Research Guides: Neuromotor Science: Databases & Articles

Searching for Articles: Core Resources

Use these databases to find citations, click the Temple Full Text icon to access the complete article.

PubMed
Note: The PubMed platform and URL were updated mid-May 2020.
PubMed comprises more than 30 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. MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the largest component of PubMed and consists primarily of journal citations; articles indexed with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and curated with funding, genetic, chemical and other metadata.
Medline [via Ovid]
MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database that contains references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities.
Embase
EMBASE contains references to journal articles in biomedicine. The references consist of authors, title, journal data, abstract and keywords. EMBASE contains European literature, and coverage in the field of drug research, pharmacology and pharmaceutics. The database can be searched back to 1974.
Sports Medicine & Education Index
Sports Medicine & Education Index (formerly Physical Education Index) provides citation information and abstracts to journal articles about physical education and related disciplines (sports, sports medicine, dance, coaching, fitness, motor learning, etc.)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
Concurrent user limit: 8
SPORT Discus is a full text international sports database which covers the fields of exercise, medicine, biomechanics, coaching and sports medicine.

SportRxiv Preprints
Search preprints related to sport, exercise and physical activity. Please note that the quality of preprints are not assessed, you must determine their quality before using as a source.

Databases

PEDro
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 33,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality using the PEDro scale.

CINAHL [via EBSCOhost]
CINAHL Provides indexing for nursing and health journals. The database contains records dating back to 1982. In addition, the database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, and selected conference proceedings.
APA PsycInfo
APA PsycInfo contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
Web of Science
Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and Arts & Humanities.
Global Health Archive (1910-1972)
Concurrent user limit: 4
Global Health Archive provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and much more. Coverage is from 1910 to 1972.

Point of Care

DynaMed
DynaMed provides access to evidence-based medical information, and includes topics of: diseases, disorders, symptoms, etiology, associated conditions, history and research findings, differential diagnosis and diagnostic testing, prognosis, treatment, prevention, and links to patient information. Summaries are derived from peer-reviewed sources.

Citation Tracking Resources

The following databases include the number of times that an article or author has been cited by other authors.

With citation tracking you can:

Find more influential articles and authors in a field (those with higher citation counts)
Find additional research related to an article of interest
Track scholarship backwards (using lists of cited articles) and forwards (using lists of articles which cite a particular article) in time

The citation counts in these three databases will vary based on the publications indexed by each source.

Google Scholar
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Google Scholar provides search for scholarly literature. It covers disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and Arts & Humanities.
Web of Science
Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Clinical Neuroscience Journals