This guide is designed to help you with the first stages of your scaffolded research proposal. For stage 1 you will need to conduct literature searches for your preliminary research topic, find at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles, and provide APA citations for your sources.
Research Methods in Kinesiology, 2nd ed.
These databases are the most likely to have useful, peer-reviewed articles on Kinesiology research. There is some overlap, but each contains unique journals.
Note that these databases all come from the same vendor, EBSCO, use the same EBSCO search platform, and can be searched individually and/or in combination.
Also found on the Library homepage, Quick Topic Search/EBSCO Discovery allows you to search across over 30 databases, including the EBSCO Complementary Index (CI) - it's the only way to search this database, which covers journal articles, books, proceedings, and more from a wide range of publishers, including Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Nature Publishing, ACM, Oxford, Cambridge, and thousands of others.
Use Discovery after searching Medline and other recommended databases - simply copy your previous search query into the Quick Topic Search box and then use the Peer Reviewed and Past 5 years filters. On the results screen, click on "Show:50" records so that it will remove as many duplicates as possible from results.
Google Scholar searches across many sources on the Web for journal articles & scholarly literature.
For access to full articles when off-campus, sign in to a Google account, then go to Scholar Preferences, Library Links, & add Langara College Library.
