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Physical Education: Physical Education

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Recommended databases

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The PsycINFO® database, American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Ninety-nine percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.

The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, and others. Journal coverage, which spans from 1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect® is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. It offers a wide variety of features and content.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Research in all disciplines, be sure to limit your search to academic journals.
Designed specifically for academic institutions, Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study

Books in the Library

Books

Our collection of print books on physical education is regrettably small, but our catalog does link to many e-books. The Dewey decimal call number for books about the promotion of health and wellness is 613.

Web sites

ExRx.net (Exercise Prescription)
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Extensive collection of research-based information on virtually every sport
Self Nutrition Data
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USDA data with a more user-friendly interface than usda.gov
Medline Plus: Exercise & Physical Fitness
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Organized collection of scholarly articles provided by the National Institutes of Health

Search 3 databases for primary research in Physical Education

One search covers PsycARTICLES, Science Direct, and Academic Search Premier.

PsycARTICLES is a good choice for research on stress, relationships, and psychological aspects of exercise and nutrition.

Science Direct is good for research on physiological aspects of exercise and nutrition.

FIND A PRIMARY RESEARCH ARTICLE WITH SCIENCE DIRECT

FIND A PRIMARY RESEARCH ARTICLE WITH ALL-KNIGHT SEARCH

More tips

Tips for finding that required research article on boating safety (or stress management, binge drinking, etc.)

Use PsycINFO for any topic related to psychology and set these Search Options:

publication type = peer reviewed journal
methodology = empirical study

If your topic doesn't have much to do with psychology, use Science Direct, and follow this path:

SEARCH (link in the green bar at the top)
Journals tab
Change SOURCE to Subscribed Journals

Academic Search Premier covers just about every topic, but many of the articles are are not the empirical research you need to find. If you do use this database limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals, and be sure the article has a method section.

Many other databases include research articles on health and wellness. If you don't find what you need with these recommended databases please ask a reference librarian for additional suggestions.