The International Journal of the History of Sport is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:  

America: History and Life; British Humanities Index; CAB Abstracts; Current Abstracts; Dietrich's Index Philosophicus; EBSCOhost; Global Health; Historical Abstracts; Gale Group – Expanded Academic ASAP, InfoTrac OneFile, Ingenta – Humanities International Index; IBZ (Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur; International Bibliography of Social Sciences; Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts; Leisure Tourism Database; OCLC – Electronic Collections Online; Ornamental Horticulture; Periodicals Index Online; Physical Education Index; Rural Development Abstracts; SportDiscus; Swets Information Services; Tropical Diseases Bulletin, and Veterinary Science Database.