Access to Sport Sciences Print and Online Journals

A number of websites monitor the availability of online sport sciences, medical and other journals. In most cases, these lists indicate if there is free access to a particular title or whether the online edition is subscription-based.

In the past few years there has also been an initiative to provide access to medical journals in Low Income Countries and Low Middle Income Countries (World Bank designation). Information on this project can be found in the summary report on the HINARI project entitled: Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) Summary of Activity to July 2003 (PDF format ). Click on the above title.

(This report was previously published in issue No.39 Sept 2003 of ICSSPE's Sport Science and Physical Education Bulletin (online periodical available to ICSSPE members at http://www.icsspe.org/).

Current Inventories of Fulltext Sport Sciences and Medical Journals

National Sport Information Centre (Australian Sport Commission)
http://www.ausport.gov.au/nsic/serials
NSIC maintains four types of lists for print and online serials:

• Current Australian Sports Periodicals
• Sports Periodicals Indexed on SPORTDiscus and Held by the NSIC: Full Text, Table of Contents, Publisher
• Australian Journals Online Free
• Medical Journals Online

Journaux électroniques (Texte intégral disponible gratuitement) INSEP
http://www.insep.fr/Sid/signetsdoc.htm#journaux

FreeMedicalJournals.com (http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/)
This website is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Over 1300 journals are listed by specialty, or title (free one to six months after publication, or free one year after publication). An Alert service is also available.

LinkOut (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/journals/loftext_noprov.html)
Maintained by the National Centre for Biotechnical Information, this PubMed service lists over 4000 fulltext journals that are indexed the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Journals are sorted by title, then by provider name and years of full text availability. For example:

• Journal of sports sciences. (J Sports Sci)
• • EBSCO (EBSCOPub) 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
  • Infotrieve (Infotrieve) 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
  • MetaPress.com (MetaPress) 2002 2003
  
  
• Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) (Sports Med)
• • EBSCO (EBSCOPub) 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
  • Infotrieve (Infotrieve) 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
  • Ingenta plc (Ingenta) 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
  • Ovid Technologies, Inc. (Ovid) 2000 2001 2002 2003

Current Inventories of Multidisciplinary Fulltext Journals and Newsletters

• NewJour: Electronic Journals & Newsletters
  http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/NewJourWel.html
  
  
• Publications on the Web: Journals, Magazines and Newsletters
  http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/journals.html