Monday 15 April 2013

FREE TRIAL ONLINE DATABASE - SPORTDiscus!




Pleased to announce that, the Sport Information Centre (Pusat Maklumat Sukan) has arranged a three-month trial period of the SPORTDiscus with Full Text.

SPORTDiscus is the most comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, drugs, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, rehabilitation, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more. 

With full bibliographic coverage, this database includes over 750,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages. The content also consists of international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.

SportDiscus content include:
  • Full text for more than 530 journals.
  • Full text coverage dating back to 1985.
  • Books
  • Books Chapters
  • Conference Proceedings
  • Journal & Magazine Articles.
To access the database, please use contact us. http://search.ebscohost.com/
The trial will be for 3 months (April, May & June 2013) and also be posted on the ISN Official Website so that anyone can demo the product and give their feedback via the Evaluation Form. After the commencement of the trial, if the PMS has received more positive responses, we will consider subscribing to the resource.

Evaluation Form

Your cooperation is highly appreciated.

Thanks.