Sports Management

This guide lists sources of information for sports management. It is not inclusive, but is meant to provide a starting place when you are looking for information. For additional information, please talk with a librarian.

Locating Books

Use Minerva, the library's online catalog, to search for books owned by the library. To search Minerva, click on Finding Books and then "Access Minerva Now". Typical subject headings to search under include: Athletes, Athletics, Coaching (Athletics), Recreation--Management, Recreational Leadership, Sports, Sports Administration, Sports Facilities--Management. Also, try combining the terms athletics, recreation and sports with other terms to narrow your search results. For browsing purposes, the call number range for the majority of sports managements books are: GV (Sport, Recreation & Leisure) and HD 9992 - 9993 (Sporting Goods Industry).

Locating Journal Articles

Click on Finding Articles. Scroll down and click on the Go to Online Resources and Journal Indexes Now link. To find articles in journals, choose an index or resource from the alphabetical list. Or, click on one of the subject areas to see only the indexes and resources appropriate for that subject. A few of the appropriate resources for sports management topics are listed below. You have to check our List of Journal Subscriptions to see if Sawyer Library owns the journal an article is in. The list may be accessed by clicking here to go to the Finding Articles page. Printed copies are also available.

Academic Search Elite
An index of articles from more than 1,320 journals covering the social sciences humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and much more. *It includes the full text of many articles. Searches may be limited to only peer reviewed articles.

Business Source Elite
An index of articles from more than 1,000 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and much more. * It includes the full text of many articles. Searches may be limited to only peer reviewed articles.

MasterFILE Premier
An index of articles from over 1,770 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health and much more. *It includes the full text of many articles. Searches may be limited to only peer reviewed articles.

Physical Education Index
A bibliographic index of articles from more than 330 peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. Articles cover a variety of subject areas, including physical education, physical therapy, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Coverage begins in 1970.

FirstSearch
A service which provides access to approximately 60 bibliographic and full-text databases. *Searches may be limited to articles found only in journals owned by the Husson Library. It includes the following indexes that are most appropriate for sports management:

Article1st
A bibliographic index to articles from nearly 12,500 journals.

Wilson Business Abstracts
A bibliographic index of articles from more than 345 leading business journals.

Some of the journals owned by Husson's Library in the accounting area include:

Athletic Business Athletic Management

Athletics Administration Coach and Athletic Director

Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance

Journal of Sport Management

Sociology of Sport Journal Sport Marketing Quarterly

Sport Psychologist

Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal

Other Resources

Career Opportunities in the Sports Industry [ Ref. GV 734 F54].

Athletic Management Buyer's Guide [ Ref. GV 743 A82 2001].

Dictionary of the Sport and Exercise Sciences [ Ref. GV 558 D53 1991]

Sports Rules Encyclopedia [ Ref. GV 731 S75 1990] .

ACSM'S Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines [ Ref. GV 429 A45 1992].

Sports Market Place [ Ref. HD 9992 U5 S667 1997].

World Wide Websites

Virtual Library of Sport [ http://sportsvl.com/ ]

This guide lists sources of information for writers and their works. It is not inclusive, but is meant to provide a starting place when you are looking for information. For additional information, please talk with a librarian.

Locating Books

Use Minerva, the library's online catalog, to search for books owned by the library. To search Minerva, click on Finding Books and then "Access Minerva Now". Typical subject headings to search under include: Authors; American; Authors, 20th Century; Women Authors; Poetry; Drama, etc. To locate critical books on an author, do a subject search on that author. For browsing purposes, the call number ranges for the majority of literature books are: PR 1 - 9680 (English literature and authors), PS 1 - 3576 (American literature and authors).

Locating Journal Articles

Click on Finding Articles. Scroll down and click on the Go to Online Resources and Journal Indexes Now link. To find articles in journals, choose an index or resource from the alphabetical list. Or, click on one of the subject areas to see only the indexes and resources appropriate for that subject. A few of the appropriate resources for topics on writers and their works are listed below. You have to check our List of Journal Subscriptions to see if Sawyer Library owns the journal an article is in.

The list may be accessed from the Finding Articles page. Printed copies are also available.

Academic Search Premier

An index of articles from more than 3,000 journals covering the social sciences humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and much more. *It includes the full text of many articles. Searches may be limited to only peer reviewed articles.

Literature Resource Center

This database provides access to an immense collection of biographies, bibliographies, critical essays, work overviews, author-related websites, and timeline events for more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. The library has a separate handout which explains its use.

Some of the journals owned by Husson's Library in the literature area include:

American Literature Contemporary Literature

Journal of Modern Literature Modern Fiction Studies

New England Quarterly Nineteenth Century Literature

Novel Studies in Short Fiction

Studies in the Novel Twentieth Century Literature

Other Resources

Contemporary Literary Criticism [Ask for at circulation desk]

Provides significant passages from published criticism of works by creative writers.

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism [Ask for at circulation desk]

Provides significant passages from published criticism of works by creative writers who died between 1900 and 1999.

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism [Ask for at circulation desk]

Provides significant passages from published criticism of works by creative writers who died between 1800 and 1899.

World Wide Web Sites

Literary Resources on the Net [ http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ ]

A large number of links to author pages, organized by period, as well as some thematic and genre categories.

Literary Index [http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex]

A master index to various Gale biographical and critical sources including such standard sources as Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Contemporary Authors.

Citing Sources – A Guide to Library Research [ http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/works_cited]

Provides a quick and comparative look at works-cited formats for APA, Chicago Style, MLA, and Turabian .

Sources [ http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/sources/]

An online manual for students who need guidance about correct citation style.