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