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Kinesiology Library Guide

Explore this library guide to find peer reviewed research, career research, internships, and more.

EBSCO Online Databases

Full-text, academic research-based articles are available from these databases.

Guide to Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles
What is a "peer-reviewed article" and how do you find one? This guide walks you through a search in EBSCO. You'll be able to use the same search strategy in other databases.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
A multi-disciplinary scholarly database containing full-text articles from nearly 4000 peer-reviewed journals covering many disciplines such as computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.

ERIC (EBSCO)
Education literature and resources from the Education Resource Information Center

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)
From the American Psychological Association (APA), the definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.

Books

Online Exercise Science Books
eBooks available through Ivy Tech Library on exercise science, physical fitness, and kinesiology. Use of books from the Books 24x7 collection requires the creation of a free account with your Ivy Tech email address as your username

Other Databases

ProQuest Research Library
Full-text peer-reviewed articles from a broad range of academic subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
PubMed Central
An open access archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
ScienceDirect
Hundreds of unique scholarly medical, health, and life science journals from Elsevier. For full-text articles, select "Subscribed Journals" from the drop-down Source list.

Government Resources

FoodData Central
An open access archive of nutritional information from the US Department of Agriculture.

PubAg Central
Full-text archive of agricultural and nutritional sciences journal literature at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Use Google Scholar

Use Google Scholar to find journal articles. Some articles may be available in full-text. See your Librarian for help in locating those that are not.

Edit your Google Scholar Settings to also retrieve articles available through the Ivy Tech Library databases. Links in the the right-hand column of your search results will indicate articles available through the Ivy Tech Library