HRMPT 265/365 : Hospitality Law

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LegalTrac - Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. A Thomson Gale database.

InfoTrac Tourism, Hospitality & Leisure - A subset of Academic OneFile (below), providing full-text articles related to the hospitality sector.

Academic OneFile - Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. A Thomson Gale database.

ProQuest Newstand database. Includes coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.

Google Scholar - A new product from Google that provides citations to scholarly journals.

Books books

LCSC Library Catalog - provides information about the materials owned by the LCSC Library and other North Idaho Academic Libraries, including North Idaho College and the University of Idaho. Also has a link to WIN Libraries, so you can search Gonzaga, Whitworth, and VALNet Libraries.

WorldCat - A catalog of items held at libraries throughout the world. Many of these materials can be borrowed through inter-library loan.

Google Books - Info from their Website: "Just do a search on Google Book Search or on Google.com. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see, like a card catalog entry, some basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given us permission through our Partner Program then you'll see a few full pages from the book and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book." Click on the "About This Book" link and look for a link called "Find This Book in a Library" to locate the nearest library holdings.

Web Sites

Internet Sources for U.S. Corporate, Industrial & Economic Information - Links to lots of sites. Provided by the J. Murrey Atkins Library of the University of North Carolina - Charlotte.

Business Plans and Profiles Index - Sample business plans in various industries, including hotels and restaurants. From Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Inc.com - Short, non-scholarly articles on topics of interest to small business owners.

the White House USA.gov - A search engine for government Web pages, with an emphasis on the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Another good source of statistics.

Office of Travel and Tourism Industries - A web page from the Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, providing statistics on tourists to and from the United States.

the Capitol Building GPO Access - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government. Provided by the Government Printing Office.

I-Docs - An online collection of paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho Government Documents.

APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.

APA Interactive Tutorial - Developed by Mr. Kevin Schoepp.

Bibliographies : MLA Format - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.

Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.