Sports Research Guide
Databases which cover the social, psychological, and business aspects of sports are included here. Also includes coaching and physical education.
- Indexes and Databases
- Data and Statistics
- Audio-Visual Materials
- Poster Presentation: Tips
- Health Science E-Books
- Dissertations & Theses
- Associations and Organizations
- Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Women's Sports Web guides
- New Books in Kinesiology
- Web Guides
- Research papers in Kinesiology & Health Sciences from York University (Using Scopus & Pubmed)
- Olympics Special
Kinesiology Research Guide for 1st and 2nd Year Students
Kinesiology Research Guide for 3rd and 4th Year Students
Kinesiology Research Guide for Graduate 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
useful for more advanced level research.
Indexes and Databases
Use these tools to find citations, abstracts and/or full text materials on your topic. Both scholarly and popular articles are included.
Topics: Sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education,physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment. SportDiscus indexes books, documents, articles and the collection of dissertations and theses of the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance. Citations to books dating back to 1837 and over 2000 journals dating back to 1949.
Indexes general science topics in the life sciences, physical and chemical sciences and medicine. It covers a variety of document types including feature articles, interviews, book reviews, biographies, obituaries, product evaluations and practical do-it-yourself information. Appropriate for beginning undergraduate science and natural science students who need to search general science topics. Coverage is 1984 - presen.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.
It is a comprehensive index to popular literature, covering all subjects and general news areas, such as current events, food, education, sports, history, and science. It indexes and abstracts articles from more than 240 of the most popular general-interest magazines published in the United States and Canada. Coverage is from 1983 to the present.
Subject coverage is interdisciplinary, from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. Provides access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.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.
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. PubMed 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 1955-present. Tutorials here. Print volumes, (1926-1968, QH 301 B37), are available in the Steacie Science Library basement.
Sport psychology, athletic performance. Indexes journal articles, dissertations, reports, books, book chapters, and other scholarly documents. Coverage is from 1872 - present. Guide to Searching PsycINFO
Includes the Social Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for articles by subject, or for articles that cite a known author or work. See Guide to Cited Reference Searching in Web of Science.
Educational database; sports education, psychology, sports medicine. ERIC comprises two sections: published materials (EJ) in the form of references to articles from over 775 education journals; and non-published materials (ED), including research reports, curriculum/teaching guides, and papers.
Sociological Abstracts provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. The database includes abstracts of journal articles selected from over 2500 journals in 30 different languages from about 55 countries. Topics include anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.
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
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.
International Institute for Sport and Human Performance
The International Institute for Sport and Human Performance is an extension of the Department of Exercise and Movement Science (EMS) in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. One of the institute's major components is Kinesiology Publications (formerly Microform Publications of Human Movement Studies), a collection of theses and dissertations from the areas of exercise and sports sciences, health, physical education, and dance reaching back to 1947. These documents are also indexed in Sport Discus.
Data and Statistics
The links below provide sources for numerical data sets and various types of statistics (e.g. population, economic, social etc.)
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
Audio-Visual Materials
Here you will find a list of films, videos, music, spoken word and other non-print materials.
MedSchoolTV is a web-based video-on-demand broadcast channel, bringing contemporary and historical programming on a wide range of health and medical topics from the University of Toronto. One of the projects at Discovery Commons is the preservation and digitization of this media collection for students, staff, members of the medical community and everyone who has an interest in the subject matter.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. HEAL Team
E-Books
York University Libraries subscribes to E-books from different content providers and publishers. Health Science E-books.Dissertations & Theses
This resource is hosted by ProQuest Information and Learning /University Microfilms Inc (UMI) who also produce ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) a database that includes dissertations and theses from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities). You can search citations and abstracts (and preview the first 24 pages) of non-York dissertations and theses through PQDT.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
The FREE science-specific search engine Scirus has partnered with NDLTD.org to bring the power of its search technology to its electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) search.
The DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP)
DART-Europe is an academic consortium of university partners, who are undertaking work on e-theses. This site demonstrates one-stop search across the open access, doctoral-level e-thesis collections of a selection of the DART-Europe partners.
Associations and Organizations
Below are links to professional, academic, advocacy and other types of associations in the field.
Canadian Athletic Therapists' Association
The CATA is a progressive not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and delivery of the highest quality care to active individuals through injury prevention, emergency services and rehabilitative techniques.
Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport
Information on Canadian Anti-Doping Program, Fair Play, and more.
Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute
Reports, statistics, surveys on physical activity levels of Canadians.
CHN is a national, non-profit, bilingual web-based health information service. CHN's goal is to help Canadians find the information they're looking for on how to stay healthy and prevent disease. CHN does this through a unique collaboration - one of the most dynamic and comprehensive networks anywhere in the world. This network of health information providers includes Health Canada and national and provincial/territorial non-profit organizations, as well as universities, hospitals, libraries and community organizations.
Coaching Association of Canada
Information on sport nutrition, women in coaching, children and sports, mental training, and more
Canadian Sport Information Resource Centre
Gateway to Canadian sport information and resources; from Sport Information Resource Centre.
Posted on the SPRIG listserv (an association of sport and leisure librarians in the UK). The Sport and Leisure Practice section is under the major topic, Social Sciences
National Athletic Trainers' Association
The National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) is the professional membership association for certified athletic trainers and others who support the athletic training profession.
Subject-based directory of sports-related websites. Maintained by Gretchen Ghent, University of Calgary.
Sport Canada has three divisions: Sport Programs, Sport Policy, and Major Games and Hosting. Find papers and policies on ethics, doping, gender, and sport participation.
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.
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.
Some of the Sports encyclopedias available at York libraries. Click on the subject headings in individual records to get additional encyclopedias in related subject area.
Please check York catalogue for additional dictionaries and related reference material.
Women's Sports Web guides
Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Sports
This site provides links to biographies and web sites for nearly 200 women athletes. This site is especially useful for currently active athletes who may not be in printed reference sources.
Feminist Majority Foundation:Gender Equity in Athletics and Sports
Includes the FMF report "Empowering Women in Sports" as well as reports on athletes with disabilities and links to other sites. A related page celebrates 96 years of women Olympians.
This is the University of Iowa Gender Equity in Sport Project. It provides comprehensive information about Title IX (the Educational Amendments of 1972 that bans sex discrimination in schools, whether it be in academics or athletics): the law and its history, related complaints, lawsuits, actions, reports, organizations and statistics. Also from University of Iowa Physical Education for Women, Iowa Women’s Archives
New Books in Kinesiology
New Books in Kinesiology Sports Anatomy Physiology ideo on subscribing to RSS feeds using feed readers. Use Google Reader or Bloglines to subscribe to Kinesiology new books RSS feed
Web Guides
Below are links to meta sites such as digital collections, subject specific search engines and other academic research guides. They are useful places to start your Internet research.
Official Site of the Olympic Movement
Current and historical information on the Games, sports, athletes, the organization. Links to current and future games.
International Centre for Olympic Studies
At the University of Western Ontario. Table of Contents for OLYMPIKA: The International Journal of Olympic Studies ; also proceedings of the International Symposium for Olympic Research.
Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
Official website of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Olympics Special pages
A subject-based directory of sports-related websites. Maintained by Gretchen Ghent, University of Calgary.
Health Care Information ResourcesHealth 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. This page has been compiled and maintained by Tom Flemming, McMaster University Health Sciences Library.
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.
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