LibGuides: Sport and Exercise Medicine: Journals & Databases

Recommended article databases for Sport and Exercise Medicine

Search a range of article databases to find articles on a topic, the most relevant databases are listed first.

Medline (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
Medline is the premier literature database for medicine, nursing, dentistry, and the preclinical sciences.
-Date range 1947 onwards

PubMed
PubMed is the public version of Medline. It covers biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books with over 20.7 million records going back to 1966, selectively to the year 1865, and very selectively to 1809.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
Indexes sport and fitness literature from 1985 including various dance forms, performing arts, choreography, Laban analysis, Lananotation.
Scopus
Web of Science

PEDro This link opens in a new window
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
CINAHL (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
An authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for more than 2,900 journals back to 1981 from the fields of nursing and allied health.

If the article you need is not online...

The Distance Library Service can email you scans of books chapters and journal articles. To request a scan complete the Distance request form

The New Zealand Copyright Act allows us to scan a 'reasonable portion' of a publication on your behalf, unfortunately we can not scan whole books or journal issues. Check with the Distance team if you have any questions.

Database Tutorials

These tutorials are designed to provide a basic introduction to searching the databases.

PubMed tutorials

PubMed tutorials
A range of tutorials from the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
PubMed Advanced Search Builder
Watch this video using the Advanced PubMed search and subject headings (MeSH)

Find an article using Google Scholar

Remember to always access Google Scholar through the Library webpage - that way you are recognised as a student from the University of Otago and you are given access to all our subscriptions.

Follow the [PDF] link or Otago Article Link on the right-hand side to get the full text of the article.