Health Sciences & Physical Education Research Guide

When doing in-depth research, it's usually best to search one database at a time directly and take advantage of advanced search features. Here are some suggestions for health, PE, and exercise science research:

In this video, you will learn how to evaluate the difference between scholarly journals and other kinds of periodicals, and how to describe the peer-review process.

Length: 1:24

will allow you to search for books, ebooks, DVDs, streaming videos, articles, and more in one place

will help you find search tools appropriate for your specific topic, usually to find peer reviewed/scholarly journal articles.

will let you search for a specific Journal in the NEIU Libraries' online journal, magazine, and newspaper subscriptions

This button provides direct links from the NEIU Libraries' databases to online full-text articles, when available. If the full text of an article is not available online, request a copy of the article through WorldShare interlibrary loan.

Or search for a specific journal by Title or ISSN.

Do you have some information about a specific article already? Type what you know into our Citation Search tool and see if the NEIU Libraries have a copy.

Scholarly, peer-reviewed articles are most often written for professionals in the field. As a student, reading them can sometimes be a bit frustrating. Luckily there are guides that will help you learn how to read them.

Try Critical reading : making sense of research papers in life sciences and medicine

This series of articles from the British Medical Journal walks readers through all the steps and includes examples of specific types of studies you will find in your article searches.

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Browsing the latest issues of the main scholarly journals in the field is an effective way to stay on top of the latest research. Here are some articles from recently published issues.