Course Librarian

• Librarian: Kate Gronemyer
• Office Location: Library 216
• Office Hours: drop in or make an appointment
• Chat: AIM: cascadeslibrary Y!M: cascadeslibrarian
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Books

Books are likely to be a useful resource for your research.  Check the OSU catalog for books available at both Cascades and in Corvallis. Check the Summit Catalog for books available from other academic libraries in Oregon and Washington.

 

Need a book that you can't find anywhere?  Order it through Interlibrary Loan . 

Is it peer reviewed? How to tell.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if an article has gone through the peer review process.  While there are always exceptions,  most peer reviewed articles have certain characteristics. Here are a few things to look for to help you evaluate the articles you find:

• Where did you find the article?  It can be difficult to find peer reviewed materials using regular web search engines like Google.  You're more likely to find peer reviewed materials searching in the library's subscription databases .
  
• Where was it published? In something with a title like "Journal of..." or in something more familiar, like USA Today or The Economist?  Familar, "popular" magazines and newspapers are not peer-reviewed.
• What does it look like? While the format for peer reviewed articles varies somewhat in different disciplines, peer reviewed articles will almost always have many, many citations used throughout the article, with a long list of the sources cited at the end.  Articles published in science and social science fields will normally have specific, labelled sections like an abstract, an introduction, the methodology used, the results discovered, and a discussion and/or conclusion section.
• Who wrote it? Peer reviewed articles are frequently written collaboratively, meaning they have more than one author.  Also, you should be able to find the authors' affiliation somewhere on the article, meaning the university or research institute where they work.  If there's no author given at all, it's definitely not peer reviewed.

If you ever have questions about whether or not an article has been peer reviewed, you can always ask your instructor or a librarian for help.

Recommended Databases

CAB Abstracts

This database indexes the tourism journals as well as edited books.

 

Mintel Market Research

This database contains in-depth marketing reports.  You will need to create an account (using your ONID email address) the first time you use it. 

 

Business Source Premier

This is a business database that will include tourism-related business and marketing articles.

 

Academic Search Premier

This is a large, general database that covers more topics but in less depth than the databases above.  Worth checking, but will include lots of popular material like USA Today and Newsweek that may not be appropriate for your paper.