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SPORTDiscus™ is the world’s most comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, sports medicine and sports science. It includes well over 1.7 million records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; and over 22,000 dissertations and theses. The content also consists of international references from journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. Many of the references also provide direct access to the full text.

SPORTDiscus™ can be consulted at the Olympic Studies Centre (OSC), but remote access can also be set up for our researchers:

1/ If you are conducting research at the OSC, click on this link, then on “Sign in”. Click on “Don’t have an account? Sign up” and complete the form. Then connect to the database with your personal log-in and password (received by email) to validate your access request. Your account will then be active for 90 days (you can request an extension by email).

2/ If you are unable to visit the OSC, you can simply complete this form and return it to us by email. We will then set up access for you for 90 days. Your log-in/password will be sent by email. At the end of 90 days, you can request an extension by email.

If you have any questions or need help with consulting SPORTDiscus™, please speak to someone on the Welcome Desk or contact us by email. We shall be happy to assist you.

The Journal of Olympic History (JOH) is the official publication of the International Society of Olympic Historians, an organisation recognised by the International Olympic Committee. Consult our dedicated page to search and access directly to more than 700 articles available online ! 

The LA84 Foundation funds youth sports in Southern California, trains coaches, and examines the role of sport in society. The foundation is a legacy of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

The LA84 Foundation maintains a traditional paper-based library as well as a growing digital library. Together, these collections cover all aspects of sport, with a particular emphasis on Olympic information.
The traditional library holds 40,000 printed volumes, 6,000 microform volumes, 7,000 videos, 400 periodical titles and 90,000 photo images. The digital collection provides 100,000 PDFs of articles, books, and other documents available at no cost to website visitors.

The central library for sport sciences at the GSU is one of the world’s largest specialised libraries of sport and exercise sciences. The library’s collections contain 1,000 journals, 6,700 e-journals and 420,000 documents (books, videos, DVDs, dissertations, masters theses, etc.).

As a very experienced partner for studies, teaching, research, administration and the general public, the library offers a fast and state-of-the-art supply of documentation and information.

It also has its own website which can be used to browse through the collections or to order a certain book/article online. Although the language of operation in the library is German, 50 per cent of all the inventory is published in English.

The aim of the International Olympic Academy (IOA) is to create an international cultural centre in Olympia; to preserve and spread the Olympic spirit; to study and implement the educational and social principles of Olympism; and to consolidate the scientific basis of the Olympic ideal. The IOA thus organises each year several Sessions and seminars, from which all the proceedings are available online in Open Access on its website. The official journal, as well as other publications on the Olympic Truce and the history of the IOA, are also available online in Open Access.

The Olympedia database contains the profiles and results of all Olympic athletes and informative descriptions about the Games, events, venues much more. It is the most comprehensive database about the Olympic Games and is the result of the work of a group of renowned Olympic historians and passionates called OlyMADmen, who have been collecting Olympic statistics for many years.

Need to enlarge your research? The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue (KVK) is a metasearch engine for the detection of hundreds of millions of books, journals and other media in libraries’ catalogues worldwide.

This guide, created by the University of Illinois, offers access to research tools and resources on Latin American sport. The guide is the fruit of a recent initiative to create a subspecialty in Latin American sport in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies library collection, a unique focus among major academic libraries in the United States. The purpose is to foster an understanding of the region through the powerful lens of sport.