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Encyclopedia of Tourism
A quick reference to the wide range of basic definitions, concepts, themes, issues, methods, perspectives, and institutions relating to the tourism industry.

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Oxford Reference Premium contains over 125 language and subject dictionaries and reference works, all published by Oxford University Press. Areas of coverage include science and medicine, the humanities and social sciences, and business and law. Content includes world maps, illustrations, timelines, weblines, and key titles from the Oxford Companions series. English dictionaries and thesauri, guides to grammar and usage, and dictionaries of etymology, foreign languages, quotations, and names are provided.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Sage International Encyclopedia of Travel & Tourism
Taking a global and multidisciplinary approach, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism brings together a team of international scholars to examine the travel and tourism industry, which is expected to grow at an annual rate of four percent for the next decade. In over 600 entries spanning four comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia examines the business of tourism around the world paying particular attention to the social, economic, environmental, and policy issues at play. The book examines global, regional, national, and local issues including transportation, infrastructure, the environment, and business promotion.

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Most reputable articles are published in peer reviewed journals, which only accessible with a subscription. USM Libraries provides subscription access to around 75,000 such journals which can either be browsed by publication or searched within various databases.

Browse All Subscription Journals, Magazines & Newspapers

Journals by Title
Search for journals by title, then browse issues by clicking on the database(s) listed or search all contents.
Newspapers Resources Guide
A subject guide on news and magazine collections in the USM Databases

Search for Articles Within Databases

Academic OneFile with InfoTrac Collections This link opens in a new window
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Connect students and library patrons to the information they're looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. Gale’s premier periodical resource, Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from more than 18,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and reference sources, with more than 8,800 in full text. Academic OneFile also offers engaging multimedia, with over 59,000 images and 3,500+ audio files. Also included is a full collection of National Public Radio programs from 1990 to the present, including searchable transcripts; and links to over 1.2 million video files, from shows like Frontline and NOVA. With extensive coverage in key subject areas including the physical and social sciences, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects, students and patrons are able to find, share, or use accurate, current information with ease
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Complete is a large scholarly, multidisciplinary, full-text database, with more than 7,400 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,500 scholarly, popular, trade, and special interest serials, and a total of more than 12,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and more. Updated daily.
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Business Collection provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through business and trade publications, complemented by a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications.

Coverage: updated daily
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The Business Economics & Theory Collection offers instant access to full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Powered by InfoTrac, it includes more than 1,800 titles. This collection is useful for anyone starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.
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RECOMMENDED, start here for a comprehensive business database. EBSCO’s Business Source Complete has full text coverage of over 3,700 journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more, plus an additional 3,000 journals that are indexed and abstracted. BSC also provides full text access to the Harvard Business Review and the top five business magazines.

Business Source Complete indexes and abstracts more than 4,800 scholarly, trade, popular, and special interest serials in the fields of business and industry. More than half of the publications are peer- reviewed, and approximately 3,700 provide full text. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, faculty seminars (videos), and more.
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Emerald Insight includes access to all of Emerald's currently published journals as well as selected backfiles. Topics covered include management research, engineering, computing & technology, education, and more.
Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories for business schools and entrepreneurs.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
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Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. The database contains full text for more than 400 journals, including many of the most-used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. It also has full text for more than 100 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, and more.
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GreenFILE provides information on all aspects of human impact to the environment, including such subjects as global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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Laws and state and federal legislation documents
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection This link opens in a new window
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Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. The database offers current and relevant content that provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
IBISWorld Industry Research Reports & Business Environment Profiles This link opens in a new window
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IBISWorld’s Industry Research Reports are powerful business tools that provide strategic insight and analysis on over 700 U.S. industries and over 70 global industries.

Business Environment Profiles provide insight into these key drivers, which include exchange rates, commodity prices, interest rates, weather conditions, consumer attitudes, demographics and many more.
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SAGE Journals Online provides access to full-text articles in more than 400 SAGE journals from 1999 to the present. Topics covered are primarily in the social sciences as well as sciences, technology, and medicine. All journal titles in the collection are also listed and linked individually in URSUS
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ScienceDirect is a full-text collection of journals on science, technology, and medicine published by Elsevier. The University of Maine System Libraries have access to Complete and the Freedom Collection, which together comprise more than 1,800 journals, most with backfiles from 1995 to present. There are some ScienceDirect journal titles to which University users do not have access. Elsevier provides lists of titles included and excluded from the Freedom Collection at https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/sciencedirect/content/journal-title-lists
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SpringerLink provides access to full-text STM (scientific, technical, medical) journals, book series, books, and reference works published by Springer and its imprints.

Search for books locally (in the G and TX sections of the stacks) or across the UMaine System with URSUS. Use the "Request" feature on item records to request free delivery from another location to your campus library. You can also get free delivery from MaineCat and WorldCat. Use MaineCat to search the holding of Colby, Bates & Bowdoin Colleges and Maine's public libraries. Use WorldCat to search worldwide for any book and request delivery using our Interlibrary Loan service. Ask a librarian for help.

URSUS (Library Catalog) This link opens in a new window
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URSUS is the book catalog for the University of Maine System Libraries, the Bangor Public Library, Maine State Library, Maine State Archives, and Maine State Law & Legislative Reference Library. Records for books, videos and other non-article materials are indexed. Online access is provided within records to online sources, such as e-books and streaming videos. To locate and access articles use any of our article databases, instead. Free delivery between URSUS-participating libraries is provided. Links to MaineCat within URSUS records provides dual searching of MaineCat member libraries and free delivery.
MaineCat This link opens in a new window
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Statewide book catalog that includes Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, UNE, Husson and many other libraries in Maine. Always search URSUS first; request a book from MaineCat with your USM library barcode number only if there is no available copy in URSUS.
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Bibliographic records for more than 36 million items held at OCLC member libraries throughout the world. Includes all types of information resources. Updated daily.

Current Print Books of Interest

Travel as a Political Act by Rick Steves
Call Number: G155.A1 S6675 2015
ISBN: 1631210688
Publication Date: 2014
Economics of Sustainable Tourism by Fabio Cerina (Editor); Anil Markandya (Editor); Michael McAleer (Editor)
Call Number: G156.5.S87 E26 2011
ISBN: 9780415583855
Publication Date: 2010
Tourism in Japan by Arthur Asa Berger
Call Number: G155.J27 B47 2010
ISBN: 9781845411343
Publication Date: 2010

You can search for eBooks the same way as print books, using URSUS. You're able to access those indicated as being available either to USM or the UMaine System (UM).

There are also lots of eBooks in our databases, which you can search for in OneSearch, the databases themselves, or by using the Journals & eBooks search in the gray/blue box on the library website.

URSUS (Library Catalog) This link opens in a new window
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URSUS is the book catalog for the University of Maine System Libraries, the Bangor Public Library, Maine State Library, Maine State Archives, and Maine State Law & Legislative Reference Library. Records for books, videos and other non-article materials are indexed. Online access is provided within records to online sources, such as e-books and streaming videos. To locate and access articles use any of our article databases, instead. Free delivery between URSUS-participating libraries is provided. Links to MaineCat within URSUS records provides dual searching of MaineCat member libraries and free delivery.
eBooks on EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
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Includes 7,885 e-books. The titles are also searchable in URSUS.
ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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Ebook collection that includes over 50,000 titles spanning all academic subject areas. Individual UMS libraries have also purchased some ebooks that are restricted to a single user at a time.

E-Consumers in the Era of New Tourism by Erkan Sezgin (Editor)
Call Number: G149.7
ISBN: 9789811000874
Publication Date: 2016
Marketing Places and Spaces by Arch G. Woodside; Antónia Correia (Editor); Juergen Gnoth (Editor); Alan Fyall (Editor); Metin Kozak (Editor)
ISBN: 9781784419400
Publication Date: 2015
Tourism in Latin America by Alexandre Panosso Netto (Editor); Luiz Gonzaga Godoi Trigo (Editor)
Call Number: G155.L3
ISBN: 9783319057354
Publication Date: 2014

The websites provided here are a sample of authoritative local, national, and international sources. Ask A Librarian for help finding more

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Streaming educational video content in all subject areas. Includes the FMG Archival Films & Newsreels Collection.

Citing all sources you consulted in your research is essential. APA (American Psychological Association) is the most commonly used citation style for Tourism and Hospitality. The APA Stylebook is available as an eBook and in print at each USM Libraries location.

Books: In every URSUS record use the Cite Now feature on the left to instantly see the formatted citation. Remember to double check this citation.
Articles: Many of our databases include a citation function at the article level. It will display the citation or you can email the article with the citation included. Remember to double check this citation.

APA Style 7th ed - Purdue OWL
Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) resources will help you learn how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style.
Zoterobib: For a Quick Bibliography
A way to generate a quick reference for a few sources, using Zotero
Zotero
A free citation creation and management tool. Great for when you're doing a lot of research.

Citation Tutorials

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