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Resource of the week #20: SPORTDiscus

What is it?
SPORTDiscus is a subject-specific, bibliographic database. It includes bibliographic details and abstracts of thousands of articles in the area of fitness, health and sports studies.

Key Features
We provide access to SPORTDiscus via the Ebsco platform.
Here you can search across hundreds of academic journals relating to the area of sports studies, including sports medicine.
As with our other ebsco databases you can save searches and search results as well as set up alerts.

How can it help you?
This is a useful database to use to find good quality information and research, if you are looking at topics related to sports medicine.

How to access it?
This database is available to Keele students and staff via the ebsoc platform. You will need to use your Keele computer username and password to access it. You can find a link to the database via the Additional Databases section of the Medicine Databases page.

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