Databases & Indexes at ISU
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Article Indexes & DatabasesDatabases for finding individual journal articles and conference papers by topic, author, and more. Most require ISU Library login.
Most Popular Kinesiology Databases
These databases are good starting points for Kinesiology research. Great for undergraduate kinesiology research. Advanced researchers may need to depend on a wider range of databases. (See below for more.)
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PubMedPubMed provides over 22 million citations for biomedical and life sciences literature, including: biomedicine and health, behavioral sciences, bioengineering, biochemistry, genetics, molecular and cell biology.
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PsycINFOPsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries and 90% of the articles are peer-reviewed. It includes records from the 1800's to the present. The sources include over 1,400 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally.
Health Sciences Databases
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PubMedPubMed provides over 22 million citations for biomedical and life sciences literature, including: biomedicine and health, behavioral sciences, bioengineering, biochemistry, genetics, molecular and cell biology.
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ScopusA large database of peer-reviewed literature in all subject areas. In addition to citation searching, it features tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus complements Web of Science and Google Scholar, but each of them contains enough unique information that none of them should be used exclusively.
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Web of ScienceWeb of Science allows you to search across multiple databases such as the Web of Science Core Collection and CAB Abstracts.
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PsycINFOPsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries and 90% of the articles are peer-reviewed. It includes records from the 1800's to the present. The sources include over 1,400 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally.
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ScienceDirectCovers science, technology and medicine as well as a smattering of other subject areas such as economics. Includes 2,500 journals and 11,000 books published or hosted by Elsevier. Some, but not all, are available full-text. Subscribed titles are identified by a green icon and non-subscribed titles are identified by a white icon.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionThis database covers many medical disciplines and is particularly strong in nursing and allied health. It is not as comprehensive as PubMed.
Physical Education Databases
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Sports Medicine and Education IndexSports Medicine and Education Index covers journals, conference proceedings and report literature in kinesiology, sport law, sports medicine, dance, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, coaching and sport sociology/psychology, as well as physical education itself.
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ERIC - EBSCOhost AccessERIC (Education Resource Information Center) is a comprehensive index of education literature and curriculum materials, containing more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
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Child Development & Adolescent StudiesChild Development & Adolescent Studies, contains references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed.
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Education Full TextAn education database but contains a lot of materials on athletics. Covers periodicals, monographs and yearbooks.
Additional Resources
Listed below are news resources. Periodicals Archive Online and Access World News require ISU library log-in. Additional resources are available free on the web.
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Periodicals Archive OnlineMajor archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
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Access World NewsProviding access to a comprehensive collection of over 2,000 newspapers and news sources from around the world. Information is translated into English when original is written in another language.
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SI VaultServes as a full-text index and digital archive of Sports Illustrated and its website SI.com. Contains images, articles, and videos.
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The Sporting NewsComprehensive facts and stats on all the teams and leagues.
Multiple Database Searching
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Search Multiple DatabasesInformation for EBSCO and ProQuest databases.