Disciplines & Professions: Athletics & Sports Sciences

Web Sites

Google's Sports Science Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Sports/People/ Training/Sports_Science/

Contains list of links categorized by sport. Also includes a listing of general sports science-related Web sites.

Scholarly Sports Sites
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/ssportsite/

This subject directory brings together the Web sites of interest to the serious sports researcher, kinesiology librarian, sport information specialist, and college student or faculty.

WWW Virtual Library Physiology and Biophysics Directory
http://neocortex.med.cornell.edu/VL-Physio/

Maintained by the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Cornell University Medical College, this site provides links to a wide range of interests, techniques, and publications relevant to contemporary physiology and biophysics as well as physiology and biophysics servers.

Yahoo!'s Sports Science Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Science/

Yahoo! Sports offers links to the latest sports stats, scores and schedules, and provides visitors with a short annotated index of relevant Web sites.

Databases

SPORTDiscus (Sport Information Resource Centre, available through OVID)

A database of mostly periodical articles. Includes sources from 1949 to the present, some with abstracts.

Print Resources

Anshel, Mark, ed. Dictionary of the Sport and Exercise Sciences. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1991.

A reference for general definitions and explanations of terminology in sports science, sports medicine, exercise, and related disciplines.

Completed Research in Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Reston, VA: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1959-.

Provides full abstracts for master's and doctoral theses from the year. Organized alphabetically by university. Also provides a subject index.

Kent, Michael. Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science and Medicine. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.

An alphabetical list of more than 7,500 terms and concepts in sports science and related fields. Provides frequent cross-references.

Levinson, David, and Karen Christensen, eds. Encyclopedia of World Sport. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996.

Articles on a wide range of topics and issues in sports. Entries cover the history of sport from ancient times to the present. Arranged alphabetically. Final volume provides an index and bibliography.

Physical Education Index. Cape Girardeau, MO: Ben Oak, 1976-.

A subject index of domestic and foreign articles in fields such as sports medicine, physical education, physical therapy, and health. Indexes more than 100 journals.

Sherry, Eugene, and Stephen F. Wilson, eds. Oxford Handbook of Sports Medicine. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.

A compilation of articles and information in sports sciences and the treatment of sports-related injuries. Offers background and fundamentals of sports medicine. Index provided.

Zumerchik, John, ed. Encyclopedia of Sports Science. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1997.

A general reference source of articles on various subjects in the sports sciences. Each entry provides a list of references. Volume 2 includes an index.