Online Resources for Sport, Health and Exercise Liz Wraith lwraith@ccn.ac.uk
ONLINE RESOURCES How to use 1 Blackboard 2 Databases 3 Recommended websites 4 Web Resources
BLACKBOARD City College Norwich “Virtual Learning Environment” Specific Course Information College Services
DATABASES Infotrac Cochrane Library (Medical research) A database is an organised collection of information records that can be accessed electronically, full-text & abstracting BLACKBOARD/LEARNING ZONE/ONLINE DATABASES & E-JOURNALS Infotrac Cochrane Library (Medical research) Health Point (D.o.H) BlackwellSynergy (Abstracts) Ingenta (Abstracts) Human Anatomy and Physiology (Online textbook) Anatomy and Physiology CD-Rom
RECOMMENDED WEBSITES These are accessed via – Blackboard/learning zone/top sites for your course Intute @ www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/education Bubl @ http://www.bubl.ac.uk
To Google, or not to Google Scholar Google – What is Scholar Google? “Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.” Google, 2006
USING THE INTERNET Identify the website .org .com .gov .ac Locate the home page check the ending of the URL .org .com .gov .ac
Examine the credibility USING THE INTERNET Examine the credibility Who’s the author? How detailed is the information? Can the information be double checked? How up-to-date is the information?
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