Research Guides: Kinesiology: Databases

Kinesiology-Related Databases

Please note: You must be a current MSU faculty/staff member or student to access some of these resources.

To see an A-Z list of all available databases, click here.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This scholarly collection offers unmatched coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.

Consumer Health Complete (CHC)
CHC is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.

Dissertations and Theses (Proquest)
The ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database provides online access to citations and abstracts for theses and dissertations. It contains over 2 million entries, ranging from the first U.S. dissertation accepted in 1861 to those accepted recently. Most titles published since 1997 are available full text in PDF digital format.
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added twice weekly. If available, links to full text are included.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Tutorial: http://library.msstate.edu/content/templates/?a=884

Professional Development Collection
Professional Development Collection™ provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine comprising more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Tutorial: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3830/
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect is the portal to retrieve Elsevier eJournals and eBooks. (MSU does not have full-text access to all Elsevier journals and books.)
Scopus This link opens in a new window
SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.
Tutorial: http://info.scopus.com

Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) contains journal information for K-12 teachers and librarians. This bibliographic database provides coverage on topics such as Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
FirstSearch is an online service that gives library professionals and end users access to a rich collection of reference databases. With FirstSearch, materials in your library’s collection are highlighted in search results from dozens of leading databases.