Tourism & Hospitality

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.

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Search for Articles Within Databases

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 LibrarySearch record you can get a citation. Click on the book's title and underneath it click on Citation. There will be options for the citing in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard styles. Remember to double check any electronically generated citation.
• Articles: Many of our databases include a citation function at the article level. It will display the citation for you to copy or you can email the article with the citation included. Remember to double check this citation.

Citation Tutorials

There are many databases to choose form, which will provide you access to a wide variety of research on many topics. To explore databases on a specific subject, check out our Databases A-Z List, linked below, and select your subject from the drop-down. You can also limit your database search by resource type (Data, Images, Videos, Maps, and more) which will help you find the best database for your research.

Tips for searching in databases:

• Most databases allow for searching with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT).
  • Use AND to focus your search and combine different aspects of your topic
  • Use OR to broaden your search and find sources that use different words for the same concept.
  • Use NOT to omit certain terms from your results.
• Use an asterisk (*) to truncate words if you want to search for all words with that root. For example, “environment*” would search for environment, environmental, environmentalism, etc.
• Put quotes around a phrase that you want the database to search as a phrase, rather than as individual words.
• Group synonyms inside parentheses using OR between each one

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Primary sources in the sciences are first-hand accounts of original research or projects, written by the researchers themselves.

Secondary sources in the sciences analyze, summarize, or discuss information from one or more primary sources.

For example, a journal article written by a group of researchers about their experiment would be a primary source. A newspaper or magazine article summarizing the journal article for a non-scientific audience would be a secondary source. A book or review article that summarizes the researchers' journal article plus many others about similar topics to draw broad conclusions would also be a secondary source.

Confusingly, primary and secondary sources are often found in the same databases, so you have to apply a little thoughtful analysis to the item you are looking at to determine if it is a primary or secondary source.

Examples of Primary Sources:

• Journal articles reporting on original research
• Conference papers
• Interviews
• Lab notebooks
• Patents
• Technical reports
• Theses and Dissertations

Examples of Secondary Sources:

• Books
• Review articles
• Textbooks
• Stories in popular media (newspapers, magazines, television) that summarize one or more research studies