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Sport Studies

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League website provides information about the teams and players in the league which existed from 1943 to 1954.

The International Centre for Olympic Studies. Located at The University of Western Ontario, the ICOS generates and disseminates academic scholarship dealing with the social and cultural study of the Olympic Movement.

The LA84 Foundation has a large, searchable sports research library.

The Library of Congress American Memory. Includes historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video in the area of sports and recreation.

The Negro Baseball Leagues is a resource for information about players, teams, and history.

The Official Website of the Olympic Movement.

The Scholarly Sport Sites directory from the University of Calgary covers most areas related to Health and Human Performance.

The Sporting News Archive. Established in 1986 as part of The Sporting News Publishing Company, The Sporting News Archive provides reference service for the staff as well as the public.

Athletic Training

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is a lifelong orthopaedic learning source.

The Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma (NISMAT) is the first U.S. hospital-based facility dedicated to the study of sports medicine.

Recreation and Leisure

The Serious Leisure Perspective includes a bibliography of new publications and a digital library of full text papers on subjects related to serious leisure.

The Therapeutic Recreation Directory is a resource for therapeutic recreation professionals.

Recreation.gov is a one-stop site for all federal recreation experiences on public lands.

Title IX

Gender Equity in Sports. The University of Iowa provides interscholastic and intercollegiate sport information.

The Womens Sports Foundation provides news and information about Title IX.

Education and Title IX. Title IX information as provided by the National Women's Law Center (NWLC).

Tourism

Ecotourism publications and resources provided by The Nature Conservancy.

National Park Service.

The World Tourism Organization is the leading international organization in the field of tourism serving as a global forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how.

Women’s Issues

CAAWS. Canadian Association for the advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity.

The Melpomene Institute, founded in 1982, helps girls and women of all ages link physical activity and health through research, publication and education.

The National Association of Girls and Women in Sports is an organization that addresses issues and opportunities for girls and women in sport.

Women Sports Wire is a resource for women's sports news and job information.

Womens Sports Net is the one source for women’s sports.

Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites is a listing of websites containing resources about women's issues, emphasizing sites of interest to an academic women's studies program.

Health

Healthfinder. An award winning federal website for consumers that was developed by the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies.

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP): Health Links. A gateway to more than six hundred websites for health professionals and medical library communities.

Mayo Clinic. Provides useful information and tools to manage one's health.

National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Library of Medicine

The Physician and Sportsmedicine Online

General Resources

The Chronicle of Higher Education. Facts and figures about athletics.

Human Kinetics: The Information Leader in Physical Activity

NASLIN. North American Sport Library Network.

Official Website for NCAA Sports

Opportunities in Physical Education and Related Areas. This website, provided by the National Association for Kinesiology and Physical Education in Higher Education and supported by the Department of Kinesiology at California State University at Fresno, offers job announcements in most areas of health and human performance.

PE Central. A website for health and physical educators that provides information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.

Sports Resources. Links to many major sports sites.

Virtual Library of Sport. The one-stop shop for quality sports resources.

Professional Organizations

Academy of Leisure Sciences

American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration

American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education

American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance

American College of Sports Medicine

American Physical Therapy Association

American Public Health Association

American Society of Biomechanics

American Society of Exercise Physiologists