HPHE 6900: Research Procedures in Human Performance and Health Education
LibrarySearch
LibrarySearch on the WMU Libraries home page is a good place to start searching. LibrarySearch can be effective as you are testing out your topic, refining your search terms, and filtering your results. After searching in LibrarySearch, you will want to move on to one or more of the subject specific databases listed on this guide.
Research & Instruction Librarian
Core databases
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals in nursing and related fields with full text for 1,300 of them. From 1954 to the present. Updated weekly.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowThis is the core index in the field of Education. Includes citations with abstracts for over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields.Covers 1966-present. This database is also available from the US government.
- PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
If you get an error message when logging into your personal account through WMU, please clear your browser history or use an incognito window. - Scopus This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly literature in the natural and social sciences. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars . Cited references from 1970-present, records from 1788-present.
NOTE: WMU users do not have access to SciVal through Scopus - SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new windowAn international index to more than 700,000 articles, thesis and other records in athletic training, fitness, recreation, sport and sport management. Miscellaneous record/monograph coverage: 1800-present. Updated monthly.
Other Databases
- Mental Measurement Yearbook + Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Mental Measurements Yearbook includes full-text reviews of 3,000+ contemporary testing instruments, plus all previous editions of the Yearbook dating back to 1938 (10,000+ full-text reviews). Tests in Print provides vital information about tests, including test purpose, intended test population, administration times, scores generated, price, test publisher, in-print status, test acronym, publication dates and test authors.
This subscription is limited to four simultaneous users. Please log out when finished. - PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowCovers world-wide literature in psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, and dissertations are included. Coverage: 1806-present. Updated weekly.