History 499 (Sports & Recreation)
Library Resources (Fall 2017)
Greg Armento, History Librarian (562-985-4367) greg.armento@csulb.edu
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PAGE an overview of services available in the library.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society. 2 vols.Ref GV11 E555 2009
Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America. Online Encyclopedia, 2004
Sports Culture: An A - Z Guide: 2nd Floor Stacks GV706.5 .C383 2000
ONESEARCH for Books at CSULB Access to our 1.25 million University Library books, some over 500 years old.
For better results, try OneSearch subject keyword search. You’ll get items with higher relevancy. Try some of these Note that the asterisk* at the end of a word will find sport* (sports or sporting or sportsmen, etc)
sport* athlet* soccer football basketball baseball rugby
Try these same searches in CSU+ for potentially many more relevant books that can be brought here in 3-4 days.
BOOK AND JOURNAL LOANING OPTIONS FROM OTHER LIBRARIES
CSU+ To rapidly get books from other libraries that we don’t have or that are out.
BeachReach to get journal articles not found in our library or online.
RETROSPECTIVE (HISTORIC FULL-TEXT) ARTICLE DATABASES
American Periodicals 1740 - 1900 Full text popular and scholarly periodicals including ads.
Google News Archive Full text facsimile newspapers from the 1800s to the present day. Good for finding full text regional newspaper articles. But you can't limit or sort by time period
Historical Los Angeles Times, 1881-1994 Full text online coverage of the L.A.T. Go to DOCUMENT TYPE and limit your search to DISPLAY ADS
Historical New York Times, 1851-2013
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1900-1984 Covers 1200 scholarly journals.
JSTOR Online Journal Archive A full text archive of core scholarly journal literature in the social sciences and humanities dating back to the 1850s.
Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 Popular magazines.
Times (OF London) 1785-2010. Full text of London Times
CURRENT RESEARCH DATABASES
To find the articles in databases, look for the Get It @ CSULB Logo 
in each citation. It is a shortcut to find the article online. If we don’t have the article in the building, or online use BeachReach To rapidly get journal articles we don’t have, from other libraries.
Academic Search Complete Accesses nearly 6000 journals. Provides comprehensive interdisciplinary coverage 1990 to date.
Communication and Mass Media Complete Covers scholarly journal articles in areas related to communication and mass media, 1922 to date.
Dissertations and Theses Provides full text access to thousands of PhD dissertations back to the 1960s.
Global Newsstream Thousands of U.S and international newspapers, full text.
Historical Abstracts (World History) & America History & Life (U.S. History) The premier indexes for scholarly research in history. Articles go back to the 1950s.
SPORTS Discus. Research in sports, games, athletics.
SocIndex. Wide variety of social science research topics
Sociological Abstracts Research in sociology.
GOOGLE TECHNIQUES AND TIPS
Put “phrases in quotes” to force word adjacency
Use domain stems to find sites in specific internet realms
Google Books may allow you to read chapters of selected books. You may find the full book in OneSearch or CSU+
Google Scholar to find scholarly journal articles. If you do this in the library, you may find full text articles you can open.
