Research Guide for Sport Management

• Finding Articles
• Journals - Where Are They Indexed?
• Finding Authoritative Web Sites
• Finding Books, Videos, DVDs, & CDs

FINDING ARTICLES

Sport Management Databases

SPORTDiscus

SportDiscus covers sport medicine, physical education, coaching and training, arts and history, corporate wellness, engineering and health and safety. Documents indexed include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites. A listing of the periodical indexes is available at SPORTDiscus Periodical Listing

http://www.sirc.ca/support/periodicals_list.pdf

Sport Management Related Databases

EBSCO Business

EBSCO's Business searches three databases, Business Source ® Premier, Regional Business News ™ and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Most of the citations in these databases link to the full text of the article.

LexisNexis Academic

Business
This full text database includes business news, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, industry and marketing news, and accounting literature.

Health

EBSCO's Health databases searches CINAHL ®, PreCINAHL ™, Health Source ®: Nursing/Academic Edition, Clinical Pharmacology, SPORTDiscus, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier.

The citations in these databases link to the full text of the article when available. You can search individual databases by going to EBSCO Database Selection . Additional search features are provided when you limit your search to a single data.

Psychology

EBSCO's Psychology searches three databases, PsycINFO ®, PsycARTICLES, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Searches can be limited to the PsycINFO database by going to EBSCO Database Selection. This will allow you to search using an electronic version of APA's official Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms ® .

Sociology

EBSCO's Sociology databases searches SocINDEX™ with Full Text and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. SocINDEX™ with Full Text encompasses the broad spectrum of sociological study with abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. The full text for 397 "core" and 150 "priority" coverage journals dating back to 1908, are covered. Books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources are also included.

EBSCO Education

EBSCO's Education searches three databases, Professional Development Collection ™, ERIC ®, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Most of the citations in these databases link to the full text of the article when available.

ProQuest Education Journals

ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 700 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics. ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

WestLaw Campus Research

WestLaw Research Campus is an online legal research tool for students interested in law-related areas such as criminal justice, social work, business, education and law. In addition to primary legal information consisting of case law, and state and federal statutes, this resource provides summaries and analysis of court decisions, law reviews, and synopsis of legal issues.

Please note that in order to access this database, WestLaw requires users to check the I agree button at the bottom of the terms of agreement page.   

 

FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES

Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library

The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Sport Management Web sites. Additional Web sites that may be of use include the Business and Health & Medicine Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Resources page of the Library Web site.

Alvernia Library Research Page

The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.

Brodart DartClix

The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.

FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS

NetLibrary eBooks

A collection of over 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia College computer network.

Useful subject terms for finding sports management ebooks include:

• sports economic aspects
• sports managment
• sports marketing
• sports teams

WorldCat 100 million records

This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)

Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.

Alvernia's Catalog

Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.

Examples of books with background information and reference sources are listed below:

Reference Collection

Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia R 338.54 B979 1997

Dictionary of Business R 380.03 C699 2001

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance R 650.03 E56 2001

The Ultimate Business Dictionary R650.03 U47 2003

ESPN Sports Almanac 2003 R796 E77 2003

Encyclopedia of World Sports R 796.03 E56 1999

Main Collection

Business Statistics of the United States 338 B979 1999

Handbook of Human Resource Management 658.3

Business Planning 658.401 T866 2002

Marketing Moves 658.8 K87 2002

New Game Plan for College Sport 796.04 N532 2006

Contemporary Sport Management 796.06 C761 1998

Sport Facility Planning and Management 796.06 F234

Developing Successful Sport Marketing Plans 796.06 S888 2001

Developing Successful Sport Sponsorship Plans 796.06 S888d 2001

Policy Development in Sport Management 796.06 V242 1998

International Encyclopedia of the Social Services
This encyclopedia covers articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.

 

Updated: April 23, 2008

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