Guides: Health, Human Performance, and Recreation: Research Resources

Databases

Select Health, Human Performance, and Recreation Databases

ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Includes citations and abstracts of documents and journal articles in all areas of education. Both journal articles (designated as EJ) and educational documents (ED) are indexed. 
Sports Medicine & Education Index This link opens in a new window Indexes and provides some full-text to academic and trade articles on physical education and sports medicine including dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education and physical therapy.
Gale OneFile Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine This link opens in a new window Pprovides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. 
PubMed This link opens in a new window Indexes journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.  Contains material not yet indexed in Medline.
Uses Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities.
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SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window Indexes literature on sports and sports medicine.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Scopus This link opens in a new window Provides citations and abstracts of scholarly works in 240 disciplines from over 7000 publishers.  Includes links to references, citations, and related works and has extensive author profiles.  
Web of science. Core collection This link opens in a new window Provides citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed works in 254 disciplines.  Includes links to references, citations, and related works and has extensive author profiles.   
OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch is a discovery tool that provides a single place to search most of the content available from the Baylor University Libraries, including:  traditional library materials (books, journal titles, media, etc.); the Baylor Digital Collections; BEARdocs, (electronic theses and dissertations, honors theses, technical reports, faculty publications, etc.); research guides;  and -- most importantly, much of the full text content to which the Baylor Libraries subscribe from a wide variety of sources.