Multidisciplinary
Multidisciplinary databases can be used to research most topics, and are useful for research questions that are interdisciplinary in nature.
History of sport
America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowThis database covers American and Canadian history, and is useful for Canadian sport history research.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowThis database covers world history, with limited coverage of Canada and US history. Useful for international sports history.
Physical Education
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowThe ERIC database provides extensive access to education-related literature. It can be used for research in physical education.
Note: ERIC can now be searched on either the ProQuest or the Ebsco platform. Please choose whichever platform you are most comfortable with.
Sports Psychology
PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThis is the major database for psychological literature. Useful for research on areas such as mental health and sport psychology.
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Leisure Studies, Sociology of Sport, Tourism
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowRecommended for sociological or social science aspects of research topics.
CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCAB Abstracts is primarily intended for agriculture, but also includes very good coverage of recreation and leisure.
Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Management & Organization Studies Collection includes full text journals published by SAGE on those topics. It may be useful for the management and business aspects of topics related to Kinesiology and Recreation Management, for example in travel and tourism.
Health Science, Clinical Tools, and Evidence Based Practice
CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCINAHL is the major source of literature for nursing and other allied health.
MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE covers the international journal literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.
Note that MEDLINE (Ovid) contains largely the same content as PubMed, so it is typically not necessary to search both.
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EMBASE This link opens in a new windowEMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database with a more international focus than PubMed/MEDLINE.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowThe Cochrane Library contains systematic reviews and other information to assist in making evidence-based diagnostic, treatment and other health care decisions.
ClinicalKey This link opens in a new windowClinicalKey offers access to hundreds of Elsevier's medical and surgical books, thousands of videos and millions of images.
Please Note: To view ebook PDFs, users must create a personal account or use a Scopus ID.
Per publisher policy, ClinicalKey doesn't provide PDFs for all ebook titles.
Trip Pro This link opens in a new windowThe TRIP database is optimized for evidence-based practice, including content such as systematic reviews, evidence synopses, and practice guidelines.
UpToDate This link opens in a new windowUpToDate is a point of care tool designed for use at the bedside. It provides options for diagnosis and management, including the efficacy, doses, and interactions of individual drugs, and includes a section for patients. Content is peer-reviewed and updated every four months.
Please Note: UpToDate only supports the latest browser versions (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari)
