Recommended Resources
- American Journal of Health EducationThe mission of the American Journal of Health Education (AJHE) is to publish high quality manuscripts that focus on Health Education and Health Promotion initiatives designed to prevent or delay the onset of the major chronic diseases and illnesses that impact populations of interest today.
- Health Education and BehaviorHealth Education & Behavior (HEB) is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly journal that provides empirical research, case studies, program evaluations, literature reviews, and discussions of theories of health behavior and health status, as well as strategies to improve social and behavioral health. HEB also examines the processes of planning, implementing, managing, and assessing health education and social-behavioral interventions.
- Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & DanceAccess to Open Access articles only. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD) is published by SHAPE America. It is their cornerstone journal, providing information on a variety of health, physical education, recreation and dance issues.
- Journal of Teaching in Physical EducationFeatures peer-reviewed research articles based on classroom and laboratory studies, descriptive and survey studies, summary and review articles, and discussion of current topics of interest to physical educators at every level.
- PalaestraJournal on sports, physical education and recreation for people with disabilities.
- Physical Education and Sport PedagogyAccess to Open Access articles only. The the official research journal of the Association for Physical Education (afPE). Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy publishes research that reports educational practices in all appropriate contexts including, but not limited to, school physical education, club sport, and active leisure programs. The journal considers papers that discuss a broad range of physical activities, including aquatics, dance, exercise, gymnastics, outdoor and adventure activities, meditative and martial arts and sport.
- The Physical EducatorThe Physical Educator is one of the longest standing journals providing research-based articles relating to physical education, health, recreation, and related areas.
- SportisThe Sportis Journal has as a goal the publication and dissemination of articles related with Physical Education, School Sport and Psychomotricity in children. Articles in Spanish and English.
- Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport EducatorsOnly a handful of Open Access articles currently available. Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators is a peer-reviewed professional journal that publishes practical, how-to articles for sport and physical education professionals at all levels.
- Britannica Academic
Britannica Academic provides access to high-quality, comprehensive reference information. Includes access to the Britannica encyclopedia, atlas, world data, the Classics, biographies, news, multimedia, and more. You can also use Britannica Academic to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. This database also includes the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary.
- Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections, including art, history, law, medicine, psychology, technology, bilingual dictionaries, and encyclopedias through a one-stop search platform. Search results often include articles from a wide array of publications and frequently present subject coverage from multiple perspectives. Using Credo Reference to approach a topic from different viewpoints can be a great way to expand your familiarity with the topic and it can help you develop new arguments and observations for your research.
- Oxford Reference Premium
This reference database includes access to almost 400 dictionaries and encyclopedias of fully-indexed, cross-searchable works published by Oxford University Press with detailed information across a broad subject range of topics.
- Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost)
A resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full-text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full-text for nearly 500 books and monographs.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC), provides access to education literature and research. It includes access to 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.
- PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- Teacher Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
- ProQuest Platform (ProQuest)
Users can search, find and preview more than 900 million documents and retrieve scholarly full-text open access sources directly curated by ProQuest.
- eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
This collection contains over 246,000 eBooks on a wide variety of academic subject matter.
- eBook Central (ProQuest)
eBook Central is a collection of nearly 250,000 academic e-books on a wide variety of subjects.
- Gale eBooks
A multidisciplinary research database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform.
- Taylor & Francis eBooks
Taylor & Francis eBooks offers approximately 100,000 full-text resources including content published within the past year.
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