General Resources
UI's Department of Integrative physiology (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
UI's Department of Health & Sports Studies (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
UI Health Care: Sports Medicine
Consumer Health Links
MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine.
Includes Fitness and Exercise Topics (Sports Fitness, Sports Injuries, Sports Safety, Exercise & Physical Fitness)
Hardin MD
Pointers to the most complete and frequently cited lists for health subjects.
Includes:
Sports Injuries / Sports Medicine
Nutrition
Physical Therapy / Physiotherapy,
Disability
Occupational Health & Safey
Iowa Public Health Information (IPHI)
Includes: Health Topics & Consumer Health; Demographics & Statistical Data
See Also: Hardin Library's Consumer Health Links
Databases / Indexes
SPORTDiscus 
SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 600,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. SPORTDiscus is provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre.
Physical Education Index. Main Library Reference Z6121.P5
Leisure, Recreation, & Tourism Abstracts. Main Library Reference fGV191.6 .R86
PubMed
Covers the international 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.
CINAHL Plus - EBSCOhost
CINAHL Plus provides indexing for over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health (including physical therapy, occupational therapy, & sports medicine), with indexing back to 1937.
Academic Search Elite - EBSCOhost
Features full text for over 2,000 journals. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.
Business Source Premier - EBSCOhost
This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for nearly 8,200 serials.
Health Source. Nursing/Academic Edition - EBSCOhost
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
PsycINFO - Ovid
The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.
ERIC - Ovid
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) contains references to journals and documents in the area of education from 1966 to present.
HAPI (Health & Psychosocial Instruments) - Ovid
A database of information about research and survey instruments, such as questionnaires, checklists, rating scales, and interview forms.
Web of Science
A citation database that includes the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Coverage goes back to 1979.
For other databases available to the University of Iowa community visit:
Hardin Library's Databases page
Hardin Library's Evidence Based Practice page
UI Libraries: Find & Search Resources
Find Books (Print & Online)
See our brief guide Finding Exercise Science / Health & Sport Studies Books for suggested subject headings
Online titles (Hardin Library's Electronic Books by Subject):
Kinesiology Publications
A collection of master's theses and dissertations from the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance.
E-Book Collections at the University Libraries
Directories / Organizations
Associations Unlimited
Contains information for approximately 160,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields.
DIRLINE (Directory of Health Organizations) from the National Library of Medicine
http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/
American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education
http://www.aakpe.org/
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
http://www.aahperd.org/
American College of Sports Medicine
http://www.acsm.org/index.asp
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