Health Physical Education and Recreation Exercise and Sport Sciences

Microform Publications is a component of the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance at the University of Oregon. Since its inception in 1949, Microform Publications has been providing a service to the professional academic community worldwide. Its focus is on the dissemination of graduate research of national and international significance. In addition, Microform Publications provides access to scholarly books, journals, and meeting proceedings now out of print. The collection of Microform Publications, which contains almost 8,000 microforms, covers over forty years of graduate research in full text in the subject areas of health, physical education, recreation, exercise and sport sciences, sport history and sport-related issues in the humanities and social sciences, and dance. The theses and dissertations are compiled from universities in the USA and Canada. The collection of full-text documents on fiche is indexed in bulletins such as this one. In addition , twice a year, the index is forwarded to Sport Information Resource Center (SIRC) of Canada, the world's most authoritative sports information service, and the new titles are incorporated in SPORT Database, which is accessible on-line from anywhere in the world through various computer systems and through Internet. The titles are also accessible through SPORT Discus, a CD-ROM database that, in addition to the collection of Microform Publications , includes a broad range of exercise physiology , biomechanics, and sport medicine topics covering research, clinical, and lay publications. Major libraries throughout the world are subscribing to SPORT Discus and provide their readers an important resource for research and learning. This publication is Bulletin Volume 7. It compiles previous supplements nos 1 through 4 and includes the collection that would have made up supplement no. 5. The bulletin represents microfiche published between October 1992 and October 1994. In the future, the biannual supplements , which used to give a listing of published fiche by subject area only, will be replaced by biannual bulletins. The bulletins will include a thesis and dissertation titles and abstracts section and a keyword section. There will be two issues (nos 1 and 2) per annual bulletin. The price of each title in this bulletin is indicated in parentheses at the end of the title listing. The price includes the library catalog card for the title. All titles have proper catalog headings, including both Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification numbers, as well as subject headings chosen from the Library of Congress …