EXSS 129: Principles of Sport Management

Historical Origins of the sport

Strategy: Read books & encyclopedias for background

1. Browse the Reference and circulating collections by Dewey Decimal Number
2. Do a Keyword search in BLISweb and narrow to the “Reference” collection or by “topic”*
3. Search BLISweb using subjects(also called “topics”) from this handout
4. Use an eReference collection like
1. Gale Virtual Reference Library
2. SAGE Knowledge eReference

How has the sport evolved?

Specific sources:

Academic Search Premier: a database which contains scholarly and popular articles (including, Sports Illustrated). Limit to “fulltext” and 2000-2012.

Physical Education Index: scholarly article database. Limit to 2000-2012. No option to limit to fulltext; make InterLibrary Loan (ILL) requests if needed.