Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Coaching (HPERC)

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News

Basketball Coaching Discussion Group
Moderated by basketball coach Michael Wells, this discussion group has forums for coaches from all levels (youth to professional).
Officiating.com
News, discussion forums and other resources by sport. Sports include baseball, basketball, football, hockey, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, softball, and volleyball.

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
Main webpage for AAPERD and related associations (AAALF, AAHE, AALR, NAGWS, NASPE, NDA, RC)

Use the Journal Holdings: Electronic and Print page to find a journal in the University Library. For help, see the user guide on Finding Journal Articles.

Not sure how to search one of the following databases? Try a Guide!

ERIC
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Andersen Library owns the microfiche set of the ERIC ED documents plus they are starting to be available Partial/Full Text on the Internet (see ERIC ED documents entry).
Education Full Text
Covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. Includes abstracts from January 1994 and indexing from June 1983. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
KCDL
A searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
PsycInfo
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.

CINAHL
The definitive database for nursing and allied health, covering 1,200 leading journals.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
With Health Source: Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including the British Medical Journal and The Lancet, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 170 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 550 journals.
ScienceDirect College Edition
Extensive Full Text access to the Elsevier journal collections: Health Sciences (600 peer reviewed journals), Life Sciences (530 peer reviewed journals) and Physical Sciences & Engineering (600 peer reviewed journals).

SPORTDiscus
Indexes and abstracts all aspects of sport, physical fitness, sport science and recreation. NOTE: Library subscription to this database allows one concurrent user.

Basketball Highway
"Basketball Professionals and Coaches Home on the Internet" A variety of resources are offered on the Basketball Highway. Product reviews, coaches playbook, "playground pointers", and a comic are just a few of the resources.
Coaching Science Abstracts
"Promoting evidence-based coaching content and procedures." Written and Produced by Brent S. Rushall, Ph.D., R.Psy., San Diego State University.

The Virtual Library of Sport
Extensive information on a wide variety of sports. Sports are organized into the following categories: Ball, wheel, water, outdoor and the rest. Resources are added and updated by volunteers.
Dance Resources
The Dance Directory provides links to three kinds of dance web sites: 1) sites that have good collections of links, usually in a specialized area of dance, 2) sites that include information about an area of dance, and 3) selected sites of dance organizations and individual dancers.
Sports Resources
A long list of resources from refdesk.com
PE Webring
List of the members of the Physical Education WebRing.
pelinks4u
Organized into categories such as elementary pe, secondary pe, and adapted pe, PELinks4U is a newsletter type publication that provides activity ideas and much, much more.
Education Index: Physical Education
Education Index is an annotated guide to education related websites. Pages are organized by subject and lifestage. The subject guide to Physical Education contains a long list of links.

Curricular Resources in Physical Education
"Here are a number of links to Internet sites which contain information and/or other links related to Physical Education."
Instructional Materials in Physical Education
Instructional materials with an internet focus as part of the classroom planning/instruction. Produced by the Community Learning Network, a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom.
PE Central
PE Central's focus is on developmentally appropriate physical education for children and youth. Sections include lesson plans for PreK-12 and Adaptive PE, assessment ideas, instructional resources, best practices and research in action.