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The following sources are frequently used by students and faculty. These resources provide authoritative information and starting points for research on many topics. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather a first step. It may help identify a topic or determine a research strategy for approaching a topic. The reference staff is always pleased to assist in the use of any of the library's resources and services.
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Call Numbers for Health & Physical Education
You can browse “GV” call numbers for books about physical education, recreation, sports, and dance both in the Reference Section of the library (2nd floor) and in the main stacks (3rd floor).
Dance is assigned the call numbers: GV1580 – GV1799.4.
Health related topics have call numbers in “R” (Medicine). Books that deal with public health, personal hygiene, and preventive medicine are found in RA421-RA790.95.
Subject Headings (Library of Congress Subject Headings) for Health and Physical Education
The CONSULS library catalog uses subject headings from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) list. A complete set (five volumes) of the latest version of this list is kept in the Reference Index area on the second floor of the library.
Below are some sample LSCH headings for health, physical education, and related topics. Consult the LSCH to find additional headings, or use the CONSULS keyword search instead of the subject search. (Keyword search does not use the LCSH headings.)
HEALTH
Health (used instead of Personal health or Wellness)
Health behavior
Health counseling
Health education
Health promotion
Health risk assessment
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Physical education and training
Physical education and training—Philosophy
Physical education and training—Psychological aspects
Physical education and training—Study and teaching
RECREATION
Leisure
Leisure--Management
Outdoor recreation
Recreation
Recreation--Management
Recreational therapy
SPORTS AND DANCE
Ballet
Dance
Discrimination in sports—United States
Exercise
Modern Dance
Mass media and sports
Sports
Sports administration
Sports—Economic aspects
Sports for children
Sports for women
Sports injuries
Sports—Law and legislation—United States
Sports—Physiological aspects
Sports—Psychological aspects
Sports—Sociological aspects
You can also look up the names of individual sports:
Baseball
Football
Golf, etc.
The most useful research database for Health and Physical Education is:
SPORTDiscus with Full Text (online; access from library’s Database A-Z list)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text, which is produced by the Sport Information Resource Centre, is generally the best database to begin a search for magazine and journal articles on topics related to sports and sports medicine. The SPORTDiscus with Full Text database indexes over 400 journals and provides full text from about 230 of these journals. Topics covered by SPORTDiscus with Full Text include: sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, and public health. SPORTDiscus with Full Text is updated monthly.
In addition to articles, SPORTDiscus with Full Text indexes books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and scholarly dissertations.
A few other databases that might help you with research in Health and Physical Education are:
Education Full Text (online; access from library’s Database A-Z list)
Education Full Text is produced by the H. W. Wilson Company. The database provides indexing of about 750 periodicals in a broad range of educational specialties, including physical education. Of the 750 or so periodicals covered, over 450 are peer-reviewed publications and over 350 include the complete articles. Full text goes back as far as 1996, with indexing back as far as 1983. All article citations include abstracts. Education Full Text is updated daily.
ERIC (online; access from library’s Database A-Z list)
ERIC stands for Education Resources Information Center and is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which is part of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to citations (with abstracts) for over 1.2 million journal articles and other materials in the field of education, including physical education, extending back to 1966. ERIC indexers are currently indexing about 600 journals. ERIC also contains a small collection of full-text materials. Types of materials included in ERIC are: journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other materials. ERIC is updated monthly.
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe (online; access from library’s Database A-Z list)
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe provides full-text articles and other documents from over 5,600 sources in the areas of national and international news, business, law, and medicine. Sources include: newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, U.S. Federal and state case law, legal news and law reviews, business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news. Lexis Nexis Academic Universe is a good source for up-to-date information about sports events and the business of sports. The database is updated daily.
In addition to the databases listed above, there are many others that could be useful for researching topics in health and physical education. You can get a brief description of each of the library's databases by viewing its About page located to the right of the database name in the A-Z listing of databases. Some suggested databases to try are: ABI/INform Global, Academic OneFile, and Academic Search Premier.
How to Find Out If the Library Owns a Journal
Search the ECSU Journal Locator to find out what journals are available to Smith Library researchers, whether in print or online. The Journal Locator provides links to both full-text journals in databases and individual online journals (if the library has a subscription). The Journal Locator’s link for print holdings takes you to the CONSULS record, which indicates what years and issues of the journal the library owns.
CONSULS contains records for all the library’s print and microform journals and some online journals. Use the Journal Title search type to look up a journal name in CONSULS.
Here are some books in the Smith Library reference collection with information on Health, Physical Education, and related topics:
HEALTH
Encyclopedia of public health. Lester Breslow, editor. New York: Macmillan Reference USA/Gale Group Thomson Learning, 2002.
(ECSU Reference RA423.E53 2002 v. 1-4)
Encyclopedia of women's health. Sana Loue and Martha Sajatovic, editors; Keith B. Armitage ... [et al.], core editors. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2004.
(ECSU Reference RA778 .E5825 2004)
The Gale encyclopedia of alternative medicine. Kristine Krapp and Jacqueline L. Longe, editors. Detroit: Gale Group, c2001.
(ECSU Reference R733.G34 2001 v. 1-4)
Health reference series. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1999-
(ECSU Reference R 11.H43)
The New Harvard guide to women's health. Karen J. Carlson, Stephanie A. Eisenstat, Terra Ziporyn. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.
(ECSU Reference RA778 .C2164 2004)
PHYSICAL EDUCATION, RECREATON, SPORTS AND DANCE
Biographical dictionary of American sports: Baseball. David L. Porter, editor. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
(ECSU Reference GV865.A1 B55 2000 v.1-3)
The Cultural encyclopedia of baseball. Jonathan Fraser Light. 2nd edition. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2005.
(ECSU Reference GV862.3.L54 2005)
Encyclopedia of international sports studies.Roger Bartlett, Chris Gratton, and Christer G. Rolf, editors. London,Routledge2006.
(ECSU Reference GV567. E46 2006 v.1-3)
The Encyclopedia of Negro league baseball. Thom Loverro; foreword by Wilmer Fields. New York, NY: Checkmark Books, c2003.
(ECSU Reference GV875.A1 L68 2003)
Encyclopedia of recreation and leisure in America. Gary S. Cross, editor in chief. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, c2004.
(ECSU Reference GV53.E53 2004 v.1-2)
Encyclopedia of sports science. John Zumerchik, editor. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, c1997.
(ECSU Reference GV558.E53 1997 v.1-2)
Encyclopedia of world sport: From ancient times to the present. David Levinson and Karen Christensen, editors. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, c1996.
(ECSU Reference GV567.E56 1996 v.1-3)
Great athletes. Editors of Salem Press; Rafer Johnson, consultant. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, c2002.
(ECSU Reference GV697.A1 G68 2002 v.1-8)
The Handbook of physical education. David Kirk, Doune Macdonald, and Mary O'Sullivan, editors. London: Sage Publications, c2006.
(ECSU Reference GV207.3.H36 2006)
Handbook of sport psychology. Robert N. Singer, Heather A. Hausenblas and Christopher M. Janelle, editors. 2nd edition. New York: Wiley, c2001.
(ECSU Reference GV706.4.H37 2001)
International dictionary of modern dance. Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf, editor; Glynis Benbow-Niemier, contributing editor; Don McDonagh, preface. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, c1998.
(ECSU Reference GV1585.I58 1998)
International encyclopedia of dance. A project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. Selma Jeanne Cohen, founding editor; George Dorris ... [et al.] area editors; Thomas F. Kelly ... [et al.] consultants. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
(ECSU Reference GV1585.I586 1998 v.1-6)
The Scribner encyclopedia of American lives: Sports figures. Arnold Markoe, volume editor. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, c2002.
(ECSU Reference GV697.A1 S42 2002 v. 1-2)
Sport in American culture. Joyce D. Duncan. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2004.
(ECSU Reference GV706.2.D86 2004)
Sport marketing. Bernard J. Mullin, Stephen Hardy, William A. Sutton. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, c2000.
(ECSU Reference GV716.M85 2000)
The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A biographical dictionary. W.C. Madden. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c1997.
(ECSU Reference GV875.A56 M34 1997)
WEB RESOURCES FOR HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education
American College of Sports Medicine
Action for Healthy Kids
Healthy
People Library Project
“Your Guide to Health Resources”
National Association for Sport & Physical Education
“The Premier Web Site for Health & Physical Educators”
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