Kinesiology Research Guide
- Information for KAHS Graduate Students
- Refworks
- Medline 16 Sep 2009
- Systematic Reviews
- Publication Cycle in the Sciences
- Indexes and Databases
- Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- E-Books in Health Sciences
- New Books in Anatomy Physiology Medicine Recreation and Sciences
- Government Sources
- Data and Statistics
- Audio-Visual Materials
- Dissertations and Theses
- Anatomical Models & Websites
- Research @YU: YIHR, Muscle Research Centre YU Autism Alliance
- Open Courses from North American Universities
- Journal Title Abbreviations
- Poster Presentation: Tips
- Web Guides
- Research @ Faculty of Health, ( Research Centres, Funding Announcements, & Student Funding)
- Research papers in Kinesiology & Health Sciences from York University
Kinesiology Research Guide for 1st and 2nd Year Students
Kinesiology Research Guide for 3rd and 4th Year Students
Indexes and Databases
Use these databases to find citations, abstracts and/or full text materials on your topic. These databases can be used to find scholarly and popular articles. The number of stars besides a database provides an idea about the appropriateness of the database based on the level of research being conducted.
One star 
good for general/basic research,
Two stars good for intermediate to advanced research
Three stars useful for more advanced level research.
This is a guide to get you started with research and a librarian can help you in selecting the best database(s) for your topic.
CogNet
An interdisciplinary online collection in cognitive and brain sciences Covers areas of cognitive science such as psychology, linguistics, computational intelligence, philosophy, and neuroscience. It includes 7 MIT Press e-journals, over 400 online books, the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences and other reference sources. Browse books by Title, Author or Topic in MITCogNet Library.
Elsevier SD is a current awareness database providing coverage of biological research worldwide. 1,700 source journals are indexed and abstracted in this database. Covers 1994 - present and is updated weekly. Subjects covered include applied microbiology, neuroscience, endrocrinology and metabolism, genetics and molecular biology, immunology and infectious diseases, biotechnology, cancer research, cell and developmental biology, clinical chemistry, ecological and environmental sciences, plant science, protein biochemistry, toxicology. Top 25 articles in your area (based on articles downloaded from SD during 3 month periods).
Subjects range from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.
What does it include? Watch interactive Demos! Primal Pictures provides a dynamic interactive multimedia overview of human anatomy-literally from head to toe! It features three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, and biomechanics.
Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO indexes journal articles, dissertations, reports, books, book chapters, and other scholarly documents. The definitive resource in psychology, it indexes literature from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. Coverage is from 1872 - present. Guide to Searching PsycINFO
Scholars Portal Search (Abstract & Index)
Scholars Portal Journals
Sport Discus
Indexes the international literature about all aspects of sport, physical fitness, sport science and recreation. Also covers sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training and coaching. SportDiscus indexes books, documents, articles and the collection of dissertations and theses of the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance. Coverage is from 1975 - present.
Indexes 8,500 research journals across the Social Sciences, Sciences and Arts & Humanities. Possible to search for articles by subject, author, journal, and author address as well as for articles that cite a known author or work (citation searching). You can now switch easily between searching and browsing, using your own terminology for searching, and the new faceted classification scheme for browsing and refining results. It includes Science Citation Index. Coverage is from 1900 - present. Tutorials
Available through ISI Web of Knowledge interface. Indexes over 5200 biological and medical research journals comprehensively. It covers every modern life science discipline including: agriculture, agronomy, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology and the environment, genetics, medicine, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology and zoology. Useful for undergraduates and graduate students. Coverage 1926-present. Tutorials. CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCO)
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Tutorial 1 Tutorial 2 Tutorial 3
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
NCCAM and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) have partnered to create CAM on PubMed, a subset of NLM's PubMed.
Medline (Ovid)
Medline is produced by the National Library of Medicine. It covers the broad field of biomedicine, and includes microbiology, immunology, endocrinology, pharmacology, toxicology, and other areas of biology and medicine. Coverage is from 1950 - present. Medline (Ovid) Tutorials
Sports medicine, physiology, biomechanics. MEDLINE is the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, kinesiology, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 80 other countries & coverage is from 1950 to present. Also try PubMed Clinical Queries FAQs: NLM Training Manuals PubMed Tutorials
Scopus is a comprehensive international database for scientific, medical, and technical information. It contains approximately 15,000 journal titles from 4,000 publishers, and abstracts going back to 1960. Scopus covers all major peer reviewed STM titles and is integrated with Scirus web search to cover the scientific web. It provides searching capability, linking to full-text sources, cited references, saved search and alerting features including RSS alerts. More information on Scopus
Compendex (through Engineering Village)
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews : Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE and CCTR
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a growing, international movement in health care that aims to bring the best evidence from medical research to the bedside, clinic, and community. EBM movement combines 4 of the most trusted EBM resources into a single, fully-searchable database. EBMR helps clinicians practice EBM through a combination of resources that provide: systematic reviews of topics; article reviews; and access to definitive controlled trials. EBM Tutorials (Duke & UNC), Practising EBM (UfT), Cochrane tutorials
How to read a health research paper (articles from BMJ) Systematic Reviews - Resources & Web links.
What are Systematic Reviews? Paper: Using Numerical Results from Systematic Reviews in Clinical Practice
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions: Describes the Cochrane Collaborative methods for reviews.
How to read a paper: Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses) - An article on reading and evaluating systematic reviews.
Pedro Physiotherapy Evidence Database PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
ODESI is an intuitive data portal for researchers, teachers and students. The project targets Statistics Canada datasets, datafiles from Gallup Canada and other polling companies, public-domain files such as the Canadian National Election Surveys and selected files from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Data related to agriculture, business and financial, communications and information, and health are available from this portal. Tutorials
PsychiatryOnline is a powerful web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR® the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world - and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Encyclopedias are useful to get basic background information on a topic and are good places to start the research process. Dictionaries give brief definitions of unfamiliar words, terms and acronyms.
The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) features more than 4,000 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles for students, scientists and teachers. Articles provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage, written by leaders in the field.
Encyclopedia of international sports studies
Three volumes. Location: Steacie Reference
Oxford dictionary of sports science & medicine
This dictionary covers all the major areas of sports science and medicine including: anatomy, biomechanics, exercise physiology, nutrition, sports psychology, sports sociology, sports injuries, and training principles. Available as hard copy (RC 1206 O94 2006) and as an online resource.
Sports science handbook: the essential guide to kinesiology, sport and exercise science
Set of two volumes. Location: Steacie Reference
Stedman's orthopaedic & rehab words
Stedman's orthopaedic & rehab words: includes chiropractic, occupational therapy, physical therapy, podiatric, & sports medicine. Developed from the database of Stedman's medical dictionary, 27th ed., and supplemented by terminology found in current medical literature.
Government Sources
Governments and inter-governmental organizations (like the UN) publish documents, reports, articles and books on every different topics and are a good source of information.
ACTIVE2010 is a comprehensive strategy to increase participation in sport and physical activity throughout Ontario. The website features articles and reports which focus on physical activity in Ontario.
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
CAHS represents Canada on the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP), a global consortium of national health science academies. The Academy provides timely, informed and unbiased assessments of urgent issues affecting the health of Canadians
Canadian Defence Research Reports
A database of scientific and technical research produced by and for Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC) over the past 60 years.
Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute
This organization seeks to improve the well-being of Canadians through research and communication of information about physically active lifestyles. The website includes survey's, statistical publications, research projects, news releases and links to International Organizations.
Canada's Sport Information Resource Centre
SIRC, Canada's Sport Information Resource Centre and the creator of the SportDiscus database, has been retrieving, disseminating and communicating sport research to sporting communities around the world for over 30 years.
Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD)
A Canadian association that focuses on advocating for school-based physical and health education to ensure the healthy development of children and youth.
Canadian and international sources of health related data including publications are available from this page.
The National Library for Health (NLH) is a modern, integrated, hybrid service that aims to be 'the best, most trusted health related knowledge service in the world'. It comprises NHS funded services across the UK and, a digital hub, plus commissioned information services and products.
National Technical Information ServiceThe National Technical Information Service (NTIS) serves as a central resource for US government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. Subject coverage.
The ministry is responsible for administering the health care system and providing services to the Ontario public through such programs as health insurance, drug benefits, assistive devices, care for the mentally ill, long-term care, home care, community and public health, and health promotion and disease prevention. It also regulates hospitals and nursing homes, operates psychiatric hospitals and medical laboratories, and co-ordinates emergency health services. Kinesiology Act
Ontario Physical and Health Education Association
Provides information on physical and health education for children and youth.
Public Health Agency of Canada
Focus on prevention of chronic diseases, like cancer and heart disease, prevent injuries and respond to public health emergencies and infectious disease outbreaks.
Excellent site for information on sport in Canada. Contains links to major Canadian and international games and sporting events; sport news releases; Canadian sport links; selected government publications on sport; and Canadian Olympic and Paralympic results.
Data and Statistics
The links below provide sources for numerical data sets and various types of statistics (e.g. population, economic, social etc.)
Canadian Institute for Health Information
- CIHI Quick Stats by Topic
Health in Canada: Your resource for Canadian health statistics.
Odesi is an intuitive data portal for researchers, teachers and students. The project targets Statistics Canada datasets, datafiles from Gallup Canada and other polling companies, public-domain files such as the Canadian National Election Surveys and selected files from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Data related to agriculture, business and financial, communications and information, and health are available from this portal. Tutorials Public Health Agency of Canada
Stats Canada is the principle national organization responsible for gathering, publishing and distributing data acquired by surveys. The Daily is a searchable Stats Canada bulletin for announcing new reports and survey data
Statistical E-Resources: Health and Medicine
York University Libraries' data librarian has compiled this detailed annotated list of recommended electronic sources of health data and statistics, many of which provide information pertaining to the health care industry or statistics of relevance to health care administrators
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) released a new statistical database called UNdata. Information is provided from around the world on topics such as agriculture, education, employment, energy, environment, industry, national accounts, population, trade and tourism. Data is combined from 14 databases and more will be added over time.
Audio-Visual Materials
Here you will find a list of films, videos, music, spoken word and other non-print materials.
American Society for Cell Biology - Image & Video Library
ASCB's Image & Video Library is a growing collection of images, videos, and digital texts that illustrate the structure, function and biology of the cell, the fundamental unit of life.
A collaboration between a number of medical schools, it includes numerous videos, including more than 100 of those for gait.
- Abnormal Human Gait (courtesy of University of Utah)
- Downloadable Gait Book
Courtesy of Harvey Cushing John Hay Whitney Medical Library.
What does it include? Watch interactive Demos!
Anatomical Models & Websites
Anatomical models on the Steacie Reserve desk
A collaboration between a number of medical schools, it includes numerous videos, including more than 100 of those for gait. Abnormal Human Gait (courtesy of University of Utah) Downloadable Gait Book The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
Primal Pictures provides a dynamic interactive multimedia overview of human anatomy-literally from head to toe! It features three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, and biomechanics.
Research Centres
Below are links to professional, academic, advocacy and other types of associations in the field.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the major federal agency responsible for funding health research in Canada. It aims to excel in the creation of new health knowledge, and to translate that knowledge from the research setting into real world applications. CIHR integrates research through a unique interdisciplinary structure made up of 13 "virtual" institutes.
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
CAHS represents Canada on the InterAcademy Medical Panel, a global consortium of national health science academies whose aim is to to alleviate the health burdens of the world's poorest people; build scientific capacity for health; and provide independent scientific advice on promoting health science and health care policy to national governments and global organizations.
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
The Canadian Institute for Health Information is an independent, pan-canadian not-for-profit organization working to improve the health of Canadians and the health care system by providing quality health information. CIHI tracks data in many areas through information supplied by hospitals, regional health authorities, medical practitioners and governments. CIHI's data and reports focus on: Health care services, Health spending, Health human resources, Population health.
Ontario Kinesiology Association
Ontario Kinesiology Association exists to promote the application of the science of human movement to other professionals and to the community & to assist kinesiologists in the performance of their duties and responsibilities.
Kinesiology Associations & Organizations
Courtesy of Kinesiology Network, the web site for Manual Muscle Testing, Kinesiologic Medicine, Applied Kinesiology and Specialized Kinesiology. Kinesiology Net is an information portal for manual muscle testing kinesiology, addresses to schools, associations and journals, a muscle database, links to research-papers, and many www-links to other web sites about Applied Kinesiology and different Specialized Kinesiology methods.
National Network on Environment & Women's Health
The National Network on Environments and Women's Health is a Centre of Excellence committed to producing knowledge on the social, economic and physical environments that effect women's health in order to facilitate policy change that will improve the lives of all Canadian women.
ThinkFirst is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of brain and spinal cord injuries. Celebrating over fifteen years in operation, ThinkFirst has been heightening public awareness through education since its inception in 1992, when it was founded by renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Charles Tator. Headquartered in Toronto, it is endorsed by a number of prominent organizations including the Canadian Neurosurgical Society, the Canadian Association of Neuroscience Nurses, the Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences, and the Canadian Spine Society.
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. Publications from the Child Injuries & Violence page maintained by WHO. Recent report
Open Access Resources
These Open Access (OA) resources are specifically designed for Science & Engineering students and include links to OA journals, databases, electronic theses and dissertations and other sites for help with OA publishing.
These include lectures, videos, podcasts that are freely available to watch and/or download. These are posted by Universities and institutions committed to open learning.
Open Access Information for Graduate Students
OPEN ACCESS - the principle that research should be accessible online, for free, immediately after publication - is improving the way scholarly information is shared. This site is a collection of OA resources and is most suitable for science and engineering graduate students.GaP: database of Genotypes and Phenotypes
National Institutes of Health (NIH) is making an extensive collection of genetic and clinical data freely available to researchers worldwide. This Web-based resource archives and distributes data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). GWAS explore the associations between genes (genotype information) and observable traits (phenotypes), such as weight, cholesterol levels, or the presence or absence of a disease.
PSI Nature Stuctural Genomics Knowledgebase
PSI-SGKB is a collaboration between the Protein Structure Initiative and Nature to provide a portal for research and developments in structural genomics and structural biology.
PRIDE PRoteomics IDEntifications database
The PRIDE PRoteomics IDEntifications database is a centralized, standards compliant, public data repository for proteomics data. It has been developed to provide the proteomics community with a public repository for protein and peptide identifications together with the evidence supporting these identificationsReference Database of Immune Cells
RefDIC is an open resource compendium of quantitative mRNA/Protein profile data specifically for immune cells. You can easily retrieve various aspects of mRNA/Protein profiles of immune cells from RefDIC.
Journal Title Abbreviation Sources
Expansion of Abbreviated Journal Titles
You can search by abbreviation, ISSN, topic, journal title or browse by subject terms.
Web Guides
Active Healthy Kids Canada
Established in 1994, Active Healthy Kids Canada strives to be a trusted source for "powering the movement to get kids moving"-a source for knowledge, insight and understanding that influences thinking and action among issue stakeholders to help them build better programs, campaigns and policies in order to increase physical activity among children and youth.
Alternative Medicine (Sloan-Kettering)
This information resource, presented by our Integrative Medicine Service, provides evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, and more. Listing of all herbs
Canadian Health Network
Canadian Health Network (CHN)is a national, bilingual health promotion program found on the Web at www.canadian-health-network.ca. The CHN's goal is to help Canadians find the information they're looking for on how to stay healthy and prevent disease.
CPS fosters and encourages research on pain mechanisms and pain syndromes and to help improve the management of patients with acute and chronic pain by bringing together the basic scientists and health professionals of various disciplines and backgrounds who have an interest in pain research and management.
HEALTHmap provides a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available website integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources to validated official alerts.
Healia is the premier consumer health search engine for finding high quality and personalized health information on the Web. It serves as an independent, unbiased gateway to the highest quality health information resources.
Health Care Information Resources
Health Care Information Resources makes information about health and disease accessible in the belief that the informed consumer is a more satisfied consumer of healthcare. This service does not offer advice about health or healthcare and cannot substitute for a healthcare practitioner.
Kellog Eye Center: Univ. of Michigan
This interactive teaching and assessment program about disorders of the eye and visual system reinforces knowledge and procedures with videos and photographs. Sitemap
National Eye InstituteThis website features photographs, images, and videos related to normal and pathologic eye anatomy, eye disease simulations, eye charts and exams, eye patches, low vision devices, and professional-patient interactions.
NextBio's mission is to make the world's life sciences information universally accessible. Their goal is to empower researchers and clinicians to make new discoveries in science, find new and better cures to diseases, and work more collaboratively. Their enterprise clients include the world's top commercial and academic institutions, including Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Scripps Research Institute, Regeneron, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, UC Davis, Stanford, Celgene, Genzyme, and many others.
The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has detailed tabular data on nutritive value of various foods (Section 7: Biochemistry), chemical composition of human body, and pH values of biological materials and foods.
OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. More information
REHABDATA, produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center, is the leading literature database on disability and rehabilitation. The database describes over 65,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities. The collection span 1956 to the present.
This subject directory brings together the websites which will assist the serious sports researcher, sport information specialist, college/university student and faculty. Courtesy of University of Calgary
The Visible Human Project® is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representation of the normal male and female human bodies. The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project® is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.
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