Journal articles are important sources for your research as they contain the most up-to-date research in a given field and often focus on a particular aspect of a topic. There are different types of articles: scholarly, popular or trade. Scholarly journals are also referred to as "academic," "peer-reviewed," or "refereed" journals. If you are looking for scholarly or peer-reviewed articles, you can typically restrict your search results to only peer-reviewed journal articles by applying a search limit in the database.
For more information, please refer to: Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals.
To locate articles on your topic, use Omni or use an index or a database such as the ones recommended in this guide.
Sociological Abstracts: Premiere database for finding sociological research. Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
SportDiscus: SPORTDiscus database covers key areas of sports including sports physiology, sports psychology, sports studies, physical education, fitness, health, and recreation.
Sports Medicine & Education Index: This index contains scholarly and popular literature on a wide variety of content including sport sociology/psychology, sports medicine, dance, kinesiology, recreation, fitness, sports equipment, marketing, coaching, and training.
Academic Search Complete: Find articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs and reports covering a broad spectrum of topics.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA): Multidisciplinary database indexing Canadian magazines, scholarly journals, and news.
IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: Provides international coverage and indexes journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters.
Google Scholar: Use the Google search engine to locate articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles published on the "open" web.