Research Guides: Therapeutic Recreation Subject Guide: Finding Academic Articles & Databases

Therapeutic Recreation Journals

American Journal of Occupational Therapy
Coverage includes interviews with top policymakers, updates on federal legislation and regulatory policy, and discussion forums on a range of nursing issues
European Journal of Physiotherapy
Peer reviewed academic journal covering a wide range of material in the discipline of physiotherapy
International Journal of Athletic Therapy & Training
Peer reviewed academic journal covering topic related to the field of athletic training, coaching and physical therapy.

Finding Academic Article in a Library Database

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 8,600 full text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Subject: All subject areas.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals and books. Contains full text articles, citations and abstracts.
Subject: Covers the complete range of sport disciplines and sports medicine.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations.
Subject: Psychology.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Complete covers nursing and allied health literature. It offers broad coverage of over 50 nursing specialties, nutrition, general health & medicine and more.
Subject: Nursing, general health & medicine, nutrition.
MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE with Full Text provides access to the US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database and offers the full text for more than 1,370 of those journals indexed.
Subject: Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and much more.
CBCA Complete This link opens in a new window
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets
Subject: Covers current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) contains citations and abstracts from over 900 educational and education-related journals, primarily American with some Canadian and British publications. Subject: Education.
Child Development and Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new window
Includes all the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 - 2001 previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development.
Subject: Growth and development of children through the age of 21.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for 397 "core" journals dating back to 1908 and 150 "priority" journals. Also includes full text for books, monographs and conference papers.
Subject: Sociology and related fields such as Criminology and Criminal Justice, Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Religion etc.