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Westlaw -
Online legal research service provides quick, easy access to West's vast
collection of statutes, case law materials, public records and other legal
resources, as well as current news articles and business information.
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.
General OneFile - A good source for articles from popular
publications, such as Cruise Travel and Restaurant Business.
Doesn't have much scholarly information.
Business and Company ASAP - A good source of journal literature on business
topics and individual companies.
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 Criminal Justice - A subset of Academic OneFile, this database
provides full-text articles related to criminal justice.
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.
Custom Newspapers (full-text articles from newspapers, including those
in Boise, Portland, Seattle, and Spokane)
Google Scholar - A product from Google that provides citations to scholarly journals.
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.
Virtual Reference Library - Search a collection on online reference books from Gale, a respected publisher of subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Encyclopedia of business and finance: Burton S. Kaliski, editor-in-chief.
How to open a financially successful bed & breakfast or small hotel ; with companion CD-ROM / Lora Arduser and Douglas R. Brown. [Call Number: TX911.3.M27 F83 2004]
International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management [Call Number: Ref TX905 .I68 2005]
The restaurant manager’s handbook : how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation / Douglas Robert Brown. [Call Number: Ref TX911.3.M27 B76 2003]
Who's Buying for Travel [Call Number: Ref G155 .U6 W46 2006]
Who’s buying at restaurants and carry-outs.
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.
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.
Government:
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.
GPO
Access - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the
Legislative Branch of the Federal Government. Provided by the Government
Printing Office.
Thomas - An easy-to-search source for legislative information, provided by the Library of Congress.
I-Docs - An online collection of
paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho Government
Documents.
Standardized Tests:
Test Prep Review -- Free access to sample questions from many standardized tests, such as graduate school entrance exams and certification exams.
Citations:
Knight Cite -- An automatic generator of citations in either MLA, APA, or Chicago style. Registering for the service allows you to save citations to generate a bibliography. A free service provided by the Hekman Library at Calvin College.
APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.
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.
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Page Author: Barbara Barnes
Last updated: August 22, 2007
