PHYSICAL EDUCATION, HEALTH and SPORTS
Introduction:
Tate Library's Subscription Databases and
the World Wide Web offer a large number of
valuable sites to those studying in the
field of physical education. We have
gathered some of these here and have arranged
them into two major categories:
Databases and Physical Education and Sports
Websites: A Classified Library.
For phys ed
books and other related materials (print and electronic) in the Tate Library
collection,
be sure to check our catalog.
Databases
BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER + THE COMPLETE
MARQUIS WHO'S WHO, via Infotrac
II, includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals and
print reference works. Search for
world leaders, sports artists or sports heroes, business people
(e.g., broadcasters, team owners), noted physicaleducators,
etc. based on one or more personal facts
such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, or gender,
or combine criteria to create a
highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who,
find quick reference
information on an additional 900,000 people.
BUSINESS AND COMPANY ASAP, from the Tennessee
Electronic Library (TEL) on Infotrac I,
provides researchers with information on
companies, markets and industries. From market
trends,
mergers and acquisitions to current management
theory and company overviews. Access business
and trade journals, newspapers and company
directory profiles with full text and images.Valuable
for students of sports management and marketing.
BUSINESS SOURCE ELITE, from EBSCO,
provides full-text for nearly 1,090 journals covering
business, management, economics, finance,
banking, accounting, and more. Valuable for students
of sports management and marketing.
CUSTOM NEWSPAPERS, from Gale on Infotrac
II, provides full-text articles from 40+ U.S. and a
few British dailies, including their business
sections. The New York Times, Washington Post, and
Nashville Tennessean are among the
titles indexed. Particularly valuable for students
of
sport history, management, broadcasting
and marketing.
EDRS: ERIC DOCUMENT REPRODUCTION SERVICE
allows
you to obtain full-text documents (not journal articles)
from the
User info: Once you reach this site, click on "E*Subscribe"
in the top left hand corner (or wherever it is located if the pagehas
been redesigned). Password information may be had from your instructors,
in person, or by email to Tate Library. If you are a Professional Studies
student, please be certain to indicate your class number and the name of
your instructor.
For those seeking documents prior to 1996, microfiche collections
of the actual ERIC documents are available in Tennessee, at Tusculum
College, as well as Austin Peay State University,
Belmont University, Carson Newman College, ETSU, Freed-Hardeman University,
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, MTSU, Milligan College, Peabody
College of Vanderbilt University, Tennessee State, Trevecca
Nazarene University, Union University, University of Memphis, and the UT
campuses at Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Martin.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, the world's first
commercial on-line encyclopedia is available to
members of the Tusculum College Community
and to off campus students through the TC Proxy
server as well.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES comes via
the ACA Central Library; in addition to an A-Z
encyclopedia, the site also includes a
glossary and a database of 3,000 peer-reviewed and
weekly-updated articles. Helpful
for those interested in the science of sport.
EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP, from Gale on Infotrac
I, meets research needs across all
academic disciplines and is TC's
primary subscription database forcurrent
scholarly journals in the
social science/humanities disciplines,
including physical education; also cites news magazines and
newspapers - many with full text and images!
FINDARTICLES.COM is a free index to full-text
magazines which appear on the web (including a
few not covered by the subscription databases
noted here), is, surprisingly,
overlooked on the links pages of most libraries
. Not to be taken lightly, it is recommended.
GALE'S READY REFERENCE SHELF contains
335,000 records drawn from The Encyclopedia
of Associations; The Encyclopedia of
Governmental Advisory Organizations; Publishers
Directory; Gale Directory of Publications
and Broadcast Media; Directories in Print; Newsletters in
Print; Gale Directory of Databases;
Gale Guide to Internet Databases; Directory of Special
Libraries and Information Centers; Research
Centers Directory; Government and International
Research Centers Directories; and
The Encyclopedia of American Religion. The whole is
completely searchable and contains much
appropriate information and many leads to people and groups.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCE CENTER, from Gale on Infotrac I, can be used to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Sports Medicine, Health and Nutrition, Diseases and Injuries, Alcohol and Drug abuse, etc. Includes citations from a large variety of health journals, as well as Sports Medicine Reports and the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
INFOTRAC ONEFILE, from TEL on Infotrac
I, is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles
on a wide range of topics: including history, biography, and all
matter of social science. Millions of
full-text articles, many with images, updated daily. May
be employed with the more academic
EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP. Includes hundreds of full text articles
from such journals as Sports Illustrated Women, Football Digest
and The Sporting News.
INGENTA is a free bibliographic and database
service (formerly known as Carl Uncover) which allows
users to review its database of 5 million plus periodical articles.
Users may purchase articles from
Carl or obtain them via traditional on site or interlibrary loan
requests. This is really a very good
source to learn about the existence of articles beyond those contained
in the Infotrac products or
print periodical indices. Extremely valuable for phys ed-related
items and may be employed as a reasonable substitute for the pricy SportsDiscus
product, which is also simply an index .
JSTOR (Journal Storage), available on campus
and through our ACA proxy server, contains full-text
articles in the sports-related areas of economics and history. There
is a "rolling wall" of currency, meaning titles more recentthan
three to five years old must be found in one of the other databases described
here, e.g.,EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP.
LEGALTRAC, from Gale on Infotrac
II, lets you find articles in all major law reviews, law journals,
specialty law and bar association journals
and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal
and State Cases, Laws and Regulations,
Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also included are:
Commonwealth, European Union
and International Law. A bonanza for those looking into any
aspect of the law and sport/phys ed.
bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors
from every age and literary
discipline. Check here for writers from
netLIBRARY is
a repository of full-text electronic books, including many recent titles
in history and
the other social sciences. Once you've
set up an account (which must be done either in person at
the Knoxville or Greenville campuses or
for you by one of our distance education librarians [click on
Knoxville or Greeneville to e-mail them]),
you may access these, either via netLibrary
or through a
search of topics in the Tate Library catalog.
Hundreds of titles on sport and phys ed-related topics are included.
PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION, again a TEL resource via Infotrac I, allows degreed and student teachers access to a large collection of full-text professional education titles, including full-text journal articles, relative to phys ed.
PROQUEST EDUCATION JOURNALS offers complete information on hundreds of educational topics, drawing full-text articles from over 260 leading education journals for the period since 1988. Also includes Phys ed.
PsychARTICLES, from EBSCO, contains more than 25,000 articles from 42 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Many of these have to do with Ed Psych as well as sport and phys ed related topics.
SERIALS SOLUTIONS allows you to tell instantly which journals are in which databases; this is an immense time saver if you are hunting a particular title.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS WEBSITES: A CLASSIFIED LIBRARY
Introduction:
In order to avoid a lengthy
list of links, we have broken this site up into a subjective series of
alphabetically-arranged major categories. Beyond our effort,
it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you visit The
World Wide Virtual Library of Sport, which lists physical education
sites from around the world.
As so much of what you study concerning physical education
and health will be related to a possible teaching career, it is
also STRONGLY SUGGESTED that you become familiar with the sites we have
placed on the Education
page
of Tate Library's Links Library. These sites will provide additional information
on topics as diverse as curriculum development, lesson plans, and program
administration. If you are on a sports management trac,
you should see the Business
Administration/Management page.
Physical Education, Health and Sports Directories and Free Databases:
A number of directories and free database sources, rich in link information and, in some cases, full text reports and articles, are available to those willing to take the time to test them out. Here are several well worth exploring.
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles (AAFLA) links page is a preferred site for those seeking a gateway to international sports links with emphasis on history and the Olympic Games.
Amazon.Com serves as a free "Books in Print" and can provide fairly complete bibliographic information on thousands of physical education/sports books and videos.
Australian National Sport Information Centre guide to Full Text Sport Collections/Databases on the Web should be the first stop for those seeking free phys ed/sports databases to supplement the more general, but full, resources listed in our Databases section above. The Australian list is fully linked to the sites in question.
National Recreation Database, maintained by Canada's Leisure Information Network, covers leisure, recreation, culture and sport in North America
Olympic Research Links from the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles is very complete; click on the AAFLA link above and scroll down the page.
Open Directory Project--Sports rivals, and for some areas exceeds, the work in the WWVL-Sport, noted above; it is claimed in some circles that this is the largest multi-sport link directory on the Internet.
Scholarly Sports Sites is a subject directory maintained by the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada; it is very complete.
The Sport Journal is a full-text periodical independently available from the United States Sports Academy in Mobile, AL..
SportQuest, indexes over 14,000 online sites, organized under two category buttons--or a list of 82 different sports...
Women and Girls in Sports explores how to empower women to be more involved in sports and offers information about women and the Olympics.
Women's Sports Links, maintained at the University of Texas, is a directory of W3 women's sports links worldwide
General Physical Education and Health:
American Alliance for
Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance...
American Council for Drug Education...
The Arbor Nutrition Guide...
Calorie Control Council...
Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
Health
and Safety Sections, from Adventure Network...
Human Kinetics, a publisher
with much free information...
Internet
Health Sites...
Men's Health 'Zine...
National Center for
Health Statistics...
Tufts University Nutrition
Navigator...
Weight Loss & Fitness...
General Sports
CBS SportsLine, sometimes
has an edige on ESPN...
CNN/SI is
a linking of Cable News Network and Sports Illustrated...
ESPN.com is the Internet
home for the Entertainment and Sports Network...
Referee is the web-home
of Referee magazine, the journal of sports officiating...
SportQuest,indexes
over 14,000 online sites...
Sports Illustrated for Women,voted
the top female sports site on the Web...
Sportswire is a wire
service with up-to-the-minute information...
Sports Organizations:
International Olympic Committee
official website offers news and press releases, a list of winter and summer
games, policies, codes and other relative matters.
ISCPES-International Society for
Comparative Physical Education and Sport seeks to initiate or strengthen
research and teaching programs...
NCAA Home Page contains a wealth
of information...
A complete and linked listing of all professional U.S. sports teams
and sport governing bodies is available at the website of Street
& Smith's Sports BusinessJournal...
Women's Sports Foundation
promotes lifetime participation of girls and women in sport and also
features publications and reports concerning their health and fitness.
Sports History Sites:
Sport history has become an enormously popular academic discipline within the past decade or so, not only here but around the world. The sites we note below are international in flavor and include such multinational events as the Olympics. Most of these groups publish journals, the articles from which can be requested on Interlibrary Loan.
The Ancient Olympics,
drawn from the Perseus Project on ancient Greek history at Tufts University,
allows users to compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour the site
of Olympia as it looks today, learn about the context of the Games and
the Olympic spirit, or read about the Olympic athletes who were famous
in ancient times.
Amateur Athletic
Foundation of Los Angeles Digitasation Project provides full-text documents
and other publications related to sports history and the Olympic Games.
Australian Society for Sports History covers the Pacific and includes not only local history in its journal, but some Olympic references as well.
BBC
History of the Olympics was created during the 2000 Sydney games, but
the site's hisorical
information is still quite useful. Click on any Olympic year to
read brief summaries of what made that year unique in Olympic history.
British Society for Sport History provides helpful bibliographic information and indices on sport history, with emphasis on sport in the U.K. and Europe...
European Committee for Sports History coordinates the work of sports historians throughout Europe...
International Society of Olympic Historians promotes the study of Olympic history and offers insights into its official publication, the Journal of Olympic History..
North American Society for Sport History promotes the preservation and teaching of the history of sport, exercise, and physical activity worldwide.
Sports Philatelists International
looks at not only sports and Olympic stamp collecting, but the history
behind events depicted on postage...
Sports Management:
Rodney
Fort's Sports Economics Sports Economics Data Directory is exceptionally
complete; arranged by sport...
Sports Business News:
features a daily summary (actually, very close paraphrasing) of articles
from dozens of newspapers and magazines.
SportsLink, from the Sporting
Goods Manufacturing Association, provides a bonanza of data on the sporting
goods industry, with information on manufacturing, products, and relative
state and Federal legislation.
Individual Sports
Baseball:
All-American Girls Professional
Baseball League, 1943-1954 is the official site for the history of
women in baseball. Learn about the formation of the organization
featured in the movie "A League of Their Own"; covers, the rules of conduct
for the players, and rules of play. There are articles about the league
and biographies of the players as well as team information and photographs.
Baseball America,
the journal's online site; covers the game from the high school, college,
and minor league perspective...
Baseball Index,
from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), is the primary
source for online baseball research; contains bibliographic records for
193,600 documents to all aspects of the game (including college) from the
1800's forward; users may search by advanced (titles, ISBNs, etc.), topic,
or person, with persons including authors. Presents the first 50 citations
found.
If you are searching for players (including Negro Leagues)
and want the first 100 references (plus access to the on-line version of
The Baseball Chronology), use the same group's Baseball
Library instead and search under the A-Z players listing--and the bios
offered are fascinating! The same site offers information on teams and
excerpts from new books.
BaseballReference.Com
permits its users to find biographical and statistical information on every
major leaguer active since 1885!
Black Baseball's
Negro Baseball Leagues presents the history of the teams and players
of the Negro Leagues and
includes photos, soundclips from some of the famous
negro baseball league players.
John Skilton's
Baseball Links is the World Wide Web's most comprehensive collection
of links to baseball related resources, containing over 8500 unique links.
Includes all of the other sites not mentioned here.
Tusculum
College Baseball home page...
Basketball:
Basketball.Com is the prime
source of information on all aspects of the sport..
Ken Lindsay's
Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Basketball is quite extensive...
ORKA Basketball links
is the largest list on the Web with more than 1,500 links; there is sufficient
English on this Russian site to allow you to navigate easily..
Sport
South Annotated Bibliography of Basketball, with emphasis on North
Carolina and this region...
Tusculum College basketball home pages: Men's
and Women's...
Women in
Basketball
is an extensive listing of books, articles, and web-links...
Bicycling:
Bicycling
from
Bicycling Magazine is very complete...
International
Bicycle Fund bibliography is one of the most complete for any sport...
Cross Country, Running, Track & Field
Running On-Line,no
one actually "runs" online; this site is for those who physically exercise
by running around tracks, along roadsides, etc.
Running Resources,
from the Greater Boston Track Club, is an extensive links listing which
includes references to Cross Country and Track and Field, as well as Running.
Tusculum
College Pioneer CrossCountry homepage...
Dance:
Dance Links...
Research Guide for Dance, from the Bobst Library at NYU,
is a selective guide to the literature on dance, designed for use by undergraduate
and beginning graduate students. LC numbers are theirs, not ours.
Voice of Dance...
Football:
American Football Coaches
Association links are broken down by topics...AFCA also has a library
of full-text reports...
Essential
Links to NFL Resources is the most complete W3 site listing; it is
complemented by the equally-valuable Essential
Links to College Football Resources...
Tusculum College
Pioneer Football home page...
Golf:
Bibliography
of Golf Literature by Gerrit Speek is huge!
Golf
Ecology bibliography is unique...
Golf Online, a top
site for this sport...
Golf
Rules, includes a bibliography and history...
Tusculum College Golf home pages: Men
and Women...
Soccer:
Daily Soccer (International)...
History
of the Game is a FIFA site which presents a history of soccer.
Megasoccer permits
you to find soccer news and information from around the world.
Soccer Times (US)...
Tusculum College Soccer
home pages: Men
and
Women...
Women's United Soccer Association
is the official site of the exciting U.S. professional women's league.
Softball:
Softballnet's
Directory offers 295 links, but is not as comprehensive as Softballsearch.com...
Softballsearch.com
The A-Z 'Strictly' Softball Search Engine provides tthe web's most complete
a-z indexing of softball sites
including fastpitch, slo-pitch, college, professional,
competitive, recreational, business and everything in between!
Tusculum
College Softball homepage...
Swimming:
CollegeSwimming.Com
includes news and sport information from around the U.S.
Harvard University Varsity Swimming and Diving Team SwimLinks
is the most comprehensive site on the subject...
SwimSport is an "e-zine"
on-line magazine with over 100 archived full-text articles to choose from.
Tennis:
Larry Larsen's Tennis
Bibliography contains over 400 book references...
Tennis: A Research Guide, was prepared at the New York Public Library...
Tennis.Com,has
been voted the sport's top W3 site...
Tennisone
Tennis Lessons Library...
Tusculum College Tennis homepages: Men
and
Women...
Volleyball:
Bibliography of Volleyball Research, 1963-1997 includes books, periodicals,
reports, etc.
Schneid's
Volleyball links page is a mixed bag; lots of sources poorly organized...
Tusculum
College Volleyball homepage...
The USAVolleyball
site includes a post-1993 bibliographic list of articles by volleyball
coaches, some of which are full-text linkable.
More Sites:
For additional health information, review
the PreMed section of the "Links Library."
For Sports Medicine and Athletic Training, visit the Sports
Medicine and Athletic Training "Links Library" Page...
For additional references to baseball, basketball,
and football, visit the Library
Director's Links Page.
Revised June 1, 2003