Hospitality Management Subject Guide

This subject guide covers hospitality management resources available at the Johnston Memorial Library, including full-text journals, magazine and newspaper articles, and  websites. This is not a comprehensive subject guide, but rather a selective list of materials that are most useful for locating information in this field. Library location and call number are provided for print publications.  

Full-Text Databases

  • ABI/INFORM
    • Covers nearly every aspect of business, including company histories and new product development. Includes abstracts and indexes of significant articles from nearly 1,000 current business and management periodicals. Provides access to selected full-text  articles. 
  • Business and Company Resource Center
    Provides company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

  • Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)
    Provides financial, historical, and product information for publicly traded companies worldwide, full-text magazine and journal articles, and current and historical stock quotes.
     
  • Health and Wellness Resource Center
    Information on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

  • InfoTrac OneFile
    • A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, etc.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
    Provides access to a wide range of domestic and international news, business, and legal information sources, including legislative, government, company, financial and demographic information, market research, and industry reports.

  • Nutritiongate.com
    Includes abstracts of information for nutrition and food research scientists, dieticians, food industry professionals, and animal production specialists.


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Journal Indexes and Abstracts

  • Consumer Index
    Provides access to evaluations, tests, alerts, warnings, and recalls of specific products, services, and facilities as well as abstracts of articles on all aspects of consumerism and consumer protection.

  • PAIS International
    Contains abstracts of journal articles, books, statistical yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, research reports and government documents. Topics covered include economic, political and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, and much more.
     
  • Statistical Universe
    Allows users to search American Statistical Index, the latest edition of Statistical Abstracts of the United States, the Statistical Research Index, and Index to International Statistics. Includes full text of selected U.S. federal and state documents.


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Reference Sources
  • Bender's Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology by David Bender.
    REF TX349.B4 1999
  • Cambridge World History of Food edited byKenneth F. Kiple, Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas.
    REF TX353 .C255 2000

  • Concise Encyclopedia of Foods and Nutrition by Audrey H. Ensminger.
    REF TX349 .C567 1995 

  • Convention Management and Service by Milton T. Astroff and James R. Abbey.
    TX911.2 .A84 1998

  • Environmental Management for Hotels : a Student's Handbook / David Kirk.
    TX911.3.M27 K567 1996

  • International Dictionary of Food and Cooking: Ingredients, Addictives, Techniques by Peter Collin.
    REF TX349.S55 1998

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Additional Internet Websites

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 Louveller M. Luster, Collection Development Librarian