Hospitality Research

Developing a Search Strategy

• Look at our dictionaries and encyclopedias located in the reference collection for definitions of terms related to your topic and for general background information.
• Search our databases and journal collection to find recent articles on your topic.
• Search the Library Resource Catalog for resources relating to your topic.
• Search the World Wide Web.

Reference Collection

The reference collection is located on the main floor of the library. Some useful resources include:

• Countries and their Cultures
  Summarizes country and cultural information, including demographics, history, economy, political and religious institutions.
  Call Number: GN307.C68 2001 4 vols.
• Countries of the World
  Summarizes country and cultural information, including demographics, history, economy, political and religious institutions.
  Call Number: G1.C882 2002
• The Directory of Hotel & Lodging Companies
  Provides a listing of hotel and motel companies.
  Call Number: TX907.D5 2002
• The Key to Best Practices in the U.S. Lodging Industry
  Looks at human resource management, operations, corporate management, and sales and marketing in the U.S. lodging industry.
  Call Number: TX911.3.M27 D83 1999
• Lodging, Restaurant, and Tourism Index
  Indexes magazine articles about the tourism and restaurant industry.
  Call Number: TX911.3.M27 L6 1985 to date
• Mobil Travel Guides
  Travel guides to California, the West, Northwest, Great Lakes, Southwest, Southeast, and the Mid-Atlantic.
  Call Numbers Vary: F106.M67+
• Restaurant Industry Operations Report
  Gives financial and operating data for restaurant industry operations based on type of restaurant, location, sales volume, menu theme, and other related topics.
  Call Number: TX909.A1 R47 1992 to date
• Travel Industry World Yearbook
  Looks at tourism growth, advertising trends, and statistics.
  Call Number: G155.A1 B54 2002
• World Travel Atlas
  Includes maps of the continents, climate information, languages spoken, airports, and national parks of other countries.
  Call Number: G153.4.W672 1997-1998

Journals--print and online

The Newbury College Library provides access to scholarly and popular articles in both print and online format. Magazines, journals, and newspapers are known as periodicals. Search the Library Resource Catalog by Journal Title to determine if the Library subscribes to a particular title.

Full-text articles are accessible by using the Library's databases. Home access requires using a valid Newbury College library card. These databases provide access to full-text articles, abstracts (short summaries of the articles), and extended citations (the title, source, date, issue, and page numbers of the article). Full-text articles may be printed within the Library. To retrieve articles that are only available as abstracts or extended citations, you should first check our Periodical Holdings List to locate the articles in hard copy or request them from Interlibrary Loan--see the Reference Librarian for help. The following databases are useful for researching hospitality-related topics:

• Expanded Academic Index ASAP
  In addition to various subjects, it provides full text articles that relate to hospitality. Sources include the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly and Hotel & Motel Management.
• General Reference Center Gold
  Provides full-text articles from general interest magazines, including topics in hospitality. Sources include hospitality and restaurant trade journals, including Caterer & Hotelkeeper, Leisure & Hospitality Business, Nation's Restaurant News, Restaurants & Institutions, and Restaurant Hospitality.
• General Business File ASAP
  Provides information on business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analyst reports on major companies and industries.
• LexisNexis Academic
  Provides full-text articles from international, national, and local magazines and newspapers, including travel, hospitality, and leisure news.

Library Resource Catalog

• If you are searching for resources within the Library, the catalog displays its items first. You can also choose to search all Minuteman libraries at once or specify another location.
• You may search for resources by Location, Keyword, Author, Title, Journal Title, Format or Subject Heading.
• The item record displays where a resource is located along with its call number and availability.
• The call number identifies where a book or other library resource is located in the library. The Newbury College Library uses the Library of Congress (LC) Classification System, which is comprised of 21 categories with numerous subdivisions under each category. Browse the following subdivisions for relevant information:

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