Academic Resources: Exercise Prescription for Special Populations

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Academic ResourcesExercise Prescriptionfor
Special Populations

• Frederic Murray
• Assistant Professor
• MLIS, University of British Columbia
• BA, Political Science, University of Iowa
• Instructional Services Librarian
• Al Harris Library
• frederic.murray_at_swosu.edu

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• DID YOU KNOW?

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Project Information Literacy

• Project Information Literacy is a national study
  (UW iSchool) about early adults and their
  information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and
  the challenges they face when conducting research
  in the digital age.

• Locate
• Evaluate
• Use/Synthesize
• Ethical

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Your Research Environment
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How do you search this?
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Or This.
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Or This
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Research

• Approach as the hunt for a right answer.
• OR
• Process of evaluating different resources
  coming up with your own interpretation..

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Tools of Scholarship

• Content

• Tools

• Books
• Articles
• Journals
• Citations
• WWW

• Catalogs
• Databases
• Lists
• Indexes
• Search Engines

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Catalogs, Databases, Search Engines

• A comprehensive list of the books, periodicals,
  maps, and other materials in a given collection.
• A large, regularly updated file of digitized
  information related to a specific subject or
  field.
• Computer software designed to help the user
  locate information available at sites on the
  World Wide Web by selecting categories from a
  hierarchical directory of subjects (example
  Yahoo!) or by entering appropriate keywords or
  phrases (Google).

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Search Fundamentals

• Boolean
• And
• OR
• Not

• Keywords
• i.e.
• Obesity
• Physical Activity
• Skills
• Exercise
• Prescription
• Special Populations

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Boolean

• AND Narrow
• OR Expand

• NOT Exclude

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Boolean Operators

• Connect keywords only
• Must be placed between keywords
• AND
• Narrows your search
• OR
• Expands your search with synonymous terms
• NOT
• Excludes words from your search
• If used too much, it can work against you!

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Identifying Keywords

• Identify the significant terms and concepts that
  describe your topic from your thesis statement or
  research question.
• These terms will become the key for searching
  catalogs, databases and search engines for
  information about your subject.

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Keywords

• Orthopedic Conditions
• Obesity
• Heart Disease
• Physical Activity
• Skills
• Exercise
• Prescription
• Special Populations
• Assess
• Analyze

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Class Exercise Create Search String

• Synonyms / Antonyms

• Boolean And/Or/Not

• Create a search string using synonyms or
  antonyms from the key word list.
• Write it on the board !

• Orthopedic Conditions
• Obesity
• Heart Disease
• Physical Activity
• Skills
• Exercise
• Prescription
• Special Populations
• Assess
• Analyze

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Potential Search Strings

• Exercise
• Exercise and Prescription
• Exercise and Prescription and Obesity
• Exercise Prescription and Obesity

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Databases Journals

• 145 Databases 27,000 Online
• 12,000
  Physical

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Allied Health Databases ( a few)

• SPORTDiscus (EbscoHost)
• MedLine (EbscoHost)
• CINAHL (EbscoHost)

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Database Tools

• Full Text
• Peer Review
• Folders
• Alerts
• Email
• Citations
• Cited References
• Times Cited in Database

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Scholarly Popular Trade
INFORMATION LITERACY
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Periodical List

• Search in the List
• Exercise
• Fitness
• Sports
• Medicine

Remember We have 39,000 Journals in the Library!
Can you find the relevant ones?
AND
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Periodical List

• Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
•  LWW Nursing and Health Professions Premier
  Collection
• Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
•  E-Journals from EBSCO/ Paper  
• American Journal of Cardiology
•  IDIS/Web  
• Circulation
•  Free Access Journals (HighWire)
• Journal of American Dietetic Association
• Paper
• Journal of exercise physiology online
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text

Remember We have 39,000 Journals in the Library!
Can you find/search/use these..?
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Questions?

• Contact me
• Frederic Murray
• 774-7113
• frederic.murray_at_swosu.edu

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Thanks!