Events, Sport and Tourism management

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Use our single search system to search our books, eBooks, journal content and selected other resources. Don't use Internet Explorer with Discover, it does not display full text journal articles properly. Use Firefox or Google Chrome.

General databases:

• Emerald - indexes over 450 journals(most of the content is now indexed in Proquest Central)
• Proquest Central - The best place to start your search, includes ABI Inform, Accounting and Tax, Banking Information source, Hoover's company records,Asian business and reference, European Business and the Snapshot series. Check newspapers for M&A information .
• InfoTRac Custom Journals - formerly European Business ASAP

Tourism databases:

• Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN) - bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property
• ICOMOS Database (International; Council for Monuments and Sites).
• Leisuretourism.com - The database uses its own password, get it from My Caledonian. Click the Athens tab, then password information. Includes abstracts of journal articles, research papers, books, conference papers in leisure, recreation, tourism, hospitality and sport.
• Tourism Insights - on campus access only

Your librarians are here to help you with questions about finding information. We are happy to help, but before you call us, have a look at some of the helpsheets and tutorials on this page! You may find what you need to know here.
You can also contact your Academic Development Tutor.

We have short guides to the main databases plus links to other training materials directly from the suppliers

 All of our workthrough guides and online tutorials are now in the finding information section of SMILE. You will need to log in to GCULearn to use them.

You can search serials solutions to check if we have a journal in stock and which years we have. Search by the journal title. Don't use Internet Explorer, use Firefox or Google Chrome - Explorer does not work well with serials solutions when displaying the full text of journal articles.

If you need an item for your coursework, teaching or research, and we don't have it in stock, you can request it through our new inter-library loan (ILL) service, Clio.
For requests for UK theses, please search the Ethos database at http://ethos.bl.uk/ (more information is on their frequently asked questions, FAQs page)

Requesting an inter-library loan

Please remember :

• Before you make a request, check our catalogue (for books) or our serials system (for journals), the Mitchell Library and other local university catalogues. You might be able to consult the item in a library nearby.
• Students need authorisation from their lecturer. (Some Schools need staff requests to be authorised too - check with your library representative.)
• You can normally borrow an item for 3 weeks with an automatic extension for a further 3 weeks. However if the British Library asks us to return it immediately we must do so or risk losing our right to borrow.
• If you are a Midwifery student on a distance learning course, enter Midwifery Department Office, GCU as your address.

Inter-Library Loans has now moved to a new online requesting system, Clio. Here's how to use it.

• A journal, sometimes called a periodical or serial, is published regularly – for example, weekly, monthly or twice a year. So it's a good way of getting up-to-date news and research on a subject. Each new issue has a number of articles written by different people.
• So far, this could also apply to magazines. However, journals are aimed at readers with a more serious interest in the subject.
• Trade journals are written for professionals in that area, for example, Management today or Industrial engineer.
• Scholarly journal articles are written by academics for an audience that is mainly academic. These journals are not usually glossy magazines, and there is usually a list of references at the end of each article. The editors will usually include staff at universities, other academic institutions, hospitals, or learned societies.
• Peer-reviewed journals (also called refereed journals) give all articles sent to them to a panel of academic reviewers. The members of this panel will be peers of the author, that is, recognised experts in the same field. The panel usually review the papers blind, which means that they do not know who the authors are. Panel members may recommend changes to the articles to make them fit for publication. For example, they might say that the author should provide more evidence of an argument or read other material.
• So, peer-reviewed or refereed journals provide quality control for academic publishing. You can look inside the front or back cover of a journal, or its home page on the web, to check whether it is peer-reviewed.
• Some library databases, for example ProQuest, make it easy to select scholarly journals only.
• An electronic journal (or e-journal) is one which is available on the web. Sometimes there is both a printed (paper or a hard copy) and an electronic version of a journal.

We have a step by step checklist for you.

For this you need to use a gateway. They search only quality assured web sites. Here are our favourites:

• Blogpulse
• Business information on the internet
• Biznar finds articles and grey literature as well as web sites
• BUBL 
• BUBL link banking
• Google scholar
• Moneyweb
• Moneyextra
• Qualistream banking and finance
• RBA Business Information Sources
• SCOTBIS Scottish Business Information Service
• Yahoo finance
• Zanran  Search engine for data and statistics

Law:

• BAILII British and irish case law and legislation and European Union case law.
• Legal resources in the U.K. and Ireland Includes a good Scottish resources page.
• Scottish Law OnlineUseful unofficial site of Scottish law resources.
• AccesstoLaw.com U.K., Commonwealth and World law links and resources, selected and annotated by the Inner Temple Library.
• Infolaw Gateway to U.K. legal information.Institute of Advanced Legal Studies eagle-1-serviceSearchable database of global legal information.
• BUBL - Law
• intute: Law
• Lawlinks – University of Canterbury
  Includes Legal Profession
  and free online law dictionaries

Social sciences:

• CASS - Centre for applied social surveys
• The Gateway to 21st Century Skills. US site.
• Open JGate Free full text of over 3000 journals
• Organisations, Work & Care: Policies and practices of care in business
• SISA allows you to do statistical analysis directly on the Internet.
• Social Science Data on the Internet Search or browse our listing of 363 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.

Country profiles

• BBC country profiles
• Country reports
• Eurostat country profiles
• GlobalEDGE
• GMID global market information database
• ESDA Economic and social data service
• International monetary fund
• IHS global insight - includes up-to-date assessment of political, economic, legal, tax, operational and security risks in 186 countries. Off campus a password is required
• One world guides
• Global technology forum - monitors e-business readiness of countries worlwide
• OECD - choose browse by country
• Portals to the world - Library of Congress
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Industry directories

• A-Z of Scotch Whisky Information
• British beer and pub association
• Confederation of paper industries
• Deloitte retail - includes white papers publications such as a profile of the 200 largest retailers in the world
• European commission industry profiles
• Karen Blakeman's inductry sector guides
• Tobacco.org
• tobaccopapers.com - you can search, view and download over 650 documents from the UK tobacco industry's main   advertising agencies ranging from 1994 to 1999
• Tescopoly - an alliance of organisations concerned with the negative aspect of supermarket power
• UNIDO.org - United Nations Industrial Development Organization - statistical information on industries
• Trade association forum

Getting your citations right is an important part of academic research. It helps you to avoid plagiarism and a good bibliography will help boost your final marks. Your librarians can help you use RefWorks to store your references and create a bibliography. 
Your academic development tutors will help you with manual referencing. The referencing guideleines are on Blackboard. You will also find Turnitin there.

• Harvard referencing - this is part of SMILE, so you will need to log in to GCULearn
• NLM journal title translator - enter abbreviations to find the full journal titles
• What is plagiarism? - this is part of SMILE, so you will need to log in to GCULearn
• RefWorks - store and organise your references and produce bibliographies.
• RefWorks FAQ - for all those tricky RefWorks questions!
• RefWorks handy hints - how to add data from all the main databases into RefWorks
• Short videos from RefWorks. They use sound, so use your headphones!
• Workthrough guides to RefWorks  - these are part of SMILE, so you will need to log in to GCULearn.

 Law

GCU uses the most recent edition (2010) of OSCLOA - the Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities.  This is a very comprehensive guide which takes you through the format for citing many types of information sources that you may use in your legal writing - including case reports, journal articles, books, updating services, government reports, web sites and more. 

• OSCOLA guide  (quick version)
• Full OSCOLA guide
• American Psychological Association Referencing Tutorial created by Cardiff University Information Services.

The research web pages have more useful tips for more advanced researchers, as well as useful links to help you develop advanced information skills. We are here to help you all the way through your research project, so keep in touch!

 We have written a new online information literacy tutorial called PILOT which is aimed at postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers. It has in depth information on various topics, including a section called MyRI which tells you everything you need to know for the REF. You'll find it in GCULearn, so you'll need to log in.

• ARCOM - Association of Researchers for Construction Management
• How to assess a research article
• Calculate your H-index with the Web of Knowledge (quick guide, more information on PILOT)
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• CORDIS: The gateway to European research and development
• Innovol - research database
• Journal Citation Reports Find journal impact fators and citation information for the REF
• Library research pages 
• NIHR CRN CC - Welcome to the NIHR Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre
• RDInfo - support services for researchers
• Research@GCU GCU Research repository
• Welcome to Research Councils UK - RCUK
• Research Excellence Framework (REF), replaces the RAE
• Sconul Access will allow you access to, and limited borrowing from, other UK libraries
• Search tips for researchers
• Systematic reviewing
• Trip Database
• UK Clinical Trials Gateway (UKCTG)
• The Web 2 rights project

General web sites:

• Activity Point - Scotland : leisure activities, tourist attractions, places to visit and things to do
• ATLAS (European Association of Tourism and Leisure Education)
• Dept for Culture, Media and Sport
• Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network
• Institute for Outdoor Leadership and Education A resource for academics and practitioners
• Improve your coursework
• Intute: large gateway, search by subject or browse internet tutorials
• ISPAL - professional body for sport, parks and leisure professionals
• ISRM (Institute of Sport and Recreation Management)
• Special Events Magazine
• SPRITO-ELS: the employment, learning and skills portal for sport, recreation
• SPRIG Promoting Information in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism

Cultural heritage and museums:

• Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN) - bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property
• Caledonian Heritage Futures Network - new research, consultancy and teaching initiative based at Glasgow Caledonian University to help address the needs of Scotland’s cultural heritage sector.
• Centre for Cultural Policy Research - on behalf of the Scottish Executive, the CPPR maintains a database of research on the impact of arts, culture and major events.
• Council for National Parks (England and Wales)
• Glasgow Museums
• GCU History subject guide
• Historic Scotland
• ICOMOS database (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
• Museums Of The World Global museum project : information directly from the museums
• Museumlink's Museum of Museums
• National Galleries of Scotland
• National Museums Scotland
• National Trust for Scotland
• National Trust
• Natural England (England)
• Scottish Executive Publication - National Cultural Strategy
• Scottish Arts Council
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre Cultural landscapes

Events management:

• The European Festivals Association
• Event Magazine
• EventScotland
• Events Management Body of Knowledge
• Events Management Knowledge - allows you to link to London Journal of Tourism Sport and Creative Industries. Access is free, but you will need to register.
• Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Bid site
• International Events Management Body of Knowledge (EMBOK)
• International Special Events Society
• National Outdoor Events Association
• The Official London 2012 Olympics site
• People1st (Sector Skills Council)
• Scottish Executive Publication - Major Events Strategy
• World of Events

Health and safety:

• Directory of occupational health and safety sites from Edinburgh University
• Fireinf - database covering worldwide info on all aspects of fire legislation and safety
• HSE - Health and safety executive
• Office ergonomics training
• Organisations, work and care: policies and practices
• OSHworld
• OHSIS: occupational health and safety - full text info
• Working well together - construction industry

Hospitality:

• British Hospitality Association - conducts an annual food and service management industry survey; site also has news
• European Hotel Groups Database - outline statistics on hotel industry in each country. (Please log off after using this database).
• Institute of hospitality Hotel, Catering and Institutional Management Association.
• Hotels and restaurants of Britain 2008
• Hospitality Net portal for hospitality industry on the web
• Hotel Resource  - portal for hospitality professionals produced in partnership with Centre for Hospitality Research at Cornell University - free newsletters available (USA)
• Hospitality and Food Management Research Group (University of Surrey)
• Cornell University School of Hotel Administration (USA)
• Hotel Online 'where the hospitality industry meets online' (USA)
• Hospitality-Industry.com another gateway to hospitality resources
• AA where to stay, where to eat hotels, restaurants etc by area of the UK
• All-Hotels - directory of 60,000 hotels worldwide
• The Webtender An online bartender. Includes bartender handbook and statistics on popular drinks
• Food Standards Agency
• Wines.com Award-winning guide to wines and wineries for consumers and professionals

Leisure:

• activePARKS: National Recreation and Parks Association (USA)
• ANZALS (Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies)
• Bluedome outdoor activity site
• CALS (Canadian Association for Leisure Studies)
• Entsweb Entertainment, music and leisure
• European Association for Sport Management
• GORP: Great Outdoor Recreation Pages
• International Association for Sport Information (IASI)
• Leisure Studies Association
• Parks and Leisure Australia
• Sport England
• Theme Park City Directory of theme and amusement parks, Waterparks and zoos (USA, Canada, Europe)
• Theme Park Insider Independent information and opinion from those who work at or attend theme parks
• Timeout.com: the world's living guide
• UK Sport
• World Leisure Making leisure time worthwhile

Tourism:

• Tourism insights - database. Access on campus only

UK tourism:

• ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents)
• ANTOR : Association of National Tourism Offices in the UK also contains information about other countries' tourist offices
• Fraser of Allander Quarterly Economic Commentary - includes regular brief report on Scottish tourist trade from the Scottish Chambers Business Survey.
• Glasgow City Council : Business in Glasgow - links to Glasgow Tourism Action Plan and other documents.
• International Passenger Survey detailed information on overseas visitors to the United Kingdom for tourism policy; and collects data on international migration.
• Northern Ireland Tourist Board
• Glasgow - official guide to Glasgow.
• STAR UK : statistics on tourism and research  website of the tourism research liaison group with representatives from all UK national tourist boards. 
• UK National Statistics on transport, travel and tourism
• @UK : the UK travel search engine and directory  list of links for holidays, days out in the UK.
• Visitscotland.com: the official website of the Scottish Tourist Board - includes a Research and Statistics section
• VisitBritain: official home of the British Tourist Authority
• VisitWales - official website of the Welsh Tourist Board 

European, USA and World tourism:

• ABTECH : European travel technology Info and support for travel technology users and suppliers
• Association of European Airlines - passenger figures for many of Europe's carriers in Yearbook and Facts and figures section.
• European Hotel Groups Database - information on hotel operators and their brands and portfolios; plus news and latest developments. Please log out when you have finished.
• International Air Traffic Association - statistics and other information.
• Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory
• Tourismus - free, but you have to register.  Statistics on tourism in Austria and Europe, including best performing cities in Europe and trends in important markets.
• Office of Travel and Tourism Industries: official US Government site. 
• World Tourism Organization Global forum for tourism policy and practical issues.
• World Travel and Tourism Council Members are business leaders in the travel and tourism industry. Also includes the EcoNETT site on sustainable tourism.

Eco-tourism :

• Sustainable Tourism Unit - part of VisitScotland.
• International Ecotourism Society
• Tourism Concern - Campaigning for Ethical & Fairly Traded Tourism

Tourism education, research and consultancy :

• Moffat Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
• Association for Tourism in Higher Education
• Tourism Research in Europe
• Tourism Research Links Aims to bridge the gap between tourism researchers and industry practitioners

Voluntary organisations:

• Foundation Center - Catalogue of Nonprofit Literature
• IT for charities
• National council for voluntary organisations
• Resources for the voluntary sector
• Scottish council for voluntary organisations