Research Guides: Exercise and Health Sciences: Open Access &amp; Online Resources

Open Access

Open access (OA) is a global movement and a publishing model that strives to provide open and free access to scholarly research publications and data.

Exercise Medicine
This journal aims to help bridge the gap between research and practice in exercise and health promotion and in the disease prevention and treatment, and understanding of human performance and health.
Global Library of Women's Medicine
400 + full-text chapters on women's health topics plus surgical videos, diagnostic atlases, laboratory tests and safer motherhood coverage.
YouTube: IRC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
IRC is an international think-and-do tank that works with national and local governments, organisations, entrepreneurs, and people around the world to find long-term solutions to the global crisis in water, sanitation and hygiene services. At the heart of its mission is the ambition to move from short-term interventions to sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services.
YouTube: NIH Clinical Center
The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, is located on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. Through clinical research, clinician-investigators translate laboratory discoveries into better treatments, therapies and interventions to improve the nation's health.

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others. OER differs from Open Access as Open Educational Resources will include things such as textbooks, teaching material, presentations, ebooks, and more.

Khan Academy: Human anatomy and physiology
Lessons on the various body systems, such as circulatory, respiratory, and muscular.
Open Textbook Library: Nutrition Textbooks
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.
MIT OpenCourseware: Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation
The mission of the MIT Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation (DAPER) is to bring students, faculty, and staff together in educational activities that promote healthy lifestyles, enhance a sense of community, foster growth in leadership and teamwork skills, and encourage the pursuit of excellence.
OER Commons: Health, Medicine and Nursing Collection
OER Commons is a database of open educational resources created in 2007 by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education. Resources available in the Health, Medicine, and Nursing Collection include full courses, lectures, videos, articles, etc.

Online Resources

The online resources that are provided supplemental academic support through your course, that are accessible through the internet and open to the public.

AAAS Science
Science/AAAS peer-reviewed journals deliver impactful research, daily news, expert commentary, and career resources.
American Kinesiology Association
Provides information on kinesiology careers and research on the impact of physical activity on health.
National Academy of Kinesiology
The dual purpose of the Academy of Kinesiology shall be to encourage and promote the study and educational applications of the art and science of human movement and physical activity and to honor by election to its membership persons who have directly or indirectly contributed significantly to the study of and/or application of the art and science of human movement and physical activity.