Sports Management, Physical Education & Movement Sciences
SMP 1032 FEBRUARY 2011Presented by Marie Accardi
• Library • A computer• Your Dowling ID
card• A topic• Log in to our library
homepage:• http://library.dowling.
edu
• You may call 244-3282 or visit in person from 7 a.m.-10p.m.
• Chat via web is also available. Just click the “Ask us” icon.
• ALLOW AMPLE TIME FOR RESEARCH. YOU MAY HAVE TO WAIT FOR CERTAIN BOOKS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES!
Using the Course Guide• You may access the course guide from the
library home page.• Select the title of the course and proceed to
the Table of Contents. There will be listings for Books, articles and websites.
• Excellent starting point for research• http://www.dowling.edu/wikis/pmwiki.php/
CourseGuides/SMP1032
Resources for Research• Dictionaries• Encyclopedias• Books• Journal Articles• Databases: by Subject or Name• Search engines• Library’s web site
Using Databases• What is a database? large collection of
organized data especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer).
• Examples: New York Times, SPORTDiscus,• See the library webpage for Sports
Databases @ http://www.dowling.edu/library/database/newtest/subject.asp?ID=43
Finding Books• Try searching the catalog using the following terms: Try searching the catalog for the following subjects:
• Fitness and Health • Nutrition and Diet • Personal Health • Sports and Exercise • Sports Nutrition
• Exercise • Health • Nutrition • Sports
Encyclopedias• You may search our catalog to see Sports
encyclopedias ; simply type in Sports and encyclopedias for the following result
• http://library.dowling.edu/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=encyclopedia+and+sports
• You should get 18 results
Finding Journal Articles• Use the library homepage to connect to
databases.• Select “Databases by Subject”> SPORTDiscus, or Multi-Subject for this
course. • Sample search: Steroids and baseball in
SPORTDiscus • http://www.dowling.edu/library/database/
newtest/subject.asp?ID=43
Websites • There are a number of excellent websites
for sports and health listed on the course guide.
• www.Mayoclinic.com• www.Webmd.com• www.Cdc.gov • www.Nim.nih.gov
Search Engines• www.dogpile.com WebCrawler • www.webcrawler.com • http://search.yippy.com/ Previously
clusty.com• And of course: Yahoo! Google• Bing
Don’t forget to cite• APA Citation help can be found on the
library homepage.• For a very user friendly guide go to
http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm
Guide to Powerpoint• For a quick powerpoint course see the tutorial put
out by Microsoft:
• http://www.ehow.com/how_6387876_microsoft-2007-powerpoint-tutorial.html