Olympics
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Encyclopedia of the modern Olympic movement
The Olympics : a history of the modern games
The Olympic Games : ancient and modern
Books:
You can also browse the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:
DF261.O5 Olympia
GV23 Olympics (Ancient)
GV706.3 Sports - Moral and ethical aspects
GV721.18-722 Olympic sport
GV841.5-842 Winter Olympics
eBooks:
The Olympic Games Effect : How Sports Marketing Builds Strong Brands
Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City : Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond
This is a selection of Olympics related eBooks. You can also check the Catalogue for more eBooks.
Year book Australia (the 2000 issue includes articles about sporting Australians, Sydney's Stadium Australia and the climate of Sydney. The 2002 issue contains a look back at the Sydney Olympics and Paralmpics)
Image Collections
Andrew Mewing, Swimming
Mark McNee, Speed Skating
Melanie Kleeberg, Athletics
Natalie Cook, Beach Volleyball
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
SPORTDiscus: A resource for both practical and research literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics. Records cover sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, and other sport- and fitness-related topics. The database also includes citations from Atlantes, Heracles and Catalog du Musee Olympique
Sociological Abstracts (Sociofile): Provides access to findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Abstracts approximately 2500 journals, covering sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.
PsycINFO: PsycINFO database covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. It includes materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. PsycINFO provides indexes to journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports
ERIC: A bibliographic database covering the literature of education, this version of ERIC includes direct links to the electronic full-text of over 100,000 documents.
Scopus: Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, psychology, economics, social sciences, and biological and agricultural sciences.
Journals
Multimedia
DVDs :
London's 2012 Olympics a sustainable future?
Olympics coverage (2008 Beijing Olympic Games)
Ancient Olympics : Let the games begin
XIX Olympic Winter Games, Salt Lake, 2002 : Opening ceremony
XIX Olympic winter games, Salt Lake, 2002 : Closing ceremony
The opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games : a Sydney celebration
CDs :
These CDs contain documentary audio. For music CDs, see 'Music' tab
The big clean up : remediation at Homebush Bay / Sydney Olympic Park Authority
The Union Carbide story : Rhodes Peninsula and Homebush Bay / Sydney Olympic Park Authority
Wilson Park : a story of bioremediation / Sydney Olympic Park Authority
Music
News
Factiva - A global news and business information service that combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.
Informit TVNews - indexes the majority of TV news stories, current affairs and documentary series broadcast on Australian television. Individual stories may be downloaded to the desktop in a compressed video format.
UQ NEWS:
UQ Graduate Earns Gold and Silver at London Olympics
UQ Student Makes it Three in a Row


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