 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and includes the cited references from indexed articles.
Help: Database Guide (pdf) | Search Tips (07:33 minutes)

EMBASE
EMBASE (Excerpta Medica), is the most comprehensive database in biomedicine and pharmacology and gives you access to the most up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects. The EMBASE journal collection is international with over 4,500 biomedical journals from 70 countries. Allows simultaneous searching of the Medline database.
Help

Science Direct
Full-text access to over 1200 science, technology and medicine journals, including over 700 in the life sciences. E-tutorials

Other databases

Academic Search Complete
Full-text access to over 5,000 peer-reviewed journals in: business, communications, computer science, biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, education and nursing.

Annual Reviews
Authoratitive, analytic reviews in 30 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesising the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

InformaHealthcare
Previously hosted on InformaWorld, InformaHealthcare hosts nearly 200 journals in medicine, pharmacology, neurology and psychiatry. View a list of titles here.

Nature journals
Full-text access to a number of Nature Publishing titles including Nature, one of the world’s most highly cited interdisciplinary science journals. List of titles available.

Oxford Journals
Consists of 169 online journals from many disciplines including scientific, technical and medical. Includes access to JNCI Cancer Spectrum.

SAGE journals online
Full-text access to over 400 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine

SpringerLink
Full-text access to over 1,000 journals including over 300 life sciences and biomedical titles.

Wiley InterScience
Full-text access to over 500 journals. Has good life sciences coverage.

Wilson Omnifile
A multi-disciplinary database which includes full-text access to a large number of general science and applied science & technology journals.

You can also search across a number of databases at once using Summon

Advanced Search | What is Summon?