Subject Guides: Kinesiology

KIN 220 - Biobehavioral Bases of Physical Activity

Before you start

1. Use the Assignment Planner to keep track of what you should do to get your paper done on time. If you put in your email address it will send you reminders.


2. Get an Interlibrary Loan account (ILLiad)- this is how you can get stuff that the Libraries does not have. Books will come in about 5-10 days. Articles will be scanned and emailed to you in about 2-5 days (sometimes even that day).
3. Know were to ask for help! You can contact the Kinesiology librarian or Ask a Librarian.

Using PubMed
PubMed is the premier search engine for citations, abstracts, and articles about health, life sciences, and biomedical topics. Here are some tips for using it.

1. Only type in the important words in your search.
   

   Question- What are the barriers that keep women from strength training?
   Possible keywords- women/females/girls, training/physical activity, academia/college/university/school, barriers, beauty/appearance

2. Email or print every article that looks interesting. Do this by clicking on Send to and then select email, print, etc.
3. GET IT. If the article is full text, print it or save it to a flash drive. If it is not full text, click on We'll try to get it for you. This will take you to an interlibrary loan or ILLiad form. You will need to enter in your username and password. Once entered, the form will be mostly filled out (that's ok). Make sure to check the Language box. If you do not want an article in a language other than English, check No in the Language box.

Definitions
What does THAT mean?!? Here are some definitions that may help you when doing your research:

• Abstract- short summary
• Citation-reference to a source (like an address)
• Peer-Reviewed or Refereed article-before an article is published, it is reviewed by other professionals (peers) in the field and accepted for publication
• Scholarly Article- original research done by experts in a field for other experts, using their language and terminology. Scholarly articles are usually peer reviewed