Exercise Physiology: Academic Resources Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu Assignment • Students are to find a peer-reviewed article about the Endocrine System how individual hormones affect exercise and exercise performance. Peer Reviewed Hormones • • • • • • • • • • • • Growth hormone Antidiuretic hormone Thyroid hormone Calcitonin Parathyroid hormone Cortisol Aldosterone epinephrine/norepinephrine Insulin Glucagon Testosterone Estrogen Assignment • Students are to find a peer-reviewed article about the Endocrine System how individual hormones affect exercise and exercise performance. Keywords • • • • Endocrine System Exercise or Activity or Competition Athletic Performance or Sports Performance Physical Endurance or Physical Fitness • Hormone: Cortisol Medical Subject Headings • MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus • Using MeSH terms will improve your search results • MeSH Browser Boolean • AND = Narrow • OR = Expand • NOT = Exclude Boolean Cortisol and Exercise and Performance Endocrine system and Cortisol Cortisol and Sports Performance and Endocrine Databases • MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost) • Ovid Core Biomedical and ADIS Journals • Wired.MD Website Specialized Search • Wolfram/Alpha – A computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links. • Scrius – For scientific information only. A web based comprehensive scientific research tool. • Ipl2 – Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII). A directory. Questions? • Contact me: • Frederic Murray • 774-7113 • frederic.murray@swosu.edu Thanks!