LibGuides: Kinesiology & Nutrition: Online Databases

Research Tips

Choose one of the databases on this page and follow these research tips:
1. Know your topic
2. Use various search terms on your topic
3. Try limiting your search to full-text while working from the dorm or home
4. If you need help, Contact the Library

Locate Scholarly Journals

Research Databases

SPORTDiscus with Full Text* This link opens in a new window
The leading bibliographic database for sports and sports medicine research. It includes millions of records from leading sports medicine journals, books, dissertations and more. Subjects covered include nutrition, physical therapy, occupational health, exercise physiology and kinesiology.

Click here for a listing of all databases.

Academic Search Complete* This link opens in a new window
Articles across all subjects. Contains both scholarly research and general magazines. Good starting point any time you need journal articles.

Alternative Health Watch
This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection (many are peer-reviewed). Provides in-depth coverage across many subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.

CINAHL Complete* This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Contains searchable cited references for more than 930 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, and more. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included.
eBook Collection (EBSCO)* This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of academic electronic books from EBSCO. (Formerly NetLibrary ebooks.)
ECO* This link opens in a new window
A collection of scholarly journals across disciplines. Some full-text.
ERIC (EBSCO)* This link opens in a new window
Over 700,000 citations on research documents, journal articles, program descriptions and evaluations, curricular materials and technical reports in education.
ERIC (Gov't) This link opens in a new window
Government site has more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966 and more than 107,000 full text non journal documents. Moving forward with modernization program to bring you more free materials in the education field.
Health & Medicine (Gale OneFile)* This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and full-text for an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, nursing and allied health journals, reference books, pamphlets, and newspaper articles.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition* This link opens in a new window
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

MEDLINE

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection* This link opens in a new window
Provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
MEDLINE/PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index to journal articles in the fields of medicine and health. Coverage begins in 1966.
Science & Technology Collection* This link opens in a new window
Contains over 800 leading full text journals covering topics including aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science.

Your Library Liaison

Gary Oliver
Library liaison to Kinesiology & Nutrition, Theater
E-mail: oliverg@acu.edu
Phone: 325-674-2343
Library Room: 220