Database of the Month: Gale Leisure Collections (InfoTrac)

InfoTrac has created a collection of databases suited to searching journal articles and reference book chapters on topics in culinary arts, gardening, landscape design, horticulture, hospitality, tourism and leisure.

There are over 2,000 journals in these three databases – Culinary Arts, Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture and Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure.  Not all articles are full text, but by searching for a particular title under Publication Search, you will be able to determine if there is a delay in availability for a particular journal or magazine.  These databases are a rich blend of leisure and scholarly content. You will find industry information, travel guides, adult and children’s leisure reading magazines, textbooks, recipes, videos, web blogs, and government publications.

gale-culinary

The Culinary Arts Collection includes more than 300 major cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and 20 Delmar Reference titles. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, industry information, and instruction for the practitioner.

The Culinary Arts Collection searches 287 journal publications, including some familiar full-text titles:

  • About Wine
  • Bon Appetit
  • Art Culinaire
  • Cheese Market News
  • Country Living
  • Food Policy
  • Gourmet
  • House Beautiful
  • Nation’s Restaurant News
  • Restaurant Business
  • Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery
  • Vegetarian Times

gale-gardening

Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture contains 3,839,147 articles published between 1980 and the present in scientific, trade, and popular journals, and government publications.  Some full-text journal and book chapters include:

  • Agricultural Research
  • Botanical Review (The)
  • Endangered Species Bulletin
  • Horticulture Magazine
  • Mother Earth News
  • Natural History
  • Old Farmer’s Almanac
  • Ornamental Horticulture, Science, Operations & Management, 3rd ed. (2001)
  • Parks & Recreation
  • Plant Ecology
  • Sunset
  • Victorian Naturalist (The)

gale -hospitality

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure contains 1,446 publications covering cultural and economic aspects of tourism and leisure activities in industry journals, travel guides and magazines. Such publications are:

  • Backpacker
  • Battlefields of the Civil War, Vols. 1 & 2 (2001)
  • Better Nutrition
  • Beverage Industry
  • Business Travel News
  • Fodor’s Travel Guides
  • Hotel Management
  • Leisure & Travel Week
  • Specialty Coffee Retailer
  • Travel Weekly

The Gale Leisure Collection is available through the Bentley Library’s Databases A to Z listing. For further assistance using the Gale Leisure Collection, please contact the Reference Desk.

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