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Featured Book

Parks Directory of the United States by Julia Leeper (Editor); Pearline Jaikumar (Editor)
Call Number: Reference E160 .P185
Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia by Vin T. Sparano
Call Number: SK33 .S646 2014
ISBN: 9780789327055
Publication Date: 2014
Fifth edition.
Wisconsin camping guide. by Wisconsin Association of Campground Owners
Call Number: GV198.65.W5 W55 Reference
current ed.
Wisconsin State Park System : visitor information guide for state parks, forests, recreation areas & trails by Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resource, Bureau of Parks and Recreation
Call Number: Reference GV191.42.W6 W575 2014
Publication Date: 2014

Key Resources

Hospitality & Tourism Complete (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost
This database includes scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. The collection contains more than 828,000 records, with full text for more than 490 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia.
Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism
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Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications covering the cultural and economic aspects of the hospitality and tourism industries.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
Provides citations and abstracts to periodical articles, books, conference proceedings, and research papers. Includes full text for 530 journals. Topics covered include sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, and physical education.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
With indexing and abstracts for 4,600 nursing journals and full-text articles for more than 770 journals. Covers nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and other allied health disciplines. Content includes books, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, and evidence-based care sheets.
SMA: Sports Market Analytics (SBRnet)
Note: This resource was previously listed as SBRnet (Sports Business Research Network).
Market research and industry news covering all facets of the sports business industry, with topics such as equipment sales, sports participation, broadcasting, sponsorship, and sports marketing. Also includes Brand Share Index, which provides information on consumer brand preferences within various sports markets.
OregonPDF in Health & Performance
Collection of graduate research studies (theses and dissertations) on movement and physical activity. Topics include physical activity, physical fitness, activities of daily living, work, sport and athletics, recreation, dance, and play. Study participants include children, adults; elderly, individuals with disabilities, injury or disease; and athletes. Citations and abstracts are included with links to full text PDFs. Coverage: At least 1996 to present. Updated annually.
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost
SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 890 journals and includes full text for more than 850 books and monographs, full text for 16,800 conference papers, and profiles for 25,000 scholars in the field. Topics covered include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, and many others.
Census Data (U.S. Census Bureau)
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Notes: This resource has replaced American FactFinder.
Access recent official demographic and economic data from U.S. Census Bureau surveys, including the Decennial Census of Population and Housing, the American Community Survey, the Economic Census, County Business Patterns, the Survey of Business Owners, and more.
ERIC (Institute of Education Sciences) @ EBSCOhost
From the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education. Full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
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MEDLINE with Full Text (U.S. National Library of Medicine & EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost
Essentially equivalent to PubMed from the National Library of Medicine, but with full text for select journals. Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Over 4,800 current biomedical journals are indexed; full text for 1,470 journals. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Incorporates PREMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, AIDSLINE & more.
Business Premium Collection (ProQuest)
A comprehensive collection of business resources, consisting of: ABI/INFORM Collection; J.P Morgan Research; Entrepreneurship Database; Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection; Asian & European Business Collection; and Business Market Research Collection. With global coverage in business and economics, the Business Premium Collection includes full-text journals, dissertations, and working papers, as well as trade publications, market research reports, and key periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Economist.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost
This database includes full text for over 2,300 business journals, including over a thousand peer-reviewed titles. Non-journal full text includes: market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Gale OneFile: Business
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Full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Includes nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily.