Research Guides: Exercise Science: Home

Primary Databases

Health Source - Nursing/Academic
Full-text academic journals in nursing and allied health.
PubMed
Extensive listing of medical journal articles compiled by the U.S. government.
Sage Journals
Full-text journals covering a wide range of subjects. Coverage runs from 1999 to the present.
PLOS
Full-text scholarly articles featuring original research from science, engineering and medicine.

If you find an article that isn't full-text (in a bibliography or abstract only database), here are a few options.

Check if the journal is full-text in one of our other databases: Is this Journal Full Text?
Check if the article is full-text on Google Scholar using quotation marks around the title.
Request the article through Interlibrary Loan and we will email it to you.

Biology Direct
"Biology Direct serves the life science research community as an open access, peer-reviewed online journal, providing authors and readers with an alternative to the traditional model of peer review. Biology Direct considers original research articles, hypotheses, comments, discovery notes and reviews in subject areas currently identified as those most conducive to the open review approach, primarily those with a significant non-experimental component."
Open Biology
Open Biology is an online journal, published by the Royal Society, that publishes "original, high impact research in cell and developmental biology, molecular and structural biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology and genetics."
MDPI
A pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines.

Our 484 diverse and open access journals, including 475 peer-reviewed journals and 9 conference journals, are supported by more than 295,000 academic experts who share our mission, values, and commitment to providing high-quality service for our authors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available and all content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

Use Google Scholar with the Full Text@Grace College feature to find scholarly articles within the library's collection.

Set your preferences in Google Scholar:

Go to Google Scholar
Click on Settings
Click on "Library Links" in the left column and type in: Grace College & Seminary
Select "Grace College & Seminary - Full Text @ Grace College"
Click "Save"

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Academic Search Elite
Broad collection of scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in most academic subjects. A great starting point for any topic!
Christian Periodical Index
Citations of magazine articles, reviews and scholarly journals containing an evangelical perspective. Some full-text articles.
PsycInfo
A comprehensive resource for scholarly psychology articles and books. Some have full-text.