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Sports and Recreational Management Databases

This resource guide provides information on searching for scholarly and peer-reviewed articles in various databases related to sports and recreational management. It includes tips on selecting the right database for different subject areas and provides a list of relevant databases for sports, business, psychology, injuries, law, and history. Additionally, it offers instructions on using the EBSCO platform to search multiple databases simultaneously.

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Sports and Recreational Management Databases

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  1. Sports and Recreational Management Databases Kathryn Johnston kajohnston00@marianuniversity.edu 920-923-8725

  2. What is a scholarly or peer reviewed article?

  3. Knowledge cycle:

  4. To search individual databases:

  5. Choose a database according to the subject—ask a librarian for more help!

  6. Academic Search Premier provides articles useful for most subjects:

  7. School or university athletics: • ERIC [Education Resource Information Center]. (Scholarly articles, professional magazine articles, and government and nonprofit reports related to education) • Education Research Complete (Scholarly and professional magazine articles related to education)

  8. Sports Business or Management: • Business Source Complete (business trade magazine articles, scholarly articles and news) • NexisUni (formerly Lexis Nexis). (corporate data, trade magazine articles, business newspaper articles, and scholarly business and legal articles.) • Regional Business News (regional business magazine and newspaper articles) • Global Newstream (newspaper articles including FDL Reporter, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal and other national publications which may include business and sports topics)

  9. Motivation, sports psychology, and marketing: • PsycInfo (indexes mostly scholarly articles related to psychology, and also books and dissertations related to psychology. Includes some fulltext articles.) • PsycArticles (fulltext articles published in American Psychological Association journals)

  10. Sports injuries, training and health related topics: • Medline (scholarly articles for physicians) • CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature)

  11. Sports Law, Contracts, and Legal Issues: • NexisUni (formerly Lexis Nexis). Case law, government laws and regulations, legal journal articles, legal news • Criminal Justice Abstracts (Covers scholarly and professional magazines related to law enforcement)

  12. Sports and Athletics History: • Academic Search Complete (Scholarly and magazine articles) • History Reference Center (Scholarly history articles and book chapters) • Humanities International Complete (Scholarly journal articles) • JSTOR (scholarly journal articles and some archival newspaper and other primary sources) • New York Times archive 1851- (News articles would provide eyewitness accounts of the sport, its games and players)

  13. Databases on the EBSCO platform can be searched simultaneously: • Academic Search Complete • Business Source Complete • CINAHL • Criminal Justice Abstracts • Education Search Complete • Educational Administration Abstracts • ERIC • History Reference Center • Humanities International Complete • Medline • PsycArticles • PsycInfo • Regional Business News Plus

  14. Type words in box. The * means find every word that starts with those letters (sponsor, sponsors, sponsoring, sponsorship, sponsorships)

  15. 10,859 results. Check subject headings to discover more or better search words. Narrow down by clicking the Scholarly or Full text boxes:

  16. Narrow results more by adding more terms, requiring that they are Subjects…

  17. To search more or different databases, click on Choose Databases:

  18. Choose Databases Select or deselect boxes for EBSCO databases to find additional materials:

  19. Combined results from different databases. They may use different subjects so you may need to change to Text.

  20. AND narrows down and brings fewer results. OR adds synonyms or concepts and finds more results. Can be typed or as drop down arrow:example: sports OR athletics OR football OR baseball

  21. To create bibliography, click on blue box. If saved, the box turns yellow:

  22. To see saved items, click on Folder on top tab:

  23. Email, print or save the folder items:

  24. Use Citation dropdown to change to APA format:

  25. Any Questions?Ask a library staff member!

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