LibGuides: Kinesiology : Finding Articles & Databases

Media Resources

Docuseek2
Good for: Screening independent films and documentaries about social issues and educational topics.
Contains: Streaming videos.
Films on Demand
Good for: Viewing educational videos from Films Media Group in the humanities & social sciences, science, business & economics, health, archival films & newsreels.
Contains: Streaming educational videos.
Kanopy
This streaming video service provides access to thousands of titles in such areas of the arts, humanities, business, sciences, media/communications, education and more.
Source producers include Media Education Foundation, BBC, PBS, Kino Lorber, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, among others.
Swank Digital Campus
Swank Digital movies is a collection of streaming feature films available to the UNLV community.
The titles vary by semester. The movies are streamed through a dedicated movie server using Microsoft Silverlight software. Silverlight is available through a free download and is compatible with both Macs and PCs. Please visit the following page to get Microsoft Silverlight: www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/

Selected Kinesiology Resources

American College of Sports Medicine
Includes sports medicine and exercise science resources such as physical activity guidelines and ACSM position papers.
American Council on Exercise
Information on personal-trainer certification as well as health and fitness information (including an exercise library).
American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
Among the resources on this page are consensus statements, grant information, and patient information sheets.
National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity
Includes a variety of reports, including some that include statistics about physical activity.

Kinesiology & Related Databases

The following searchable databases cover the health sciences including Kinesiology. Most of journal articles will be available to you full-text online. Those that are not available full-text can be acquired via Interlibrary Loan at no cost and with a turn-around time of 2 or 3 days. For more Kinesiology & related databases, see Recommended Resources.

Academic Search Premier
Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.
Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
AccessPhysiotherapy
AccessPhysiotherapy is an online collection of physical therapy and internal medicine titles, interactive imaging content, curricular management tracking tools and tests, more than 80 videos, neurology lectures and image banks.
Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy contains more than 300 narrated videos of real human anatomic specimens
Alt-HealthWatch
Articles about complementary and alternative medicine.
Update frequency: quarterly
Alt Health Watch offers abstracts or full text of nearly 50,000 articles from over 160 international, peer-reviewed, and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters about complementary and alternative medicine. Covers such areas of alternative medicine as acupuncture, chiropractic, aromatherapy, naturopathy, homeopathy, osteopathy, and numerous cross-cultural therapies.
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Bates' Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for advanced assessment or introduction to clinical medicine courses.
BioMedCentral Open Access
Over 150 peer-reviewed journals in medicine and biology.
CINAHL
Good for: Researching nursing and allied health topics.
Contains: Index of nursing and allied health literature.
Dates covered: 1982-present.
Clinical Key
Clinical Key provides full text access to leading medical textbooks, including specialties in internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, neurology and more.
In addition, Clinical Key provides access to nearly one million images, including tables, graphics and illustrations, as well as to full text journals, an evidence-based, point of care tool, guidelines, multimedia and much more.
Cochrane Library
Good for: Finding evidence-based medicine reviews and information.
Contains: Collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
Dissertations and Theses
Good for: Dissertations and theses.
Contains: Citations, abstracts, and full text of dissertations and theses.
Dates covered: Citations from 1861, abstracts from 1980 for dissertations and 1988 for theses, full text from 1996 for UNLV items and 1997 for most others.
Dissertations and Theses: UNLV
Good for: Finding UNLV dissertations and theses.
Contains: Citations, abstracts, and full text of UNLV dissertations and theses.
Dates covered: Full text for most items begins in 1996.
Embase
Good for: Researching medicine, biomedical sciences, and allied health subjects.
Contains: Index of scholarly articles.
Embase content is indexed using a specialized thesaurus, Emtree, that includes biomedical, chemical, and drug terms. There is a special focus on drugs and devices.
Health and medical dictionaries in Credo Reference
Health and medical dictionaries.
Includes Collins Dictionary of Medicine, Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Mosby's Dental Dictionary, Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary, Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary, Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and more.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, this comprehensive bibliographic database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
It also provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from industrial organizational behavior and education. HaPI includes citations to freestanding instruments as well as instruments that have only appeared in journal or technical reports, published and unpublished.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
1985-present
An index to about 850 journals in health sciences.
Nursing and allied health coverage is especially strong. Also includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
HSTalks
The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection from Henry Stewart Talks (HS Talks) provides access to over 2,000 specially prepared, animated, seminar-style, online lectures narrated by leading experts. New lectures are added every month and all contents are regularly reviewed and updated.
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database
Comprehensive range of resources including literature reviews, recommended practices and procedures, information guideline sheets, comprehensive systematic reviews and protocols, consumer information sheets and technical reports from one of the world's foremost providers of evidence-based information.
Journal Citation Reports
Information on the influence of individual periodicals to publishing within specific scholarly disciplines (impact factors).
JCR gives information year-by-year on the impact factors of journals as well as the half-life (for how many years an article is cited after publication) of journals.
Journals@Ovid
Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins (LWW) full text nursing journals with deep backfiles.
Journals@Ovid consists of two sets of nursing titles. One set has about 40 titles on nursing and health professions with content from 1997 to present. The Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins Legacy Archive Collection has 240 nursing titles with coverage ending after 1999.
LWW Total Access Collection
All LWW journals available on OvidSP , including core journals and specialized resources in such areas as nursing and bioscience.
Medline via OVID
Over 23 million article citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals.
Medline via Web of Science
1950-
Over 15 million records from medical and life sciences journals.
Searching Medline on the Web of Knowledge platform allows you to also search several other databases at the same time.
SAGE Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods has tools and content to help design research projects, plan a study, learn methodological approaches, gather data, and understand findings.
A full-text collection of real social research case studies is incorporated to help understand abstract methodological concepts in practice. Datasets from both international and national sources accompanied by how-to guides covering numerous quantitative and qualitative research methods are included. SRM contains more than 600 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, journal articles, videos, and handbooks as well as the entire Little Green Book (quantitative) and Little Blue Book (qualitative) series. A taxonomy of over 1400 methods terms is featured along with a Methods Map which visualizes relationships among methods terms, concepts, people, and literature. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
Scopus
1960-
Scopus is an index to peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.
Scopus also features a citation index, allowing you to find the papers that cite a specific piece of research.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
1975-
Journal articles and more about all aspects of sports, physical education and sports medicine. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Update frequency: quarterly
An international database indexing journal articles, books, conference proceedings, research papers, and dissertations and theses in sports medicine, biomechanics, psychology, coaching, physical education and fitness, training, and other related topics. Includes access to the full text of more than 230 journals
Web of Science
1990-
Web of Science is a platform for Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Index, Journal Citation Reports, Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, and Inspec.
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Clinical Resources

Here are some recommended resources for use in clinical settings.

UpToDate
UpToDate includes expert, peer reviewed, physician written health information.
UpToDate content is reviewed and updated regularly to maintain the currency, accuracy, and relevance of information. It includes: a drug database, drug interactions program, patient information handouts, medical calculators, treatment recommendations, and articles in medical specialty areas.

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