Exercise Physiology:Academic Resources

Frederic Murray Assistant ProfessorMLIS, University of British ColumbiaBA, Political Science, University of Iowa

Instructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu

Assignment• Students are to find a peer-

reviewed article about their Nervous System disease/disorder and how exercise improves their health and ADLs.

Peer Reviewed

Topics• Alzheimer’s Disease• Huntington Disease• Parkinson’s disease• Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome• Tourette’s Syndrome• Encephalitis• Meningitis• Sciatica• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Assignment• Students are to find a peer-

reviewed article about their Nervous System disease/disorder and how exercise improves their health and ADLs.

Keywords• Exercise or Activity or Calisthenics• Health or Treatment or

Therapeutics• ADLs or Activities of Daily Living

• Disorder: Parkinson’s disease

Boolean• AND = Narrow

• OR = Expand

• NOT = Exclude

BooleanParkinson’s disease and Exercise and ADLs

Sciatica and Activities of Daily Living

Huntington Disease and Treatment and Activity

Databases• MEDLINE with Full Text

(EBSCOhost)• Ovid Core Biomedical and ADIS

Journals• Wired.MD

Ebrary: Digital Book Collection

Website

Specialized Search• Wolfram/Alpha

– A computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.

• Scrius– For scientific information only. A web based comprehensive scientific research tool.

• Ipl2– Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII). A directory.

Questions?• Contact me:

• Frederic Murray• 774-7113• frederic.murray@swosu.edu

Thanks!