LibGuides: Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences: Journals & Databases

Databases

Article databases list and classify articles from scholarly publications, primarily peer-reviewed journals. Different databases cover different ranges of publications, depending on their subject matter and the scope of the database. Databases link through to the Library's e-journals collections for full article access wherever possible.

A selection of databases

These databases can only be searched with keywords (i.e. words used by the author/s).

Web of Science All Databases This link opens in a new window
Search across Web of Science Core Collection, Current Contents Connect, KCI-Korean Journal Database, Medline, Preprint Citation Index, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index, SciELO Citation Index and Zoological Record for comprehensive, multidisciplinary results. 1864+
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the world's leading citation databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Emerging Sources Citation Index; Index Chemicus; Book Citation Index; and, Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers the highest impact journals, including Open Access journals and conference proceedings.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Over 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Includes some full text links. Access Scopus Tutorials online.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

These databases can use Subject Headings (i.e. database words like MeSH (Medical Subject headings) and Emtree headings) to assist your searching. These databases can also be searched with keywords.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
International information on sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, facility design & management, biomechanics, physiotherapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism. More than 670 journals are indexed in SPORTDiscus with full-text coverage dating back to 1930. Also contains books, book chapters and conference proceedings.

Ovid Collection (subscribed resource)

Ovid is a platform that includes a number of databases that cover medicine, pharmacy, psychology, education, food science and technology.

Medline (OvidSP) This link opens in a new window
Ovid MEDLINE® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,600 journals published world-wide. Coverage from 1946 onwards.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally.
The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
Embase This link opens in a new window
Ovid Embase (Excerpta Medica Database) is a biomedical and pharmacological database containing more than 30 million records including articles from more than 8,500 journals published world-wide. It has major strengths in pharmacy and psychiatry. Coverage from 1947 onwards.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library is a collection of three resources (CDSR, Central and Clinical Answers) that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

Academic Search Complete (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 10,000 journals, with full-text coverage for more than 6.000 titles. Covers a wide range of areas of academic study from the sciences to the arts.
AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) This link opens in a new window
Covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry and palliative care.
ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
A database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Leisure Tourism Database This link opens in a new window
Contains extensive information from the leisure, recreation, sport, hospitality, tourism and culture sectors. The database includes over 100,000 abstracts from over 6,000 serial publications and thousands of other documents, including core tourism and leisure journals. Also included are over 1500 full-text book chapters from CABI's eBook collection.

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