Research Guides: Physical Education, Athletics, and Recreation: Get Started Here

Finding Books

Catalyst

The Gould Library has rich collections of books, journals, government documents, and other resources. You may access them via Catalyst, the online catalog that is shared by Carleton and St. Olaf. You may search Catalyst by title, author, subject, or word.

Databases

These are the most powerful and useful databases for physical education, recreation, and athletic research.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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A massive index of literature from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also offers cited reference searching to see who has cited a particular document. 1898 - current.
Note: To do cited reference searching, click on "cited reference search," fill in an author's last name and publication date, figure out which of the resulting list of citations match the work you're looking for, and then "finish search" to see who has cited that work.
BioMedCentral This link opens in a new window
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Search through the full text of journals published by BioMed Central, covering biology and medical subjects. BioMed Central is an open-access publisher that provides immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research, no library affiliation necessary.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The US National Institutes of Health provide this free index of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. If full text is not linked to or provided for a particular citation, search our Journals List to see if we have alternate access to the journal publishing that article.