University of Idaho Library - Education Research Guide

Education

(HPERD)

Librarian: Ramirose Attebury
E-mail: rattebur@uidaho.edu
Phone: (208) 885-2503
Visit: Reference Hours
Research Assistance Program

Reference Works

The reference section is located on the 1st floor of the library.

Books are shelved using the Library of Congress Classification scheme.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks

Call numbers beginning with Ref are in the reference section and unavailable for checkout. Ebooks can be found by searching the catalog.

Title/Description	Call #
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport	Ref GV567.B48 2005
Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change	RA776.9.J46 2003
Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies	GV567.E486 2006
Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior	R726.5.E53 2004
Encyclopedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation	GV11.E55 2003
Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in the United States	Ref GV53.E53 2004
Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society	Ref GV11.E555 2009
Encyclopedia of Title IX and Sports	GV709.18.U6M58 2007
Fitness Professional’s Handbook	GV481.H734 2007
Gale Encyclopedia of Children’s Health: Infancy through Adolescence	Ref RJ26.G35 2005
Handbook of Leisure Studies	GV14.5.H245 2006
Handbook of Physical Education (ebook)	GV14.5.H245 2006
Handbook of Sports Psychology	GV706.4.H37 2007
International Dictionary of Modern Dance	Ref GV1585.B46 1998
International Encyclopedia of Dance	Ref GV1585.K586 1998
Oxford Dictionary of Dance	GV1585.C73 2000
Strategies for Inclusion: A Handbook for Physical Educators	GV445.L54 2002

Books

Books are located on the 3rd (H-Z) and 4th (A-G) floors organized by the Library of Congress Classification scheme.

Call Number Areas to Browse

Articles

Articles are generally more specific; use more specific keywords to create a narrower search.
Journals may contain both popular and scholarly sources (magazine, journal, and newspaper articles)

Browse a list of journals subscribed to by the library

Search Article Databases

AltHealthWatch

This alternative health database provides full text for more than 160 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
Health Source: Consumer Edition

Health topics covered include the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Searchable full text for nearly 190 journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Provides access to nearly 600 scholarly full text journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are citations and abstracts for nearly 650 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.
Leisure Tourism Database

Over 70,000 research abstracts gathered from all over the world. Key subject areas include: Leisure and tourism policies; Tourism and leisure industries; Travel and transport; Facility management and planning; Recreation, cultural, entertainment and sporting activities; Urban regeneration; Sociology and behavior; Education and training; Community development; Ecotourism, natural resources and the environment; Hospitality industry.
Medline (Pubmed)

A comprehensive database providing citations and abstracts for articles in health, human biology, medicine, veterinary science and related fields.
Physical Education Index

Citations and abstracts to literature in the fields of physical education curricula, sports medicine, and 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.
ScienceDirect

Website for Elsevier science journals. The UI has subscription access to articles for 1300 titles including many that cover exercise science, physical fitness, and the health sciences.
Web of Science

The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 7,100 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines, including health and sports sciences, and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.