Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences: Journals & Databases
Subject Librarian
Keyword-only & citation databases
These databases can only be searched using keywords (author words).
If you find a great article on your topic, you can use these citation databases to track down articles that cite that particular article.
- Web of Science Core Collection (Subscribed resource)Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. About 13,000 titles are included. Coverage from 1900-present.
- Scopus (subscribed resource)Scopus is a very large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, including journals, books and conference proceedings. It covers over 23,000 titles in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities, Though it includes much older content, it reliably covers from 1970-present.
- Google Scholar (open access)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.
Key subject headings databases
These databases can use Subject Headings (e.g. MeSH, Emtree) to assist your searching. They can also be searched with keywords.
- SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)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 (via Ovid; subscribed resource)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 (open access)PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Everything that is in MEDLINE is in PubMed.
- EMBASE (via Ovid; subscribed resource)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 (open access NZ-wide)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.
Other relevant 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.
- Academic Search Complete (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowFull-text of articles from more than 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. Also indexes more than 12,000 publications.
- AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) This link opens in a new windowCovers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry and palliative care.
- ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowA 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 windowCovers research & strategic development of leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and hospitality activities, facilities, products and services
Database Tutorials
These tutorials are designed to provide a basic introduction to searching the databases.
- Anatomy of a Journal Reference
- Databases VS Search Engines
- Developing a Search Strategy
- Subject Headings VS Keywords
- PubMed
- Medline
- CINAHL
- Embase
- Global Health
- Google Scholar
- Proquest Central
- PsycINFO
- Scopus
- Web of Science
- Library Search | Ketu (for Health Science)
- Library Search | Ketu (for Science)
- SIFT Evaluating Information
- Rauru Whakarare Evaluation Framework
- TRAAP Test
If the article you need is not online...
Try these options:
- Library Search | KetuSearch the journal title to see if Otago holds the hardcopy of the issue you need.
- InterloansIf Otago does not hold the issue in hardcopy, submit an Interloans request for the article. Staff will try to get the article for you from another Library. Article requests are free.