LibGuides: Exercise &amp; Sports Studies: Sports Medicine

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Article Databases

There are a number of useful resources for finding information about sports medicine. Below are some recommended article databases, many of which contain the full text of articles. If you do not see a link to the full text, use the to find a different access point or to order a copy through Interlibrary Loan.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts for millions of articles in medicine, life science, and health administration. Includes full contents of MEDLINE, plus "in process" citations for recent articles, and some additional references from life sciences journals.
Our listing provides users with additional functionality including “Get it at UC” links to full text of journals.
Users who do not have a UCSBnet ID and password can use the non-UC version of PubMed for searching.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Coverage of thousands of research journals across all disciplines. Updated weekly.
Web of Science consists of the following databases:
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Sciences
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences and Humanities
- Book Citation Index - Science
- Book Citation Index - Social Sciences and Humanities
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Current Chemical Reactions
- Index Chemicus
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index
- Zoological Record
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science covers thousands of research journals, and extensive collections of conference proceedings and books. across hundreds of disciplines.
Web of Science consists of the following databases:
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Sciences
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences and Humanities
- Book Citation Index - Science
- Book Citation Index - Social Sciences and Humanities
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Current Chemical Reactions
- Index Chemicus
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index
- Zoological Record
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Allows searching of articles from electronic journals, books, and reference works published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries.
SportRxiv This link opens in a new window
Hosts preprint papers dealing with any area of sport, athletics, exercise or kinesiology.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
Free, full-text access to all original research papers published by BioMed Central. UCSB is a member of BioMed Central through the California Digital Library.
Anatomy of the Human Body This link opens in a new window
Edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body featuring 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.
Current Contents Connect This link opens in a new window
Indexes the bibliographic data for articles from thousands of scholarly journals. Its unique feature is the ability to browse issue by issue tables-of-contents for any of the journals indexed.