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 Sports Studies: 8 Databases

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Academic Universe
    (Use LexisNexis Academic)
America, History and Life  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1954-
Description: Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present and citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations.
Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
LexisNexis Academic
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.
NetLibrary E-book Collection
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: A collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.
Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.
PCI : Periodicals Contents Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1770-1995
Description: Index to millions of articles in thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worldwide, covering major Western languages.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
PsycINFO  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1872-
Description: Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Sociological Abstracts  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1963-
Description: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records for journal articles added after 1974 contain in-depth abstracts. Major areas of coverage include culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; women's studies.
Sport Discus  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: Indexed citations on exercise physiology, physical education, physical fitness, sports, and sports medicine, including books, sections of books, conference proceedings, periodical articles and research papers.
Sports Business Research Network
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains full text articles on news and market research information from sports industry sources, including trade magazines and newsletters dealing with finance, licensing, sponsorship, sports broadcasting, ratings and more.

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