1 Introduction

This bibliography provides the possibility for coaches, sports-scientists and interested people to investigate rowing specific publications in English or German. It helps to get a general survey of major documents that are relatated to row sports - like history of rowing, required equipment, training methodology for beginners or advanced rowers, sites for tour rowing, etc.

With more than 1,400 verified documents this bibliography is the largest scientific collection about rowing worldwide. As the result of a search request publication information and sourde are being provided. The document itself has to be retrieved from the referring source by the user .

Due to the fact that more and more highly advanced search-engines for scholarly literature are available this bibliography was last updated in April 2004.

2 All Entries

Use this option to display the whole contents of the bibliography in alphabetical order. Feel free to save or print the resulting list for your own use. Please notice. Both you need the Adobe Acrobat reader to open the bibliographies.

3 Structure

Most of the english publications are provided with a german translation. Thus, is possible to search as well in the english bibliography for german terms.

The bibliography contains following details:

monographs: author's name, first name (publication year). title. place of publication : publisher's name.
Example: ADAM, K. (1931). Rowing. New York: DVR.

4 Search Options

To specify your search you may provide up to five keywords or search terms.

Use the "Language" dialog box to choose between the English or German bibliography.

Use the "Constraint" option to change the logical relations between the search terms. Valid logical constraints are: "AND" and "OR". For example, if you want to search for documents that contain all the items you select, use the "AND" operator. If you want to search for all items that contain any one of the terms, use the "OR" operator.

Search terms can be all details of a document: Author, title, publishing year, place of publication, editor, page and magazine.

The search mode causes the system to locate all components of the search term, including acronyms and hyphenated terms - for example "force", "force-feed", "forceps", or "forcefull". The search terms are not case sensitive.