Introduction
The Sports Studies Guide is intended to provide an introduction to the wide diversity of sports research resources available to you through Geisel Library. The interdisciplinary nature of this program brings together resources from several disciplines such as psychology, history, classics, philosophy and biology. For assistance in locating resources specific to your area of inquiry, please stop by the Reference Desk in person, or make an appointment with a librarian.
Select Reference Resources
Electronic Reference Sources
There are several sport-related entries in the following online reference books, as well as other electronic reference books.
Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
Encyclopedia of Ethics
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science and Medicine
Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia
21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handboook
Print Reference Sources
The titles listed below are located in Geisel Library's reference collection. This collection is located on the first floor of the Library next to the reference desk.
Encyclopedia of Sports in America
Ref GV583 .E53 2009 (2 volumes)
Encyclopedia of Sports Science
Ref GV558 .E53 1997 (2 volumes)
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender
Ref HQ1115 .E43 2001 (2 volumes)
Encyclopedia of Women and Sport in America
Ref GV709 .E53 1998
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sports Medicine
Ref RC1206 .T88 1986
International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports
Ref GV709 .I58 2001 (3 volumes)
Sport in American Culture
Ref GV706.2 .D86 2004
Sports: A Reference Guide and Critical Commentary, 1980-1999
Ref GV704 .D42 2000
Sports Culture: an A-Z Guide
Ref GV706.5 .C383 2000
Find Journal Articles
Search the following databases to locate journal articles in the field of sports studies. Many of the databases will require you to use WebBridge to locate the full text of an article. To learn how to use WebBridge, please watch our video tutorial (3.5 mins; includes audio).
To search for journal articles across multiple databases at once, try CrossSearch. This tool allows you to select either subject categories or individual databases that relate to your topic, enter your keywords, and run the search.
Academic Search Premier
- Interdisciplinary
- Lots of full-text
- Some articles are scholarly but others are 'newsy'
- Good place for secondary source or general readings
- If your research intersects with the study of American history
- Not full-text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- If your research intersects with the study of classics
- Not full-text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- If your research intersects with the study of biology
- Not full-text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
Communication & Mass Media Complete
- If your research intersects with the study of communication or media
- Some full text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- If your research intersects with the study of women or gender
- Not full-text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- If your research intersects with the study of education
- Some full text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- Multidisciplinary
- Easy and familiar search interface
- Some full-text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- If your research is about ancient athletics or comparative country studies
- Not full-text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- Interdisciplinary
- All full-text
- Latest 3-5 years are not included
- Access news from major and regional papers
- All Full-text
- If your research intersects with the study of philosophy
- Some links to full text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- If your research intersects with the discipline of psychology
- Includes links to SOME, not all full-text material
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- If your research intersects with the study of medicine
- Includes links to SOME, not all full-text material
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
- Several sports titles indexed here
- All Full-text
- If your research intersects with the study of sociology or social issues
- Includes links to SOME, not all full-text material
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- If your research intersects with the study of politics
- Not full-text
- Use WebBridge to locate article whereabouts
Selected Journal Titles
The following journal titles and more are available via print or online through the Geisel Library. Please check Journal Finder to determine a journal's location and format.
American Journal of Sports Medicine
International Journal of the History of Sport
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise
Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport
Journal of Sport and Social Issues
Journal of Sport Behavior
Journal of Sport History
Journal of Sports Economics
Open Sports Medicine Journal
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
Sociology of Sport Online
Sport, Education and Society
Find Books
Search the library catalog to locate books in Geisel Library.
Listed below are a few subject headings that would be of interest to those performing sports studies research. There are many more.
· Athletes
· Games - Rome - History
· Olympic Games
· Sport
· Sports - Economic Aspects
· Sports - Sociological Aspects
· Sports for Women
· Sports Medicine
· Sports Sciences
· Violence in Sports
If you have searched the Geisel Library Catalog but could not locate a book on your topic, try searching WorldCat. WorldCat is a database that allows you to search the collections of libraries throughout the United States. When you locate a title of interest, click on the "Request via Interlibrary Loan" link . Your book(s) will usually be available for pickup in the library within a week. For assistance in using this database please Ask a Librarian.
Ebrary is an online library containing thousands of e-books spanning across all scholarly disciplines. Books can either be opened in QuickView for instant viewing or in the ebrary Reader (a downloadable plug-in), which provides enhanced functionality such as the ability to copy/paste, highlight, or take notes in a particular book.
Selected Websites
Amateur Athletic Foundation
The site includes free access to a large digital archive for sports information.
Librarians' Internet Index: Search results for Sport
Resources within the subject are reviewed and selected by librarians.
RefDesk.com: Sports Resources
Links to over 80 sports resources
Scholarly Sport Sites
From the University of Calgary, this gateway site contains links to a wide range of sports-related sites.
Sports Links Central.com
This site provides links to professional associations, including the NCAA and the NAIA.
Sports Reference
This resource provides statistics for four major sports: baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. It also contains an extensive section on Olympics history.
The Sports Network (TSN)
Provides real-time news, including scores, schedules and statistics.
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