This document provides instructions for searching electronic journals in sport and exercise through the University of Derby Library. It explains how to access electronic resources by logging in through the library pages. It describes using E-Journals Finder to find specific journals and Library Plus or SPORTDiscus to search for articles on a topic. It also outlines how to refine searches, limit to full text, and save references.

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Introduction to
Searching Electronic
Journals for Sport &
Exercise

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Information on the library’s resources is in the
Library Subject guide for Sport & Exercise
(access from the Finding Subject Information
link, then Science)

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Logging in
All our electronic library resources need to be
accessed through the University of Derby Library
pages. Login through Udo & select Library.
This is because we pay for our online resources
and you need to show that you are eligible to use
them.

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Finding a specific journal
• Use E-Journals Finder to find a specific electronic
journal
• Do not use E-Journals Finder to find articles from
a range of journals.
• Particular journals may be very useful for certain
modules

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Finding a specific journal
• To find a specific electronic journal use
E-Journals Finder.
• Do not use E-Journals Finder to find articles from
a range of journals.
• You may also use Library Plus to find a specific
journal but E-Journals Finder is more complete

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E-Journals Finder
To go to the E-Journals Finder
click on Find Subject
Information.

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E-Journals Finder
Then E-Journals
Finder.

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e.g. to find the journal article: Navarro,M.
(2013) The mere presence of a
goalkeeper affects the accuracy of penalty
kicks. Journal of Sports Sciences, 31 (9),
921-929.
So you are looking for the “Journal of
Sports Sciences”, as E-Journals Finder is
used to find specific journals.
E-Journals Finder lists all the Library’s
e-journals. Don’t use it as a search for
journal articles on a topic.
E-Journals Finder

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E-Journals Finder
You can then either:
Type in some title words in the
search box for Journal of Sports
Sciences. See search box left.
Or: You can click on the publisher
link (Taylor & Francis) to browse the
journal. This will also tell you which
years we have access to.

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You can use the search
box to look for the article
e.g. by using some title
words.
E-Journals Finder

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Then click on the Full Text
link to access the full
journal article.
E-Journals Finder

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The full journal article. You may
legally copy or print this out.
E-Journals Finder

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Or you can browse
the journal & its
volumes if you
click on the publisher
link.
E-Journals Finder

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e.g. for Navarro,M. (2013) The mere
presence of a goalkeeper affects the
accuracy of penalty kicks. Journal of
Sports Sciences, 31 (9), 921-929
You can browse by year & volume.
Select volume 31 2013
You can also search the journal in the
search box.
E-Journals Finder

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Then Issue 9.
The green indicates
full access. This
differs from
publisher to
publisher.
E-Journals Finder

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Click on the full text
links for the full journal
article.
E-Journals Finder

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To look for another journal title
click on E Journals Finder (not
New Search).
E-Journals Finder

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Searching for articles on a topic
The Library subscribes to a number of databases to
help you find journal articles by subject
Library Plus is a comprehensive search database for
our journals.
SPORTDiscus is included in Library Plus & is the
main sport & exercise journals database

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Which search words (keywords) are
you going to use and how are you
going to use them?
First of all, when you are searching an electronic
database, you need to think about which words
and phrases to search for.
• Think of the main keywords or phrases
• Don’t just type an essay title into a search box
• Think of alternative words & terms
• Do you need to combine terms together?

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Working out your search words
(keywords) (continued)
e.g. to find journal articles on “the risk of injury
during rugby union training sessions”
This has 3 main parts to it:
• Injury
• Rugby Union
• Training

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Working out your search words
(keywords) (continued)
• Think of alternative words (e.g. injury or injuries).
e.g. in Library Plus & SPORTDiscus you can use
“truncation” so that injur* would search injuries,
injury, injured.
• Rugby Union. You may want to use rugby union
to start with but may find more just using rugby.
• Are there other words to use as well as training?

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Combining search words
• Different databases allow you to combine
keywords in different ways.
• AND combines words or phrases together &
narrows a search (many searches automatically
do this without needing to put in AND)
• OR widens a search e.g. training OR practice
would search for either word
• You may be able to put 2 or more words in “ ” to
search for an exact phrase. e.g. “injury
prevention”

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Be prepared to alter searches
• You may not find what you are looking for straight
away. Be prepared to do different searches using
different combinations of words.
• Or you may find too many references which are
not relevant or there are a limited number that you
are going to be able to use

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Finding too many journal articles
• You may need to be more specific in your search
words or you may want to narrow down e.g. by
date, type of publication or specify that certain
words appear in the title of an article.
• Or you may just have to pick out ones which
appear to be most useful to you. e.g. by looking
at the title, the journal it is in, from the abstract
(summary) or location of the research or study

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Where to look for electronic journal
articles?
There is no one single correct way of finding journal
articles on a topic but for Sport & Exercise it is
recommended you use either:
•Library Plus
or
•SPORTDiscus

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Library Plus Includes
• Library book catalogue (print & e-books)
• Many of our e-journals subscriptions
• Many of the library journals databases (e.g.
SPORTDiscus, Business Source Premier,
Science Direct, Science Fulltext, Taylor & Francis)

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Library Plus also includes
Lists of resources we don’t have immediate access
to e.g.
•Journals we don’t subscribe to (e.g. indexed in
SPORTDiscus but where we don’t have access to
the complete journal)

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There are various ways of searching Library Plus. You can
search Library Plus directly from the Library page.
This is a basic search, but you are then able to refine your
search.
e.g. type psychology penalty kicks goalkeepers into the Library
Plus search box to do a basic search on the psychology of
goalkeepers saving penalties.
Library Plus

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The number of results & the
details of the articles is
displayed. A Green Get Full Text
link will give you the complete
journal article. You may need to
refine your search.

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The Search box on the Library page is quite basic
& you may often want to do a more detailed search.
You can go to the Library Plus search page by
selecting Find Subject Information, then Library
Plus.
Library Plus

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Click on Library Plus under Quick Links.
There is also a link in the Subject Guide
for Sport & Exercise on the right -
Science, then Sport & Exercise.
Library Plus

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Advanced Search in
Library Plus can give
more flexibility & allows
you to do a more
sophisticated search.
Library Plus

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You can combine search terms by
using the different search boxes.
AND combines the search terms &
narrows the search.
Or will search for either term.
* looks for alternatives e.g. penalt*
looks for penalty or penalties
“ ” searches an exact phrase e.g
“penalty kicks”
Think of keywords and be prepared
to change them and use
alternatives. Do not put in long
phrases or essay titles.
Tick this box & you will only see articles we have full
access to.
If you leave it unticked you will also see journal
articles we do not have full access to. (The Basic
Search does this automatically).
Library Plus

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Click on the Full Text links to
see the full journal article.
Articles are displayed with
the most relevant nearest
the start.
Library Plus

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Library Plus
You may be taken straight
to the full article or may
need to click on another
link.

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PDF is the best
format for saving or
printing an article.

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You can use the words AND
OR NOT to refine your
search.
This is explained on the help
screen (next slide).
Library Plus

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From the Library
Plus Help pages.
Library Plus

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Saving references in Library Plus
You can save results into a folder in Library Plus.
If you want to save references for future use you can
create your own personal account and then Sign In
to your personal account.
You can give folders names.
You still need to login through the Library page to
start with.

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If you create a personal username & password
(under Sign in) your search results can be
saved in Library Plus.
You can then create a named folder to put your
search results in or just put them into an
unnamed folder.
To create a named folder click on Folder, New,
then give the folder a name.
Saving References in Library Plus

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Saving References in Library Plus
Save relevant references to the named folder by
clicking on the + icon & saving to the folder.
Or you can just click on the + icon & references will
be saved into a general folder which you can name
afterwards if you want.

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Saving References in Library Plus
You can also Save searches
to go back to later if you sign
in.
Click on Search History then
Save Searches.
Search History is alos useful
to look back on searches you
have done and also to
combine different complex
searches.

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Information on searching Library Plus is also
available from the Library Plus help screens
and the guide to Library Plus (Under All
Guides).
Further Information on Library Plus

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Using Library Plus to look for a
specific journal article
You also look for a specific journal article with
Library Plus (but doesn’t include absolutely every
journal which we have access to. The sure way is
using E-journals Finder)

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Using Library Plus to find the
journal article
Lidor, R., Ziv,G. & Gershin, T. (2012)
Psychological preparation of
goalkeepers for the 11m penalty kick in
soccer – a review. Sport Psychologist,
26 (3), 375-389.

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Using Library Plus to search for a specific journal article
There is no one correct way
but use Advanced Search
then:
e.g. change 1st
field to title &
type in a couple of words from
the title of the article.
Change 2nd
field to Author &
type in author’s surname
You could also change a field
to SO Journal Title & put in the
journal title or words from it.

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Using Library Plus to search for a specific journal article

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For more detailed information
about Library Plus select All
Guides then Library Plus.

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Detailed guide on using
Library Plus.

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SPORTDiscus
This is the most comprehensive database & index to
literature on Sport & Exercise.
It is contained within Library Plus so you are searching
SPORTDiscus when you use Library Plus. But it can be
searched on its own. It is searched in the same way as
Library Plus.
Contains many electronic journals & also links to many
other electronic journal articles we subscribe to.

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SPORTDiscus (continued)
Like Library Plus you can limit a search in
SPORTDiscus to journal articles which are directly
available as full-text articles (i.e you can see the
whole thing).
The full-text journal articles are either part of
SPORTDiscus or if we have a subscription to a
particular journal. Please note that this doesn’t cover
everything we have from other sources.

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For SPORTDiscus
select Find Subject
Information.
SPORTDiscus

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To go to SPORTDiscus select– Indexes &
Databases
Or the Subject Guide for Sport & Exercise
from the Science link
SPORTDiscus

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Either go to Indexes &
Databases – S -
SPORTDiscus
SPORTDiscus

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Or go to the Sport & Exercise
Library guide
SPORTDiscus

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The Library Subject Guide for Sport &
Exercise gives links and information on
resources.

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The search is very similar to
Library Plus & again use Limit
your results : Full Text.
And you can save in folders . The
Sign In will be the same as for
Library Plus.
SPORTDiscus

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Again, see the Full Text
journal article by
selecting the Full Text
links.
SPORTDiscus

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Information on the library’s resources is in the
Library Subject guide for Sport & Exercise
(access from the Find Subject Information
link, then Science)