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Business & Industry

Abstracts and full-text of articles from leading trade magazine, newsletters, the business press, regional newspapers and international trade journals covering private and public companies in the manufacturing and service industries at an international level. Coverage begins in 1994.

Business and Management Practices

Bibliographic citations and full text (for 60% of citations) in core management journals and to management-related citations in additional business sources.

LexisNexis Academic

Full-text files focusing on legal (federal, state, national) news (newspapers, newswires, transcripts), business and industry information. To search the "Sporting News" category, choose the "Business" link and then choose "Industry and Market" link and "Sporting News" from the Industry drop down box.

Proquest

Reference database containing abstracts, indexing, and full text articles from popular magazines, business periodicals, and academic publications, plus current coverage of articles from The New York times and The Wall Street journal. It covers a wide range of topics including the arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences and women's interests.

SPORTDiscus

Description: Bibliographic database, international in scope, covering the practical and research literature for all aspects of sports, leisure, and physical fitness. Subjects covered include sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, sports for the disabled, facilities, equipment, and recreation and leisure. 1949 - present; updated monthly.

TableBase

TableBase records are drawn from more than 1000 sources in the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade association reports, and governmental reports and provide information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics.

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Web Resources

SportsEconomics™ - Economist Daniel Rascher founded SportsEconomics™ in 1998 to allow interested individuals easy access to information related to sports and economics. This includes links to reference information, discussion groups for educators to share resources, shared data files, newsletters, and a bibliography of industry research and publications.

The Sports Economist - This site, or blog, is intended to be a depository of economic thinking on issues in sport, and to a lesser extent, economics in general. Sports provide an entertaining and useful platform for economic discussion. The material is written for students, scholars, and fans who want to think about economics and sports.

Google Directory of Sports Economics - Google directory of sports economics related links.

Sports Link Central - Sports Links Central.com aims to be the most comprehensive and definitive sports Web directory providing links to official sites in a variety of sports industry categories.

Yahoo Directory of Sports Advertising and Marketing - Links to sports marketing and advertising links.

The Business of Baseball - The goal of this site is to provide research tools for those wishing to learn more about the business end of professional baseball.

infoplease© - This online almanac has information on sports franchises and their values, lists the top TV-rated, Cable-TV, and Pay-Per-View sports events, lists the Forbes Top 40 best paid athletes, as well as a directory of main sports associations. Also, see Ballparks and Arenas area.

Sports Data Page - Links collected to help students and instructors find current and archived sports data.

Scholarly Sports Sites - This University of Calgary subject directory brings together the websites which will assist the serious sports researcher, kinesiology librarian, sport information specialist, college/university student and faculty.

Sports Venues - Information on how sports venues earn money.

The Baseball Archive - Statistics from the world of baseball, including salaries and player statistics.

Player Salary Databases - Sports Fans of America's guide to player's salaries from all major professional sports teams.

Sports Business Data - Rodney Fort's Sports Economics/Sports Business Data covering MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL statistics including (but not limited to) statistics on attendance, salaries, ticket prices and TV revenues.

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