Learning and Information Services
Literature Searching in Leisure
These are the five main search tools for finding Leisure journal articles, texts and other sources and it is recommended that you focus on using Summon and in the
Hospitality & Tourism Complete in the first instance. This will help ensure that your searches are comprehensive, both in terms of covering all literature available
to you (Summon) and in terms of creating complex searches with the most appropriate search terms to get the most relevant articles (Hospitality & Tourism
Complete).
Here are some of the relative merits of the five search tools, accessible via the Key Databases tab at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/leisure
Search Tool
Library Catalogue/Summon
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/search
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
MINTEL
Key Note
ProQuest Dissertations &
Theses: UK & Ireland
Scope
Searches all the University’s paid-for databases and
ejournals. Cross-subject searching. Full text of many
articles available through links out to full text.
Research and news in all areas of the hospitality and
tourism industry going back to 1965. Full text for 440
publications.
Mintel supplies independent research on UK consumer
markets. Reports are written by experts in each sector.
Market intelligence reports (listed by product/service
types) and company reports (7m+ UK companies).
Listing of UK & Ireland higher education theses, with
abstracts. Links to full text where available.
Search
Keyword search box, with ability to limit by
format e.g. journal article, date. Use
inverted commas for “phrase searching”
Advanced search allows complex searching,
combining subject terms and range of limits
– e.g. geographical region, peer reviewed
Includes basic and advanced features.
Advanced Search including the ability to
search by Sector, Report title, Chapter name
and publication date.
Searching by institution available in simple
and standard search
Features*
RefWorks
RefWorks
Personal account
Search alerts
RefWorks
Search alerts
*Features : RefWorks – references can be downloaded into our reference management software (see below) Personal accounts – e.g. "My Account" or "My
Folder" enable you to save your searches and documents, and set up alerts. Search alerts - automatic emails sent from a database, notifying you of new
documents that meet your search parameters.
Note:
You will find this symbol in many of our databases, including Hospitality & Tourism Complete. If full text isn’t immediately available, click on
this symbol to check whether the University has access to the full-text.
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Finding Open Access Resources
It is becoming increasingly important that you consider searching for full-text resources made available through subject or institutional open access repositories.
These may give you access to e.g. full-text articles, PhD theses or government document archives not available to you elsewhere. Useful sources include:
WIRE - Wolverhampton Intellectual
Repository and E-Theses
OpenDOAR – the Directory of Open
Access Repositories
Digital Education Resource Archive
(DERA)
Academia.edu
OAIster
http://wlv.openrepository.com/wlv
Growing collection of research outputs from the University of Wolverhampton.
http://www.opendoar.org
Directory of academic open access repositories
http://dera.ioe.ac.uk
Archive of documents published electronically by government and other bodies in
the areas of education, training, children and families.
Platform for sharing research and following the work of others in your subject field.
Catalogue of resources from open-archive collections worldwide
https://www.academia.edu/
http://www.oclc.org/oaister
What about Google Scholar?
Google Scholar is a quick way to find journal articles, but you should not rely on this alone. Access Google Scholar via the Find Resources tab at
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/leisure to ensure you are logged in to access the full-text of any of the University’s full-text journals you locate in your searches.
Search Tool
Google Scholar
Scope
Will return results from open access repositories. Covers pre-prints of
articles and un-reviewed articles as well as peer-reviewed articles.
Search
Hard to refine your search and
limited ways to sort the
thousands of results.
Features
Refworks
Constructing Searches
You will need to experiment with your searches to find the most appropriate subject terms or keywords for your topic. Hospitality & Tourism Complete has a
Thesaurus, which you can use to check whether you have identified the best words to describe your subject.
When searching, you need to consider combining your terms with either and, or or not, to include or exclude concepts. You also need think about:
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Alternative terms (synonyms)
Alternative spellings (e.g. behaviour/behavior)
Broader terms (if you find insufficient information on your precise topic)
Geographical limits (does your search need to be UK specific)
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Date limits?
Format limits – e.g. peer reviewed articles only to exclude magazines
Language limit – e.g. English only
Wildcard/truncation to include variants e.g. motiv* for motivation, motivating
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Setting Search Alerts/Keeping Up to Date
If you are undertaking research over a period of months it may be worth setting up search alerts, so you are informed when new journal articles are published in
your area of interest. Alerts can be received by email or RSS feeds. This can be done through the databases as listed above, or through Zetoc
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ or JournalTOCs http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/ . See http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/research for further guidance.
Reference Management
It is possible to save references from the above databases into reference management software such as RefWorks. RefWorks can also be used to format your
bibliography in the Harvard Referencing style. If you are interested in using RefWorks see http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/referencing , including information on
workshops and the Guide to RefWorks.
Found a Reference but Can’t Access it?
If you have identified a useful journal article or book, but don’t think we have it online or in print in the Learning Centre, you can request a copy via our InterLibrary Loan service. Copies of higher degree theses may be obtained through the British Library EThOS service. See http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/interloan for advice
on these services.
Need Further Assistance
If you would like further help, please contact the Liaison Librarian team via LISliaison@wlv.ac.uk or 01902 323648.
Cite this work:
Learning and Information Services (2014) Literature Searching in Leisure [online]. Wolverhampton: University of Wolverhampton. [Access date]. Available from
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/research.
To request this document in an alternative format please contact LISliaison@wlv.ac.uk
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