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Databases and Online Resources

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887. Tutorial for the Academic Search Complete database.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 4,000 titles from general reference databases, including a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines. Tutorial for the ProQuest Research Library database.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text to journals in the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Includes access to health care books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, Evidence-Based Care Sheets, legal cases, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Subject coverage includes nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. View a tutorial on this database here.
Medline with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database of literature on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health-care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
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PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprises over 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. Provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) molecular biology resources. Tutorial for the PubMed database.
Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window
Offers comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and more; covers journals, video, dissertations, and reference books. Tutorial for Nursing & Allied Health database.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Covers recreation; exercise physiology; sports medicine; coaching; physical fitness; the psychology, history and sociology of sport; training; and conditioning. Consists primarily of periodical articles and monographs from 1800 onward; also contains dissertations and theses.
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Sports Market Analytics This link opens in a new window
Features market research and industry news covering many facets of the sports industry, such as sporting goods, equipment sales, participation, facilities, broadcasting, sponsorship, and marketing.
Sports Medicine & Education Index This link opens in a new window
Formerly Physical Education Index
Abstracts feature a variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance from 1970 to present. Also covers health education and physical therapy. Tutorial for Physical Education Index database.

Hospitality and Tourism Complete This link opens in a new window
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Coverage includes scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism, with full-text for 490 publications, including journals, company & country reports, and books. Subject areas covered include the food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management, leisure & business travel, and market trends. Includes geographic coverage materials from areas such as the U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia.
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Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Mass Tourism This link opens in a new window
Provides digital access to documents relating to the evolution of British and American working class tourism from c.1850 to 1980. It includes access to guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs, personal travel journals posters, and ephemeral items. Coverage: 1850 – 1980. View a tutorial on this database here.
World Tourism Organization eLibrary This link opens in a new window
Provides broad coverage of tourism and related areas that reflect important themes moving the tourism sector, including ecotourism and sustainable development, market research, innovation and new technologies, and tourism policies. Contains books; journals; and statistical reports by country, economic group, and indicator.

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
The ABI/INFORM Collection includes international coverage and provides researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Covers scholarly journals for business topics such as marketing, management, human resources, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Includes author profiles, financial data, books, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, datamonitor, and country reports from 1886.
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Factiva This link opens in a new window
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Supplies international business and news coverage from more than 8,000 sources including newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade journals, radio and television transcripts, and websites. Compiles company information and data and up to 5 years of historical market data. Contains photographs and pictures from Reuters and Knight Ridder. Tutorial for the Factiva database.
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APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
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ProQuest Social Sciences Collections This link opens in a new window
Provides global indexing of the scholarly literature in the social sciences, including full-text scholarly journals and key non-periodical sources such as dissertations and working papers, covering political science, sociology, the applied social sciences, criminal justice, education, and other areas. Search one or more of these databases, from Alt-PressWatch to Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Tutorial for the ProQuest Social Sciences Collection database.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Offers indexing for more than a thousand academic journals, most with full text. Covers a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
Tutorial for the Social Science Database database.

Prominent Journals

Below is a list of many of the more impactful scholarly journals that may be worthwhile to search directly for those with an interest in Sport, Recreation, & Tourism Management. There is a wide range of publications to choose from, and this is merely a small selection to give a good starting point for deeper review. When in doubt, contact your Librarian!