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MEL’s Database of the Week for 10/22/10

October 22nd, 2010

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

This Week’s Featured Database: Hospitality & Tourism Complete, from EBSCOHost, combining the records of databases formerly produced by Cornell, the University of Surrey, and Purdue.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.

Description/focus: Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news, extending back to 1965 in some areas.

Start with this hint: Hospitality & Tourism Complete has the basic and advanced search features offered by EBSCO in other databases.  Enter a word or short phrase that is your subject and when the list is displayed, you can sort by type of document or limit by date.  For example, enter economic development for a list of more than 2000 hits.  Narrow your results with the tools in the column on the left: move the slider on the year bar, or check Academic Journals and Reports. Stay on the results page for an Advanced Search and you can broaden the results by adding  forecasting in the second search field and changing the limiter from and to or.

Other common tools available in this database: save selected hits online for later retrieval; email selected hits to yourself; citation help; some fulltext; FIND IT at Purdue Libraries; links to cited references; option to sort by date or relevance. For more on use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan

Why you should know this database: Hospitality & Tourism Complete is certainly directed towards those in the hospitality field, but the included research of subjects such as entrepreneurship or international businesses may apply to other areas. For example, the Datamonitor Country Reports include analysis of the political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental structure of the subject country.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Searching Hospitality & Tourism Complete is simple and gives students fulltext results they can access immediately.

Cost: Cost: No cost to Purdue University Libraries. Hospitality & Tourism Complete is an Inspire database provided by the state of Indiana.

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If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.