This tip sheet is available online at library home page > Distance Education Services > Research Tip Sheets.
Online Library Resources
In-depth assistance is available at How To Do Library Research on the Distance Ed Library Services page (see the Handouts and Demonstrations).- go to the Library
Catalog to search for books/videos/DVDs, etc.
- enter your term(s), and select the index you want to search (author, title, subject, keyword)
- your search may bring up journal titles with online links; click the "ENMU Portales online access" link to go to our Full-text Online Journals (see Full-text Online Journals, below, for instructions)
- to find journal articles, use a periodical database
- go to the library’s Periodical Databases page and select one of the databases listed below (click the letter that begins the database name at the first alphabetical list in the upper right)
- if you are off campus, type your ENMU ID# at the remote authentication screen
Databases for HPE Research
- Academic Search Premier--scholarly, multi-disciplinary; full text
- Physical Education Index--scholarly, limited full text (indicated by full page icon + Full Text link)
- PsycINFO--scholarly, limited full text
- Science Direct--scholarly, limited full text (indicated by green page icon to the left of the citation)
- Health Reference Center--medical and nutrition, full text
- Education Research Complete--scholarly, full text
- Academic OneFile--scholarly, multi-disciplinary; full text
- JSTOR--scholarly, full text
- Westlaw Campus--full text, law
- Sports Litigation Alert--full text, law
- Highwire Press
- Infomine Biology-Biomedical
- PubMed (current articles, some free full text and abstracts)
- PubMed Central (older articles, full text)
- Springer Journals
- Directory of Open Access Journals
Full-text Online Journals
If you are unable to locate full-text material in the database you are searching, try using our Full-Text Online Journals, at the second alphabetical list in the upper right of the Periodical Databases page:- click the 0-9 link and type journal title in the Search box; if journal is available, click a link and then "Search Within this Publication" (type article title in search box or perform an open search)
- or, click a year/volume/issue link that corresponds to your citation and search the issue's table of contents for your article title
- or, go directly to our Full-text Online Journals for HPE to see the specific journal titles we have available:
Health & Biological Sciences
Social Sciences--see Education, Recreation and Sports, Psychology
If you are still unable to locate your material, you may place a request for it (see below).
HPE Web Resources
PElinks4USport Journal (full text)
Sportscience journal (full text)
Physician and Sportsmedicine Journal(full text)
Athletic Business journal(full text)
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise journal (some full text)
Human Kinetics (full text)
Women's Health.gov
USDA's Fitness and Sports Nutrition
Biomechanics Magazine
International Society of Sport Psychology Position Stands
See the Internet Resources page for general and reference works, and eBooks.
Requesting Material
Register with the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system and create your personal ILLiad account. Go to the Interlibrary Loan link and click on the ILLiad Log In/Register link on the left-hand sidebar. Click on the "First Time Users click here" link and register with the system. Enter your ENMU email address, create an ILLiad username of your own choosing, and enter your ENMU ID number as your ILLiad password. Return to the same ILLiad Log In/Register link and logon to ILLiad to use the system.- if you are taking classes on the main campus, check Golden Library's holdings first, before submitting a request. If your item is unavailable online or in the library, you may place an ILL request.
- if you are a distance education student and do not come to the main campus for any of your classes, you may request anything not available full-text online via ILL, including items from Golden Library's catalog.