SPORTDiscus Full Text is here!

 

Wonderful news – we now have SPORTDiscus Full Text!

It works like Academic Search Elite, so many staff and students will find it looks familiar. It is ”the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus.” Pretty impressive.

You can access it from the usual PERI web page and will need your Athens password. (Students can access it directly once they have logged on.)

Here’s a reminder of how you get there:

Worcestershire Archaeological Society

While this website has been in existence for a while now, thanks to sterling work by Roger Fairman, it now enables access to Transactions of the Society from Series 3: Volume 1 (1965/67) to the current Volume 19 (2004). The Transactions are also available as a single Adobe Acrobat file enabling use of that programme’s search facility.

New Business & Management Internet tutorial

 

A new edition of the “Internet Business Manager” online tutorial has been released in the Intute: Virtual Training Suite.

‘The tutorial recommends key Internet resources for education and research; offers advice on Internet searching, with improved interactive exercises; and has a new section called “Success Stories” to illustrate how the Internet can be used effectively to support education and research in a variety of scenarios.’

TRIP database

After three years of being a subscription service the TRIP database is now freely available. TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) is a search engine looking only at evidence based practice. They claim to allow “users to easily and rapidly identify the highest quality evidence from a wide range of sources”. Easy to use and full of good stuff.

Online Journal for Social Work

Social Work and Society is an online journal for social work, published since 2003. Freely available online (and listed on the UW A-Z Journals list) the journal is dedicated to “critical analysis of the relationship between social work, social policy, the state and economic forces”.

Broadband Future Report

BT has produced a report, Broadband, the Next five Years about the opportunities provided by broadband.

According to BT, it is ‘not a corporate vision, but an attempt to spark off the next stage of an important debate.’

GreenFacts

GreenFacts aim to bring complex scientific reports on health and the environment to the general public in an unbiased and accurate form. Recent publications cover diet and nutrition, biodiversity, Chernobyl, alcohol, GM crops and respiratory diseases. The information is taken from reports from the likes of the World Health Organization and the European Commission. Clear website, bringing scientific consensus to the masses. Good stuff. 

Centre for Investigative Psychology

Nice UK based website devoted to investigational psychology, giving details of the latest research, publications, conferences and courses in this area. Research topics of interest include arson, pornography, stalking and fraud. You can also sign up for the centre’s newsletter.

Mintel – August 2006 market research reports

The latest August 2006 market research reports added to Mintel are…

Midwifery update – information for clients

 

Latest bits and bobs of interest to midwifery include:

Weaning – new leaflet from the Department of Health, aimed at parents.

Pre-Term Birth- from Best Treatments, run by the BMJ. Evidence-based client orientated information on pre-term birth including symptoms, treatments and prognosis.

Post-natal Depression- form Prodigy, the guidelines people, a new patient information leaflet describing symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatments available.