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Academic Search Complete openURL Resource contains images Some full text available

The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.


Readers' Guide Retrospective. openURL
Readers’ Guide Retrospective™: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.
SPORTDiscus openURL
Comprehensive coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines provided by the Sport Information Resource Center (SPIRS).  Includes over 700,000 records of monographs and journal articles going back as far as 1800.

Biographical Information

Notable Sports Figures.
Print Location: Reference GV 697 A1 N68 2004 Resource contains images Some full text available


Data/Statistics

ESPN Sports Almanac.
Print Location: Reference GV 741 I58 2009 Some full text available


Statistical Encyclopedia of North American Professional Sports.
Print Location: Reference GV 581 G37 2008 Some full text available


Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Abbreviations.com Some full text available
An extensive collection of hundreds of thousands of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. 
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport.
Print Location: Reference GV 567 B48 2005 Resource contains images Some full text available


Credo Reference Resource contains images Some full text available
Over 600 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.
Famous First Facts About Sports.
Print Location: Reference GV 571 F73 2001 Some full text available


Sports Rules Book.
Print Location: Reference GV 731 H85 Resource contains images Some full text available


Handbooks & Guides

The Sports Book: The Games, the Rules, the Tactics, the Techniques
Print Location: General Collection GV 707 S698 2007 Some full text available


Streaming Video Collections

Films on Demand Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Films on Demand is a multi-disciplinary collection of streaming videos from Films Media Group. It includes over 8,000 full-length videos / 90,000 clips  that cover a wide range of academic disciplines: psychology, history, literature, languages, engineering, business, art, sociology, sciences and more. 

Style & Citation Guides

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Guides for how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style; the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style; and the Chicago/Turabian citation style.  This page also has information on how to use tools that automatically format bibliographic information for you such as: Zotero, and EasyBib.com.

Web Sites

CBS Sports Resource contains images Resource contains audio Some full text available


ESPN Resource contains images Resource contains audio Some full text available


Sport Science@The Exploratorium Resource contains images Resource contains audio Some full text available
"Learn about the science behind sports, including ice hockey, balls, and rock climbing. Also includes a sports science links and bibliography section, and the opportunity to ask a question about sports and science."  from Internet Public Library

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