Research Guides: Kinesiology and Exercise Science: 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

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.
APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
APA PsycArticles is a full-text ejournal collection from the American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.
CINAHL This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Provides indexing for nursing and health journals. The database contains records dating back to 1972. In addition, the database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, and selected conference proceedings.
CINAHL Abstracting and Indexing Database
Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students depend on the CINAHL Database to research their subject areas from this authoritative index of nursing and allied health journals. CINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. CINAHL also includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,446 active global OA journals.  Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.
Subject Headings
CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. These Subject Headings help researchers find new concepts, including COVID-19, social distancing and vaping as well as local terminology.
Content Includes
3,814 active indexed and abstracted journals
3,461 active peer-reviewed indexed and abstracted journals
1,312 journals with searchable cited references
PEDRo This link opens in a new window
PEDro is a free database of over 53,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions.
Dynamic Health This link opens in a new window
Dynamic Health is an evidence-based tool designed to help nurses and allied health professionals master skills, obtain fast answers to questions and foster a culture of evidence-based practice and critical thinking leading to improved patient outcomes.

SportRxiv
SportRxiv is an open access preprint repository dedicated to sport, exercise, performance, and health research. Please note that these articles may not have been peer reviewed.