For the database of the IAT all contributions of the scientific journal "Theorie und Praxis des Leistungssports" (Theory and Practice of Elite Sport) of the GDR from 1963 to 1989 were digitized. More than 3,500 individual articles from the first issue of the journal "Theorie und Praxis des Leistungssports" to the last issue of the successor magazine "Training und Wettkampf" (Training and Competition) (1990) can now be retrieved and viewed as full text.