National Sport Information Centre
Delivering world best sport information services & solutions
The National Sport Information Centre (NSIC) provides a national focus to achieve sport information, research, and knowledge outcomes for Australian Sport.
The NSIC provides high quality sport information, analysis and advice to primary clients operating with the national sport sector. The NSIC’s primary clients include Australian sport’s leading coaches, scientists, medical practitioners, researchers, administrators and policy makers. The NSIC also provides a range of expanded services to Australia’s national elite level athletes, including past and present Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holders.
The Centre is open to the public and makes available a comprehensive range of research resources to teachers, physical educators, students, media, and sport enthusiasts alike. Visitors are welcome to browse the NSIC library collections and utilise our modern audio-visual and information technology facilities while being immersed in a dynamic sports environment. The NSIC's friendly and professional staff are on hand to help ensure you make the most of your time within the Centre.
The NSIC performs and provides the following functions and services for its primary clients. Please note many of the services described below are not available to the public.
Access to open and closed-source sports related information.
- 24/7 Online access to information and library research resources is facilitated via the NSIC’s, Clearinghouse for Sport (formerly Online Australian Sport Information Service - OASIS), a secure web environment for primary clients providing remote internet access to electronic publications, videos, images, full-text research databases, library catalogue, daily current awareness updates and online discussion forums
- Physical access describes client access to the Centre itself including access to collections, study and reading areas, wireless internet facilities, research databases, photocopiers, scanners, individual and group video analysis areas, video editing and dubbing facilities, photo-kiosk, pay television services, and Sports Lounge. After-hours self service access to the Centre is made available to NSIC primary clients
- Administrative access describes a range of managed processes performed by NSIC staff which underpin the Centre’s information, research and knowledge facilitation activities, that is, client management, rights administration, collection acquisitions and maintenance, publishing and multimedia production, and the establishment and maintenance of a broad range of vendor subscriptions and service partner agreements
Analysis, evaluation, and abstraction of sport information and knowledge:
- The NSIC undertakes analysis in the form of information reference and research activities covering topical areas such as sports facts, figures, statistics, results, dates, events, profiles and quotes. The NSIC also produces daily current awareness updates, personal research alerts, media monitoring coverage, and supports sport performance analysis and coaching activities.
Advice on whole-of-sport issues including written and oral briefings:
- The NSIC’s advisory services are tailored to meet specific needs using a combination of the Centre’s sport information specialists, collections, networks and access to national and international resources and expertise. The NSIC also provides information research literacy training for clients, and regularly hosts or participates in a range of national and international sport information and research focused forums, workshops, and conferences.
Affiliation and sector partnering to leverage and share expertise and resources across Australian sport and governments:
- The NSIC is able to provide a national focus for sport information, research and knowledge outcomes by networking and collaborating with key sport sector partners. The NSIC has established an Australian governments’ sport information purchasing consortium, and actively promotes cooperation and resource sharing across the national sport sector through the Australasian Sport Information Network (AUSPIN). The NSIC is also a leading member of the International Association for Sports Information (IASI) and actively engages in international sport information and research collaboration, and works to promote the establishment of national and international centres for sport studies.
