Research Guides: Sport &amp; Recreation Professions: Articles

Key Databases for Sport & Recreation Professions

Find articles, books, statistics and websites on topics in recreation and recreation therapy.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Broad database with articles on many topics from scholarly journals and magazines. Full text for many articles and books.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers all areas of hospitality and tourism with full text journals, magazines, company and country reports, books, and newspapers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text scholarly articles and e-books in many disciplines. Most recent 3-5 years full text not included. Access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences I-VII and Life Sciences archive collections. Journal subscriptions to The College Mathematics Journal, 2006-; The William and Mary Quarterly, 2001-; The American Mathematical Monthly 2006-. All e-books in JSTOR are digital rights management-free (DRM-free).
The Advanced Search of all collections is the default. If you do not want to search all of the collections at JSTOR, scroll down and check one or more collections to search.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text content and peer-reviewed journals specific to the business discipline, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and others.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to hundreds of full text journals and offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Access to more than 67,000 e-books in a wide range of disciplines.

Google Scholar - another tool to find scholarly articles

Google Scholar lists journal articles, books and other scholarly resources in a wide variety of subjects.

Links to many articles in VWU online databases are included.

Journal Finder

Databases

These databases are multidisciplinary - they contain articles on many topics.

Search using multiple terms to narrow your search (e.g. elections and women).

Academic Search Complete
Broad database with articles on many topics from scholarly journals and magazines. Full text for many articles.
JSTOR
Mostly fulltext, scholarly articles and books in many disciplines. Most recent 3-5 years fulltext not included.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I-VII, Life Sciences.

The Advanced Search of all collections is the default. If you do not want to search all of the collections at JSTOR, scroll down and check one or more collections to search.

Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Hospitality and tourism articles from scholarly journals and magazines, both domestic and international in scope. Full text for many articles.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology and behavioral sciences articles from scholarly journals and magazines. Full text for many articles.
PsycINFO
Psychology citations, abstracts and articles from SCHOLARLY JOURNALS. Fulltext access for some articles.

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PsycARTICLES
Psychology articles from scholarly journals. Fulltext.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Medical, nursing and allied health articles from scholarly journals. Full text for many articles.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Consumer health information from magazines.

Alternate Health Watch
Complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Includes scholarly sources.

America: History and Life
Indexing to scholarly articles in journals from 1964 to present on the history of the United States and Canada. Links to full text for many articles. Use Historical Abstracts for World History.
Historical Abstracts
Scholarly articles on World History (outside of the US and Canada). For US history, see the database America History and Life. Fulltext to many articles.
MasterFILE Premier
Articles from general reference magazines and publications. Full text.