Subject Guides
Health & Human Performance
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Databases
Academic Search Premier
An interdisciplinary database that provides full text articles.
Medline via Ebsco
Covers the literature of biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences from 1949 to the present.
Physical Education Index
Includes abstracts that feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.
The Web of Science includes the Science Citation Index from 1979 to the present, Index Chemicus and Current Chemical Reactions. The Science Citation Index Expanded provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from over 6,650 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines.
ScienceDirect College Edition
Full-text access to most Elsevier journals in the physical sciences and life sciences. The collection contains four million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994. GFU subscribes to the Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Physical Sciences and Engineering journal packages.
Web resources
Dictionaries
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science and Medicine (e-book)
Food and Fitness : A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise (e-book)
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength
The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine
DeLee & Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine: Principles and Practice
Encyclopedia of World Sport : From Ancient Times To the Present
International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports
International Encyclopedia of Dance : A Project Of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc.
Social Dancing In America : A History and Reference
Encyclopedia of Women's Health
The Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health : Infancy Through Adolescence (electronic resource)
Professional organizations
American Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAPHERD)
Oregon Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (OAHPERD)
National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA)
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)
International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS)
Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE)
Finding books
By subject search
Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.
By call number
If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.
| Subclass GV | |
| GV199 199.62 | Hiking. Pedestrian tours |
| GV199.8 200.35 | Mountaineering |
| GV200.4 200.56 | Orienteering. Wilderness survival |
| GV201 555 | Physical education and training |
| GV346 351.5 | School and college athletics. |
| GV401 433 | Physical education facilities. Sports facilities |
| GV435 436.7 | Physical measurements. Physical tests, etc. |
| GV450 451.4 | Nudism. Sunbathing |
| GV460 555 | Gymnastics. Gymnastic exercises |
| GV557 1198.995 | Sports |
| GV711 | Coaching |
| GV712 725 | Athletic contests. Sports events |
| GV733 734.5 | Professionalism in sports. Professional sports (General) |
| GV735 | Umpires. Sports officiating |
| GV743 749 | Athletic and sporting goods, supplies, etc. |
| GV750 770.27 | Air sports: Airplane flying, kiteflying, bungee jumping, etc. |
| GV770.3 840 | Water sports: Canoeing, sailing, yachting, scuba diving, etc. |
| GV840.7 857 | Winter sports: Ice hockey, skiing, bobsledding |
| GV861 1017 | Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc. |
| GV1040 1060.4 | Cycling. Bicycling. Motorcycling |
| GV1060.5 1098 | Track and field athletics |
| GV1100 1150.9 | Fighting sports: Bullfighting, boxing, fencing, etc. |
| GV1151 1190 | Shooting. Archery |
| GV1195 1198.995 | Wrestling |
| GV1580 1799.4 | Dancing |
| Subclass RC | |
| RC1200-1245 | Sports medicine |
Google search: Health & Human Performance
This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.
