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Journals and reports

The following list of publications relates to women and girls and sport. See also our Products and services section for other publications.

The following list of sport specific journals and reports allow visitors to have free access to their articles.

Athletic Insight – The Online Journal of Sport Psychology
Anti-Doping Publications
Corporate Publications
International Publications - under construction
Journal of Sports Media
World Class Events Publications
Research Publications - under construction
Sports History Review
The Sport Journal
Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal

The following sport specific journals have limited access, but allow you to browse tables of contents, titles or authors, and some abstracts. The following are examples of titles that can be accessed via Human Kinetics Journals.

  • Journal of Sport Management
  • Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (JPS)
  • Sociology of Sport Journal


The International Journal of the History of Sport
The Journal of Sports Marketing (this is no longer published, but all issues up to July 2000 are available online)

Other sport related resources

Scholarly Sports Sites index
including Bibliography

Selected full text sport publications

International Sociology of Sport Association

General sociology journals with free access

American Journal of Sociology
Electronic Journal of Sociology
Genders – online articles about gender and sexuality
JSTOR
The Scholarly Journals site provides online access to articles from journals covering not just sociology, but also anthropology, politics, economics, education, history and more. Fully searchable, and highly recommended!
Sociological Research Online
The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication – lists a range of free, full text online journals.
The Qualitative Research Report – online research methods journal.
Tricks of the Trade – online excerpt from Howard S Becker's book about 'doing' research.

Books

– online book store.
Extra Cover – used cricket and soccer books.
Sportsbooks – new sports books.
sportsbooks direct

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