Finding scholarly texts
Since sports science is an interdisciplinary subject area, you can find useful articles in various databases. Here you can find international sports science research:
- SportdiscusIn Sportdiscus you find full text articles as well as references to journal articles, books, book chapters and proceedings in sport, fitness and related disciplines.
- LibsearchThis is the library’s search tool for books and journal articles. It’s set to show what you have access to via the library. You can widen your search by unticking the field limitation “Electronic and printed material via the library”. You can limit your search to “Scholarly and peer review” or specific time period, subject etc.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar is an alternative to Libsearch when searching for scientific articles. You need to change the settings in Google Scholar to display the full text link if the library has the article. Go to Library Links in Google Scholar settings. Search for Malmö University and select Malmö University - Fulltext via Mau.
Swedish scholarly text
- SwePubAcademic publications at Swedish universities. Search among scholarly articles, conference papers and dissertations etc.
- Diva – Malmö universitetResearch publications and student theses from Malmö University
Other subject databases
The interdisciplinary nature of sports science means that you may need to search other subject databases. Here are some suggestions that may be relevant:
- ABI/INFORM GlobalJournal articles and working papers on business and finance.
- PubMedPubMed, produced by the National Library of Medicine, includes citations for articles in medicine, odontology and nursing.
- ERIC via EBSCOThe ERIC database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
- UlrichswebUlrichsweb is a source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types–academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles and more.
Newspaper articles
- Access World News Research CollectionNews from all over the world. See A-Z Source list for included sources and years. Or search for a topic and filter the results by Source type (eg newspapers), or Source name (eg The Guardian).
education in other countries
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Eurydice
The European Encyclopedia on National Education Systems - Information on education systems in 33 European countries -
World Data on Education, Unesco
Detailed and systematized information on education systems of 163 countries worldwide, with a particular emphasis on curricula and curriculum development processes.
