Encyclopedia resources
- Routledge History of American SportArticles on racial and ethnic identity and sport
Finding the stuff
- SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new windowA sports-specific database. Don't get freaked out that most of it isn't full-text. Just use the Find It button to request a copy and we'll email it to you in about 2 days.
- SocINDEX This link opens in a new windowA sociology specific database, it contains just the scholarly articles about sociology and criminal justice topics.
- Library CatalogWant to find books or films about your topic? Check out the library catalog to see what's available.
- Academic Search This link opens in a new windowA general catch-all database for all topics. A good place to start, but don't forget it has a lot of non-scholarly stuff in it.
Search Tips
- Use the sports words to search in the SocINDEX database and the sociology words to search in SPORTDiscus.
- Check your spelling. Most of these search engines won't spell check for you
- The more words you search for the fewer results you'll get. So if you don't have enough results, take a search term away...don't add more!
- Create a list of keywords you've used that work, so when you search the next database you remember.
