SPORTS: PSYCHOLOGY : RESEARCH: METHODS AND TECHNIQUES : DATABASES: Database and Internet Search Tools of Use to Scholars and Students in Sport Psychology
David P. Dillard
SPORTS: PSYCHOLOGY :
RESEARCH: METHODS AND TECHNIQUES :
DATABASES:
Database and Internet Search Tools of Use to Scholars and Students in
Sport Psychology
Database and Internet Search Tools of Use to Scholars and Students in
Sport Psychology
This article is a manuscript that was requested by
Michael Sachs, PhD at Temple University
Professor of Sports Psychology at Temple.
Dr. Michael Sachs
Ph.D.
132 Pearson Hall
215-204-8718
msa...@temple.edu
Research Interests:
Exercise and sport psychology, especially motivation and
adherence to physical activity and exercise addiction.
This manuscript is being submitted for publication in the
forthcoming edition of :
Directory of Graduate Programs in Applied Sport Psychology
I provided a similar article to this one for the 2001 edition of
this directory where it is found on pages 302-306
Title Directory of graduate programs in applied sport psychology
Sixth Edition
Editors
Michael Sachs, PhD
Temple University
Kevin L. Burke, PhD
Georgia Southern University
Diana C. Schrader, MCAT
Temple University
Published by
Fitness Information Technology, Inc.
P.O. Box 4425
Morgantown, West Virginia 26504-4425
ISBN 1885693265
Michael Sachs is also the co-editor of this book.
Sacks, Michael H., & Sachs, Michael L. (eds.).
Psychology of Running.
Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Publishers, 1981.
I have worked together with Michael Sachs over the years in a number of
ways and consider him to be both a friend and an important colleague.
Michael Sachs serves as the moderator of the quite active and important
SportPsy discussion group that has its home on the Temple University
Listserv server.
SportPsy
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sportpsy.html>
The article that I am contributing to this directory concerns
the use of databases and internet search tools and other resources
for research in sports psychology. This is the text of the
manuscript edition of this article that is being submitted for
publication in the forthcoming edition of the
Directory of Graduate Programs in Applied Sport Psychology
Database and Internet Search Tools of Use to
Scholars and Students in Sport Psychology
Beginning around 1970, computers and databases have had a growing and now
a tremendous impact on channeling and meeting the information needs of
professionals and learners in all fields including those of sport
psychologists. The internet has served to geometrically increase this
growth of the computer as an information resource for professionals by
facilitating their finding of information to meet their research needs.
The internet in the last decade of the twentieth century featured a
limited amount of quality resources and information. Search engines at
that time provided huge results to searched terms and most found documents
had little important bearing to the topic searched. Nevertheless CDROM
versions of databases faded from use as the internet became a highway to
reach through electronic telecommunication the servers of commercial fee
based databases whose use was leased for a subscription period by
institutions, schools, colleges and library systems. By this time many
databases existed that have quality content in a wide range of subject
fields with each database covering a specific subject discipline, group of
disciplines or type of content. Since the change of century, in addition
to the content of fee based databases, there is a rapidly growing and now
huge and diverse collection of information that is freely available to all
internet users at no cost and there are exciting new tools that facilitate
the finding of these sources often with the links to access these
documents and resources online in some cases for a fee and in other cases
at no cost to the user.
Despite tremendous growth in the free web based content in all subject
disciplines, databases still hold the upper hand as being storehouses for
the important sources in both content quality and quantity for the
disciplines they cover. This is not just because these databases have
controlled content, but also because their use is facilitated by a much
more powerful and complex searching logic than is provided by internet
search engines. These powerful search interfaces can handle a complex
statement of the information needed, a statement which much more
accurately describes the various facets of a complicated topic. Thus with
the complex research questions that are asked in this era, one will get
much more precise and source controlled results in an infinitely shorter
time than is possible with using web search engines, through the well
planned and thought out use of the enhanced searching capabilities of
these database search software features.
Nevertheless, there are search tools and resources on the internet that
one must use to get a more complete result for a research topic.
Furthermore, since sport psychology is a very interdisciplinary topic,
there are quite a few databases that provide important article, book and
other resource listings pertinent to this field. This is a list of some
important databases useful to sports psychology and an indication of the
quantity of pertinent information that is found in these databases
resulting from a search of the phrases sport psychology and sports
psychology. This will serve as just one indicator of the importance of
these databases for research in sports psychology.
Numbers under the database name indicate the number of documents in that
database found from a search of these two phrases or a variant thereof to
meet the requirements of the database search software.
(sport psychology) or (sports psychology)
Medline
70
Journals@Ovid Full Text
227
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
157
SPORTDiscus OVID
4479
SPORTDiscus EBSCO
7901
PsychInfo
1460
Digital Dissertations
278
Academic Search Premier
1985
Education Abstracts
714
ERIC
211
Social Sciences Abstracts
197
Health Source - Consumer Edition
44
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
48
Newspaper Source
63
America: History & Life
10
ABI/Inform
13
CWI* Contemporary Women's Issues (health and human rights)
63
Periodical Abstracts
1607
Physical Education Index
14096
WorldCat
954
Blackwell-Synergy (FT)
3876
CiteSeer
128
Compendex and Inspec
28
Criminal Justice Abstracts
15
Emerald
139
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW), Ethnic NewsWatch: A History (ENWH)
256
RLG's Eureka
FRANCIS
(Humanities & Social Sciences)
92
JSTOR
10733
LexisNexis Academic
Substantial but numerically undetermined
Papers First
1,381
Professional Development Collection
339
PubMed Central
251
PubMed
4541
RedLightGreen
399
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
41
ScienceDirect
86
The Philosopher's Index
6
Web of Science
821
The found sources from databases with few hits resulting from the search
of the phrases sport psychology or sports psychology can still represent
an important result as it can be important to know that a small literature
exists in which sport psychology plays a role in fields remotely related
to sports psychology. It is significant that some literature exists that
mentions sport or sports and psychology in the databases for disciplines
like engineering, history and philosophy, and certainly of interest to
learn what types of documents have such content.
Even an off the wall database selection can produce something significant
and useful in its holdings. Consider this one citation found in the Essay
& General Literature Index:
Athletic performance and spectator behavior: the humanistic concerns of
sports psychology.
Goldstein, Jeffrey H.;
In: American sport culture.
Bucknell Univ. Press 1985. Bucknell Univ. Press, ,1985.
[Book Chapter]
Also in the Regional Business News database from EBSCO one finds only six
citations but these include a few probative article titles like these two.
Coach helps jocks win mind games
Golf and the Asian work ethic
It has been noted that databases are more precise tools for finding
content pertinent to complex search topics that are beyond the search
capabilities of internet search engines like Google and Yahoo because of
their more sophisticated searching software. Many databanks that provide
access to databases facilitate finding a word within so many words of
another word anywhere in text and also allow one to find words only in the
subject heading, title or another specified part of the article citation
record and these databanks also enable combining search steps to require
the statements of two or more steps to occur within the restrictions
created by the Boolean operators (and or not) used to combine these search
steps.
There is another important factor that empowers databases to provide much
more precision is the content they find. Databases cover a delimited and
restricted group of resources, such as indexing only the articles in a
specific, although sometimes large, group of journals. No matter how
excellent an article one may find about the history of medicine in the
Canadian Journal of History, this journal article will not be indexed in
Medline or SportsDiscus if this title is simply not amongst the journal
titles covered by these databases. The key to selecting which databases
to use is knowing the types of journals and other publications that are
indexed and abstracted in that database, and which, if any of those
journals are also carried as full text content of the database. Hence
learning which databases have journal coverage that is core to the search
topic that one is researching is crucial. A specific research topic,
moreover, may lead to the use of databases not thought of as core to the
field in which one is conducting research. Hence, if one is searching
for ethical issues in the interactions between the sport psychologist and
the athlete and expanding this interaction to include psychologist and
psychiatrist interaction with athletes, one may well consider trying the
Philosopher's Index and the ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials as
sources due to their strong content in the area of ethics.
Learning how to use the search techniques and tools provided in the
software of the databank or database provider of each database used is a
vital part of effectively using these databases, as well. The help menus
found as a part of the websites of most databanks provide an excellent
place to start this learning process. Library reference desks and "Ask a
Librarian" sites on the internet are among the places to seek answers to
specific searching questions. If one is uncertain how to find an ask a
librarian site on the internet, Google might be able to help with this
need.
Searching the phrase "ask a librarian" in Google leads to this result:
Web Results of about 15,100,000 for "ask a librarian"
As noted, going to database vendor websites is an excellent way to learn
about searching technique. In addition to going to the website of the
databank that provides the database and viewing the help pages and search
instruction documents that teach the use of the system and the specific
additional matters one is well advised to know in regard to searching a
specific database in that databank, one can often use the website of the
database itself provided by the producers of that specific database for
additional information and technique tips. Thus, if one has access to the
PsychInfo database through the OVID searching service, one may find useful
information about searching PsychInfo from the search guides for OVID and
for PsychInfo on the OVID website and also gain useful guidance for
searching the OVID version of PsychInfo from the American Psychological
Association's website area that pertains to discussing how to search
PsychInfo and in particular PsychInfo searching using the OVID interface.
Some of the databanks that provide databases include Dialog, Datastar,
OVID, SilverPlatter, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, FirstSearch,
Infotrac, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), H.W. Wilson,
EbscoHost, ABC-CLIO, Proquest Direct, and others. One cannot effectively
use such an array of complex and divergent tools as databanks without
search documentation provided both by the databank vendors and on some of
the database related instruction pages of colleges and universities that
provide access to these databanks for some of their databases. Searching
in internet search engines for the name of a database will help find
library pages that provide some guidance in the use of these databases,
but one must make certain that the library is using the same databank that
is in use at ones home institution at which one is using the database, or
ones search results may be quite bazaar, error message laden, or empty.
Sometimes one learns that one or several periodicals are important to the
topic that they are researching. One may use one of several versions of
JAKE available on the internet to find out what databases index, abstract
and provide the full text of specific journal titles content to the extent
that this free service is kept up to date.
Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (JAKE)
<http://jake.med.yale.edu/record/819>
<http://jake.lib.sfu.ca/>
<http://jake.openly.com/>
Sample Entry in JAKE: Sports Coach
Sports Coach (serial)
jake id 23145 issn 0314-5468
7 relationships
resource links abstracts fulltext
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre
jake relid 219078 - 1994-10-01 - -
EBSCO MasterFILE Online
jake relid 203376 - + -
MasterFILE Elite
jake relid 203377 - 1994-10-01 - -
MasterFILE Premier
jake relid 203375 - 1994-10-01 - -
MasterFILE Select
jake relid 206166 - 1994-10-01 - -
Professional Development Collection
jake relid 207688 - 1994-10-01 - -
World Magazine Bank
jake relid 210343 - + -
<http://jake.med.yale.edu/record/23145>
Many libraries subscribe to one of a number of services that provide
indication which databases owned by that library index, abstract or
provide full text content from the journal. Links in the record that
results from the search in this database finding tool take the user to the
journal content sought inside that database.
The internet is also growing extensively in the quantity of high quality
resources to be found in its jungle of content. Important searching tools
for searching internet content on a topic of research are also appearing
on the internet that will be ignored at the cost of weakening the research
projects that fail to use them. Internet search results will add to the
overall quality sources found in searching. These are just some of the
useful tools to be found on the internet that are available at no cost to
researchers. Some of these search engines and other tools provide links
to full text copies of at least some of the articles and documents that
they index.
Wikipedia
<http://www.wikipedia.org/>
English Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>
This is a controversial and huge resource with coverage of a tremendous
range of topics. Content may be provided by anyone but there are some
developing controls. Many Wikipedia articles are excellent in quality, but
because anyone can contribute, article quality can vary substantially. A
critical eye and mind is important for the effective use of this tool, but
it is an excellent starting point for learning about a new subject or
term.
There is also a Wiktionary for learning definitions of terms.
Wiktionary
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary>
For finding definitions of terms the YourDictionary.com
website leads to a large collection of general, language, and subject
specific dictionaries.
YourDictionary.com
<http://www.yourdictionary.com/>
The fields for which there are specialty dictionaries, which include the
subject specific dictionaries, are to be found here.
Specialty Dictionaries in English
<http://www.yourdictionary.com/specialty.html>
Some search engines that help with finding sources of information from the
internet include these examples.
Google
<http://www.google.com/>
This is a general search engine of the internet that has a standing
reputation for providing quality search results.
Web Results of about 32,700,000 for sports psychology
Web Results of about 8,670,000 for sport psychology
One can often find articles full text by searching for the article title
in quotation marks in Google.
Yahoo
<http://www.yahoo.com/>
This is another quality general search engine of internet resources.
About 617,000 for "sports psychology"
About 974,000 for "sport psychology"
Can one picture finding images about sports psychology?
Google Images
<http://images.google.com/>
About 3,260 for "sports psychology".
About 3,090 for "sport psychology"
Yahoo Images
<http://www.yahoo.com>
About 965 for "sports psychology"
About 848 for "sport psychology"
This is a very different use of information tools. One can find pictorial
content that ties in with other matters one is presenting in a publication
or presentation to enhance understanding. In publications, bearing in
mind copyright issues, one may want to use links rather than reproduction
in their published content. The web pages on which the images are found
often lead to a useful internet resource as well, as the photograph is
usually found in a context.
Google Scholar
<http://scholar.google.com/>
"In November 2004, Google released Google Scholar, a search engine that
indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of
publishing formats and scholarly fields. Today, the index includes
virtually all peer-reviewed journals available online, except those
published by Elsevier Science, the world's largest scientific publisher.
Comparable in function to Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's
subscription-based Web of Science service, through more inclusive in
sources and languages, Google Scholar is the world's largest index of the
"Deep Web" or content that is only available to entitled users."
Source: The Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar>
Google Scholar Search Results
About 1,590 for "sports psychology"
About 5,670 for "sport psychology"
Here are a few sample titles from this result.
Coaches guide to sport psychology
Sport psychology: concepts and applications
Advances in exercise adherence
Validity in qualitative inquiry and the problem of criteria: Implications
for sport psychology
Cross-cultural analysis in exercise and sport psychology: A void in the
field
Sports participation and emotional wellbeing in adolescents
A global strategy for prevention and detection of blood doping with
erythropoietin and related drugs
Google Books
<http://books.google.com>
Book Search
Formerly Google Print
"At the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004, Google introduced its Google
Print service, now known as Google Book Search. This tool searches the
full text of books that Google scans and stores in its digital database.
When relevant to a user's keyword search, up to three results from the
Google Book Search index are displayed above search results in the Google
Web Search service (google.com). Or, a user may search just for books at
the dedicated Google Book Search service. [1] Clicking a result from
Google Book Search opens an interface in which the user may view pages
from the book as well as content-related advertisements and links to the
publisher's website and booksellers. Through a variety access limitations
and security measures, some based on user-tracking, Google limits the
number of viewable pages and prohibits page printing and text copying.
As of December 2005, the Google Book Search service remains in a beta
stage but the underlying database continues to grow, with more than a
hundred thousand titles added by publishers and authors and some 10,000
works in the public domain now indexed and included in search results. A
similar service, known as Search Inside the Book, is offered by
Amazon.com's A9.com."
Source: Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_books>
Books with 1420 pages on "sports psychology".
Books with 4670 pages on "sport psychology".
This is the listing in the Google Book search results for one
of this group of books found with this search.
Emotions in Sport
by Yuri L Hanin - Sports & Recreation - 1999 - 395 pages
Page 394 - He has been a member of the editorial board of the
International Society of Sport
Psychology and an Expert at the National Swedish Board of Universities and
....
[More results from this book ]
Gmail email accounts are free from Google by invitation
and are required for the more complete use of Google Books
as one must log in with their Gmail account to see full pages from book
citations resulting from Google Book searches at least some of the time.
One can find a route to getting a Gmail invitation and more about Gmail
discussed at the website cited in this Net-Gold discussion group posting.
EMAIL: SERVICES:
GMAIL Invitations and GMAIL Services
<http://snipurl.com/lpw7>
This is some of what one may find out about the book cited from the search
result example noted above by clicking on the link to the complete record
in the Google Books database for this book and checking the various parts
of the record in Google Books for this book. Gmail login was required
for this title to see actual pages of the book.
Synopsis
Related information
o Web search for reviews of Emotions in Sport
o Other web pages related to Emotions in Sport
Bibliographic information
Title Emotions in Sport
Author(s) Yuri L Hanin
Publisher Human Kinetics
Publication Date Oct 1, 1999
Subject Sports & Recreation
Format Paperback
Pages 395
Dimensions 6.20 x 9.29 x 1.23 in
ISBN 0880118792
Pages 1 - 10 of 87 in book for "sport psychology".
Page ix
For instance, most sport psychology research during the last two decades
has been
negatively biased, focusing on anxiety-performance relationships and using
...
Page 27
Although new theories (in both psychology and sport psychology) are
emerging,
this work has typically been a theoretical. While this review is merely
...
Page 65
... performance in mainstream and sport psychology, and also presented
basic
concepts, terminology, and a description of emotion as an unfolding
process. ...
Page 66
Recently this emphasis on the individual athlete has been gaining ground
in sport
psychology (Gould & Krane, 1992; Weinberg, 1990; Vanden Auweele, Cuyper,
...
Page 69
self-regulation strategies can be developed for sport psychology practice.
...
principles developed in general, social, educational, and sport
psychology. ...
Page 70
For instance, nomothetic anxiety models used in sport psychology usually
stress
anxiety-performance relationships at the intergroup, intragroup, ...
Page 71
This is a quite common but relatively narrow approach in both mainstream
and
sport psychology. individual Zones of Optimal Functioning ( ...
Page 73
... in sport psychology, and present one approach to describing emotions
as
components of performance-related states. Issues of Multidimensionality in
...
Page 76
Most existing sport psychology research examines either cognitive or
affective
and somatic components using standardized scales. ...
Page 77
... in sport psychology (Bejek & Hagtvet, 1996; Hanin, 1992,1993). One
reason may
be the predominance of the nomothetic approach to the study of emotions.
...
Google Uncle Sam
<http://www.google.com/unclesam>
This is a search tool that covers government and government related
publications and documents.
The Wikipedia provides a link list of government search tools that
includes the Google Uncle Sam tool and quite a few others.
Government document search tools
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Government_document_search_tools>
A shorter URL for the above link:
This article in LLRX provides some views about Google Uncle Sam.
The Government Domain
Why Google Uncle Sam?
By Peggy Garvin
Peggy Garvin of Garvin Information Consulting is author of The United
States Government Internet Manual (Bernan Press) and contributing author
for The Congressional Deskbook (TheCapitol.Net).
Published February 13, 2005
<http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain2.htm>
Quoting:
"Not so long ago, a variety of free niche search engines for U.S.
government information marketed themselves to web researchers. Remember
GovBot, SearchGov.com, and SearchMil.com? GovBot is gone. SearchGov and
SearchMil live on, but only as facades: type a search in the box and
you'll be ushered into Google. Google's Uncle Sam - released in 1999, the
same year as Google itself - is one niche search engine that is still
around today. Despite little promotion from Google, its Uncle Sam search
has become popular with researchers, librarians, and others who train
novices, create search guides, and recommend resources. Given some of its
limitations, which I describe in this column, I have always wondered why."
Search results from Google Uncle Sam for Sports Psychology:
About 752 for "sports psychology"
About 214 for "sport psychology"
Here are a few search results from the above search of Google Uncle Sam
for Sports Psychology:
[PPT] SPORTS PSYCHOLOGYFile Format: Microsoft Powerpoint 97 - View as HTML
SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY. Click to add sub-title. Strengthen the mind to improve
Physical Performance. "I always felt my greatest asset was not my physical
ability ...
https://www.cnet.navy.mil/nascweb/
protected/powerpoints/pp1.3%20sports%20psychology.ppt
The Learning Page--Getting Started: Directory of Internet ResourcesApplied
Sports Psychology - Students may take interest in this introduction from
the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sports Psychology. ...
memory.loc.gov/learn/start/inres/ss/psych.html - 18k - Jan 17, 2006
Cannabis use to enhance sportive and non-sportive performances
...Adolescent; Adult; Competitive Behavior; Doping in Sports/psychology;
Doping in Sports/statistics & numerical data*; Female;
France/epidemiology; Humans ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&
db=PubMed&list_uids=16022934&dopt=Citation
Creatine use among young athletes.... Doping in Sports/psychology; Doping
in Sports/statistics & numerical data* ... Sports/psychology;
Sports/statistics & numerical data; Sports Medicine* ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&
db=PubMed&list_uids=11483809&dopt=Citation
[PDF] Youth Sports in America: An Overview *File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
- View as HTML
Tennant (Eds.), Handbook of research on sports psychology (pp. 695-717).
New York: Macmillan. ... Sports psychology: An introduction. Chicago:
Nelson-Hall. ...
www.fitness.gov/youthsports.pdf
In my experience, Google Uncle Sam has been a very useful tool.
Scirus
<http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/>
"Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine. Like Citeseer
and Google Scholar it is focused on scientific information."
Source: Wikipedia
Scirus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scirus>
Scirus search results for sports psychology
All of the words:"sports psychology"
Found:: :17,248 total | 91 journal results |
81 preferred web results | 17,076 other web results
All of the words:"sport psychology"
Found:: :30,740 total | 378 journal results | 280 preferred web results |
30,082 other web results
Google News provides a tool for those interested in sports psychology to
find out what is being discussed in a wide range of news sources regarding
or relevant to sports psychology.
Google News
<http://news.google.com/>
These are the number of hits found in Google News.
About 104 for sports-psychology
About 14 for sport-psychology
These results include these article titles.
New program brings sports into the classroom
Cycling: Using Pain to your Advantage
Bhagwad Gita as sports psychology
Sports Psychology: Mental Training- "New Years Resolutions"
Steelers fans love their rituals
As our bodies age and change so should our workouts
One form of discussion group is the Newsgroup that at one time was the
purview of Deja-News and was subsequently purchased by Google and now is
the Google service called
Google Groups. All Deja-News historical content is now held in the
Google Groups archives as well as active or current Google Groups posting
records including currently active Google Groups discussion groups. Those
looking for opinion and discussion of issues can find a variety of sources
here to complement the discussion group based on the Temple Listserv,
SportsPsy that is moderated by Temple University sports psychology
professor Michael Sachs.
SportPsy
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sportpsy.html>
Google Groups
<http://groups.google.com/>
For the sport psychology searches, Google Groups found this result:
2,810 for "sports psychology"
2,210 for "sport psychology"
With this sampling of post titles found by this search engine on this
topic.
II International Congress of the Sport Psychology (CUBA 1999)
Sport Psychology Online Course
African Sport Psychology Association (Yahoo! Group)
Sport Psychology by Sport Resource Page
Hypnosis and sports improvement.
Now to this tool may add to Google Groups a newer Google search tool that
searches weblogs.
Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Which holds this quantity of results for a search of sport psychology.
About 3,927 for "sports-psychology"
About 1,318 for "sport-psychology"
Another useful search tool that has content pertinent to sports psychology
is the search tool OMNI.
OMNI
<http://omni.ac.uk/>
Here this search
(sport or sports) and psychology
finds eight websites in its results for this search, including these
website titles:
Drugs in sport news
Journal of sport and exercise psychology
Oxford handbook of sports medicine
Finally, for those doing searching for topics in sport psychology or any
other field for that matter, it is important
to spend the time that it takes to prepare oneself for a search by writing
down the vocabulary for their search topic prior to even going into a
database or internet search engine. Searching that utilizes incomplete
vocabulary is likely to be searching that finds incomplete and less
productive results as contrasted with searching that has a rich vocabulary
for the topical components of a research project.
This is an example of such search term preparation.
Topic
Impact of Sports on Urban Youth
Phrases or words wanted in proximity to each other are enclosed in
parenthesis.
Concept One: sports program
(sport program) or (sport programs) or (sports program) or (sports
programs) or (recreation programs) or (recreation program) or
(recreational activities) or (athletic programs) or (athletic program) or
afterschool or (after school) or (play activities) or (leisure education)
or (social skills)
Concept Two: Urban
urban or city or cities or urbanized or metropolitan or metropolis or
innercity or innercities
Concept Three: Adolescents
youth or youths or teenager or teen or teens or teenage or teenagers or
adolescent or adolescents or juveniles or preteen or preteenagers or
preadolescent or preadolescents or children or (school age) or (school
aged)
Concept Four: Results or Impact
results or impact or effect or effects or outcome or outcomes or
longitudinal or (long term) or effectiveness or assessment or evaluation
or evaluations or growth or improvement
Databases and Internet search tools provide an important team of
information finding tools that are vital for research regarding the many
topics of studies taken in sports psychology and beyond. Without using
these important tools, research can be much less effective and far more
time consuming.
These Net-Gold posts will add to the discussion provided above.
SPORTS: RESEARCH: RESOURCES : SPORTS: RESEARCH:
Gary Price Provides a Group of Excellent Sports Research Resource Websites
on His ResourceShelf
< http://snipurl.com/lv06>
BIOMECHANICS: RESOURCES : DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY:
Databases and Research Guides for the Field of Biomechanics
< http://snipurl.com/lv0j>
SPORTS: PSYCHOLOGY: The Roles of Anxiety and of Confidence in Sports
Performance: A Selective and Brief Literature Review of Books, Articles
and Web Based Sources
< http://snipurl.com/lv0m>
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES :
RECREATION: RESOURCES :
SPORTS MANAGEMENT: RESOURCES:
Subject Guides in Progress for Tourism, Hosptiality, Leisure, Sports
Management, Recreation, Outdoor Recreation,
Outdoor Recreation and General Internet Sources in Progress with Tourism
Country Guide Incomplete
[The country segment of the tourism section of this guide is incomplete]
< http://snipurl.com/lv0w>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jw...@temple.edu
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
<http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org>
Digital Divide Network
<http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12Admin/>