Culinary & Catering Management

Starting your Research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Collin, P. H. (2003). Dictionary of hotels, tourism, and catering management London: Peter Collin.	Labensky, S., Ingram, G. G., & Labensky, S. R. (2007). The Prentice Hall essentials dictionary of culinary arts. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
The Culinary Institute of America. (2009). Remarkable service. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sonsl.	Godsmark, C. (2009). Starting and running a catering business. Oxford: How To Books.

A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Brand choice	Business enterprise	Caterers and catering – Management
Caterers and catering – Marketing	Caterers and catering – Nutritional aspects	Consumer behavior
Consumer satisfaction	Consumption (economics)	Cookery
Customer service management	Customer relations	Entrepreneurship
Food/cookery dictionaries	Food handling	Food poisoning
Food sanitation	Food service	Food service employees
Food service management	Food industry and trade	Marketing research
Table service	Wine and wine making

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Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Business Source Premier

• Health Source Consumer Edition

• Hospitality and Tourism Complete

• MAS Ultra: School Edition

• Global Market Information Database (GMID)

Speciality Searches from Business Source Premier

• Country Reports - for reviews of countries, including economic studies and political risk.
• Company Profiles - for Datamonitor reports.
• Industry Profiles - for identifying the competitive landscape, market size, and more.
• Market Research Reports - for news and analyses on major events in specified markets.
• SWOT Analyses - looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within specified companies.

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

Consumer Behavior - Consumer Behavior is written by a consumer psychologist, resulting in analysis of core marketing concepts with a slight psychological twist. It is updated regularly with new concepts.

Food and Nutrition Information Centre - Provides basic information about nutrition and dietary guidance.

Restaurant Association of Singapore - Find out more about what restaurants in Singapore are doing to collaborate, along with other industry news updates.

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