Encyclopedia of Exercise Medicine in Health and Disease

Advertised as “a comprehensive up‐to‐date data base on the adaptation of the human body to exercise and on the therapeutic use of exercise” on Springer's website, the Encyclopedia of Exercise Medicine in Health and Disease is also pitched as “user‐friendly” twice within the publisher's sales material. The electronic version reviewed here using several hardware and browser combinations suffers on Springer's eb20 platform, however.

A poorly labeled Contents section in the navigation column makes way‐finding difficult; “978‐3‐540‐298076_02_Part.pdf” is one of the advertised “fully searchable and hyperlinked” headings, for instance. Some headings take you to nothing, and some of the links within...