Electronic Databases for Arts, Heritage & Museum Management

E-Journals

• If you know the title of a journal, search the library catalogue and link to the journal if it is available online. If you don't know the titles of any journals in your subject area then the alternative is to search for a specific journal database. See Subject Resources, choose Online Resources and search databases by subject: Hospitality and Tourism, Business & Economics.

• Business Source Complete
  Contains journals on Hospitality, Leisure, Events, Sports, Tourism and Marketing topics.
  
  Quick Guide to using Business Source Complete.pdf
  

• Hospitality and Tourism Complete
  Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. There is full text for more than 360 publications.
  
  
• Science Direct
  In spite of the name Subject fields covered by journals available on this databae include Arts & Humanities and Business, Management and Accounting.
  

Market Research

• GMID (Global Marketing Information Database) Contains international market research, mainly consumer & retailing reports from over 200 countries.
  
  
• Keynote contains market research reports, some leisure reports for the UK.
  
  

  Quick Guide to using Key Note

  
  
• Mintel contains market research reports, contains reports on Visitor Attractions, Days Out, Theme Parks, and Leisure & Tourism topics on the UK.
  
  Quick Guide to using Mintel.pdf
  
  
• Tourism Insights
  Insights from the tourism marketing intelligence service of Visitbritain
  Information for the UK tourist industry including visits to tourist attractions, case studies, etc.
  Updated monthly. Hard copies available in the business journals area from 2002-2004 and from 2008 access to data online.

Company Information

• Orbis
  Orbis is a global database containing financial information, including ratios, on public and private companies. Orbis searches over one million private and public companies worldwide for balance sheets, income statements, mergers information and stock prices. You can compare companies and download graphs and charts.
  
  Orbis replaces the Amadeus database. We are now subscribing to Orbis instead of Amadeus because it provides information on companies worldwide rather than only in Europe.
  
  

  Quick Guide to using Orbis

  
  
• Nexis UK
  An extensive global range of all major and many regional newspapers, trade magazines, journals and reports. It is particularly useful for current affairs, business, legal and company information, with a twenty-year archive.
  
  Quick Guide to using Nexis UK.pdf
  
  Quick Guide to using Advanced Nexis UK.pdf

These services are useful for locating references to journal articles especially if you have problems locating information on full text journal databases.

About Abstracts: abstracts are short summaries of documents; they DO NOT contain full text documents.

Each abstract record includes a detailed and informative summary along with the full bibliographic data. If any item is of interest check the catalogue to see if we subscribe to the journal either in hard copy or online.
If the journal is not available in the library than you can borrow it from the British Library by filling out the Interlibrary Loan form on the library catalogue.

• Hospitality and Tourism Index is a bibliographic database covering all areas of the hospitality and tourism industries and their management. This international resource contains over 440,000 records from 500 titles including Journal of Leisure Research and Annals of Tourism Research. Find articles on heritage management, cultural or heritage tourism & museums. Access: via the catalogue.
  
  
• Leisure Tourism Database (via catalogue)
  This is an index to literature in Leisure and Tourism in the broadest sense. It indexes academic literature (journals, books and conference proceedings) from 1976 to the present.
  
  Note: for LT abstracts, a specific username and password is required if accessed outside the University- email Academic Liaison Librarian or ask at the Library Information desk for details.
  
  Access to most databases is via the catalogue, logging in with university network username & password or with library borrower & pin. Here Leisure Tourism database is the exception.
  
  
• Social Science Citation Index available on Web of Knowledge Database.
  Access via catalogue.
  
  
• ZETOC
  The British Library's Electronic Table of Contents service contains details of 20,000 current journals and 16,000-conference proceedings from1993 onwards. Possible to search by subject. In addition ZETOC has a Table of Contents alerting service which will allow you to be emailed the contents pages of your chosen journals every time a new issue is loaded into the database. Access via catalogue.
  
  

  Quick Guide to using Zetoc

Back copies of all newspapers available online.

For full details see the Online Resources pages on the Library Services website.
Other ways of accessing news and newspapers are listed below.

• Nexis UK
  An extensive global range of all major and many regional newspapers, trade magazines, journals and reports.
  
  Quick Guide to using Nexis UK.pdf
   
  Quick Guide to using Advanced Nexis UK.pdf

• Online Tutorials
  If you are unsure how to use a certain database or need to refresh your memory, try our interactive tutorials. Follow the instructions as you are guided through the database and shown how to search for information and download results.