- Article Indexes and Databases

Major RHT Databases
- subscribed to by GMU 

SportDISCUS (coverage varies)           

International bibliographic database covering all aspects of sport, fitness, recreation, and related fields.  The majority of the database covers from 1975 to present with comprehensive thesis coverage dating back to 1949; other retrospective coverage (monographs, etc.) dates back to 1609.

Leisuretourism.com (1973-present)

Contains abstracts covering over 400 publications and other new academic research, industry reports, books, book reviews and news from the fields of leisure, recreation, sport, hospitality, tourism and culture.

Health Reference Center - Academic (1980-present)

Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

MEDLINE (1950-present)

MEDLINE® is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) premier bibliographic database providing information from the following fields: Medicine,Nursing, Dentistry, Veterinary medicine, Allied health, and Pre-clinical sciences. 

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature(CINAHL) (1972-present)

Provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Virtually all English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (1985-present)

Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

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Other Related Databases
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ERIC (1966-present)

The largest education database in the world, ERIC contains over one million citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education.

Dissertation Abstracts (1861-present)

The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.

InfoTrac OneFile  (coverage varies)

One-stop source for articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, health care, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, and many general interest topics.

Ingenta (1988-present)

A database of current article information taken from over 25,000 multidisciplinary journals. Contains brief descriptive information for over 7 million articles.

ProQuest Research Library (coverage varies)

Covers more than 1,800 periodicals on a wide variety of topics, plus current coverage of articles from newspapers.

Social Sciences Citation Index (1980-present)

A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts for over 60% of the articles, covering the journal literature of the social sciences.

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Public Domain Databases

PubMed

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Lifestyle Information Network National Recreation Database

Canadian database with information about individual and community well-being, parks recreation, sport, and culture.

Combined Health Information Database (CHID)

CHID is a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.

Sports Business Research Network (SBRNet)

SBRnet is an online sports business database with two major sections (market research statistics; sports trade magazine and newsletter article archive) containing current and historical data as far back as 1993.