Exercise Physiology ~ KIN 340

Information Literacy is knowing how to find, analyze, and use information; the ability to gather information from multiple sources, select relevant material, and organize it into a form that will allow the user to make decisions or take specific actions. As a researcher you will look at many different things as you are gathering information and that includes the quality and reliability of your source, the date of publication, the quantity of the materials you select to support your findings, and the diversity of your resources. Below you will find a list of journals that your professors have selected for you to use to answer your research questions. Most of them can be found in our library. The few that are not in our library can be interlibrary loaned from other institutions. These journals are indexed in many different databases, which our library subscribes to, and you have access to these databases both on-campus and off-campus with your technology account login and password.


 

Journals for Exercise Physiology Research

1. Journal of Applied Physiology *
2. American Journal of Physiology
3. Canadian Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology
4. European Journal of Applied Physiology
5. International Journal of Sports Medicine
6. American Journal of Sports Medicine
7. British Journal of Sports Medicine*
8. Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine
9. JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
10. Lancet
11. Chest

12. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
13. Journal of Athletic Training
14. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
15. Clinical Exercise Physiology
16. Journal of Sport Science
17. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism
18. Circulation *
19. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
20. Sports Medicine
21. Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science
22. European Journal of Sports Science

* - Indicates journal is not listed in the Elmhurst College Library "Alphabetical List of Electronic Journals."

 

How can I find the Journals from above? How do I know what databases index them? What if they are not full-text?

What is a primary research article?

When research is conducted to unearth original data, it is called primary research. To do this, an original research plan must be devised which will encompass, data collection, data input and then the production and analysis of the subsequent results. Sometime primary research is referred to as empirical research or empirical studies. These articles offer empirical evidence (based on observation or an experiment) to support a hypothesis or argument proposed by the author.

All primary research and empirical study articles are published in scholarly journals which are peer reviewed. They are written by scholars in the field and based on analyses of empirical evidence, not opinion. The article will have a stated hypothesis or questions to answer, a description of the methodology used in collecting the data, and a large section of the article will include the research results of the experiments, surveys, and studies. A conclusion of their findings will end the article along with a long bibliography of sources they have consulted to prepare for this research question or hypothesis.

 

Finding Primary Source Research Articles from the list above in the databases listed below

So you found an article in one of our databases, but it's not full-text. Now what?

Look for these buttons: , or ,
or this line of text: (Find this resource with SFX)
next to the article citation on the search screen.

Clicking on this will take you to a list of our full-text sources that carry the journal, if the library has access to it through the other databases.

 

Using the Internet for Research

  • Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, call number R808.06615 P976 2001

    ~ The official manual on the APA format. Ask for this item at the reference desk. We also have a limited number of copies for checkout.

     

Citing Information

Below is an example, using APA format, of an Electronic copy of a journal article, with three to five authors, retrieved from database.

 Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Oppler, S. H., Pulakos, E. D., & White,
   L. A. (1993). Role of early supervisory experience in supervisor
   performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 443-449. Retrieved
   October 23, 2000, from PsycARTICLES database.




This page was created February 2008, by Donna Goodwyn, Head of Reference, Associate Librarian, Elmhurst College.