Research Guides: Kinesiology
These major association webpages provide a wide variety of information:
- American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (http://www.aahperd.org)
- American College of Sports Medicine (http://www.acsm.org/index.asp)
- American Physical Therapy Association (http://www.apta.org)
- National Athletic Trainers' Association (http://www.nata.org)
- National Collegiate Athletic Association (http://www.ncaa.org)
- Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles (http://www.aafla.com)
- Check out the Library and the Digital Archive of this site, newly titled “LA84 Foundation,” and especially strong in sport history.
- Human Kinetics (http://www.humankinetics.com)
- This major publisher has put together a useful site with tables of contents for its many journals and an extensive group of links.
- Kinesiology Publications (http://kinpubs.uoregon.edu)
- Search this database of theses and dissertations.
- Medline Plus: Exercise and Physical Fitness (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/exerciseandphysicalfitness.html)
- This is one of the subject pages from the U.S. National Library of Medicine - see also the related pages.
- NRPI Literature Searching: Recreation (http://library.humboldt.edu/~rls/nrplanrec.htm)
- Bob Sathrum maintains this HSU Library web page on Recreation Reference Resources.
- PE Central (http://www.pecentral.org)
- This site bills itself as the "premier web site for health and physical education teachers."
- PELINKS4U (http://www.pelinks4u.org)
- This site includes PE News, a monthly email publication of news and links.
- Scholarly Sport Sites (http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/ssportsite)
- This is THE comprehensive subject directory of websites for the kinesiology researcher.
- Standards and Frameworks (http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st)
- 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 (http://www.sirc.ca)
- This site is maintained by the Sports Information Resource Centre (SIRC) which produces the major index in sport sciences, SportDiscus. This site is strong on directory information of all types, with links to many organizations and institutions.