Databases for Event Management & Music and Media Management

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 specific journal databases.

• Academic Search Complete
  
  Quick Guide to using Academic Search Complete.pdf
  
  
• Business Source Complete
  Contains journal articles on a whole range of business topics, Music Business, Leisure industries, Sports and Events. Provides access to Billboard magazine, Music Week and Music Business International.
  
  Quick Guide to using Business Source Complete.pdf

• Communication and Mass Media Complete
  Articles on all media topics.
  
  
• Greenfile
  Search for articles on sustainability, environmental issues.
  
  
• Hospitality and Tourism Complete
  Articles on all aspects of Tourism Creative Industries subjects.

• JSTOR
  Contains some music journals.
  
  Quick Guide to using JSTOR.pdf
  
  
• Emerald Management eJournals
  Topics include: Business Management, marketing, human resources & employment and hospitality.
  
  Quick Guide to using Emerald Management eJournals.pdf
  
  
• IngentaConnect
  Provides articles on Event, Events Management, Tourism and cultural issues.

Market Research

• Key Note contains market research reports on leisure and entertainment sector including music and media in the UK.
  
  Quick Guide to using Key Note.pdf
   
  
• Mintel contains market research & statistics. There are reports on Visitor Attractions, Days Out & Theme Parks.
  
  The Mintel Leisure reports include Country Reports and Travel & Tourism Analyst reports. Reports available are Music Concerts & Festivals and Corporate Hospitality..
  
  Quick Guide to using Mintel.pdf
  
  
• GMID (Global Marketing Information Database)
  Contains international market research, mainly consumer & retailing reports and also some Travel and Tourism Research reports from over 200 countries.
  
  Quick Guide to using GMID.pdf

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.
  
  Quick Guide to using Orbis.pdf

• Business Source Complete
  Find Datamonitor company reports and Industry reports and SWOT analysis on large companies.
  
  Quick Guide to using Business Source Complete.pdf
  
  
• Nexis UK
  An extensive global range of all major and many regional newspapers, trade magazines and reports. It is particularly useful for current affairs, business and company information, with a twenty-year archive.
  
  Quick Guide to using Nexis UK.pdf
  
  Quick Guide to using Advanced Nexis UK.pdf
  
  Quick Guide to sourcing the Financial Times on Nexis UK.pdf
  
  
• GMID (Global Marketing Information Database)
  Provides some data on leisure and hospitality companies as well as travel industries.
  
  Quick Guide to using GMID.pdf

Back copies of all the newspapers (broadsheets) are available online.

• Nexis UK
  Provides an extensive global range of all major and many regional newspapers, trade magazines, journals and reports. Also contains articles from journals of interest to Music & Media students such as Music Week, Media Week, Billboard, Marketing, and Marketing Week & Campaign. Lexis is more useful for legal information on Intellectual Property/Copyright issues.
  Trace information on festivals, sports events, Olympic Games, crowd behaviour, crowd management and safety.
  Also contains trade journals such as Event, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, and Travel Trade Gazette & Travel Weekly.
  
  Quick Guide to using Nexis UK.pdf
  
  Quick Guide to using Advanced Nexis UK.pdf
  
  Quick Guide to sourcing the Financial Times on 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 you can obtain it from the British Library by filling out the Interlibrary Loan form on the
library catalogue.

• Social Science Citation Index available on Web of Knowledge Database.
  
  
• ZETOC
  The British Library's Electronic Table of Contents service contains details of 20,000 current journals and 16,000-conference proceedings from1993 onwards.
  
  Quick Guide to using Zetoc.pdf
  
  
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
  
  
• Music Index
  
  
• Leisure Tourism Database
  This is an index to literature in Leisure and Tourism in the broadest sense. It indexes academic literature (periodicals, books and conference proceedings) from 1976 to the present.

• 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.