Rocky Hill Country Day School Library: Sports & Society Final Project

An academic research database that gives you access to 12 million books, journals, images, and primary sources. See Ms. Gustavel or look in your Google Classroom for login credentials.

Use Google Scholar to search for academic books, articles, documents, essays, and reports.

A search engine intended for academic research that provides relevant, reliable source for students.

Points of View Reference Center is an EBSCO database that provides resources that examine multiple sides of an issue. It is an invaluable resource when writing persuasive essays or exploring controversial issues.

A collection of video interviews about some of the most memorable moments in sports.

"Since 1988, the Sports Byline USA radio series has regularly presented interviews with notable figures from the world of sports. To this point, they have aired over 6,400 such interviews with athletes, coaches, trainers, managers, owners, writers and others in the areas of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, tennis, golf, track and field and other sports."

Sports Illustrated free online archives.

Public access to millions of federal documents. Be sure to filter your search to materials available online.

"The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history"

"The roughly 6.000 objects in the Museum's sports collections bear witness to the vital place of sports in the nation's history. Paper sports objects in the collections, such as souvenir programs and baseball cards, number in the hundreds of thousands."

This is a "unique digital archives containing reports, oral histories, articles on sport and Olympic Games history."

"HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 18+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. We offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection."

"The Drake Group Education Fund collects articles consistent with the missions of The Drake Group and The Drake Group Education Fund that address the major issues facing intercollegiate athletics. This library is a COLLECTION BY TOPIC of all content so that readers can search by topic rather than purpose."

"Engaging Sports provides sociologically-informed analysis to help readers think about sports in a way that goes beyond the scores, highlights, and statistics. The site is intended for sport participants, fans, coaches, administrators, students, media members, and anyone else interested in better understanding sports in society."

A collection of podcasts that address various aspects of sports sociology.

"Today, the NCAA conducts programming and education in promoting and supporting the five areas of inclusion: race and ethnicity, women, student-athletes with disabilities, LGBTQ and international student-athletes. Inclusion continues to be an important aspect of intercollegiate athletics and the NCAA looks forward to collaborating with the more than 1,100 member institutions and conference offices in support of their diversity and inclusion goals."

"The NCAA is committed to making policy decisions based on quality research data. The NCAA research staff conducts national research for its members on a wide variety of topics including academic performance, student-athlete well-being, finances of intercollegiate athletics programs, gender-equity and diversity issues and many others."

"SIRC is the leading sport knowledge and communication centre in Canada. SIRC empowers sport organizations and individuals by sharing credible and evidence based knowledge using relevant and innovative communication channels."

Some articles are open access, others are not.