HLTH 200: Physical Health and Exercise Programming

A good way to start your research is to search for books, book chapters and eBooks on your research topic.

Search Omni to find books (and other materials) owned by the library.  You may search by topic using keywords, author, title, or subject headings. 

Once you have located a book of interest, use the subject headings to identify additional resources on your topic. 

Use the filters in Omni to refine your search results, by format (e.g. books & eBooks, journal articles, etc.). The filters are located along the left-hand side of the search results screen.

Enter one or more of your topic keywords into the Omni search box and then click the search button. 

Basic search supports the use of Boolean operators: AND, OR or NOT, and they must be entered in uppercase. For example:

wellness AND "physical fitness"

fitness OR exercise

Search Tips

To search for a specific phrase, type quotation marks around the phrase.  

• For example: "physical fitness”

Truncation is the process of adding an asterisk '*' to the end of a root word to get different variations on the word.

• For example: teen* for teens or teenagers

Narrow or refine search by adding other terms using AND

• For example: wellness AND "physical fitness" AND teens*

Broaden your search results by using OR between similar terms nested in brackets.

• For example: (fitness OR exercise) AND (teen* OR adolescent*)

Use the Advanced Search option for more precise searching.

Using the drop-down options within the Advanced Search screen you can limit your search to specific fields and/or a combination of fields (Author, Title, Subject, Call number).

You can also specify that your search words must be contained in the search field ("contains", "starts with" or "is (exact)."