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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.

Oxford Reference Online
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
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.

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LibrarySearch (Journals by Title)
Search specifically for journals in the catalog for the University of Maine System, including USM.
Newspapers Resources Guide
A subject guide on news and magazine collections in the USM Databases

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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a large scholarly, multidisciplinary, full-text database, with full-text periodicals, including peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers scholarly, popular, trade, and special interest serials and publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and more.
Business Source Complete
EBSCO’s Business Source Complete has full text coverage of journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more. BSC also provides full text access to the Harvard Business Review and the top five business magazines. Additional it includes 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.
Emerald Insight
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.
Environment Complete
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. Includes 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.
GreenFILE
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.
HeinOnline
Laws and state and federal legislation documents
IBISWorld Industry Research Reports & Business Environment Profiles
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.
SAGE Journals Online
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 LibrarySearch.
ScienceDirect
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
SpringerLink
SpringerLink provides access to full-text STM (scientific, technical, medical) journals, book series, books, and reference works published by Springer and its imprints.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

LibrarySearch (Library Catalog)
Catalog for the University of Maine system, including USM. You can choose to limit your search to USM, or search all UMS libraries. You can also search for journal articles here too.

Travel as a Political Act (book) by Rick Steves
Call Number: USM G155.A1 S6675 2015

ISBN: 1631210688

Publication Date: 2015
Economics of Sustainable Tourism (book) by Fabio Cerina, Anil Markandya, & Michael McAleer (Eds)
Call Number: USM G156.5.S87 E26 2011

ISBN: 9780415583855

Publication Date: 2010
Tourism in Japan: An ethno-semiotic analysis (book) by Arthur Asa Berger
Call Number: USM G155.J27 B47 2010

ISBN: 9781845411343

Publication Date: 2010

LibrarySearch (Library Catalog)
LibrarySearch is the book catalog for the University of Maine System Libraries. Records for books, videos and other 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.
eBooks on EBSCOhost
Includes 7,885 e-books. The titles are also searchable in LibrarySearch.
ProQuest Ebook Central
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 (E-book) by Erkan Sezgin (Ed)
Call Number: E-book, Click title to access

ISBN: 9789811000874

Publication Date: 2016
Marketing Places and Spaces (E-book) by Arch G. Woodside; Antónia Correia (Editor); Juergen Gnoth (Editor); Alan Fyall (Editor); Metin Kozak (Editor)
Call Number: E-book, Click title to access

ISBN: 9781784419400

Publication Date: 2015
Tourism in Latin America (E-book) by Alexandre Panosso Netto & Luiz Gonzaga Godoi Trigo (Eds)
Call Number: E-book, Click title to access

ISBN: 9783319057354

Publication Date: 2014

American Hotel & Lodging Association
The powerful voice driving effective advocacy for the hospitality industry.
globalEDGE (Michigan State University)
Funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI B grant, globalEDGE delivers a comprehensive research tool for academics, students and businesspeople.
International Council of Museums
International group focused on sustainable global cultural tourism
Maine Office of Tourism
Maine's official website for learning about Maine's sites, natural resources, things to do, places to eat, where to stay, and much more.
National Restaurant Association
The National Restaurant Association is the largest foodservice trade association in the world. They represent and advocate on behalf of more than 500,000 restaurant businesses.
U.S. Small Business Administration
An independent agency of the federal government. It works to provide assistance and aid to small businesses. This site contains educational videos, resource guides, free online classes, and contact information for local agencies.
U.S. State Department - Travel
U.S. Travel Association
The U.S. Travel Association is the national, non-profit organization representing all components of the travel industry that generates $2.1 trillion in economic output and supports 15.1 million American jobs.

Films on Demand
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 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.

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

Citation: A (Very) Brief Introduction (NCSU)

Finding Books: LibrarySearch, MaineCat, WorldCat

LibrarySearch (Library Catalog)
Catalog for the University of Maine system, including USM. You can choose to limit your search to USM, or search all UMS libraries. You can also search for journal articles here too.

MaineCat
Statewide book catalog that includes Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, UNE, Husson and many other libraries in Maine. Always search LibrarySearch first; request a book from MaineCat with your USM library barcode number only if there is no available copy in LibrarySearch.
WorldCat
If LibrarySearch and MaineCat do not have the item you need, then check WorldCat. Once you find the item you need, click on the title, under 'Get this item' click on "Order through ILLiad," and sign into your ILLiad account, complete the form, and submit the information. You will receive an email when your item has arrived in print or electronically. If you don't have an ILLiad account, you can create one for free.

Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) Account
Create or sign into your free ILLiad account to electronically request journal articles that USM does not have, or to request print books, music scores, & videos not available through LibrarySearch and MaineCat.

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