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Therapeutic Recreation/Leisure Studies Primary Databases
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SPORTDiscusSPORTDiscus™ is the most comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.
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CAB AbstractsWhile CAB Abstracts is thought of primarily for its coverage of agriculture, food sciences and nutrition, and veterinary medicine, CAB Abstracts also indexes and abstracts leisure and recreation journals.
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ERICERIC stands for Education Resource Information Center, and it is our major resource for research on education and related areas.
Recreation Management/Therapeutic Recreation Secondary Databases
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PsycINFOPsycINFO provides systematic coverage of the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. PsycINFO is the primary resource for research on all aspects of psychology and counseling.
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Sociological AbstractsThe primary database for research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
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MEDLINEMEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
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PubMedPubMed comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Web of Science11,400 journals from over 45 different languages across the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Multidisciplinary Databases
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JSTORJSTOR is full-text journals, many in the social sciences. JSTOR covers many education and health journals, as well as many social science and science journals.
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Proquest Research LibraryProquest is a multidisciplinary database covering magazines, journals and newspapers. Coverage begins in 1986. You'll find far better research in the primary databases listed elsewhere on this page, but you might find some more popular periodical titles here. Make sure to select 'Scholarly Journals' when you are searching.
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Academic Search PremierAcademic Search Premier is a general subject index, similar to Proquest. It does not specialize in any given discipline, it attempts to cover them all.
OSU Library Books
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BOSS (Big Orange Search System)The OSU Stillwater Library, the Edmon Low Library, has a collection of over three million books. To identify a book, use BOSS.
Books Available Elsewhere
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WorldCatOver 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes citations of manuscripts written as early as the 11th century. Updated daily.
EndNote - free bibliographic management software that you can use to save citations into a database of references that you can insert into your research papers.
RefME
RefME is a free, easy to use, online tool built to help undergraduates create, save, and share citations and build great works-cited lists and bibliographies
Style Guides - Print Sources
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by Call Number: 808.02 P976 2010ISBN: 1433805596Publication Date: 2009-07-15In addition to providing guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, this manual offers an authoritative reference and citation system. It also covers the treatment of numbers, statistical and mathematical data, tables and figures. -
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers by Call Number: 808.02 M689m 2009ISBN: 9781603290241Publication Date: 2009-01-01Widely adopted by universities, colleges, and secondary schools, theMLA Handbookgives step-by-step advice on every aspect of writing research papers, from selecting a topic to submitting the completed paper. For over half a century, theMLA Handbookis the guide millions of writers have relied on. The seventh edition is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to research and writing in the online environment. It provides an authoritative update of MLA documentation style for use in student writing, including simplified guidelines for citing works published on the Web and new recommendations for citing several kinds of works, such as digital files and graphic narratives.
Style Guides - Online Sources
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Quick Guide to APA Citation StyleThis guide gives the basic format of American Psychological Association (APA) Style for citing sources. For a complete overview of APA Style, consult the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
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Quick Guide to MLA StyleThis guide gives the basic format of Modern Language Association (MLA) Style for citing sources in a Works Cited page. For a complete overview of MLA Style, consult the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
