Databases for Hospitality and Tourism
Best Bets
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| SPORTDiscus with Full Text |
The comprehensive international content of the database is drawn from websites, journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, etc. |
1900-present |
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| Business Source Complete |
Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. |
1886-present |
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| ABI/Inform Complete |
Full text for more nearly 4,000 business publications, and citations with abstracts to 1,000 more business titles. |
Full text 1991-present | Indexing 1905-present |
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| Environment Complete |
Contains citations from more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. |
1940s-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. |
2000-present |
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| EconLit with Full Text |
Provides full text to nearly 500 journals plus citations, with abstracts, to over 600 journals, books, and working papers. |
1969-present |
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| Education Research Complete |
The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,780 journals, as well as full text for more than 870 journals. |
Coverge varies |
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| ERIC |
Sources include journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. Each year approximately 30,000 new records are added. |
1966-present |
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| Newspaper Source Plus |
Newspaper Source Plus provides full text coverage for 730 national & international newspapers. |
2000-present |
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| Sage Knowledge |
Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 150 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks. |
1994-present |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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