Guides: Kinesiology: Articles & Databases

Major Databases

SportDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides full text articles for 550 journals in the area of sports and sports medicine, extending back to 1985. Content also includes books, book chapters and conference proceedings.
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CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive nursing and allied health research database providing indexing for more than 4,600 journals with 770 full text titles. Over 275 full text e-books and access to selected conference proceedings and standards of practice.
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PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a free service of the National Library of Medicine and provides indexing and abstracts of biomedical journals. The content is from MEDLINE with additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to sites providing full text articles and other related resources. Use either the abstract or the citation formats to display the FindIt button
Scopus This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database including coverage of the life sciences, health sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 15,000 research journals and 250 million websites.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database including social sciences, arts and humanities, and science coverage. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 7,800 research journals.
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Other Databases

Physical Therapy Evidence Database (PEDro)
Free database of randomised (randomized) trials (RCTs), systematic reviews and practice guidelines for evidence-based physiotherapy or physical therapy.
OTseeker
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions.

EBM Reviews This link opens in a new window
Leading resource for systematic reviews in health care. Also known as: Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
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National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)
The REHABDATA database spans almost 50 years of disability and rehabilitation research. More than 200,000 abstracts are available through this database, including approximately 115,000 records originally indexed in the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) database.
Rehab+ (McMaster)
REHAB+ is a service made available by McMaster University's School of Rehabilitation Science in collaboration with the DeGroote School of Medicine's Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Health Information Research Unit. It provides a searchable database of best evidence from the health care literature of particular interest to rehabilitation professionals.