Research Guides: Exercise Science: Overview

New -- APCs for Open Access in Elsevier hybrid journals. New electronic reference book.

New for 2025, Elsevier ScienceDirect journals -- no-cost OA licenses in hybrid journals (link goes to Google Sheet), but not in their Gold journals. This also does not include the Cell or Clinics journals.

Comprehensive Physiology -- eBook
Current, authoritative, and comprehensive collection of physiology.information
more than 30,000 pages of content from the American Physiological Society's renowned Handbook of Physiology (HoP), which was published as a series of books from 1977 to 2008. This content is presented here for the first time in digital format.

Top Kinesiology Databases

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.
This resource is freely available from the Internet. The Linkout feature, which is marked with an icon, provides access to the full-text of journals subscribed to by Appalachian State University Libraries.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Use Google Scholar through the library to be automatically linked to the full text of articles we own.
Use Google Scholar through the library to be automatically linked to the full text of articles we own.

I like APPsearch too, on the main library page.

More databases for Kinesiology

SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive international coverage of sport and fitness-related topics, drawn from websites, journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference proceedings.
Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing of the top nursing and allied health literature, including more than 5,000 journals.
Provides indexing of the top nursing and allied health literature, including more than 5,000 journals.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Cochrane has full text of Cochrane's top quality systematic reviews and protocols. And it includes a database of trials of interventions.
The Cochrane Library is associated with the evidence-based practice movement in health care.

PEDro Physiotherapy Evidence Database (Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy)
An Evidence Base Practice physiotherapy (aka physical therapy) database of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines. PEDro is a collaboration located in Australia and rates EBP literature in Physical Therapy. Includes links to SOME full-text articles/guidelines.

Other Science and Health Databases

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines.
Contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines.

Recent Articles from the ASU Departments of Public Health and Kinesiology

Also look at the faculty pages at phes.appstate.edu. These PubMed and Google Scholar searches will give you some false positives. (Also, be careful, if you only search on names. There are two Marco Meuccis!)

PubMed search
Google Scholar search
Dimensions search
Dimensions is not set up to link to Library full text. But if you're on campus, it will find it much of the time anyway.
NC DOCKS for Exercise Science faculty

Dissertations and Theses

Dissertations and theses often cover current topics or topics that have not been studied extensively.

Please refer to the Theses and Dissertations Guide to help you identify authoritative resources for finding a thesis or dissertation on your topic.

AppState masters theses, in NC DOCKS
You also find masters (and other) theses from several other UNC system schools, as well as faculty work.

WorldCat.org This link opens in a new window
Filter with checkbox for Thesis, Dissertation (n), on left column.
Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries, and also 200 million+ article records, and then locate the item of interest in one of Appalachian State's libraries or in a library near you.

Primal Pictures -- Anatomy.tv

Both of these are now available at ANATOMY.TV . Especially see the "Functional Anatomy."

Anatomy.TV This link opens in a new window
Derived from real human data, this range of software provides thousands of 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more.
Derived from real human data, this range of software provides thousands of 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more.

Exercise Science: Overview

Health Sciences Librarian, Associate Professor