1. Sports and Recreational Management Databases
Kathryn Johnston

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 (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
Humanities International Complete
Business Source Complete
Medline
CINAHL
PsycArticles
Criminal Justice Abstracts
PsycInfo
Education Search Complete
Regional Business News Plus
Educational Administration Abstracts
ERIC
History Reference Center

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
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
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
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!