LibGuides: Human Kinetics: Find Articles

SportDiscuss

SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index of articles related to sport, fitness and related disciplines. Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre.
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Multidisciplinary Databases

The below databases are multidisciplinary. This means they contain articles from many different disciplines such as medicine, nursing, social sciences, history, education and political science. If you're looking for articles for a question that is multidisciplinary, meaning it's about more than 1 subject area eg. sport and business or sport and ethics then the below would be a good place to look. These are the best places to start looking for articles for topics related to the history, ethics, communications, and management of sports:

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Huge multidisciplinary index of articles in over 8,500 journals, from 1989 to the present. (Includes: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to articles from 1,700 Elsevier journals covering the subject areas of science, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

I-Portal: Indigenous Studies Portal
The I-Portal: Indigenous Studies Portal was launched by the University of Saskatchewan as a tool for faculty, students, researchers, and members of the community to access digital Indigenous studies resources. Its primary focus is on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on Indigenous peoples of other areas of the world.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text collection of scholarly journals in multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections.
Tip: Use 'Advanced Search' to limit to the subject collections appropriate to your search.

Subject Specific Article Databases and Indexes

These are the best places to start looking for articles focusing on the health science aspects related to Human Kinetics. You can also see our full list of Electronic Resources.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from 1,688 peer-reviewed business journals; more than 10,000 other sources; company profiles, country economic reports, industry reports, market research reports, SWOT analyses, videos.
CINAHL (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Central source for full-text articles in nursing and allied health (audiology, nutrition & dietetics, occupational, physical & respiratory therapy, speech-language pathology, consumer health).
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* Citation tracking
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MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
Ovid MEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,600 journals published world-wide. Records start in the early 1800's and go all the way to our daily updates. Ovid MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index (approx. 3 million citations) to the psychology literature and the psychological aspects of related disciplines.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index of articles from the biomedical and life sciences. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
* Includes some full text articles
* French content
* German content
* Spanish content

Tip: Knowledge of PubMed's MESH headings can vastly improve search results. Please ask for help at the Reference Desk.

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