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• Good starting point for your research.
• Index to over 8 million articles published in over 3000 periodicals, including 2500 peer-reviewed journals representing all disciplines, with full-text articles from over 1500 peer-reviewed journals and 500 general periodicals.
• University Library's homepage http://library.csustan.edu
• Click Journal Articles and Databases. Academic Search Elite may be found on each of the subject pages.
• Use core terms or phrases for your search, not sentences.
• Use and to connect concepts (for example, exercise and lifestyle changes). Both concepts will be present in your results.   
• Limit the current search to Full Text to retrieve the complete article instead of only citations and abstracts.
• Limit the current search to Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed Journals) to retrieve results from scholarly journals.
• You may also limit by date, publication type, or journal title.

Retrieving articles:

• Click on the title of the article to read the full text.
• To print or e-mail full-text articles, use the links at the top of the screen.
• If the full text is unavailable in Academic Search Elite, click on  to determine if the full text is available in another database, or in print in the University Library.
• The subject terms displayed towards the top of the screen can give you ideas for other search terms.

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Searching from off campus:

• When you click on the name of the database from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your CSUStan e-mail ID before the @ sign and your password. 

Physical Education Index 

• Citations and abstracts for research published in physical education journals from 1970 – present.
• University Library's homepage http://library.csustan.edu
• Click Journal Articles and Databases. Click Physical Education.
• Click on Physical Education Index.
• Click on Journal Articles Only for abstracts from scholarly publications.
• Use the same steps to search as described above.

Advanced searching:

• If you are unsure of the correct terminology to represent the concepts in your search, browse the online thesaurus.
• Place each unique concept in a separate row.
• Place synonyms that represent a concept in the same row but different columns.
• Use the word or to connect synonyms (for example, exercise or physical activity).

Retrieving articles:

• Click on  to determine if the full text article is available in another database, or in print in the University Library.
• You may obtain articles from journals that are not subscribed in the library by clicking on Interlibrary Loan on the library's homepage.
• Use the article request form.

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MEDLINE

• Index to articles in medical, dentistry, and nursing journals from 1965 - present. 
• University Library's homepage http://library.csustan.edu
• Click Journal Articles and Databases. Click Medicine or Nursing.
• Click on MEDLINE (through FirstSearch).
• Try starting with a keyword search.
• Use core terms or phrases for your search, not sentences.
• Separate different concepts with the word and (for example, obesity and nutrition and consequences).
• You may limit your results to subscriptions held by my library to find articles from journals subscribed by the University Library.
• The subject terms (descriptors) can give you ideas for other search terms.
• Click on  to determine if the full text article is available in another database, or in print in the University Library.

Sample APA Reference List Entries for Journal Articles

• Journal article in print format.

Taylor, L. (2004). Effects of exercise on physical health of college students. American Journal of Fitness, 24

    (2), 453-459.

• Journal article retrieved from a database using Digital Object Identifier.

Taylor, L. (2004). Effects of exercise on physical health of college students. American Journal of Fitness, 24

    (2), 453-459. doi: 10.1108/03090560710821161

• Journal article retrieved from a database without Digital Object Identifiers (DOI): Include database entry page URL.

Taylor, L. (2004). Effects of exercise on physical health of college students. American Journal of Fitness, 24

    (2), 453-459. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com

In-text citation: Include author's last name and year of publication. You are encouraged to also provide page number where the information may be found.

(Taylor, 2004, p. 456)

Ask a Librarian

• Information on reference assistance.

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Revised by Warren Jacobs, Reference/Instruction Librarian, 10/09
wjacobs@csustan.edu