• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • Encyclopedia Britannica
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996
      • Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
      • Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement
      • International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports
      • Sports in North America: A Documentary History
        
        
      • Encyclopedia of Swimming
      
      
    
    
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search:
    
    
    • uses Library of Congress classification system
      • sports = GV
        
        
    • Subject search by sport: e.g. swimming
      
      
    • Subject search by Olympics and Olympic Games
      
      
  • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc.
    • usually provides a more general search
      
      
• Author search
  

• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
      
• For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
• free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

• Academic Search Premier
  • 4,500+ general and academic journals
  • coverage 1985+
  • mostly full-text

• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals
  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
    
  
  

• Check journal titles in E-Journal Holdings , the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  • e.g., Sports Illustrated
    
    
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• New York Times (1851-2003)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form
    
    
• Washington Post (1877-1990)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form
    
    
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • 5,900+ news, business, legal, medical and reference publications
  • national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
    
    
• News and Newspapers Online (from UNC - Greensboro)
  • local domestic newspapers from around the world

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• Official Site of the International Olympic Movement (Olympic.org)
  
  
• International Sports Federations
  • swimming example:
    • International Federation = Fédération Internationale de Natation
    • National federation = USA Swimming
      
      
• National Olympic Committees
  • example: Official Site of USA Olympic Team
    
    
• Google Directory: Olympics
  
  
• Yahoo! Directory: Olympic Games
  
  
• Google Search: swimming and Olympics/Olympic Games
  
  
• Web page translator: Altavista's Babel Fish Translation
  

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• Hacker Online
  • formatting examples