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

Databases

Select Health, Human Performance, and Recreation Databases

ERIC (ProQuest)
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.
Gale OneFile Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
Provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine
PubMed
Indexes journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. Contains materials not yet indexed in Medline.

Uses Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities.
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SPORTDiscus
Indexes literature on sports and sports medicine.
Sports Medicine & Education Index
UpToDate
Physician-authored clinical decision support resource that assists clinicians with point-of-care decisions.

You must create a user account to access UpToDate.
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Embase

Provides bibliographical information for scholarly material in biomedical and pharmacological sciences.
CINAHL Ultimate

Provides bibliographic data and some full text for scholarly literature in nursing and allied health professions.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Scopus
Provides citations and abstracts of scholarly works in 240 disciplines from over 7000 publishers. Includes AI search features.
Web of science. Core collection
Provides citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed works in 254 disciplines
OneSearch
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.