Physical Education Methods Resources
Physical Education Methods Resources
There are four steps to the research process:
1. Thesis or topic statement.
All research begins with a topic statement. If you don't know what you're looking for, you will not recognize it when you find it. The topic statement should be specific and brief. As you examine the resources it will either broaden or narrow.
2. Identify keywords.
You will use these to locate material on your topic
3. Select resources to locate material
Ask a librarian in person at the reference desk, phone, e-mail or set up a consultation with a subject librarian to determine a search strategy to locate the best books, journal articles, and web sites on your topic.
4. Evaluate and select the best material
The six criteria for evaluating resources are:
Authority
Currency
Coverage
Accuracy
Objectivity
Relevancy
1. Thesis or topic Statement:
(Be brief and specific as possible)
2. Identify Keywords:
from the topic statement to use as subject, keywords, title, abstract or text searching.3. Select Resources to locate material:
Education Full-textLocate Journal articles:
Using one of the article databases listed under Health & Medicine in the Science and Technology section of Databases and Indexes locate journal articles related to your topic.
Recommended Journal databases:
Education Full Text brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a one-stop source for research. Coverage includes 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC?s CIJE.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text offers comprehensive, bibliographic and full text coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines.
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature.
Database Access from off campus
To access databases from off-campus you must have a UST e-mail account. When you click on the name of database the username and password requested is your UST e-mail username and password. Company firewalls my prevent you from accessing these databases
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. As the ERIC digital library opens to the public on September 1, 2004, the collection consists primarily of electronic bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature selected by ERIC from 1966 - 2003. In the months and years ahead, the collection will expand to include the full-text of articles along with other electronic resources such as audio and video materials.
Bibliographic references, abstracts, or full text for articles from more than 960 scholarly and general interest publications. Covered subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences, and current events.
Information Needed to Locate and Cite Journal Articles
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Article Author: ________________________________________________________________
Article Title: __________________________________________________________________
Journal Title: __________________________________________________________________
Issue Date:_____________ Volume: ____ Issue: ___ Article pages (e.g.25-30)_________
Use the Journals A-Z list to determine if the University of St. Thomas owns a particular journal either print or electronic format. Each entry as a "GET IT" button that also tells you if we have that partular article availale in print or in electonic format.
If UST does not own an electronic online or print version of the journal article, you may request a copy of the articles from another library through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). If you are not registered as an ILLiad user fill out the form on the ILLiad Log in Screen and proceed to request the article using the information listed above. There is no charge if the request is filled from a Minnesota library but a $5 if the article must be requested from a library in another state.
Locate Books
Search the CLICNet database by keyword for books on your topic. Once you have found one book check the Subject headings for the correct Subject heading to locate additional books on the topic.
For additional books seearh the WorldCat database. It contains more than 62 million bibliographic records and 1 billion holdings contributed by more than 9,000 libraries around the world.
Information Need to Cite books related to the topic:
Author:
Title:
Place of Publication:
Publisher:
Date:
LC Call Number is used to locate the book on the shelves
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Electronic JournalsJOPERD--the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
