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ATM 190: Introduction to Professional Practices: Article Databases

Business

ABI/INFORM GLOBALABI/INFORM Global™ is one of the most comprehensive business databases on the market. It includes in-depth coverage for over 2,890 publications, with more than 1,920 available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global offers the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels. With ABI/INFORM Global, users can find out about business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape. 1923 to present.

 

Business Source Elite This business database provides full text for nearly 1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. EBSCO.

 

LexisNexis AcademicLexisNexis® Academic is an outstanding service for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains more than 6,000 sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media. The deep backfile lets you find contemporary accounts of events that took place decades ago.

Tourism

Leisure Tourism Database 1973- .
Leisure Tourism Database now contains over 100,000 abstracts, with more records added per year than ever before, including growing numbers of full text articles. Includes core academic journals in leisure, tourism, hospitality, and sport economics and sociology, also covers relevant papers from e.g. the medical literature (for travel health), agricultural journals covering farm tourism, forest recreation papers from forestry journals and conferences, and other content not readily accessible on other databases. Limited to fours users at a time. Go to the "Abstracts Database" tab at the top of the screen.

Hospitality and Tourism Index. 1960- .
Includes all aspects of the hospitality and tourism industry including: demographics and statistics, hotel management, food service management, event management, law, market trends and research. Selected full-text. EBSCO.

SPORTDiscus
SPORTDiscus is the most comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, physical education, kinesiology, training, disabled persons, drugs, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, rehabilitation, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, occupational health & therapy, public health and more. With full bibliographic coverage, this database includes well over 1,557,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages. The content also consists of international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. (from EBSCO help)

Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Complete
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 8,000  peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. EBSCO.

Expanded Academic Index (InfoTrac)
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!

Readers' Guide Abstracts
Multi-disciplinary, including current events, business, education, fashion, food, history, politics, science, sports. EBSCO.

Clothing/Fashion

Textile Technology Index
Provides extensive coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. Formerly the Institute of Textile Technology's Textile Technology Digest, this database traces the body of knowledge in textile science and technology as far back as the early years of the 20th century. The Textile Technology Index contains indexing and abstracting for more than 480 periodical titles and for hundreds of titles drawn from sources such as books, conferences, theses, technical reports and trade literature. Subject coverage includes manufacturing techniques, textile end products, chemicals and dyes, the properties of natural and synthetic fibers and yarns, environmental issues, and the related areas of chemistry, biology and physics. Coverage spans the domestic and international arenas and includes publications covering the major resources from the scientific community as well as the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries (from EBSCO help).

Dietetics

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. (from EBSCO help)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Nursing/Academic provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.(from EBSCO help)

Medline
Medline is the premier index in medicine and nursing. Although WIU Libraries owns a small portion of its contents, a Medline search gives you an idea of "what's out there." Easy to request Interlibrary Loan with the FirstSearch interface. Medline is included here because it contains a considerable amount of nutritional research. Medline is sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

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