Archer Library: Kinesiology and Health Studies: Finding Articles and Books

Quick Find

Quick Find is a search engine that simultaneously searches the holdings of the University of Regina and federated college libraries (including books, journals, videos, sound recordings, etc.), and many databases of journal articles, government documents, dissertations, and more.

Quick Find is an ideal tool to begin your search for items you need for class assignments, research, or your personal interests.

Quick Find can also be used to find a specific item that you want, such as a specific book or article.

If you need help using Quick Find see the Quick Find Research Guide. If you are having any trouble finding articles, using the databases, finding books or using Quick Find contact your Liaison Librarian.

Best Bet Databases

Below is a selected list of databases that you can use to begin your search for articles in kinesiology and health studies. To see all the databases available click here.

Best Bets include:

SportDiscus
Indexes journals, books, conference proceedings and research papers. Subject areas: sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education, and other sport and fitness related topics.
CBCA Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
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The Canadian Business & Current Affairs™ Database combines full text and indexed content from all four subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). The content comes from a broad range of Canadian sources, with the majority of content in English and hundreds of thousands of full-text articles in French. The resource includes millions of full-text articles and records from 1933 to current, providing content in Canadian current events, business, science and technology, medical, humanities and the arts, and hundreds of topics.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 337 journals,it also includes legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
Education database
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This database covers almost 400 leading journals in the field of education. For several publications, full-text coverage dates from 1991 or 1992. For some, full-image coverage dates from 1988; Text+GraphicsTM, from 1996. In all, 397 journals are available in full-text and/or image formats.
APA PsycInfo (Ovid)
An index to the international literature of psychology and material relevant to psychology in the related disciplines of education, medicine, business, sociology, and psychiatry.
PubMed
An index to international journals, covering all areas of medicine.
Use this customized PubMed link if you are an URegina student, faculty or staff to see "University of Regina" links to full text on the PubMed interface or set up filters in My NCBI free account. Instructions for NCBI account
Web of Science (ON CAMPUS ACCESS)
Web of Science indexes over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Additionally, this database allows you to learn who has cited a particular article, and also offers navigation to electronic full-text journal articles.

Newspaper Databases

Sometimes the topic you are searching for is so current that there are not many articles published or you would like to find articles in newspapers only. To find newspaper databases click on the Database by Subject tab and select newspapers or if you know the databases you are looking for you can type it in the Find Databases by Title box.

Newspaper Databases include:

PressReader
PressReader provides online access to today's newspapers from over 100 countries around the world in over 60 languages in a full-color, full-page format. Includes over 5,000 newspaper titles and magazines with access up to a 90-day archive (varies per news source).
Download PressReader App via the University of Regina edurom Wifi to read titles on mobile devices.
Radiant Access allows anyone who has visited the University of Regina campus a PressReader HotSpot, to extend the app access for six days.
Canadian Major Dailies
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The full text database includes national and leading regional papers such as National Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal,Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Post, Vancouver Sun, and the Victoria Times-Colonist.
General OneFile (Gale)
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A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is free and provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Google Scholar
Not all materials listed in Google Scholar are freely available, however,Google Scholar allows linking to the University of Regina Library subscriptions.
If you are on campus, Google Scholar recognizes your location and automatically shows you the link to the library materials: GetIt@UReginaLibrary.
If you are off campus you must add the University of Regina collection in your Google Scholar settings. For information on how this is done see the Instructions