Welcome to the Research Guide for Outdoor Recreation in Parks & Tourism!
This guide has been designed to help you with research in your Outdoor Recreation in Parks & Tourism courses, by providing an overview of some of the key resources available via the Sherratt Library. It includes information on how to find and use them.
The Sherratt Library provides access to a number of article & information databases on a wide range of subjects. Below is a list of databases with content related to Outdoor Recreation in Parks & Tourism:
Nexis Uni® features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Note: to get full text access to the articles you'll locate via Google Scholar, follow these instructions to set up your browser:
Although many of the journals we carry in Sherratt Library are available in electronic form, there are times when a print copy is preferable. Below is a list of journals we have in print and electronic formats. See titles for links to each journal (note: journals and periodicals designated as "print" are available in the Print Collection on the first floor of Sherratt Library).
Here at the Sherratt Library, we use the Library of Congress classification system (call numbers) to organize most of our items, including print books and ebooks. Below is a general list of call numbers that relate to Outdoor Recreation in Parks & Tourism (the call numbers can help you to find materials that are located on our shelves).
