Research Guides: Health Sciences & Kinesiology: Databases

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Databases vary, for example in terms of their scope, focus, and size. Where to begin should be determined by the specific information need. Begin the search in the database most relevant to the topic. Generally in kinesiology and health science, PubMed/MEDLINE or SPORTDiscus would be good places to start. I suggest searching more than just one database.

Listed below are a sample of the databases the Library has available related to health science and kinesiology. This list is not exhaustive! Check out additional databases below, pull up the full database list (by title), or check out all databases listed by subject. If your topic is interdisciplinary, it may be beneficial to check out databases primarily listed under other subjects like education or business.

Selected Databases

CINAHL Complete
Provides full-text for more than 1,300 nursing & allied health journals.
Cochrane Library
A collection of databases that include full-text systematic reviews, as well as other sources of information such as other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials.
Gale Onefile: Health And Medicine
Full text nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, as well as the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets.
MEDLINE
Provides citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals covering all areas of medicine.
OvidSP
Provides full-text access to over 80 scholarly journals covering nursing, medicine, and health sciences. To see the available full-text content, click on Additional Limits and check Ovid Full Text Available.
ProQuest Central
Brings together complete databases across major subject areas, including business, health and medical, language and literature, social sciences, education, science and technology, as well as core titles in the performing and visual arts, history, religion, philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Scopus
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
SPORTDiscus with Fulltext
Provides full text for 415 sports and sports medicine journals.
Web of Science
Provides access to the world's leading citation databases, with coverage from nearly 9,300 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access Journals. Current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage dating back to 1965.

Additional Databases

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Feature material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
APA PsycINFO
Contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.

Please note the following database name updates:

PsycINFO is now listed as APA PsycINFO
PsycARTICLES is now listed as APA PsycARTICLES

APA PsycARTICLES
Contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals, including 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles and covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Psychology Database
Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
APA PsycINFO
Contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.

View the A-Z Database List for Psychology

Sociology Database
Covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies.

View the A-Z Database Subject List for Sociology

Academic Video Online‎
Curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.
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