Introduction
In addition to using the library's landing page to search for articles, UBC subscribes to a number of databases that cater to Kinesiology and Human Kinetics, often providing more accurate results.
Need help searching for articles? Contact your librarian or check out the UBC Library guide to finding articles.
Core Databases
Sport & Fitness
- SportDiscusInternational database that covers all aspects of sport and fitness
Health & Medicine
- Web of Science Core CollectionMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
- MEDLINE (Ovid)Premier biomedical database with over 30 million journal articles in the life sciences. Similar to Pubmed in content, this Ovid interface facilitates structured searching and allows editing of search histories.
- CINAHL (via EBSCOhost) - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health LiteratureKey database in nursing and allied health.
- PsycInfo (Includes full text from PsycArticles) (via EBSCO)Covers psychology and the psychological aspects of various other disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations.
Interdisciplinary
- ScopusScopus quickly finds relevant research, identifies experts and provides access to reliable data, metrics, and analytical tools in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science, and arts and humanities.
Education, Ethics & Society
- ERIC (EBSCO interface)Most comprehensive education index, covering nearly 1000 journals, primarily American. Also indexes ERIC documents, including conferences, curricula, reports etc. ERIC (EBSCO) includes many links to full text.
- Sociology CollectionIncludes Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), and full text from the journals included in Sociology Database.
- Philosopher's IndexA current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy.
Human Kinetics Journals
Human Kinetics publishes 27 peer-reviewed scholarly journals providing cutting-edge information for use by professors, teachers, researchers, practitioners, health care professionals, coaches, fitness enthusiasts, and many others