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Sport Management

This pathfinder is intended to assist those doing research on the Sport Management. For demographic and psychographic sources of data, please see the Marketing research guide. For further assistance, please consult with librarians at the Reference and Information Desk. This guide is arranged in the following sections:

Subject Librarian: Shmuel Ben-Gad
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Phone: 202-994-6048
Updated: July 2006

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Locate Articles

ALADIN databases are available for use only by current GW students, staff, and faculty. If you are using this page from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter the barcode number from the back of your GWorld ID card before you can access the database.

Sports Business Research Network
Location: ALADIN
Provides full-text to articles about sports marketing and the sporting goods industry.

Leisure Tourism.com
Location: ALADIN
Indexes articles, books, and chapters in books. Once in, click on "Search Abstracts" to search the main database or "news" to search "weekly, updated news."

ABI Inform. 1970 -
Location: ALADIN
Indexes scholarly and popular management periodicals and provides full-text to most.

Business and Industry Database. 1994 -
Location: ALADIN
This index covers, "leading trade magazines, newsletters, the general business press and international business dailies," from different countries and in a number of languages. For all articles there are substantive abstracts and the full-text is available for most of the English language articles. This is a particularly good source for information about companies, industries, products, and services.

Business Source Premier
Location: ALADIN
Similar to ABI Inform (above).

Factiva.
Location: ALADIN
This provides mostly full-text of newspaper and business magazine articles. The emphasis is on news rather than scholarly articles.

Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe.
Location: ALADIN
This provides mostly full-text of newspapers and general interest and some business periodicals. The emphasis is on news rather than scholarly articles. This also provides the full-text of court cases, legal codes, regulations, and some Canadian and European Union laws.

Locate Other Information

IEG Sponsorship Sourcebook. Annual. 1993, 1996-1997, 2000 -
Location: REF GT 3930 .I33 (Earlier editions in the fourth floor stacks)
The former title is IEG Directory of Sponsorship Marketing.

Revenues from Sports Venues Pro Edition. Annual. 2003 -
Location: REF GV 583 .R48 (Earlier editions in the fourth floor stacks)
Covers the revenues and financing of sports venues.

Sports Business Directory. Annual. Latest edition only retained.
Location: REF GV 561 .S66

Sports Market Place Directory. Annual. Latest edition only retained.
Location: REF HD 9992 .U5 S667

Sports Sponsor Factbook. Annual. 1993, 1995, 1997, 2002 -
Location: REF GV 716 .T45 (Earlier editions in the fourth floor stacks)
Focuses on sponsors and others involved in sports marketing.

Locate Books

To locate BOOKS , use the WRLC Libraries Catalog. Subject headings that may be helpful to search under are:
Sports Administration
Sports Management
Sports Marketing
Sports Political Aspects
Sports and State

Also, names of individual sports followed by economic aspects (e.g. baseball economic aspects)

For More Information

For more information, call the Reference Desk at 202-994-6048 or use the E-mail Reference Form. This page is maintained by Shmuel Ben-Gad.

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