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Research Guides: Kinesiology


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These major association webpages provide a wide variety of information:

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
American College of Sports Medicine
American Physical Therapy Association
International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education
National Athletic Trainers' Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Strength and Conditioning Association


Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites - Sports and Recreation
This selected list of reference websites comes from the Library of Congress; see also full text of Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939.
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles
Check out the Library and the Digital Archive of this site, newly titled "LA84 Foundation," and especially strong in sport history.
American Soccer History Archives
A wonderfully detailed history of the sport.
History of Women in Sports Timeline
From 776 BC to the present!
Human Kinetics
This major publisher has put together a useful site with tables of contents for its many journals and an extensive group of links.
Medline Plus: Exercise and Physical Fitness
This is one of the subject pages from the U.S. National Library of Medicine - see also the related pages.
NRPI Literature Searching: Recreation
Bob Sathrum maintains this HSU Library web page on Recreation Reference Resources.
PE Central
This site bills itself as the "premier web site for health and physical education teachers."
PELINKS4U
This site includes PE News, a monthly email publication of news and links.
Scholarly Sport Sites
This comprehensive subject directory of websites was created and maintained by Gretchen Ghent, also the editor of NASLINE, the Newsletter of the North American Sport Library Network. She has retired, the Newsletter has ceased, but the site is now being updated and maintained at the Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports at the University of Texas, Austin.
SI Vault: Your Link to Sports History
Unrestricted access to the Sports Illustrated multimedia archive, 1954-1995 online now.
Spark PE
This elementary physical education program is a nationwide model which is being used locally in Humboldt County.
Standards and Frameworks
Check here for California K-12 curriculum frameworks and content standards for both Physical Education and Visual & Performing Arts.
The Virtual Resource Centre for Sport Information
This site is maintained by the Sports Information Resource Centre (SIRC) which produces the major index in sport sciences, SportDiscus.