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Databases & indexes

	Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) A multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
	Leisure Tourism Database Contains extensive information from the leisure, recreation, sport, hospitality, tourism and culture sectors. The database includes over 100,000 abstracts from over 6,000 serial publications and thousands of other documents, including core tourism and leisure journals. Also included are over 1500 full-text book chapters from CABI's eBook collection.
	Nutrition and Food Sciences Sports nutrition, food science and nutrition information literature.
	SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) International information on sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, facility design & management, biomechanics, physiotherapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism. Provides full text for 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus with coverage dating back to 1985, also books, book chapters and conference proceedings.

Additional Physical Education databases and resources

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Reference

• A Century of rugby greats 1999 - Cen:Ref GV/946.2/Q72
• Encyclopedia of British sport 2000 - Cen:Ref GV/567/EJ76
• Encyclopedia of sports science 1997: 2 vols - Cen:Ref GV/558/EJ76
• International encyclopedia of women and sports 2001: 3 vols - Cen:Ref GV/709/IL3
• The Oxford dictionary of sports science and medicine 1995 - Cen:Ref QT/13/OZ5

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Web sites

• Australia/NZ Sports News - Yahoo!
• Australian Sports Commission
• Exercise Science and Medical Sites
• SPARC/ Hillary Commission - Sport and Recreation New Zealand sports facts, media releases. Includes fulltext publications.
• Sports Media
• Sportscience - Peer-reviewed site for sport research
• Te Puna Web Directory - Fitness & exercise - Sports
• University of Otago School of Physical Education

Last revised: 27 March, 2009