LibGuides: HMD 220: Facilitating The Hospitality Customer Experience: Finding Articles

Locating Peer Reviewed Articles

Locating Articles Through the UNLV Libraries

If you experience difficulty locating articles, you can email me at lateka.grays@unlv.edu or visit my office hours on Mondays from 1pm-4pm room 251 in Hospitality Hall. Note: Office Hours subject to change

Thank you,

Lateka Grays, Hospitality Librarian

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Sources for Peer-Reviewed Articles

Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Good for: Finding scholarly and trade articles about hotel management, food service, travel, tourism, event management, gaming, and more.
Contains: Scholarly and trade journal articles.
Dates covered: 1960-present.

Hospitality & Tourism Complete is a database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. Full-text coverage of over 200 publications that include the subject areas of hotel management, food service and beverage management, travel and tourism, event management, gaming, international cuisine, law, market trends, research and more.
ABI/INFORM Collection
Good for: Analyzing business trends and company information.
Contains: Articles and reports on advertising, marketing, economics, and more.
Dates covered: 1923-present.
Business Source Elite
Good for: Researching business, management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
Contains: Scholarly journals, business periodicals, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
ScienceDirect Journals
Good for: Researching social science, medicine, science, and technology.
Contains: Journals.
Google Scholar
Good for: Conducting academic research on all subjects.
Contains: Articles, theses, books, abstracts, patents, and court opinions

Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports from many academic and technical fields. It is freely available to anyone searching the Internet; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit, go to Google Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set UNLV as your source for no-fee access to many full text articles.