Abstract

The German Virtual Library of Sport Science (“ViFa Sport”) is a search portal that enables simultaneous sport-specific literature searches in various sport-literature databases. This, in principle, is more convenient for users than doing searches in several databases independently. An additional advantage of such a comprehensive search is that the number of documents found is, at least theoretically, higher than in the case of a search in only one database. Framework conditions: The “ViFa Sport” project was started on February 1, 2006. The project phase was completed after one and a half years and the portal was presented to the public on September 26-28, 2007. The project was financially supported by the German Research Society (DFG). Aims of “ViFa Sport”: 1. To bring together the available sport-science databases at a single website and make them freely accessible under a single Internet address (“one-stop-shop for sportscience information”); 2. to provide a meta-search for different sport-science databases; and 3. to provide direct access to the media (through links to digital full texts, online ordering, electronic document delivery) if possible. Verf.-Referat