Introduction
This page includes resources for finding articles about the Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais Method. We've included some suggested article databases below as well as recommendations of specific publications to check out in the next box. If you need a refresher on how to find articles through an academic database, check out our library guides linked below!
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Finding Journal Articles for Music ResearchThis guide is an introduction (or a refresher) to searching for, accessing, and evaluating articles for music research.
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Finding Journal Articles for Theatre ResearchThis guide is an introduction (or a refresher) to searching for, accessing, and evaluating articles for theatre research.
Suggested Databases
The best place to find scholarly articles is in one of the Library's databases. The University of Illinois subscribes to over a thousand different databases that can help you access the content you need. It can be overwhelming to know how to start searching, so we've pulled out a list of recommendations to get you started.
As this is an interdisciplinary topic, you may want to search databases from different fields. We've grouped our recommendations below by discipline.
Science & Sports Medicine
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowA full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.
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Web of Science (Core Collection) This link opens in a new windowConsists of seven databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports, conferences, and more.
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Sports Medicine & Education Index This link opens in a new window
Music, Dance & Theatre
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text This link opens in a new windowInternational Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text is the definitive research database for theatre and dance studies. In addition to all the comprehensive indexing of the International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (IBTD), it contains full text for top performing arts journals.
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Music Index This link opens in a new windowThe print version of The Music Index began in 1949. The online version of the Music Index covers the mid-1970s-present. Over 700 international music periodicals are indexed. Because Music Index and RILM are from the same vendor, you can search them at the same time (as well as with other databases from EBSCO).
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowRILM contains bibliographic information about books, periodical articles, dissertations and reviews published between 1967 and the present day. You can limit a search by language, by year of publication, and by publication type. Abstracts are provided for most articles.
Selected Journals
If you're just looking for a place to browse, check out the journals listed below. We've highlighted a few publications that are particularly good for kinesiology research.
Looking for a specific journal? Check the Library catalog or our Journal and Article Locator tool to see if we have it in print and/or online.
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Human Movement ScienceHuman Movement Science provides a medium for publishing disciplinary and multidisciplinary studies on human movement. It brings together psychological, biomechanical and neurophysiological research on the control, organization and learning of human movement, including the perceptual support of movement.
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Gait & PostureThis journal is a vehicle for the publication of up-to-date basic and clinical research on all aspects of locomotion and balance.