Library Class and Subject Guides: Sports & Human Performance (general information): Articles

Find Articles for Most Sports Topics

These search tools, also known as databases, will help you find peer-reviewed journal articles, an essential resource for assignments. Visit our Articles guide for detailed instructions.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text
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Featuring more than 400 full text titles, SPORTDiscus™ with Full Text is the most comprehensive, bibliographic and full-text database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, coaching, training, physical therapy, nutrition, and more.
Sports Medicine & Education Index This link opens in a new window
Provides information on physical education such as business & marketing, coaching & training, dance, health education, kinesiology, motor learning, physical education curricula, physical therapy, recreation, sport law, sport sociology/psychology, sports equipment, sports medicine, and standardized fitness tests.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Provides citations and abstracts to articles, as well as full text of articles from over 4,600 publications, covering almost every academic subject. *This resource is provided by the Electronic Library of Minnesota, freely accessible to anyone in Minnesota!*
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews This link opens in a new window
Contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare.
LWW Health Library: Exercise Science and ACSM Certification Suite This link opens in a new window
Provides educational and clinical resources related to exercise physiology, biomechanics, sports psychology, and motor control.
Sports Business Research Network (SBRNet) This link opens in a new window
Sports Business Research Network provides nationwide analysis of statistical trends in each major segment of the sports market and the extent to which they interrelate.
Sports Business Journal (SBJ) This link opens in a new window
Reporting on the sports industry with weekly coverage back to 1998. There is additional information available for this resource.

Sports Litigation Alert
Find summaries of sports and recreation law cases.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

How to Use Google Scholar Off-Campus

If you are using Google Scholar off campus, change your settings to link to our library holdings.

Click here to access Google Scholar's settings
Select Library Links to the left
Search for Minnesota State University Mankato
Check all options for Minnesota State University Mankato
Press the Save button
Conduct your search in Google Scholar
If you cannot access the articles by clicking on the title, click the "View It @ My Library" or the double arrow icon and the "Get it @ MNSU" links.
You may be asked to enter your StarID username and password to access the article
If the article is still not found, use Interlibrary Loan to have the library get the article for you.

Requesting Articles We Don't Own Through Interlibrary Loan

You can search MavScholar to find and request articles from other libraries. See our Get Articles from Other Libraries guide for detailed instructions.