This subject guide covers physical education and sport resources available at the Johnston Memorial Library, including full-text journals, magazine, and newspaper articles, websites, and printed materials in the Reference Collection. This is not a comprehensive subject guide, but rather a selective list of materials that are most useful for locating information in this field. Library location and call  number are provided for print publications. 
 

• Health and Wellness Resource Center   Information on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

• InfoTrac OneFile A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles many with images. Updated daily.  
  
  
• Proquest Education Journals. Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database covers almost 400 leading journals in the field.
  
  
• PsychARTICLES. Searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.Coverage spans 1985 to present.
  

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• CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature  

• Dissertation Abstracts Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from North American and Europe.  Covers all subject disciplines.  Covers 1861 to present and includes abstracts since 1988.  Thesis abstracts have been included since 1988.  Database is updated monthly.

• ERIC  Journal articles and reports on education topics.  Contains annotated references to educational materials issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).  Indexes over 2,000 titles and is updated monthly.  Covers 1966 to present.

• MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine)  Articles from more than 3,800 international biomedical journals. Covers 1966 to present.

• PsychINFO  Professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.

• SPORTDiscus  Serial and monographic literature in the following areas of sport: recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning.

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• Adapted Physical Education National Standards  by Luke Kelly, Project Director.  Champaign, IL:  Human Kinetics, 1995.  This reference to national standards of basic competency for adapted physical education explains what professionals need to know to be qualified as adapted physical educators. It presents standards in areas such as human behavior, motor development, exercise science, learning, instructional design and planning, teaching, ethics, and communication, plus a glossary, and overviews the standards development process.  Reference GV445.N38 1995.
  
  
• African-American Athletes  by Nathan Aaseng.  New York, NY: Facts on File, 2003.  Since World War II, African Americans have become recognized as competitors in such diverse fields as baseball, boxing, football, track and field, gymnastics, tennis, and golf. This book profiles more than 155 athletes. Biographical entries concentrate on the events in each person's life related to his or her accomplishments as an athlete and includes a list of further reading on that person. An introduction, bibliography, subject indexes, general index, and 50 photographs round out the resource.  Reference GV697.A196 2003.

• Encyclopedia of Women and Sports by  Victoria Sherrow.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996.  This encyclopedia includes a good introduction to the history of women in sports.  Entries often focus on individual achievements of the athlete but attention is always given to the socio-cultural aspects of women in sports.  This title includes biographical entries as well as discussion of individual sports and how women have impacted them.  Reference GV709.S44 1996.

• Encyclopedia of World Sport  by David Levinson and Karen Christensen, editors.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996.  This three volume set is organized alphabetically by the names of sports.  Each entry includes a history and development of the sport as well as its organization, equipment, and social aspects.  Reference GV567.E56 1996.

• Facilities Planning for Physical Activity and Sport: Guidelines for Development  by Thomas Sawyer, editor.  Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1999. Reference GV401.F23 1999. 

• New York Times Encyclopedia of Sports  by Gene Brown, editor.  New York, NY: Arno Press, 1979.  Reference GV565.N48.

• Physical Education for Children: Daily Lesson Plans for Elementary School  by Katherine T. Thomas, Amelia M. Lee, and Jerry R. Thomas.  Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2000.  Reference GV443.T49 2000.

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• WWW Virtual Library: SPORT This site is a directory of sports web sites, arranged in categories by sport. Listing are extensive and the pages listed can be of limited utility.

• Gender Equity in Sport  This site is designed as a resource for individuals investigating the state of affairs in interscholastic or intercollegiate sport. The content and data are based on a three year project maintained at The University of Iowa. This is an excellent site, well arranged, and includes a large table of contents, with indexes.

• Physical Education Central  This is a web site for physical education teachers, students, interested parents and adults. Designed and maintained by Virginia Tech's Health and Physical Education Program, it provides the latest information about contemporary physical education programs for children and youth. Included are activities, lesson ideas, assessment ideas, professional information, web sites, guides, and a listserv. 

• President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports  The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS) serves as a catalyst to promote, encourage and motivate Americans of all ages to become physically active and participate in sports.

• Sport Management Information Centre  This site offers some general information, association listings, web site links, graduate programs in the field, conference announcements, newsletters, conference abstracts, and listservs. It is a great resource for a student or faculty member in this field.

• SportQuest  This site, sponsored by the SIRC, is a research and education tool designed to facilitate the retrieval of the best sport information offered by the Web: olympic, winter, water, and professional sports; coaching; statistics and results; sports medicine; individual sports. The "Sports Science" link provides information on sports psychology, sociology of sport, physical education sites, training and coaching, and a number of other areas.

• Sportscience  This site is a professional level electronic resource for sport researchers. Original articles, proceedings, discussion lists, internet resources, and a forthcoming journal are all features of this site.

• SportSite This is a marketing site. It is a directory of companies that specialize in sports equipment. A search engine allows the user to pick a sport, a type of equipment, and then see a list of company web sites.

• Therapeutic Recreation Directory  The site includes information ranging from an e-mail directory of professionals, a job resources center, 22 bulletin boards on various topics, and a number of directories.

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