scholarly articles for Physical Education
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Academic Search Elite
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
Academic Search Elite is a multidisciplinary database covering both popular and scholarly journals. This database is most useful for students in the early stages of research, because searches return a broad range of article results
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) Subject: Sciences > Nursing.
CINAHLprovides access to nursing and health related scholarly articles and other publications from the National League of Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association. It is the premier database for nursing research.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Subject: Multidisciplinary
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a selection of freely available full-text journals in a variety of subjects. Their search page is one way to find articles that are freely available.
ERIC (Education Resources)
Subject: Social Sciences > Education.
ERIC is the premier database to search for articles and documents about education related topics.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Subject: Sciences > Nursing.
Health Source provides access to scholarly and consumer level nursing, medical, and health related article from over 615 journals.
HighWire Press Stanford University
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1054 journals and 4,343,436 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. Some articles are available in full text.
Medline
Subject: Sciences > Nursing.
Medline provides access to scholarly articles covering nursing, medical, and life science topics; it is another user interface for the National Library of Medicine's PubMed. While the content is the same, some people find this interface (the same as Web of Science) easier to search. This version also has links to the journals that are owned by Reeves, through the Check Reevevs button, which PubMed does not.
PubMed Free Search
Subject: Sciences > Nursing; Biochemistry; Biology. Social Sciences > Psychology.
PubMed Free Search provides access to scholarly articles covering nursing, medical, and life science topics. This site is sponsored by the U.S. Government and searches for MEDLINE® and other life science journals.
Web of Knowledge
Subject: Sciences. Social Sciences.
Web of Knowledge contains the two databases: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index. These databases are core to science and social science research.
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