Subject Guide: Physical Education

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Databases

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

• BIOSIS Reviews/Biological Abstracts:
  References to journal items focusing on vital biological and medical research findings. Approximately 5,500 international journals are reviewed.
• CINAHL
  Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
• Education Abstracts:
  Covers 478 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues.
• ERIC:
  The Educational Resources Information Center is the world's largest source of education information.
• HealthSource: Consumer Edition
  Includes information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
• HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition
  Provides nearly 580 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals.
• MedLINE with full text:
  A bibliographic database covering all the fields of medicine. Citations & abstracts from 4,500 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries.
• SPORTDiscus
  Offers international coverage of journal and magazine articles; books and book chapters; conference proceedings; and dissertations and theses.

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

• Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport  GV567 .B48 2005
• The Encyclopedia of North American Sports History    GV567 .H518 2002
• The Encyclopedia of 20th Century Athletes  GV697 .A1 2001
• Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States  GV709 .E83 2000
• The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine  RC1206 .O355 2005
• Encyclopedia of Sports Science  GV558 .E53 1997
• International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports  GV709 .I58 2000
• The Rehabilitation Specialist's Handbook  RM735.3 .R68 1998
• Sports -- and What's New with Anabolic Steroids ...  RC1230 .S662 2001
• Sports and Education: A Reference Handbook
• Sports in America: Recreation, Business, Education, and Controversy

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

• The American Physical Therapy Association
• The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
  with a link to the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
• The National Athletic Trainers Association
• NATA Education Council