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Acceptable Use Policy

The University Libraries' sports-related holdings, endowed in 1987 as the Joyce Sports Research Collection, support research in the history, sociology, and economics of amateur and professional athletics, especially in the United States. Materials are overwhelmingly English language. Close to 10,000 book and serial titles are held in the circulating collections of Hesburgh Library, most notably in the GV classifications. There are also substantial holdings in microform. In addition, the Department of Special Collections (102 Hesburgh) has extensive holdings of earlier sports-related materials, especially books and more ephemeral forms of printed matter: guides, programs, yearbooks, magazines, and the like. There are also manuscript and photographic collections. Subject emphasis is on American and British athletics of the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, with the individual areas of boxing, professional wrestling, baseball, football, basketball, golf, and the Olympic Games being particularly well represented. Among many specialized collections are the library, files, and memorabilia of the sportswriter Red Smith; the papers of professional wrestling promoter Jack Pfefer; the papers of boxing writer and publisher Stanley Weston; and the Winkler Collection of photographic materials on boxing. The Joyce Collection Web site features subject area guides to the Libraries' sports-related holdings; these include finding aids to many materials in Special Collections.

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Access to these resources is governed by license agreements which restrict use to the Notre Dame community and to individuals who use the Notre Dame Libraries' facilities. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that he or she uses these products only for individual, noncommercial use without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information. Acceptable use forbids downloading contents of entire issues of a given journal title. The use of software such as scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in loss of access to these resources for the entire Notre Dame community.

Please see the ND Copyright Policies webpage for more information on the creation and use of copyrighted materials at Notre Dame.

Recommended Resources (All Resources: 16 databases | 4 e-journals )

• SIRC : a world of sport information

  
  
  Guide to sites devoted to a variety of sports including the Olympics. Provides links to associations, teams, directories, newsgroups/mailing lists, statistics, and biographies.

• Sport discus (EBSCO)

  
  

  Coverage:

  1800-
  Comprehensive sports database of bibliographic citations and indexing to articles, books, dissertations, etc. on "... sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation ..." with coverage from the year 1800 forward.

• Sports business research network

  
  
  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.

Other Sports Studies Resources

Places: Canada · United States

Formats: Electronic journals

Research tools: Indexes and abstracts · Newspapers and news sources · Reviews (book, film, etc.)

E-Journal Collections: HighWire Press · Sage Publications · ScienceDirect · Taylor & Francis