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Recommended Resources

Sport, Physical Education, and Social Justice

Psychology of Strength and Conditioning

Business & Culture of Sports: Society, Politics, Economy, Environment

Oxford encyclopedia of sport, exercise, & performance psychology

The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science : Confronting Myths of the Health and Fitness Industry

The Routledge Handbook on Biochemistry of Exercise

Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning

Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine

SAGE handbook of sport management

Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health

Gale Encyclopedia of Fitness

Recommended Research Databases

Explore databases connected to Health, Medicine, and Wellness

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)
A widely used medical database for nursing and allied health [physical therapy, nutrition, biomechanics, etc] topics,

CINAHL Database provides the top nursing and allied health literature available, including over 5,300 nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. In addition, CINAHL Database has health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters, legal cases, research instruments, and clinical trials. Not only is it an authoritative, specialized nursing resource, it is equipped with powerful search tools, including the CINAHL Subject Headings thesarus, which follows a similar structure to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) system. This database covers sources dating from 1937 to present day.
PubMed
The leading medical database, PubMed includes over 30 million biomedical citations and abstracts.
Sports Medicine and Education Index (ProQuest)
Covers health education, sports, kinesiology, nutrition, fitness and other related fields. (Discontinued 2026)

The surge of academic, professional and personal interest in the field of physical education has resulted in a huge volume of scholarly and trade literature. Since 1970 Sports Medicine & Education Index has been covering this vast collection of material. Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications.

Sports Medicine & Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging 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 as they continue to become more prevalent in our society.

Subject Coverage
Administration
Biomechanics-Kinesiology
Coaching
Curriculum
Dance
Facilities
Health
History
Law
Measurement-Evaluation
Motor Learning
Patents (that pertain to sporting goods and exercise equipment)
Perception
Philosophy
Physical Education
Physical Fitness
Physical Therapy
Recreation
Research
Sport Activities
Sport Psychology
Sport Sociology
Sports
Sports Medicine
Teaching Methods
Training
Web of Science
Indexes leading scholarly journal in sciences, social sciences, and humanities.(Discontinued 2026)

Use research databases in Business or Communication for topics in Sport Management.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Excellent database for public relations, advertising, and branding information of leading companies.
ProQuest One Business
Considered a top database for business and management research

Limiting Your Search in Research Databases

Some research databases (e.g., JSTOR or Project Muse) cover only scholarly or peer-reviewed journals, but most include a mix of scholarly and other types of articles (popular, industry, news).

Those databases that have wider coverage typically offer the option for you to narrow your search to scholarly, academic, or peer-reviewed (or refereed) journals. Look under "limit to" or "narrow results" in the basic or advanced search screens.