Library and Academic Success: Golf: Getting Started

Faculty Librarian

Jennifer Varcoe

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Barrie Campus Library, K210C

Subjects: Business & Management, Hospitality, Tourism & Recreation, Human Services, Indigenous, Interdisciplinary

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Tips for Searching

When searching the databases or the web:

Know that the language used to describe the article or book may not reflect current sensitive language practices
Be aware of other terms you may need to use to get results
Be aware that terms change over time

Some suggested subject search terms:

Hospitality & Tourism Complete: •golf courses •golf resorts •golf tournaments

Master File Elite: • golf • golf coaching •golf-equipment and supplies •golf-drive •golf-psychological aspects •golf clubs [i.e.,facilities]

SportsDiscus: •golf drive •golf training •golf course architects •golf courses-irrigation •golf courses-maintenance

Golf Databases

Hospitality and Tourism Complete This link opens in a new window
Hospitality & Tourism Index is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive database contains more than 440,000 records from 500 titles, with coverage going back to the early 1960s.
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MasterFILE Elite This link opens in a new window
This database covers general interest, business, health and multicultural topics.
Permitted Uses: License Info
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Sport, fitness and sports medicine.
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Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) This link opens in a new window
On Campus Access Only. Make sure to Click “accept terms” and then “login”.Turfgrass Information File contains over 250,000 records regarding turfgrass educational materials from the Turfgrass Information Center (TIC), a specialized unit at the Michigan State University Libraries.

Additional Databases

Page1+ This link opens in a new window
Looking for information for an assignment? Enter your keywords to find books, articles, streaming video & more in one click. Access to full text requires your Georgian user credentials.

Some specialized databases are only accessible on campus. Please ask information staff to log you in, or for more information.

Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
Search for company profiles, industry profiles, and more. Easily modify your search to focus on trade, magazine, or journal articles, Complements our other business databases and sources.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database.
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CARD This link opens in a new window
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On Campus Access Only. Canadian media information, including: advertising rates and related data for Canadian newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations; includes selected International media. To see definitions of CARD's filters, select the black exclamation icon above.
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comScore This link opens in a new window
For access, contact Research Help staff for login & password information.
ComScore measures digital space - Georgian subscribes to the AdMetrix, Mobile Metrix, and Media Metrix modules that measure website usage. The data is of use to advertisers & agencies, industry players and those involved in competitive analysis. comScore is a tool used to identify where [the websites] an advertiser ran ads for specific products [including creatives used in the campaign]; top advertisers within an industry, and their related products.
Nexis UNI This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. Permalinks/stable links currently not working. For best results use Firefox or Chrome.
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SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
SimplyAnalytics allows users to define a location and then assemble demographic data describing the inhabitants. This data can then be mapped and analyzed. Data includes: 2011 and 2016 census, household expenditures, and PRIZM. Data can be exported in a variety of formats. 5 concurrent users at a time.
Create an account using your Georgian email to save your project work. Otherwise, you can access by selecting "sign in as guest" but your work will not be saved.

Permitted Uses: License Info
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics [Canadian + international] in 20 multidisciplinary categories; country, industry, consumer & demographic data; dossiers and research studies
Vividata This link opens in a new window
By accessing and using Vividata, you acknowledge and agree that only persons who are specifically authorized by Georgian College pursuant to the terms of a membership agreement may access and use Vividata studies and the information contained in this Vividata platform. Vividata may audit logins to review compliance by users and persons logging in.

Provides product category user demographic information.

For access, contact library@georgiancollege.ca for login & password information.
For a tutorial on Vividata, watch these videos produced by Humber College Libraries. https://library.humber.ca/help/vividata

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