Databases

• Alt HealthWatch (Ebsco) covers complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health
• Anatomy (TV)  interactive 3D anatomy reference resource includes sport injuries (no articles)
  
• BIOSIS Previews  (Ovid) covers biology, anatomy, physiology, virology, toxicology, and more.
• Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts (CSA) covers biomechanics, human rehabilitation engineering, and more
• BioMechanics Desk Reference: Free database on biomechanics products (free)
• CAB Abstracts covers aspects health, nutrition, and physiology
• CINAHL  (Ebsco) covers clinical medicine, nursing, nutrition, exercise, and physical therapy
• Exercise Library: database of exercises from American Council of Exercise
• Global Health (Ebsco) covers health from an international perspective
  
• Health Disparities Database: database from APHA and United Health Foundation programs (free)
• Health Reference Center - Academic covers fitness, medicine, nutrition, public health, and more.
• Medline covers clinical medicine, 3 interfaces  Medline (Ovid)    Medline (Ebsco)    Medline (Pubmed)
• Physical Education Index (CSA) covers articles on kinesiology, sport law, sports medicine, dance, fitness tests, coaching and training, sports equipment, marketing, and psychology. (2001-present)
• SPORTDiscus  covers sport, fitness and related disciplines. Indexes articles,  dissertations, theses, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more
• Sport Practice Drills: non academic database of drills for various sports
• StatRef   collection of full text medical, nursing, and pharmaceutical textbooks (no journal articles)

E-books & Reference Tools

Selected E-books

• Data Analysis and research for sport and exercise science
  Williams, C. and Wragg C. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• Encyclopedia of ethnicity and sports in the United States
  Kirsch, G. B., Harris, O., and Nolte, C. E. (eds.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
• Nutrition in sport Maughan, R. J. (ed). Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Science, 2000.
• Sports medicine: examination & board review
  O'Connor, Francis G. (ed.) New York: McGraw Hill, Medical Pub. Division, 2005.
• Sports medicine: just the facts O'Connor, Francis G. (ed.) New York: McGraw Hill, Medical Pub. Division, 2005

E-books, directories, and tools

• AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill; includes Harrison's Online, Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, pharmaceutical index, guidelines, and more.
• Anatomy TV no articles, interactive 3D anatomy reference resource includes sport injuries, MRIs, and more
• Books@Ovid  : Collection of full text medical, nursing, and pharmaceutical textbooks including Sports Injuries: Mechanisms, Prevention, & Treatment
• Directory of Health Organizations: free database on organizations from National Library of Medicine
• GIDEON (Ebsco): includes diagnosis symptom guide, epidemiology (maps of infectious diseases), drug therapy, and microbiology reference tools

• Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale):  a Medical encyclopedia, Drug & Herb Finder, Alternative Health Encyclopedia, Health Assessment Tools, Health Organization Directory, and more.
• LANGE educational library Includes medical education resources for course study, self-assessment tool, and LANGE Case Files.
• Oxford English Dictionary  comprehensive dictionary of the English language
• StatRef 1 Collection of full text medical and pharmaceutical textbooks.  Also provides a medical dictionary and medical calculators (click on the resources tab).
• StatRef 2  Collection of full text pharmaceutical textbooks

Exercise Guidelines

 For everyone

• American Academy of Family Physicians: Exercise: How to Get Started
• CDC- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
• Effective Population-Level Strategies to Promote Physical Activity (from Guide to Community Preventive Services) from this article: Recommendations to increase physical activity in communities (from American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002; 22(4S: 67-72)
• Physical Activity Evaluation Handbook: program evaluation guide for physical activity interventions
• Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health
• Healthy People 2010: Chapter 22- Physical Activity and Fitness
• National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: Information for Patients and the Public- Key Recommendations
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity: brief interventions in primary care, exercise referral schemes, pedometers, and community-based exercise programs for walking and cycling
• The Effectiveness of Interventions to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review (from American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002; 22(4S: 73-107)
• President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: variety of reports on fitness for all age groups
• Peter D. Hart Research American Attitudes Toward Physical Activity & Fitness, A National Survey
• Guidelines for Personal Exercise Programs

For adults and seniors

• American College of Sports Medicine
• Guidelines for healthy adults under age 65
• Guidelines for healthy adults over age 65 or with 50-64 with chronic conditions
• University of Iowa: Evidence based practice guideline: Exercise promotion: walking in elders

For children and adolescents

• American Academy of Pediatrics: Active healthy living: prevention of childhood obesity through increased physical activity
• American Heart Association: Overweight in children and adolescents: pathophysiology, consequences, prevention, and treatment
• National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: Identifying and preventing overweight in childhood. Clinical practice guideline.
• President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls
• University of Iowa: Increasing physical activity in schools: kindergarten through eighth grade

For chronic illness/pain

• American College of Sports Medicine Guidelines for healthy adults over age 65 or with 50-64 with chronic conditions
• American Heart Association: 
• Exercise and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease
• Physical activity and exercise recommendations for stroke survivors
• School of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Program (UT at Austin) 
• Evaluation and treatment of childhood obesity
• Initiating exercise in adults with chronic illness
• United States Preventive Task Force: Primary care interventions to prevent low back pain in adults: recommendation statement

Grant/Writing Resources

• Craft of Grant Writing Workbook from TAMU Office of Proposal Development
• Columbia University's Guide to Grantmanship
• Environmental Protection Agency (tutorial)
• Foundation Center
• GrantWriters.com
  
• Logic Model Development Guide from Kellog Foundation
  
• National Science Foundation proposal and award policies
• Non-profit guides  grant writing tips for non-profit organizations
• Resources for National Institutes of Health from TAMU Office of Proposal Development
• Resources for Programs ton Enhance Diversity from TAMU Office of Proposal Development

Finding grants

General

• Community Foundation Locator from Council on Foundations
  
• COS Funding Opportunities (CSA)  Offers personal alerts and searching by keyword, geography, and sponsor
• Corporate Giving Database list of corporations
• Federal Register funding announcements from federal sources
  
• Funding Opportunities  list maintained by TAMU Office of Proposal Development
• Grants.gov  portal for government funding opportunities; direct application through site
  
• Grantsnet.org from American Association for the Advancement of Science (includes student support)
• National Science Foundation guide to programs and funding opportunities  general descriptions of programs for all National Science Foundation directorates.
• SPIN  database of grants from government and private sources.  Use the Advance Search options for best results.
  

Health 

• CRISP Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects, database of federally funded biomedical research
• Funding Opportunities and Notices publication of National Institutes of Health's grant programs
  
• Fund Source tool for behavioral and social scientists
  
• Grants Alert grant notices for K-12 and higher education
• GrantsNet from U. S.  Dept of Health & Human Services
• National Center for Environmental Research grants on environmental health research from the EPA
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants on a variety of health related topics
• Rural Assistance Center rural communitiy funding
• Women's Health grants from National Women's Health Information Center

Education  

• Braitmayer Foundation educational grants for K-12
• Grants & Fellowships from Chronicle of Higher Education
• Grants for teachers grants for K-12 teachers
• NEA foundation grants for teachers and faculty
• Premier Funding educational grants for K-12 using Premier's student agenda program
• School grants educational grants for K-12

Journals

Biomechanics journals

• Acta of bioengineering and biomechannics
  
• American Journal of Sports Medicine
• Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology
• Bone
• Bone and Mineral Research
  
• Clinical biomechanics
• Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
• International Journal of Sports Medicine
  
• JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
• Journal of Applied Physiology
• Journal of biomechanics
• Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
  
• Journal of Nutrition
  
• Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
  
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Sports biomechanics

Physiology journals

Top 20 journals in physiology subject area arranged by Impact Factor for ISI's Journal Citation Reports   See: more on impact factors

1. Physiological Reviews    RSS   Authors
2. Annual Review of Physiology  RSS  Authors
3. Physiology  Authors
4. Reviews of Physiology Biochemistry and Pharmacology  RSS 
5. News in physiological sciences  (ceased publication in 2004, now Physiology)
6. Journal of General Physiology  RSS  Authors
7. Pflugers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology  Authors
8. Journal of Biological Rhythms RSS  Authors
9. Journal of Physiology  RSS  Authors
10. American Journal of Physiology- Cell Physiology   RSS  Authors
11. American Journal of Physiology- Lung Cellular and molecular physiology  RSS  Authors
12. Journal of Pineal Research  RSS  Authors
13. American Journal of Physiology- Renal Physiology  RSS  Authors
14. American Journal of Physiology- Endocrinology and Metabolism  RSS  Authors
15. Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia  RSS  Authors
16. Physiological genomics  RSS  Authors
17. American Journal of Physiology- Heart and circulatory physiology  RSS  Authors
18. American Journal of Physiology- Regulatory, integrative, and comparative physiology RSS  Authors
19. American Journal of Physiology- Gastrointestinal and liver physiology RSS  Authors
20. Journal of Neurophysiology  RSS  Authors

Sports Medicine Journals 

1. Sports medicine Authors
2. Journal of applied physiology  RSS  Authors
3. Exercise and sport sciences reviews   Authors
4. Exercise Immunology Review (ceased publication in 2001)  
5. Medicine and science in sports and exercise  Authors
6. American journal of sports medicine  RSS  Authors
7. British journal of sports medicine  RSS  Authors
8. Journal of rehabilitation medicine   RSS  Authors
9. Scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sports  RSS  Authors
10. Gait and posture RSS  Authors
11. High altitude medicine and biology  RSS  Authors
12. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation  RSS  Authors
13. Journal of sports sciences RSS  Authors
14. Physikalische Medizin Rheabilitationsmedizin Kurortmedizin  RSS  Authors
15. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology RSS  Authors
16. Journal of Athletic Training RSS  Authors
17. Clinical journal of Sport Medicine, Evans Stacks RC1200.C55  link to library record  Authors
18. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma ****    Authors
19. European journal of applied physiology  RSS  Authors
20. Canadian journal of applied physiology Evans Stacks GV557.C36  link to library record

Nutrition Resources

• Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition
• Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
  
• Natural & Alternative Treatments: herbs, supplements, functional foods
  
• Natural Standard: covers food, herbs, supplements and more

Organizations & Conference Proceedings

Search for conference papers:

• Conference Papers Index: index to presented conference papers
• NLM Gateway: free database from NLM covering Medline, conferences, and more
  
• PapersInvited: database of conferences/organizations looking for authors/presenters

Related organizations

• American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• American College of Sports Medicine
• American Council of Exercise
• American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society
• American Physical Therapy Association
• American Physiological Society
• American Society of Biomechanics
  
• Anthroscopy Association of North America
• Canadian Society for Biomechanics
  
• Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research
• European Society of Biomechanics
• European Society of Movement Analysis for Adults and Children
  
• Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society
  
• Institute for Preventative Sports Medicine
• International Federation of Sports Medicine
• International Society for Aging and Physical Activity
• International Society of Biomechanics
• International Society of Biomechanics in Sports
  
• International Sport Science Association
• National Association of Sports Nutrition
  
• National Athletic Trainers' Association
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
  
• National Strength and Conditioning Association
  
• North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine
• Orthopaedic Research Society

Software (statistical programs & more)

Commercial Software

• S-Plus
• SAS Homepage
• SPSS
  
• STATA homepage

Free software

• EpiInfo: free software from CDC for creating and analyzing questionnaires/surveys
• R-Project: free software for statistical computing and graphics
  
• SABER: Statistical Analysis Battery for Epidemiological Research, free from CDC
• SETS: Statistical Export and Tabulation System, free from CDC
• StatLib software download software for various tasks

Statistics, Maps, & Datasets

• Adolescent Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: health risk behavior statistics from 1996-present
• CDC Wonder (variety of health topics)
• Child Health USA: statistics on children's health
• Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR): public use data sets from US Dept of Energy, environmental health, radiation, and more
  
• Current Population Survey (CPS) includes data on income, health insurance coverage, and more 
• Healthy People DATA 2010: data by focus area, data source, specific population group, and more
• Health Poll Search: interactive results from polls on health related issues
• Infant Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
• Men's Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
• Minority Health data from State Health Facts includes interactive tables, bar graphs, and maps
• Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities (OMHD) cultural specific pages (demographics, 10 leading causes of death, and more):
• African American
• American Indian & Alaska Native
• Asian American
• Hispanic or Latino
• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
• Multiracial
• White
• U. S. Physical Activity Statistics from CDC
• Sports Business Research Network: stats on participation, equipment purchases, and more
  
• Women's Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
• World Health Organization: data and statistics on health, and other issues around the world (interactive tables)