Welcome to the Health and Kinesiology Research Guide. This guide will help you identify important resources available through Criss Library including databases, books, e-books, and research and citation help.
It offers assistance for searching within the databases, reading a scholarly journal, and evaluating your sources. Research help tips and citation help are also available.
If you need help, please use the "Schedule an Appointment" option to set up a research consultation or "Email" to ask a question.
PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Nursing and allied health information
Health and medical information from over 560 journals and magazines plus several thousand reference books.
This database covers subject areas related to physical education such as physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education, and physical therapy. Formerly known as "Physical Education Index."
This database offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals, and encompasses an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, and many unique sources that were never previously available, covering all levels of education--from early childhood to higher education--as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
Visible Body®'s 3D anatomical models of the human body make learning and teaching anatomy and physiology visual and engaging. Functionality that allows you to rotate, zoom in/out, pan, hide, and add structures to see the anatomy from any angle. Customize and save views. Dozens of quizzes to test your knowledge.
600+ muscles, 200+ bones, peripheral nerves, and ligaments all rendered in interactive 3D, as well as dozens of interactive muscle action animations. Functionality that allows you to rotate, zoom in/out, pan, hide, and add structures to see the anatomy from any angle. Customize and save views. Dozens of quizzes to test your knowledge.
800+ bony landmarks detailed on 3D bone models, that can be rotated, zoomed, customized, and saved to, a personal library, 3D models of bone tissue, moving 3D models of synovial joints, and animations and illustrations that review pathologies andregional anatomy, a quiz bank with 500+ questions, bone, pronunciations, and more.