The book by Edda van Meurs, Bernd Strauss (both Dept. of Sport and Exercise Psychology), Vera Vergeld (formerly Dept. of Sport and Exercise Psychology) and Volker Gehrau (Professor of Communication Sciences at the WWU) in UTB Verlag has just been published. The book (about 180 pages) deals with quantitative and qualitative monitoring methods from a fundamental and overarching perspective, and on the other hand various observation methods in sports science are briefly presented as examples (e.g. movement analysis, game analysis, motor testing, behavioral observations, physiological measurements ), after the special feature of "sports science as a miniature university" - from the medical-biological to the humanities disciplines - is briefly discussed.