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If required, login using your university email address and password.

All EBSCO databases are moving to a new interface on the 5th August.

If you have Saved searches and records, these will be automatically transferred.

Custom folders and Alerts will not transfer.  The new interface will give you an option to download a report of your old folders (In Projects) but this is a large unwieldy file.  There a few things you can do in the current site to avoid this:

  • Delete any custom folders you no longer need.
  • If you have saved searches in a custom folder, you can select it and "Move to" the Saved searched folder.
  • Back up saved items in RefWorks.
  • Search Alerts will need to be retrieved and saved as a search to be recreated in the new interface.
  • Journal alerts will need to be set up in the new interface, so keep a list.

Full Details

Full text database, plus index and abstracts covering journal articles, monographs and theses on sport, sport medicine, fitness and related disciplines.

Date Range

1985 onwards.

Size

350+ journals.

Features

Search history & alerts function from the Advanced search screen.
Use the Thesaurus to search using subject headings.  Guide to Subject searching.
Direct export to Refworks from the save results option.
Can search other Ebsco resources at the same time.

Search Tips

Uses Boolean AND, OR, NOT.
? wildcard.
* truncation.
() for grouping.
" "exact phrases.
Can limit by date, full-text and document type.

Other information

Some journals have an embargo, so there may be a delay before recent issues are made available.

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