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Kinesiology

Subject Databases
E-Text
Websites

Librarian - R. Phillip Reynolds

Email: preynolds@sfasu.edu
Phone: (936) 468-1453
Office: 202b
Appointments Available

General Databases

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.

Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.

 

Subject Databases

SPORTSDiscus (Ebsco) offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800.

ERIC (Ebsco) provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

ERIC (IES) is a digital library of education-related resources, including journal and non-journal literature with some available in full text format.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic edition (Ebsco) provides full-text access to articles in scholarly journals focusing on nursing and allied health professions.

Health Reference Center (1996 - Present) provides indexing for magazine and journal articles, and pamphlets dealing with personal and allied heath, medicine, and nursing. Many of the articles are available in full-text format.

Medline (FirstSearch) is a database that covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. There is no full text access, but most records include substantial abstracts.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection over 100 titles covering a wide spectrum of information on topics relevant to these important fields.

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service with access to 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals).

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E-Text

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.

Merck Manual

Stat!Ref is a full text collection of 35 medical and drug reference titles, including the Merck Manual and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

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Websites

Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Physical Education and Sports

The Library of Congress: Performing Arts Reading Room
Dance world wide web resources provided through the Library of Congress.

President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and their Research Digest

National Parks and Recreation Association

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance

Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance

Sports MedWeb from Rice University

Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research
widely acclaimed as one of the leaders in preventive medicine research and education

Amateur Athletic Union
is one of the largest, nonprofit, volunteer, sports organizations in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs.

United States Olympic Committee

American College of Sports Medicine Certification

American Running Association
nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to providing educational support to runners through programs and sound information on training, nutrition, and injury prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.

Health

Centers for Disease Control

Kids Health Page from the Nemorus Foundation
The Nemorus Foundation is a nonprofit organization devoted to children's health and is the largest physician practice delivering subspecialty pediatric care in the United States.

Healthfinder is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States Government

American Council on Science and Health
(ACSH) is a consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health. ACSH is an independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization.

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