Databases are digital archives of structured information within which it is possible to search to learn what has been written on a particular topic.

They can be bibliographic databases (they present only the citations and abstract of articles), full-text (they also present the full text of articles) or mixed in nature.

One particular type are citation databases, which, in addition to bibliographic searching, allow retrieval of all citations that a given article has received in the subsequent literature. They offer the possibility of deriving bibliometric indicators useful for assessing the impact of journals and authors (e.g., Impact Factor, H-Index).

The library subscribes to some of the most important disciplinary databases for the field of exercise science – SPORTdiscus with Full-Text and PsycArticles – and the two citation databases – Web of Science and Scopus.

Access to subscription databases is restricted to institutional users connecting from the University network.

This section also lists some open-access databases equally important to the field of exercise science and scientific research.

The query language of the databases isEnglish, with the exception of One Legal.

Search can be done by entering keywords in the single-field string or in the specific fields in Advanced Search (e.g., author, title, subject, class, year of publication).

Sportdiscus with Full Text

Subject area: Sport, Physical Education, Sports Medicine
Type: Bibliographic and partially full-text database
Developed by: Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) (Ottawa, ON, Canada).
Publisher: Ebsco
Platform: EBSCOhost

Coverage: full-text since 1985, varying by periodical.
Complete list of indexed periodicals: Database Coverage List.
Tesauro: Sports Thesaurus.

Full-Text: click on the button to check the availability of the full article among the electronic periodicals subscribed by the University “Foro Italico” or request it from other libraries through the NILDE service. The full-text is viewable only from the University’s Intranet or WI-FI network.

Remote access for institutional users: Enter the institutional credentials used to access the University network.

PsycArticles

Subject area: Psychology.
Type: full-text database.
Publisher: APA – American Psychological Association (Washington, D.C., US).
Platform: EBSCOhost
Coverage: since 1894. Weekly update.

Full List of Indexed Periodicals: Full PsycArticles Coverage List.
Tesauro: APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

Remote access for institutional users: Enter the institutional credentials used to access the University network.

Scopus

Disciplinary Area: Multidisciplinary
Type: citation database – for each article, complete bibliographic data (author(s), title, journal, year of publication, keywords, etc.) and all subsequent works in which that article was cited by other authors are provided.

Publisher: Elsevier (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
Coverage: since 1996 (partial from 1823 to 1996).
Complete list of indexed periodicals: Sources.

Full-text: Click on the UNIROMA4 FULL TEXT button to check the availability of the full article among the electronic periodicals subscribed by the University “Foro Italico” or request it from other libraries through the NILDE service.

Remote access for institutional users: From the database home page, follow the path Check access → Find your organization → University of Rome “Foro Italico” → Submit and continue → Enter the institutional credentials used to access the University network.

Web of Science (WOS)

Subject area: Multidisciplinary
Type: citation database – for each article, complete bibliographic data (author(s), title, journal, year of publication, keywords, etc.) and all subsequent works in which that article was cited by other authors are provided.
Developed by: International Scientific Information (Philadelphia, US)

Publisher: Clarivate (Boston, MA, US)
Coverage: since 1990.
Complete list of indexed periodicals: Master Journal List.
Structure: is divided into three separate databases: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Content note: This is the reference database for extracting the most well-known bibliometric indicators such as Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Cited Half-Life, Eigenfactor, published in Journal Citation Reports (see below).

Full-text: Click on the icon to check the availability of the full article among the electronic periodicals subscribed by the University “Foro Italico” or request it from other libraries through the NILDE service.

Remote access for institutional users: create your account by accessing the database from a device connected to the University network (click on Sign in at the top right and then Register). Then, by authenticating with the same credentials, you can also access remotely for six months (remote access can later be renewed by connecting again from the University network).

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) – Impact Factor of Journals.

Subject area: Multidisciplinary
Type: database for bibliometric evaluation
Developed by: International Scientific Information (Philadelphia, PA, US)
Publisher: Clarivate (Boston, MA, US)
Update: annual
Two editions: JCR Science Edition; JCR Social Sciences Edition

Content Note: Publishes key bibliometric indicators based on citation calculation and analysis: Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Cited Half-Life, Eigenfactor

ONE Legal

Disciplinary area: Italian and EU Jurisprudence
Type: full-text database
Contents: products of the publishing houses CEDAM, UTET Giuridica, IPSOA.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Italia
Access: via username and password

PubMed

Subject Area: Biomedicine
Type: Bibliographic Database
Publisher: National Library of Medicine – National Center for Biotechnology Information (Bethesda, MD, US)
Thesaurus: MeSH – Medical Subject Headings

Accessing from this URL customized for Foro Italico University queries the version of Pubmed integrated with Full Text Finder, the catalog of electronic resources.
Click on the icon (viewable at the top right of the article detail page) to check the availability of the full-text or to activate the request of the article to other libraries through the NILDE service. Full-text is viewable only from the University Intranet or WI-FI network.

BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Subject area: Multidisciplinary
Type: Search engine
Publisher: Bielefeld University Library (Germany)
Content: open-access web resources from the academic field. 60% of indexed documents are full-text. BASE can also query deep web resources, unlike commercial search engines.

ERIC – Educational Resources Information Center

Subject area: Education and Training Sciences
Type: Bibliographic and full-text database
Developed by: Institute of Education Sciences (Washington, DC, US)
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education
Full list of indexed periodicals: Journals Indexed in ERIC
Tesauro: Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors

Google Scholar

Disciplinary area: Multidisciplinary
Type: International academic literature search engine
Full text: click on the Full-text@UNIROMA4 link (right) to retrieve the article from the University’s electronic periodicals catalog.
The link and the full-text are displayed only if you search from the University network.