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Subject Guide Behavioural and Movement Sciences: Content

Information for Behavioural and Movement Sciences on journals, databases and other sources.

Resources for Behavioural and Movement Sciences

General
Our LibSearch search system is the first database to search for scientific literature.
LibSearch contains information about all books, e-journals, e-articles and other materials of the University Library; in case of digital availability you can click directly to the full text.
In addition, LibSearch contains information about the holdings of many libraries worldwide.
If a search in LibSearch does not yield satisfactory results, you can use the subject-specific databases below or use Google Scholar.

Top journals: a selection of  frequently cited journals in wich FGB employees regularly publish. 

PLos One

Frontiers in Psychology

Nature Genetics

Psychological Medicine

Gait and Posture

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Journal of Applied Physiology

Look for a more complete overview E-Journals A-Z

Open archives - based on the ArXiv preprint-servermodel

Compulsory literature is in principle available in the University Library, for example, Research methods in psychology. These books are recognizable as MAIN OPEN Course literature (ONE DAY LOAN) and available through the lending desk. If available as an e-book such as The qualitative interview it can be found and read online via LibSearch.

DSM Library contains the reference works DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Handbook of Differential Diagnosis; Clinical Cases.

Sage Research Methods a tool for researchers, teachers, and students to assist in research projects. It offers qualitative and quantitative methods of research techniques.

The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology provides an overview of current knowledge in the field of cross-cultural, cultural, and indigenous psychology.

You can find useful online textbooks at Oxford Scholarship Online

The use of open material in education is increasingly encouraged. More and more are becoming available, although it is difficult to find the right material. It is important to know the do's and dont's about Copyright.

Information about Educational resources and copyright support can be found in our Libguide Dealing with Copyright in Education. It also contains information about and links to sites with open learning material.

Do you want to find books that are freely available? Then search via:

Google BookSearch: a large, mostly full-text searchable database of millions of scanned books from libraries and publishers. Select in Advanced search: search full view only.

Hathi Trust: provides access to a collection of millions of digitized titles from libraries around the world. Search within 'advanced search', by checking "full view only" you search for open access sources.

Beeld en Geluid: manages a broad, daily growing media collection, with which everyone can learn, experience, and create.

Via Open Research Library en Find Open Textbooks you can find textbooks, from all kinds of disciplines.

Tips & Off-campus access

Information about Off-campus access  

We recommend that you install the Lean Library browser extension on your computer, which allows you to use automatically access digital content from the University Library and Open Access content to track your literature.

Read in How to get the PDF? how to find alternative versions of the publisher version of a magazine article.

Contact and Suggestions

When this box is placed on a LibGuide Page, a search box for the catalog LibSearch appears in the top right of the published version (below the standard search function of LibGuides).