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SIRC Launches SPORTDiscus to the Medical Market

ORLANDO, FLORIDA, MAY 27th, 2001: At the Medical Librarians Association in Orlando today, SIRC was pleased to announce the launch of the medical component of the SPORTDiscus database. The health communities across North America will benefit from the comprehensive point-of-care references found in the newly expanded SPORTDiscus.

Areas focussed on for the health communities include: Rehabilitation, Exercise Therapy, Physical Fitness, Child Healthcare, Exercise Physiology, Nutrition, Physical Education and much more.

The medical component of the SPORTDiscus was designed to provide an industry record amount of practical level references. "SIRC is excited to share our unique collection of references on health, medicine and sport. The SPORTDiscus resource is a necessity for your practical level research needs" Debra Gassewitz - President of SIRC.

The matrix below offers an insight to the number of references available on selected subjects.

	SPORTdiscus	Medline	Embase	Cinahl
Athletic Trainers	788	47	121	376
Concussions in Physical Fitness/Sport	379	132	249	153
AIDS/HIV in Physical Fitness/Sport	4,742	698	1,285	1,126
Shoulder injuries in Sport/Physical Activity	2,629	538	1,062	497
Employee Fitness	2,255	240	373	150

The SPORTDiscus has been in production since 1973, and currently has over 600,000 bibliographic references and links to 41,000 relevant websites. Additionally, full-text support is available and can be accessed with direct links through our online document delivery service, SIRCExpress.

SIRC (Sport Information Resource Centre), based in Ottawa Canada, is the world's leading bibliographic sport database producer and houses the most comprehensive collection of education sport information. SIRC provides educational and communication sport related products and services to universities, hospitals, researchers, coaches and sporting teams and communities both in Canada and around the world. Products and services offered by SIRC include: SportDiscus, SIRCDetective, SIRCRetriever, SIRCExpress and SIRCThesaurus.

For more information on SIRC's line of products and services please contact:

Debra Gassewitz

President and CEO

SIRC

Tel : +1 (613) 231-7472, Ext 224

Toll Free: +1 (800) 665-6413 North America

Fax: +1 (613) 231-3739

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