Kinesiology Subject Guide

Gail Atwood

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Primary Resources

  • Annual Review of Nutrition
  • Annual Review of Physiology
  • Blackwell Fulltext Journals
    • A fulltext journal collection of over 800 journals from Blackwell Publishing covering a wide range of subject areas such as business, computing, economics, health sciences, humanities, law, life and physical sciences, mathematics, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and the arts.
  • CINAHL Basic
    • CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. 
  • Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
    • Health resource through InfoTrac (1980- ).
  • Health Reference Center Academic
    • Health resource through InfoTrac (1980- ).
  • History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    • International bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine 
  • IDEAL
    • International Digital Electronic Access Library - 174 full text journals through Science Direct.
  • JSTOR
    • The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes 119 complete back runs of many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. See the journal list.
  • LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
    • Search full text newspapers, company news and financial info, International/Federal/State legal information, medical and health information (some abstracted), as well as general reference resources. (See Journal Titleslist.)
  • MEDLINE
    • Corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index.
    • A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.
  • Project Muse (for on-campus users)
    • Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of about 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. See Journal Titles list.
  • Sage Fulltext Collections
    • SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Click here to search the journals from off campus. You will not be able to export directly to Refworks using this link.

Secondary Resources

  • ABI-INFORM on Proquest
    • A leading business database with full-text available for many titles including the Wall Street Journal.
  • Academic OneFile 
    • Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
  • Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (ASTA)
    • Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields.
  • Biological and Agricultural Index (BioAgIndex)
    • Cites articles from periodicals published in the United States and internationally.
  • EducationAbs
    • Provides citations for every article of at least one column in length taken from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere.
  • Educator's Reference Complete
    • Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.
  • ERIC
    • Access full text ERIC documents by ERIC number, author, or title.
  • Gale's Virtual Reference Library
    • A collection of reference e-books.
  • General Science Abstracts
    • Covers everything from supernovas to marine pollution and is the ideal source for researchers seeking information on a variety of scientific topics.

Interdisciplinary Resources

  • Article First
    • Provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items.
  • Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
    • Lets you view abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which your library or institution subscribes.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
    • Includes link to Britannica's Internet Guide to "best web sites."
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
    • An InfoTrac database filled with full text and images for a broad collection of academic disciplines.
  • FACTS.com
    • Includes Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, and Reuters On-Line News Service (last 2 weeks).
  • General OneFile
    • A broad database covering a wide range of topics with millions of full text articles.
  • General Reference Center Gold
    • Full-text general database through InfoTrac (1980- ). (See Journal Titles list.)
  • U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
    • Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
  • InfoTrac OneFile
    • A broad database covering a wide range of topics with millions of full text articles.
  • MEL
    • Michigan Electronic Library
  • NetLibrary 
    • A collection of almost 25,000 eBooks available to Michigan libraries. The state "owns" 1 copy of each book and the checkout time is 6 hours. You must create a free account before accessing the titles.
  • Opposing Viewpoints
    • Overviews, full-text articles, statistics, and resources on social issues.
  • RefWorks
    • A personal database that allows you to download references from online databases and then formats them for use in bibliographies and research papers. You will need to create an individual account the first time you use this service. Click here for Help Using RefWorks.
  • Ulrich's Periodical Directory
    • Online guide to information about periodicals. Use this to find out if a periodical is peer reviewed (called refereed in this database).
  • Wilson Select Plus
    • Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases.
  • WorldCat
    • Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries.