Research Guides: Kinesiology Research Guide: Finding Articles

Recommended Databases

Reading Scholarly & Scientific Papers

How To Read an Academic Paper
A short video (3 mins) covering the basics of reading journal articles.
Reading Scholarly Articles
Learn tips on identifying, finding and reading scholarly articles. Approximate length: 1.5 hours.
Shareable link -- https://hum.link/readingarticles
Literature of Science
Cal Poly Humboldt Library Guide on understanding the Scientific Literature.
Reading Scholarly Articles
Tips and "how to" for reading scholarly articles, by Christy Curtis.

The Myth of Finding the Perfect Article

One Perfect Source?
Can't find any articles on your topic? This short video (2 mins) helps illustrate why searching for the 'perfect article' isn't the best way to approach research. [Created by NCSU]

Where's the full text?

If a database doesn't have the full text of an article, look for the link with the text above to see if the article is in another Cal Poly Humboldt database.

Can't find it anywhere? Use our Resource Sharing/ Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service to order articles not available in our databases. It's free!

Google Scholar

View this video tutorial (4 mins) to see how to expand your full text results to articles available to you through the library.

Guide to Health Studies

The one chart you need to understand any health study
This article outlines and explains the different kind of studies that appear in health science including the difference between a systematic review, observational and experimental studies, and gives you a visualization of how much weight/strength a conclusion in different kinds of studies have over other kinds of studies.