Research Guides: Public Health: Kinesiology

Kinesiology Resources

Kinesiology

Evaluating Web Sites

How can you tell if a web site is trustworthy or not? It's not always easy, but there are things that you can look for that will help you decide.

Questions to ask yourself when evaluating a source

Who is the author? Are they qualified to talk about this subject?
How accurate is the information? You may need to compare what you find with another source to answer this question.
Who is the audience? This can influence how much detail is included.
What point of view is being represented? All sites have a bias, but is it obvious or are they trying to hide something?
How up to date is the site? Older information may no longer be accurate.

	Criteria for evaluating resources Accuracy How does this resource match up with others you've seen? Do the results seem plausible? Authority Who created it? What are the qualifications of the creator? Content Is this written in a ‘professional’ manner? Is it sloppy? What kind of evidence does the creator use to support what they are saying? Purpose Is this written in an objective, detached way? Is this someone’s personal opinion? Who is the intended audience? Timeliness When was this produced? If a website, when was this updated last? How old are the works that are foot-noted/cited?

For more detailed information see Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins University)

Finding Primary Sources

America: History & Life with Full-Text Core American history database now includes unique full-text coverage of nearly 200 journals and 100 books. Information on articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers more than 2000 international worldwide. All aspects of historical research. Time span: 1964-present.
American Periodicals Series Full text images of over 1,100 colonial and early American magazines and periodicals spanning from colonial times to the mid 20th century. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal. Useful for the study of American history, literature, culture, sciences and social sciences. Time span: 1740-1900
Historical Black Newspapers Once in ProQuest click on Databases link at top; click on Select all to de-select the entire list of databases; scroll down to ProQquest Historical Newspapers and select the titles of interest; return to top and click on Use selected databases. Online full-text of: Chicago Defender (1909-1975); New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991); Norfolk Journal & Guide (1921-2003); Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001).
Nexis Uni Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides fulltext to news, business and legal information. Newspapers date back to the 1970's. Please Note: The Washington Post is no longer included in Nexis Uni.The National Newspapers Core database includes the Washington Post.

Library of Congress Digital Collections

Evaluating primary sources

Primary Sources on the Web: Finding, Evaluating, Using - This brief guide is designed to help students and researchers find and evaluate primary sources available online.

From: Loyola Marymount University Library and University of Southern California Libraries

Developed by Suffolk County Community College Library

To find full text of articles, check Database Finder, Journal Finder, and/or Citation Finder.

Some suggested databases to get started with are listed below:

SPORTDiscus with Full Text This database covers key areas of sports medicine and related fields. Content areas range from sports physiology and sports psychology to physical education and recreation. SPORTDiscus is ideal for researchers studying different aspects of kinesiology, fitness, health, and sport studies. Sports, recreation, physical fitness, and sport science. 1975-present with some monograph indexing dating back to 1800.
Academic Search Ultimate Multi-disciplinary database providing information for nearly every area of academic study. Includes an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, as well as additional journals, magazines, newspapers and books. Multidisciplinary subjects including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, ethnic studies. 1965- present.
PubMed The National Library of Medicine's Medline database that provides abstracts and indexing for about 4,600 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries, and includes additional older citations and out of scope citations from Medline journals. Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychiatry, pre-clinical sciences, medical education, public health, health care planning and administration of services. Also includes additional life science journals. mid-1960s - present
Business Source Complete Business Source Complete contains articles from thousands of newspapers, trade publications, such as the Harvard Business Review and other major key business magazines in all disciplines of business, including economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
ScienceDirect Peer-reviewed, full text database containing electronic book and journal titles covering the fields of science, technology and medicine. In addition to keyword searches, the image search and value added content associated with the publication can be found in the form of audio, video and datasets. Extensive coverage of the physical and biological sciences, significant numbers of journals in the social sciences, and some journals in the humanities. Dates of abstracting and indexing vary. Full text prior to 1995 often going back to vol. 1, iss. 1 Author searches are done on the last name only. Subject searches are supported, but subjects are not presented within the records. Truncation is not supported in phrases.
Public Health This database delivers core public health literature with centralized access to journals, dissertations, videos, news, trade publications, reports, and more. Journal results are indexed from core literature collected from a variety of publishers using appropriate public-health terminology. Covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences and biological sciences to business.

PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, a free database of over 41,000 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 Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and is hosted by Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).

The Kinesiology Network
At Kinesiology Net you will find useful information about manual muscle testing kinesiology, addresses to schools, associations and journals, a muscle database, links to research-papers, and many www-links to other web sites about kinesiology.
Exercise
A Guide from the National Institute on Aging
Exercise and Physical Fitness
An extensive list of links from the MedlinePlus site containing news, summaries and overviews, diagrams and pictures, nutrition and therapies ....
ExRx.net
ExRx.net (Exercise Prescription on the Net) is a free resource for the exercise professional, coach, or fitness enthusiast." ExRx.net consists of over 2000 pages, most of which are found in the Exercise and Muscle Directory.
Fitness.gov
The health, physical activity, fitness and sports information website of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
Human Kinetics
Human Kinetics’ partners and programs reinforce sports and physical activity on an international scale.
PECentral.org
The premier Web site for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students. Their goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.
Shape up America
Shape Up America! is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization committed to raising awareness of obesity as a health issue and to providing responsible information on healthy weight management.
Sports Fitness
A specific page devoted to Sports Fitness which has an extensive list of links - from the MedlinePlus site.
Wellness Letter
Access to the table of contents, a feature article, and "Ask the Experts" column from UC Berkeley's monthly newsletter of nutrition, fitness, and self-care. Other free resources include guide to supplements, wellness recipes and wellness books.