Recreation & Leisure

Grey literature databases identify resources that are key to research and scholarship. Many are open resources that go through a quality control process before they are published.

Definitions are scholarly dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks that help define terms and provide additional context. 

  The sociology of sport and physical education: An introductory reader (2002)

  An Introduction to Leisure Studies: Principles and Practice (2014)

  Encyclopedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation (2004)

  Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America (2004)

  Handbook of Leisure, Physical Activity, Sports, Recreation and Quality of Life (2018)

  Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies (2013)

  Cambridge Handbook of Sociology (2017)

  Leisure Studies: Themes and Perspectives (2010)

  Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory (2020)

  Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society (2009)

  Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy (2013)

  Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory (2017)

Theses and Dissertations are important unpublished resources granted and retained by universities as capstone projects, these, and dissertations.

Open Education Resources (OERs) are digital ebooks and learning objects that can be used as open textbooks on a wide variety of general and disciplinary subjects.