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Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks: 

Year book Australia (the 2000 issue includes articles about sporting Australians, Sydney's Stadium Australia and the climate of Sydney. The 2002 issue contains a look back at the Sydney Olympics and Paralmpics)

Image Collections

Image Collections: 

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Andrew Mewing, Swimming

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Mark McNee, Speed Skating

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Melanie Kleeberg, Athletics

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Natalie Cook, Beach Volleyball

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

SPORTDiscus: A resource for both practical and research literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics. Records cover sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, and other sport- and fitness-related topics. The database also includes citations from Atlantes, Heracles and Catalog du Musee Olympique

Sociological Abstracts (Sociofile): Provides access to findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Abstracts approximately 2500 journals, covering sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.

PsycINFO: PsycINFO database covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. It includes materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. PsycINFO provides indexes to journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports

ERIC: A bibliographic database covering the literature of education, this version of ERIC includes direct links to the electronic full-text of over 100,000 documents.

Scopus: Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, psychology, economics, social sciences, and biological and agricultural sciences.

Browse all databases for Human Movement Studies

News

News: 

Factiva - A global news and business information service that combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.

Informit TVNews - indexes the majority of TV news stories, current affairs and documentary series broadcast on Australian television. Individual stories may be downloaded to the desktop in a compressed video format.

UQ NEWS:

UQ Graduate Earns Gold and Silver at London Olympics

UQ Student Makes it Three in a Row

UQ Students Aim High

Olympics Honour Board