Penn State University Libraries - Recreation, Park & Tourism Management

LexisNexis Academic

• News: full-text regional, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals
• Business Resources: full-text business news, company and industry information, SEC filings, and accounting literature
• Legal Resources: full-text federal and state case opinions, law reviews, legal news, European Union legislation, tax law, and patents

CAB Abstracts

• Plant sciences, animal sciences, entomology, soils, and fertilizers
• Forestry, agricultural economics, nutrition, and agricultural engineering
• Rural recreation and tourism

LegalTrac

• Find articles relating to the legal aspects of recreation management
• Some articles are full-text

PubMed

• A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed indexes more than 15 million citations for biomedical articles dating back to the 1950s
• Use this database to locate articles relating to therapeutic recreation

ProQuest

• Search for newspaper, magazine, and journal articles. Many full-text
• Includes the following business databases: ABI/Inform Global, ABI/Inform Trade & Industry and ABI/Inform Dateline

PsycINFO

• Psychology and related aspects of:
  • Organizational management
  • Marketing
  • Sociology
  • Social Sciences Abstracts
• Citations to articles about leisure and recreation that have been published in a broad array of social sciences journals are available

Sociological Abstracts

• Index for English-language journals in sociology, social work, and other social sciences.
• Provides abstracts for articles and is international in scope

Sports Business Resource Network (SBRnet)

• Sporting goods
• Sports marketing
• Market research reports
• Industry statistics
• Consumer expenditures

Business Source Premier

• Essential article database for business research, providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals
• Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including accounting, economics, econometrics, finance, marketing, management, MIS, QMM, and supply chain management