Sport Management
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media 

• Reed Library Catalog: Locate materials in Reed Library.
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles 

• SportDiscus with Full Text: Search Sports and Sports Medicine Journals.
• American National Biography: Locate full text biographies for over 17,400 American men and women. Great place for biographies of famous sports figures.  This source only includes those who are deceased.   
• Business Source Complete: Provides access to thousands of full text business journals. Coverage goes back to 1886.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Primarily used for legal research, this source also covers news, financial, and medical information.
• PsycInfo: Citations and summaries of psychology topics.  Also includes the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage from 1887 to present.
• SocIndex Plus Full Text: Provides journal articles for all areas of Sociology, with coverage for some journals dating back to 1895.

Reference

• International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports: Reference GV 709.I58 2000
• Sport Management Titles in Reed Library's Reference Collection
• Oxford Reference: Includes over 175 titles language and subject reference works.

Other Tools

• The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles Digital Archives: The AAF Archive contains over 30,000 PDF documents that are searchable in fulltext
• International Association for Assembly Managers: The IAAM represents leaders in the area of large facility management such as convention centers, auditoriums, sports venues and university complexes.
• International Olympic Committee: The IOC site is the official source for information on all Olympic sports, athletes and the Olympic Games.
• North American Society for Sport Management: The NASSM actively supports professional development, research, study and scholarly writing in the field of Sport Management.
• Positive Coaching Alliance: Positive Coaching Alliance was started at Stanford University in 1998 with the goal to transform the way youth sports are coached. The site provides access to information about the organization, its philosophy and mission.
• Sports Reference:  Statistical data for baseball, football, hockey, the Olympics
• Women's Sports Foundation: Advocates for women's sports and health issues such as Title IX enforcement, equality in coaching and sports administration and proper nutrition for the female athlete. Includes a database of topical questions and answers from experts.