  The rare-earth nickelates (RNiO3) exhibit interesting phenomena such as
unusual antiferromagnetic order at wavevector q = (1/2, 0, 1/2) and a tunable
insulator-metal transition that are subjects of active research. Here we
present temperature-dependent transport measurements of the resistivity,
magnetoresistance, Seebeck coefficient, and Hall coefficient (RH) of epitaxial
SmNiO3 thin films with varying oxygen stoichiometry. We find that from room
temperature through the high temperature insulator-metal transition, the Hall
coefficient is hole-like and the Seebeck coefficient is electron-like. At low
temperature the N\'eel transition induces a crossover in the sign of RH to
electron-like, similar to the effects of spin density wave formation in
metallic systems but here arising in an insulating phase ~200 K below the
insulator-metal transition. We propose that antiferromagnetism can be
stabilized by bandstructure even in insulating phases of correlated oxides,
such as RNiO3, that fall between the limits of strong and weak electron
correlation.
