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Interlibrary Loan Services
Search Course Reserves
This link will search course reserves for the Turlock and Stockton campuses.

Thesis/Project/Dissertation Guidelines
Thesis/Project/Dissertation Templates
Education uses Template E.
Thesis/Project/Dissertation Forms and Resources
Library Services for Graduate Students

To request materials from Turlock, click the Stockton Library Services page.

Stockton Library Services

Click Materials from Main Library (sent from Turlock) and complete the request form.

Materials are delivered to Stockton in two working days.

Request for Items in the Turlock Collection

To obtain materials from other libraries, click Materials not owned by Library (via Interlibrary Loan) and complete the request form.

Materials are delivered in approximately 3-5 working days (books from out of state may take longer).

You will be notified in your campus e-mail when the items are available to pick up in Stockton.

Interlibrary Loan Services

ERIC tutorials created by Reed Library, SUNY at Fredonia and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical 4.0 International License.

Academic Search Premier, ERIC,Education Full Text, and PsycInfo tutorials created by EBSCO Training.

ProQuest Dissertations and Physical Education Index tutorials created by ProQuest Training.

Finding Articles & More

Search Academic Search Premier for journal articles on health and lifestyle changes. Select peer-reviewed for articles based on a research study. For a more precise search, use the subject terms for vocabulary to represent the concepts of your research topic.

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Other databases with scholarly journal articles:

For journal articles on research topics related to health and nursing, use CINAHL Plus with Full Text.

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CINAHL® Plus also provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 4 million records dating back to 1937.

Search ERIC for journal articles and non-journal literature on physical education and health in a school setting.

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When provided by ERIC, there are links to the ERIC full text or links to other sources such as publisher websites or DOIs.

For journal articles on the sociological implications of health and sport, use Social Sciences Full Text or Sociological Abstracts.

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Subject coverage includes addiction studies, anthropology, community health & medical care, communications, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and much more.
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Search PsycINFO for the psychological effect of physical activity on health.

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APA PsycInfo is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.

For research on controversial topics, CQ Researcher provides a weekly report on a key national issue. Reports include a pro/con section.

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Online Journals in Kinesiology

Note: Continuous keyword searching removes the filter for the journal. When keyword searching, please check the limiter: Only show content I have full access to.

Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (JOPERD) by Thomas Lawson (Editor)
A peer-reviewed, professional journal with information on motor skills, improving fitness, and pursuing physical activity and sport participation safely and appropriately.
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport by Weimo Zhu (Editor)
A comprehensive professional journal offering the latest research in the art and science of human movement studies.

Research Guides

Developing a Search Strategy
Tips on searching more efficiently and effectively.
About ERIC
An video introduction to the Education Resources Information Center database.

Distinguishing Between Scholarly Journals & Popular Periodicals (CSU, Stanislaus)
Review the differences between scholarly and popular journals. Also includes a short tutorial on finding scholarly journals in a database. [PDF]

Content Standards and Curriculum Frameworks
From the California Department of Education.
Kinesiology
Stop Predatory Journals
Community-based curation of predatory journals and publishers to avoid.

Getting the Text of Articles

Searching a database will provide citations to scholarly journal articles and other scientific research.

To access the full-article, look for links to:

If there are no full-text links, use Find It! to see if article is available in another library subscription.

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