Information specialist: Sport sciences
Information seeking in Sport sciences
Information seeking and reference evaluation can be carried out in few different ways in health sciences. In this page you can find short introductions to the general ones.
Publication procedures and the principles of data creation may vary according to the discipline. E.g. in sports biology, like natural sciences, mainly international research articles are published, and conference publications are also a key source of new information. In the social sciences of sports and physical education, domestic publications and, in addition to journal articles, book articles and books are key forms of publication. Thus, often used databases are also international health science databases where e.g. systematic information seeking is possible. Information about different publication types can be found in Library Tutorial.
Library Tutorial
An online course (1 ECT), based on Library Tutorial, where you learn the basics of information seeking and reference management, e.g.
Recommended into bachelor's degree.
Research Data Management
Research data management is part of your scientific competence. Lean on an e-course (1 ECT) how to make a data management plan for your thesis.
Open Science Centre teaches information seeking usually in sport sciences at the first year and bachelor's level, as part of the faculty's courses. During the first year training, you can familiarize yourself with the basics of information seeking and the most common databases in your discipline. In connection with the bachelor's seminar, library exercises will be organized, during which we will delve deeper into thinking about search strategies and seeking information in practice. In some subjects, esp. in master's programs, information seeking and source evaluation are also taught in the master's phase.
The management of research data is also taught in cooperation with the faculty's courses, and the topic is deepened in the courses dealing with ethics in the bachelor's and master's stages.
The general trainings of the Open Science Centre are open to all JYU students. In undergraduate studies, e.g. the Reference Manager Zotero trainings that delve into reference management software have been popular (search for training with the term Zotero).
Research and personnel trainings deal with information seeking from new perspectives, e.g. in terms of literature review and concept analysis. In addition, there is training on publishing, management of research materials, open educations, openness research method, researcher profiles and, of course, open science and research. Research trainings are open to all JYU dissertation authors, other researchers and staff.
Library tutorial: Search terms
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Reference Online
- Health Sciences: MeSH Browser (Medical subject headings)
- MOT: dictionary
- includes also medical dictionary
- RedFox: dictionary
- Dictionaries e.g.
Library tutorial: Search statement, e.g. AND and OR operators
Faculty's guidelines: Tuula Tutkija.
Reference management software: Zotero is often used if JYU. You can download it online or if you're using university' computer find it from Software Center. Learn to use Zotero, an online bibliographic management program, that allows you to create a personal database of references and generate in-text citations and bibliographies in a variety of styles in library's workshops.
- Other options according to subject (mainly in health sciences) and research layout e.g.
- Sumari (JBI database: Tools. Only for faculty members)
- Sumari guides
- Note Sumari may require logging in twice to access the system
- Covidence (available openly online)
- Sumari (JBI database: Tools. Only for faculty members)
Library tutorial: Finding scholarly journals and articles
JYKDOK: Browse for databases + field of science: sports
Finnish articles
- JYKDOK: article search
- Health sciences: Medic (only in Finnish).
JYU e-journals in sport sciences
Search in JYKDOK: "sport sciences" + Content type: Journal/Article.
International articles
Databases
- SportDiscus
- SPOLIT (open access)
- SportDiscus or SPOLIT?
Other disciplines, e.g.
- Health sciences:
- MEDLINE (Ovid) or PubMed (Medline, OA)
- CINAHL (EBSCO)
- More information:
- Ovid guidelines (Medline) and video about advanced seacrh (Wolters Kluwer)
- PubMed video, MeSH video
- Education: Eric (ProQuest)
- Psychology: PsycINFO
- Social sciences: Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
- Multidisciplinary databases
- Scopus (Elsevier API)
- Web of Science WoS (Thompson Scientific)
- Resource by subject: other fields.
Citations and impact factors
- Web of Science (WoS)
- Scopus
- Cabells
- Publication forum (Julkaisufoorumi) etc.
- Other resources than databases, e.g. artificial intelligence in Dimensions
- Responsible publication metrics in JYU.
Library tutorial: Finding books
- JYKDOK
- Finna: Finnish libraries, inc. JYKDOK materials
- EBook Central
- EBSCO eBook Collection
- Dawsonera ym.
- More information: using electronical materials
- Research methods, e.g.
- JYKDOK: JYU's disserations and theses
- Finna: Finnish dissertations and theses
- SwePub: Swedish dissertations
- DiVA portal
- DART - Europe E-theses Portal
- Open Access Theses and Dissertations etc.
Library tutorial: Defining the topic
- Oxford handbook of sport and exercise medicine
- Routledge Handbook of Ergonomics in Sport and Exercise ym.
- Handbook of Sports Studies
- Handbook of Sport Neuropsychology
- Handbook of physical education
- The economics of sports
- SAGE Knowledge - Handbooks
- Other disciplines, e.g. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
More information on the processing of research data is available in the Research Data Management online course and the faculty's ethics courses. Here are some additional tips:
- Data archives (e.g. Tietoarkisto, Zenodo, Kielipankki), Etsin (OA materials) and JYX data as well as sector-specific archives
- JYU's instructions on data protection
- JYU's instructions for researchers, e.g.
- Data protection policy of the University of Jyväskylä (rector's decision 18 June 2018)
- Data protection training, e.g. Moodle course
- Research Data Management training (dissertation authors, other researchers and personnel)
- Management of research materials training for supervisors (coming soon)
- Help with research also from JYU's Human Sciences Ethics Committee, e.g. requests for opinions for ethical preliminary evaluation (requests for medical research opinions to the Ethics Committee of the Central Finland Hospital District)
- Material management instructions also elsewhere, e.g. Kopiraittila (Kopiosto) and Data Archive's material management guidelines.
The faculty uses Tuula Tutkija writing instructions and Word template for theses.
Theses are basically public in Finland, that is, their information is visible and findable. In JYU, theses information appears in the JYKDOK database.
The theses in JYU are also often open, which means you can read the thesis openly online. In this case, JYKDOK's information contains a link to the thesis opened in JYX, which can also be found by searching online.
Dissertations, on the other hand, are publications.
JYU instructions: Opening the thesis online
Contact the Library.
Ask online.
Book consultation in information seeking (JYU master's theses, dissertations, researchers and other personnel).