Western Libraries

Kinesiology

  • Marisa Surmacz
    Allyn & Betty Taylor Library
    519-661-2111 x80959
     

Databases

  • PubMed

    Produced by the National Library of Medicine, PubMed is an international bibliographic database of over 4500 biomedical journals. It covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences.

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  • SPORT Discus

    Contains information on the following: sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment.

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  • Physical Education Index
    The articles in this database contain information ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.
  • SCOPUS

    Scopus covers articles from over 14,000 peer-reviewed titles, including international publishers. Subject coverage includes Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and General Sciences.Need help with importing references into RefWorks, click here.

  • Kinesiology Publications
    From the University of Oregon, Kinesiology Publications (formerly Microform Publications of Human Movement Studies) archives and disseminates graduate research studies (master's and doctoral dissertations) in electronic format. Research focuses on health as it relates to physical activity, physical fitness, activities of daily living, work, sport and athletics, recreation, dance, and play.
  • Web of Science

    Web of Science provides access to three multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Each Web of Science database includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography). This unique feature allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work.Need help with importing references into RefWorks, click here.

  • Health and Psychosocial Instruments

    Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services. Provides comprehensive bibliographic coverage of a wide variety of evaluation and measurement tools for health and psychosocial studies, for practitioners, educators, researchers, and students. Database includes questionnaires, checklists, index measures, rating scales, project techniques, tests, interview schedules, and a variety of other means of evaluation.

  • Dissertations & Theses

    Provides subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Masters theses have been selectively indexed since 1962. Abstracts are included for doctoral dissertation records from July 1980 to the present. The full text of over 100,000 dissertations is available. In addition, the database serves to disseminate citations for thousands of Canadian dissertations and an increasing number of papers accepted in institutions abroad.

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Reports

  • CCOHS Academic Support Program
    The Academic Support Program is a CCOHS tool to educate students about environmental and occupational health and safety. Databases that can be searched include: MSDS, FTSS, CHEMINFO, RTECS, HSELINE, OSHLINE, as well as WHMIS classifications, Fatality Reports, and Workplace Health Promotion Resources.
  • Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
  • CBC Digital Archives -- Sports
    You can listen and view generations of Canadian athletes who have left their mark on programs and broadcasts recorded somewhere among the millions of tapes, discs, films, documents and artifacts that fill the CBC/Radio-Canada archives.
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