Research Guides: Recreation Management: Databases & Journals

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Academic Search Complete Offers an enormous collection of the most valuable full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, this database is the leading source of peer-reviewed, full-text for STM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities. This scholarly collection offers unmatched coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Business Source Complete Comprehensive business research database including indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism sectors.
PsycINFO
SPORTDiscus with Full Text

Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window Includes company, industry and geopolitical macroeconomic research which is useful for business and marketing plans, startup, strategic and financial plans, and market growth analysis.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete This link opens in a new window Includes journals, magazines, and newspapers published in Canada in the fields of business, current events, education and general reference.
Canadian Research Index This link opens in a new window Canadian Research Index is a monthly indexing service with bibliographic citations that allows users to locate reports they need for business, research, or for informed and active participation in community activities.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Covers free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly open access journals in all subjects and languages. Updates: unknown.
Hospitality Review The Hospitality Review journal promotes the highest level of scholarship and aims for the highest utility possible to academic and practitioner audiences. Therefore scholars and researchers with an interest in expanding the knowledge base of the hospitality industry are invited to submit manuscripts to the Hospitality Review. In general, full length articles should be 4000 to 6000 words in length. The journal publishes full length empirical and conceptual research articles as well as research notes.

There are many e-journals available on a wide variety of topics in this area. Below are a select few.

Annals of Leisure Research Contains articles which promote the development of research and scholarship in leisure studies.
Journal of Park and Recreation Administration Provides data-based research articles written by top practitioners & educators in leisure services. A forum for management & organizational analysis of the delivery of park, recreation, & leisure services for practitioners, academicians & students.
Leisure Sciences Covers leisure behavior with emphasis on developing & testing theory.
Managing Sport and Leisure

Recreation Management