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Sports Management

Jane Theissen is your Subject Librarian. Contact her at 314-889-4570 for research assistance.

Here you will find good search terms to use, catalog links for journals & magazines to which Fontbonne subscribes, links to get background information, a selected list of Sports Management related websites and access to articles in our electronic resources.

Sports Management Journals in print:

Some search terms to use in the catalog and databases:

• Physical education and training.
• Professional sports-- Economic aspects.
• Sports-- Economic aspects.
• Sports-- Finance.
• Sports -- Marketing.
• Sports accidents.
• Sports injuries.
• Sports medicine.

Author Search for Messner, Michael A. (Topic: Gender & Sports)

E-Books:

• Search the catalog for "sports and netlibrary"
 
• Sports Marketing (1351K pdf)
• The Ultmate Guide to Sports Marketing

For Background Information:

Modern nutrition in health and disease (in Reference Room)

Sports Medicine (online in Access Science)

Sports Management resources (online in CredoReference)

Access Science  

• This electronic reference source provides fully searchable full-text content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates, definitions, multi-media, illustrations, graphics and biographies.
• Subject: All sciences, technology, mathematics, medicine, computing, food science, and psychology.

Britannica Online Academic Edition

• This reference source provides full-text documents, facts & figures, video and images, timelines, world data, world atlas and a gateway to the classics.
• Subject:  Science, geography, world studies, history, daily life, ecology, sports, technology, and the arts.

Oxford English Dictionary

• This historical dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language tracing the usage of words over the past 1000 years.
• Subject: Linguistics and its history.

 Oxford Reference Premium

• This electronic reference source contains full-text entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, chronologies, and images, including bi-lingual dictionaries.
• Subject: All areas of academic study.

Web Resources:

Title IX: The Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act requires co-educational institutions of postsecondary education that participate in a Title IV, federal student financial assistance program, and have an intercollegiate athletic program, to prepare an annual report to the Department of Education on athletic participation, staffing, and revenues and expenses, by men's and women's teams.

Mega Sports Site: Digital Librarian – Sports: If you can’t find it here – it probably doesn’t exist!! Covers just about every sport, leisure, college, pro; associations, statistics and articles.

Disabled Sports USA: Site provides disability sports and recreation links, DS/USA chapter and program listings.

NASPSPA (North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity): Provides links to subject-specific journals, NASPSPA conferences, reports and other related associations.

National Strength & Conditioning Association: Association website provides access to research-based knowledge and practical application to improve athletic performance & fitness in videos, podcasts and journal formats.

NCAA: Organization that oversees College Athletics. Website includes information on academics & scholarships, the student-athlete, and resources for research.

Scholarly Sports Sites: This subject directory brings together websites which will assist the serious sports researcher, sport information specialist, college/university student and faculty; includes an index to sport subjects and a keyword search engine.

 Women's Sports Foundation: This website provides access to research reports, news, tips and tools, grants and scholarship information to "advance the lives and girls and women through sport and physical activity".

Searching For Articles:

Academic Search

• This EBSCO database contains a periodical index providing access to over 12,500 journals (8,500 in full-text).
• Subjects: Numerous areas of academic study including science, ethnic & multicultural studies, mathematics, psychology, religion and women's studies.

Business Source

• This EBSCO database contains a periodical index providing full-text access to over 2,200 journals, along with SWOT analyses and company profiles, market research, industry and country reports.
• Subjects: All disciplines of business -- marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.

Child Development & Adolescent Studies

• Produced by NISC, this EBSCO database includes book reviews,
  abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations. More than 342,000 records are included with over 10,000 new records added each year.
• Subject: Biomedical and social sciences; current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. 

Communication & Mass Media Complete

• This EBSCO database contains a periodical index providing access to over 690 journals (380 in full-text) and over 5,000 author profiles.
• Subject: Communication, mass media and other closely-related fields of study.

 EconLit with Full-Text

• This EBSCO database contains abstracts and full-text to journal articles, books, dissertations, working papers and book reviews.
• Subject: All fields of economics – capital markets, forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, etc.

NewsBank

• This database provides the electronic editions of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources, news magazines, special reports, and world maps. Paid ads are excluded.
• Subject: Local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, people, and viewpoints on local and world issues.

 PsycARTICLES

• This EBSCO periodical index provides full-text of scholarly journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
• Subject:  Psychology.

 PsycINFO

• This EBSCO periodical index provides abstracts of scholarly journals, book chapters, books and dissertations collated by the American Psychological Association.
• Subject: Behavior and mental health, and psychological aspects of related fields – medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, technology, business, etc.

Women & Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000

• This electronic resource contains full-text primary sources, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. women's history, and teaching tools with lesson ideas.

• Subjects: Women’s (and U.S.) history from 1600 – 2000.

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