Research Guides: Kinesiology and Physical Activity: Databases & Articles

Top Databases

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

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is the most important and comprehensive database for health and biomedical literature, including topics in kinesiology. Provides access to MEDLINE indexed citations and abstracts.
Sports Medicine & Education Index This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
An international database of literature on sports, physical fitness, physical education and many other topics. This database indexes scholarly and non-scholarly articles.
ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection contains journal articles in subjects like kinesiology, nutrition, physical activity, allied health, and more.

Other Useful Resources

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] This link opens in a new window
CINAHL indexes nursing and allied health journals.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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.

SportRχiv
SportRχiv is the first community-led and open access subject repository dedicated to sport, exercise, performance, and health research. Please note that these articles may not be peer-reviewed.

AccessPhysiotherapy This link opens in a new window
Access Physiotherapy from McGraw-Hill features learning tools such as video demonstrations, image slides, online dissection, and quizzes. The complete contents of physical therapy textbooks and resources such as Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention; Pharmacology for the Physical Therapist; Therapeutic Modalities for Rehabilitation; Imaging in Rehabilitation; and others, are included.

BrowZine for Kinesiology Journals

BrowZine Web This link opens in a new window
BrowZine contains articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, and then arranging these journals on a common newsstand. This is a way to browse, read and monitor scholarly journals across the disciplines.
BrowZine for iPad This link opens in a new window
BrowZine for Android
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BrowZine contains articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, and then arranging these journals on a common newsstand. This is a way to browse, read and monitor scholarly journals across the disciplines.