Research Guides: Sport Management: Overview

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SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Start here. Specialized resource for sports medicine research. Subjects include nutrition, physical therapy, occupational health, exercise physiology and kinesiology.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Top resource for biomedical and life sciences research.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Use this for research on psychological aspects of medicine and health. Also covers consumer behavior and marketing topics.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Get both scholarly scientific articles and general interest health and fitness information. You can use the topic finder to help find new keywords and resources.
Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Information on health topics for the general population. Includes sports medicine, nutrition, and general health.

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
A mix of scholarly and industry-focused business publications.
PrivCo This link opens in a new window
U.S. private company financials, including any sales and merger deals. Some numbers are estimates, because private companies don't have to release much information.
Frequent users will want to create an academic account using your SMU email address.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Trends and analysis of U.S industries, including sports related ones like sport franchises and sport facilities.
View the Industry Research tutorial for more insights.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics & studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, etc
View the Finding Data tutorial for more insights.
SportBusiness University This link opens in a new window
Connects the academic world with the wider sports industry
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
A mix of scholarly and industry-focused business publications.
View the Company Research and Industry Research tutorials for more insights.

Marketing Research
Identifies major resources in the marketing and advertising fields, including the sports industry.
Advertising
Advertising and market trends, reports, and statistics.
Medical and Health Research
Finding & evaluating medical literature and statistics.

Women's sports : what everyone needs to know by Jaime Schultz. Using historical, contemporary, scholarly, and popular sources, Schultz traces the progress and pitfalls of women's involvement in sport. By attending to issues such as gender, sexuality, sex segregation, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, media coverage, and the sport-health connection, Schultz shows why women's sports are important for players, fans, and society.
ISBN: 0190657723
Publication Date: 2018
The Ethics of Sport by Robert L. Simon This accessible book tackles a wide-ranging array of topics that arise in ethics of sport on every level, from amateur to professional, and from the general to the specific.Ethics of sport expert Robert Simon examines provocative, thorny questions: Why do we care so much about sports? What counts as overemphasizing winning? What makes cheating in sports ethically objectionable? How have performance enhancing drugs affected sport? Should contact sports be modified to protect the health of athletes? Do organized athletics belong in schools? Don't athletic programs undermine academics in secondary and college education?
ISBN: 9780190270193
Publication Date: 2016-08-11