Guides: Exercise Science: Find Articles

Subject Specific Databases

CINAHL - Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCO)
Indexes the professional literature of nursing and allied health disciplines. Some full text access. Also includes abstracts for relevant materials from allied health disciplines, including health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health. Provides references to books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. Access limited 4 simultaneous users.
PubMed
Indexes scholarly articles in biomedicine, health, dentistry, nursing, and other life sciences. Includes MEDLINE plus additional citations, some full-text. Coverage: 1966 – present.
Biological Abstracts (Web of Science)
Indexes scholarly journal articles in biology and all other life sciences.
ERIC [Education Resource Information Center] (EBSCO)
Provides access to education literature and research, including information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
SPORTDiscus (EBSCO)
Citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, theses, and other media published 1800 – present; also books and book chapters from 1949 – present. Full text for some articles. Access limited to 4 simultaneous users.
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 20,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice. PEDro is produced by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at The George Institute for Global Health.
Turning Research into Practice (TRIP) Database
The freely accessible database allows easy access to online evidence-based material. This search tool searches 150 resources (in addition to the millions of articles in MEDLINE) and over 80,000 documents such as guidelines and reviews.

General Databases

Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)
An excellent starting point for research across a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals. This database is sourced with PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
Replaced Academic OneFile in 2022.
JSTOR
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.
Project Muse
Full text access is available to over 380 journals and over 13,000 scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage from 1993 - present.

Newpapers & Current News

US Newsstream (ProQuest)
Full-text access to over 950 US news publications, including The Des Moines Register, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & Washington Post. 1980-present.
New York Times (NYTimes.com)
Full access to the New York Times online (1851-present). Includes international edition and Spanish and Chinese language editions. For full access and no monthly article limits, create an account using your Luther email address or register your account here: http://proxy.luther.edu/login?url=https://ezmyaccount.nytimes.com/grouppass/redir.
New York Times, Historical plus Index (ProQuest)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: the New York Times provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times from its first issue in 1851. It is searchable by keyword, author, article title, and first paragraph (abstract). You can browse issues by clicking Publications at the top of the screen. It includes illustrations and advertisements. The title changed from the New York Daily Times to the New York Times in 1857.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
Full text online for issues published 1984 – present.