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  • Resources on Physical Education, Sports & Recreation

    This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in physical education, sports & recreation plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library's first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with significant academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites.

    Look on the Library's Databases page for many other valuable scholarly databases in education. If you need assistance with your search, call the subject librarian (683-5909), the reference desk (683-4178), use the Ask-A-Librarian email form to send a message, or stop by the Reference Desk.
    This guide maintained by: Nancy Schafer Education Reference Librarian last updated: June 18, 2009

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    ABI/Inform
    Contains business and management related full-text articles from North American and worldwide research. Includes sports business and management. Coverage: 1986 - present. A ProQuest database.
    RESTRICTED TO THOSE WITH A VALID OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY OF VIVA ID NUMBER.
    Academic Search Complete
    Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database with full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, and searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals.
    RESTRICTED TO THOSE WITH A VALID OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY OR VIVA ID NUMBER.
    Physical Education Index
    Indexes peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, and articles from the popular press, featuring a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance.
    RESTRICTED TO THOSE WITH A VALID OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY OR VIVA ID NUMBER.
    PsycINFO
    Contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
    RESTRICTED TO THOSE WITH A VALID OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY OR VIVA ID NUMBER.
    SPORTDiscus with Full Text
    Indexes sports and sports medicine journals and provides full text for over four hundred journals in the subject.
    RESTRICTED TO STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF OF OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY.

    Web Resources

    Department of Exercise Science, Sport, Physical Education, and Recreation, Darden College of Education, Old Dominion University
    Links to the department's home page, which has information about ESPER degrees, courses, faculty and more.
    Disabled Sports USA
    Provides information about the organization including chapters and events, and offers access to the magazine, Challenge.
    Injury Related Websites
    Lists organizations and websites dedicated to injury prevention. Sponsored by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
    Lifestyle Information Network
    Provides a knowledge exchange for practitioners and organizations in recreation and sport. Home of Canada's National Recreation Database.
    PE Central
    Contains a large number of resources for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students.
    Scholarly Sports Sites
    Indexes websites for the serious sports researcher, kinesiology librarian, sport information specialist, college/university student and faculty.
    World Tourism Organization
    Includes statistics, policy, news and project information from the leading international organization in the field of travel and tourism, the World Tourism Organization. The WTO is vested by the United Nations with a central and decisive role in promoting the development of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.