Research Guides

Research Guides are designed to get you started on your research and to assist you in acquiring the materials you need. Print versions of these guides are also available in the Universal Orlando Foundation Library.

If you are not sure where to start, try our Quick Steps Library Guide. For more assistance, please Ask a Rosen Librarian.

Hospitality Research Guides

• Finding Biographical Information
• Finding Company Information
• Food & Beverage Industry
• Human Resources
• Lodging Industry
• Marketing
• Meeting, Incentive, Convention, & Exposition (MICE) Industry
• Statistics/Demographics Updated!
• Theme Park & Attraction Industry
• Travel & Tourism Industries
• Wine & Beer

General Research Guides

• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Course Reserves (PDF file, 58 KB) New!
• Electronic Books
• Evaluating Internet Sources
• Finding Articles
• Finding Books
• Finding Full Text From Citations
• Interlibrary Loan
• Off-Campus Access to Electronic Resources (PDF file, 118KB)
• Quick Steps Library Guide
• Scholarly, Trade, or Popular? (A Guide to Understanding Periodicals)
• Using LexisNexis for Legal & Business Research

Citation Style Guides

• Annotated Bibliographies
• APA Citation Style Updated!
• Chicago Citation Style
• MLA Citation Style

Course-Specific Guides

• Chicago Citation Style Examples (PDF file, 24 KB)
• HFT 2750: Event Industry (PDF file, 20 KB)
• HFT 4759: Prod. Dev. in Theme Parks (PDF file, 24 KB)

More Help

• Also see the Rosen Research Tutorials for more assistance in doing hospitality research
• More research guides are available through the main UCF Library's Research Guides page

Questions? Ask a Rosen Librarian!

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Last Updated: December 2008 TB