Trove is a database provided by the National Library of Australia. The newspaper search section is useful for finding historical information about women's sport in Australia and New Zealand. Trove also searches books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.
The following is a list of annual reports, constitutions and other publications by women oriented sport organisations or by a group, government or sport organisation that has published material specifically about women's sport.
The National Sport Information Centre (NSIC) is a sport library based in Canberra, Australia. It is run by the Australian Institute of Sport. The library has many books about sport, with a focus on sport performance though it does have an extensive collection of books and related materials for the Olympics and Paralympics related to Australia and the international sport community. NSIC also has a two shelves specifically dedicated to women's sport and another two shelves dedicated to children's sport. The library also has an extensive collection of journals. Some of these journals specifically relate to women's sport.
NSIC also has a collection of annual reports from various Australian national and international sporting organisations. These can be searched on the internet at the full text search part of their website.
The University of Canberra is home to the University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies program. The program focuses largely on sport performance. Because of this, the library has a decent collection of books about women's sport. These books include but are not limited to:
An illusory image : a report on the media coverage and portrayal of women's sport in Australia (1996)
A whole other ball game : women's literature on women's sport
Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport
Playing nice and losing : the struggle for control of women's intercollegiate athletics, 1960-2000
Women, sport, and society in modern China : holding up more than half the sky
Sport and women : social issues in international perspective
Strong women, deep closets : lesbians and homophobia in sport
World Outlook Report 2006-2011 : Contract Receipts for Women's, Girls' & Infants' Embroidering on Team Sport Uniforms, Costumes & Other Apparel...
World Outlook Report 2006-2011 : Women's & Girls' Team Sport Uniforms
Mother's taxi : sport and women's labor
Crossing boundaries : an international anthology of women's experiences in sport
Career pathways for elite coaching : a study of Australian softball coaches
Out of play : critical essays on gender and sport
Heroines of sport : the politics of difference and identity
Higher goals : women's ice hockey and the politics of gender
Making the rugby world : race, gender, commerce
Sport in Europe : politics, class, gender
Nike is a goddess : the history of women in sports
Footbinding, feminism, and freedom : the liberation of women's bodies in modern China
The sporting cycle : the hormonal factor and elite women athletes
Out of bounds : women, sport, and sexuality
Women who win : exercising your rights in sport
Out of the bleachers : writings on women and sport
Women's gymnastics
Women's hockey.
Performance and meaning : a socio-cultural view of women in sport
Netball heroes
Netball : essential sports
Netball diary
How to play netball
Netball mail
Netball : steps to success
Australian netball skills
Netball : the greatest team sport for women
Women's field hockey : level I coaching certification
Field hockey : guidance notes on rule interpretations
The stronger women get, the more men love football : sexism and the American culture of sports
Hockey coaching level 0 : a resource to supplement the level 0 coaching courses conducted for the Australian Womens Hockey Association and the Australian Hockey Association.
