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SPORT discus with Full Text

Coverage
On-Campus Access:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,url,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=s3h
Off-Campus Access:	http://voyager.ship.edu/remote/validate.cgi?db=EBSCO&custom=%22profile=web&defaultdb=s3h%22
Description:	SPORT Discus is the comprehensive, international database containing sport and fitness literature. SPORT Discus is a unique source for the comprehensive identification of both practical and research literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics.
Dates Covered:	1975-present
Types of Coverage:	Index, Abstracts and Full Text
Source List:	Click on the Index link at the top of the interface screen; then pick the Journal Title in the browse box and click search
Frequency of Updates:	Quarterly
Subjects Covered:	Athletics, dance, exercise science, physical education, physical fitness, recreation and tourism, social sciences, sports
Types of Items:	Periodical articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, research papers and other publishing forms
Number of Items:	As of 11/01/03: 500,000 records and over 20,000 dissertations and theses
Source
Vendor:	Ebsco http://www.ebscohost.com
Publisher:	Ebsco http://www.ebscohost.com
Other Information
Aggregate Database:	On-Campus: http://search.ebscohost.com/ Off-Campus: http://voyager.ship.edu/remote/validate.cgi?db=EBSCO
Related Resources:	Physical Education Abstracts
Additional Assistance/Help:	Help button located in the top right of the interface screen. Tutorial: http://support.epnet.com/training/tutorials.php
Number of Users:	Unlimited
What's New:	My EBSCO: is a personal account; create one by, clicking on the sign in to my ebsco link at the top left interface screen Alert Service: located in the Advance Search link, under the search history/alert tab. Allows the topic to be search in a time interval and can have the search results be emailed.
Special Features:	Index link at the top of the interface screen; to browse by author, journal title, publisher, etc. Thesaurus link at the left of the interface screen; after a word is searched a list of suggested subject headings and related terms.
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