Research Guides: KIN 136: Intro to Physical Education Fitness and Sport: Key Sources

Databases for Finding Articles

SPORTDiscus
Sports medicine, exercise physiology, physical education and fitness, recreation, history and psychology of sports.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Many health topics: medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and more. Content from 1975 - present.

Journal of Sport and Human Performance
An open-access journal that publishes research in the broad field of human performance, including topics from kinesiology, biomechanics, sports medicine, athletic training, sports psychology, and strength & conditioning

AccessPhysiotherapy
Integrates leading physical therapy textbooks, procedure and exercise videos, image galleries, self-assessment tools.

Individual login required for Review Questions.
Sports Nutrition Care Manual (SNCM)
Sports nutrition & professional practice manual from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (A.N.D.).

2 simultaneous users.
Web of Science
Access to the core collection - which consists of Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, all from 1990 – present.
Embase
Covers peer-reviewed international biomedical literature. Content from 1947 - present.

See related Research Guide: Embase at UAB Libraries
PubMed
Comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

See related Research Guides: Health Sciences Database Literature Searching
Ovid
Includes Ovid collection of e-books & e-journals, MEDLINE Complete, Emcare, Visible Body, ACC CardioSource Plus, and JBI ESP Database.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Many medical disciplines, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health. Content from 1975 - present.
Academic Video Online: Health Sciences
Presents videos from practitioners, teachers, and researchers in a wide array of medical fields—including dentistry, nursing, rehabilitation therapy, sports medicine and exercise science, and veterinary science.
ScienceDirect
Scientific, technical, and medical literature in journals published by Elsevier Science. Content from 1995 - present.

OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete
Periodicals and reports covering education from preschool to college; includes technology, bilingual education, health education, testing, administration, funding, policy. Replaces Professional Collection. Content from 1980 - 2013.
ERIC (EBSCO)
Documents and journal literature on education; sponsored by the US Department of Education.
PsycARTICLES
Over seventy journal titles published by the APA, APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. 1894-present.
Education Full Text
Publications covering education; includes periodicals, yearbooks, books.
Professional Development Collection
Journals and reports for professional educators.
Childcare & Early Education Research Connections
For policy-making and research covering early childhood education; includes reports, papers, fact sheets, briefs, executive summaries, datasets, instruments and measures.

Academic Search Premier

Publications covering a wide variety of academic disciplines. Includes peer-reviewed journals. Content from 1940 - present.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Covers dozens of controversial social issues. Includes news and magazine articles, topic overviews, statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special-interest groups, and links to reviewed web sites.
Points of View Reference Center
Essays presenting various sides of current controversial issues. Includes critical thinking guides.
Academic OneFile
General and specialized publications including newspapers; refereed academic journals, and the New York Times since 1995. Content from 1980 - present.
Access World News
Access to international, national and local newspapers from more than 12,000 sources spanning 200+ countries and territories; includes the Birmingham News.
Disability in the Modern World
Collection of resources, including primary sources, that support disciplines of disability history and disability studies, but also in history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked.
Gale E-Books
Encyclopedias covering a wide variety of specialties, such as small business, endangered species, popular culture, controlled substances, alternative medicines, and multicultural America.
JSTOR
Back issues of periodicals in economics, math and science, the humanities, and social sciences.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Comprehensive general reference; covers hundreds of general interest and current events magazines.

PLoS ONE
Public Library of Science includes research from over 200 subject areas across science, engineering, medicine, and the related social sciences and humanities

Project Muse
Full-text of current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually. 1990 - present.
SAGE Journals
Journals in the following subjects: Health Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Materials Sciences & Engineering, and Life & Biomedical Sciences.
Springer Link E-Books and Journals
Scientific, technical, and medical literature in journals and books published by Springer. Includes the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series from 1997 to 2008.

Resource contains both subscribed and preview-only content
Taylor & Francis E-Books
Collection of e-books in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science.

Browse or search for accessible e-books by filtering results to “Content I have access to."
Taylor & Francis Online
Search and explore the millions of quality, peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis and Routledge imprints.
Wiley Online Library
Scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals; major reference works and laboratory manuals from Current Protocol; selected e-books.

UAB Libraries has a Read-and-Publish agreement for APCs with Wiley. To learn more, visit the Open Access LibGuide.

Suggested Web Resources

Kinesiology Web Sources
Education & Child Development Web Sources

More web sources appear on the Organizations and Publications page.

U.S. Department of Education Policy
Greatest value to this may be that from it you can link to individual states. Education in the US is mostly local.
National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE)
Mission is to strengthen State Boards as an educational policymaking body for students and citizens. Has publications, study groups, tutorials, etc.
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
Holds biennial meeting, publishes, has policy briefs, international in scope, has over 5,000 members, located in Ann Arbor, MI. UCI researchers present at this conference.
Society for Research on Adolescents (SRA)
Biennial conference; publishes Journal of Research on Adolescence, and newsletter. Covers theoretical, empirical, and policy research issues of adolescence, including issues of diversity. Links to blog posts written (though not endorsed) by members. UCI researchers present at this conference. International/global scope.