Sports Management: Home
Entrepreneurship & Social Science Librarian
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Introduction
Welcome to the library resource guide for Sports Management!
This guide gives an overview of the resources available to Columbia students and faculty for research in sports management. Use the tabs on the left to navigate through different sections of this guide.
Looking for books or ebooks? Search the Columbia Libraries catalog at https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog by title or keyword. You can also use CLIO to search for newspapers, magazines, and other publications by title (for example: New York Times, Sports Illustrated).
Looking for articles? See the "Searching for Articles" box below this one.
Need help? Email sps@library.columbia.edu to ask a question or set up a research consultation with a librarian or use the Ask a Librarian chat service for live help.
Searching for Articles
Databases:
Use Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost, and Proquest to search for articles (academic articles, trade journal articles, and news articles) across many different publications. Use SportBusiness to read sports business news.
- Business source complete . This link opens in a new window"Business Source Complete ... [provides] full text for ... scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for ... peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for ... top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost."--Ebscohost web site.
- EBSCOhost research databases. This link opens in a new windowProvides access to various databases indexing journals and other scholarly publications, some with full text.
- ProQuest central . This link opens in a new windowProvides current and historic abstracts and many full-text articles from over 2,800 business and management journals, including hundreds of titles from outside the U.S. Covers finance, management, marketing, accounting, business conditions, and other business topics.
- SportBusiness This link opens in a new window"Daily news, insight, and opinion on the global business of sport." Articles and reports covering the European, North American, and Asian sports markets, featuring coverage of multiple sectors including finance & law, sponsorship & marketing, and media
E-Journals:
SPORTDiscus: Provides access to indexing and full text for academic, popular, and trade journals relating to sports and the sports industry.
Available from 03/2007 to 05/2015
Search Tips
Boolean Operators
Use Boolean operators AND, NOT, and OR to make your search more narrow (AND), more broad (OR), or to exclude a particular word or phrase (NOT).
Advanced Search Tips
- Use “quotation marks” for exact phrases (“president elect” vs president AND elect)
- Use * to find plurals and variants (*celeration will find acceleration and deceleration; child* will find children, childhood).
- Citation chasing – use the bibliographies of useful articles to locate other articles and authors to search
- Cited by – most databases will now give you information on articles that cite the article you are looking at. This is very useful not only in finding other relevant research, but also to determine how influential that work has been in the field.