Research Help: Health, Physical Education, and Recreation: Find Articles

Recommended databases

The Librarians recommend starting with these find articles, and/or essays in scholarly journals. Also find images!

MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Allows users to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Coverage: 1966 - present.
CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Designed for nursing and health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,835 journals and full text for 70 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. Coverage: 1982 - present.
OmniFile This link opens in a new window
This is a multi-disciplinary research database, with full text from over 2,500 publications, and indexing from nearly 3,600 publications. This database provides support for research in all core undergraduate subjects, but especially in the arts and humanities. Coverage: 1982 - present.
Health Source: Nursing & Academic This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for over 550 scholarly health journals, focusing on medical disciplines. Coverage: 1975 - present.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
Research Library is a multi-disciplinary resource providing access to a wide range of the core academic titles, trade publications, magazines, and other timely sources across the top 150 subject areas. It includes more than 6,000 periodical titles, 75% of which are available in full text. Research Library consists of two components: a core list of general periodicals; plus several subject-specific modules. Coverage: 1971 - present.

Physical Education Index

Physical Education Index Annual by D. Whitman (Editor)
Call Number: Index shelves in current Periodicals
Publication Date: Current
Physical Education Index is the PRIMARY index for the subject of Physical Education. We still do get it in paper copy because there is no complete electronic version. Comprehensive coverage is given to dance, health, physical education, physical therapy, recreation, sports, and sports medicine.

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A browsable list of journal titles contained in our databases on the Exercise & Sports Science.

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Open Access Journals of Interest

Here is a short list of open access journals for this subject area. This is not a comprehensive list, just a few that we found interesting. To find additional open access journals, check out the Directory of Open Access Journals.

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Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to articles from over 8,000 scholarly and scientific journals.