| Department
of Physical Education and Recreation
Departmental Research Guide
This research
guide relays some basic information on library and information
resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as
provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World
Wide Web.
1.
LC Call Nos. - - - 2.
Finding Articles - - - 3.
Reference Collection - - - 4.
PE Faculty - - - 5.
Professional Societies - - - 6.
Web Sites
1.
To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library
of Congress Subject Divisions)
Books
on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the
call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT
to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined
subjects.
Education:
Education (General), L7 - L991 ------- History of
Education, LA5 - LA2396 ------- Theory and Practice
of Education, LB5 - LB3640 ------- Teaching (Principles
and Practices), LB1025 - LB1050.7 ------- Special
Aspects of Education, LC8 - LC6691
Recreation and Leisure:
Recreation
& Leisure, GV1 - GV1860 ------- Outdoor Life/Outdoor
Recreation, GV191.2 - GV200.66 ------- Physical Education
and Training, GV201 - GV555 ------- Games and Amusements,
GV1199 - GV1570 ------- Dancing, GV1580 - GV1799.3
2.
To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text
services)
The
following services are recommended for courses for first-year
students and nonmajors:
- Academic
Search Premier
and MasterFILE Premier: These two
all-subject WWW-based services (they are part
of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing
and abstracting of many journals and magazines
WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large
selection of articles in full-text.
- Career
& Technical Education has full text
articles about career, vocational, & technical
education.
- ERIC
(EBSCOhost):
Covers over 1000 journals plus research reports
and other types of literature on all aspects of
education.
- Education
Full Text: Indexes articles since 1983,
abstracts articles since 1994, and selected full
text since 1996.
- Health
Source: Consumer Edition: This database
provides health information for the health care
consumer (layman). A full-text database available
via EBSCOhost.
- SPORT
Discus:
This database includes citations on all aspects
of exercise physiology, physical education, physical
fitness, sports, sports medicine published since
1975.
The
following services are recommended for use by advanced students
and researchers:
- ArticleFirst:
FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate
students (and to undergraduate students by special permission).
Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward,
including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries
carries in hardcopy.
- CINAHL/pre-CINAHL
Full Text: These databases are devoted to the
fields of nursing and allied health. Available via EBSCOhost.
- Combined
Health Information Database: A bibliographic database
prduced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government.
This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability
information for health information and health education
resources, many of which are not indexed elsewhere. New
records are added quarterly and some older records are retained
for archival purposes.
- Educational
Administration Abstracts
(EBSCOhost):
Indexes and abstracts articles in educational administration,
including educational leadership, educational management,
educational research, and other areas of key relevance to
the discipline. Older paper issues are located in Reference
at LB2805 .E32 (Ref. Per. Ind.).
- MDXHealth:
A consumer health database. Available via FirstSearch
if you are faculty, staff, or a graduate student at WKU.
Call the Reference Center at x6125 for Authorization and
Password.
- MEDLINE:
This EBSCOhost-based database provides abstracting
of the primary research literature.
- PsycINFO
(EBSCOhost): Provides
indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in
1,500 journals, plus dissertations, books and book chapters,
from 1887 to the present.
- Teacher
Reference Center (EBSCOhost): Indexes and abstracts
over 270 trade journals and magazines for teachers and administrators.
Special
resource: TDNet
Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries'
electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as
some indexes and databases containing full-text articles;
includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
3.
Monographic Reference Works in Helm Library
The
following are recommended for use:
- Physical
Education Index Helm Ref GV201.P534
- Health,
Physical Education and Recreation, Exercise and Sport Sciences
Microform Publications Bulletin Helm Ref GV201.H4
- Leisure,
Recreation, and Tourism Abstracts Helm Ref GV191.6.R86
- To
browse for materials such as handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias,
directories, etc. devoted to issues in Physical Education
and Recreation, search the Reference shelves in Helm within
the GV1-GV1800 range of call numbers. Teacher resources
pertaining to Physical Education can be found in the Professional
Collection at the Educational Resources Center within this
call number range also.
4.
Department of Physical Education and Recreation Faculty
Faculty
Page: http://edtech.cebs.wku.edu/~perec/faculty.html
5.
Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs,
memberships, etc.)
6. Web Sites Recommended by Department
of Physical Education and Recreation Faculty
Instruction,
Teaching, Jobs
Sports
& Sports Medicine
Other
Sites
University
Libraries Liaison: Dan
Forrest (x6164 / dan.forrest@wku.edu)
last updated 3/04/2007
page maintained by Charles H. Smith |
