This issue represents a very exciting step in the ‘life’ of the ICSSPE Bulletin with this new look, newly developed on-line version. The idea behind developing the Bulletin on-line was to make the information more accessible to our member organisations and hopefully their members also. One of the challenges that faces ICSSPE today is getting the information to the grass-roots, ie the members of our member organisations. With the previous printed version of the Bulletin, we were only able to provide each organisation with one copy, however this way we can make the access codes available to all of our organisations members and hopefully increase the distribution of this important information. ICSSPE will also be producing a CD version of the Bulletin for those who do not have access to the internet.

While, the overall look of the Bulletin is different, we have kept with our popular format of the follow-up to the World Summit on PE, a feature section, current issues in research, and reports on meetings and events.

The follow-up to the World Summit on PE, is a collection of papers from the EUPEA symposia held in late 2002, about the important issue of quality in PE. This information is appended with a copy of The Code of Ethics document produced on behalf of EUPEA by Chris Laws. In addition, there is also the recent report from the California Department of Education which found that physically fit kids perform better academically.

The feature of this issue is on Research Methodology in Sport Science and represents a close look at the methodologies currently employed in sport science and the reference material available to further source information.

This edition of the Bulletin also includes some very interesting conference and member organisation reports, book reviews and an informative watching the web section by Gretchen Ghent on Physical Inactivity: Finding Web Documents and Print Sources.

I hope you enjoy this new on-line version and find it assists in your ability to access the information and your enjoyment of reading the articles. If you have any further suggestions on how to make this site more ‘user-friendly’ or any other suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With best regards on behalf of the ICSSPE office

Amanda Smyth
ICSSPE Publications Manager