Guides: Culinary: Articles & Databases

Key Journals and Magazines

Key Reports

A Working Guide to Planning an Event
Alberta Agriculture & Rural Development
Assessing the Opportunities and Challenges Facing Canada’s Specialty Food Industry
Action on Weatherill Report Recommendations to Strengthen the Food Safety System: Final Report to Canadians
Report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Whole World is Watching
PM Network Vol. 26 No. 11 Nov. 2012

Major Indexes

These databases primarily contain journal, newspaper, and magazine articles. Additionally, some include materials such as book reviews, e-books, and conference proceedings.

Culinary Arts Collection (InfoTrac) This link opens in a new window
Approximately 150 major cooking and nutrition magazines including recipes, restaurant reviews and industry information.
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Bloomsbury Food Library This link opens in a new window
Extensive collection of food studies content, covering interdisciplinary perspectives from history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography, sustainability, agriculture, culinary arts, and development studies. Includes Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia and the Cambridge World History of Food.
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Food Science Source This link opens in a new window
Food Science Source covers more than 1400 publications dealing with the food industry encompassing sectors such as: Food & Beverage Science, Food Safety, Food Service, Processing, Packaging, Shipping, Culinary Innovation and Product Development.
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Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure Collection (InfoTrac) This link opens in a new window
Over 500 industry journals focusing on the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business subject coverage including management, accounting, marketing, economics, etc. Offers full text for scholarly business journals, magazines, trade journals, country economic reports, market research reports, and company and industry profiles.
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NOTE:Harvard Business Review does not allow printing or downloading of their 500 most popular articles, which changes frequently.
CBCA Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains CBCA's Business, Current Events, Education and Reference indexes.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to approximately 300 periodicals, 1,000 pamphlets and 135 reference books related to consumer health.
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Other Indexes

Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Access current Canadian news content with archives as far back as the 1970s, from over 360 news sources. Newspapers including The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star along with newswires and broadcast transcripts in full-text format. Updated daily.
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Lexis Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides the full text of news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Includes mainly U.S. newspapers, laws, business news journals, company financial information, and industry and market news. Limited Canadian and other international legal research sources.
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Factiva This link opens in a new window
Covers more than 9,000 full text sources including local, national and international newspapers (including the Globe and Mail), business magazines, trade publications, and newswires as well as company profiles, industry information and stock market quotations and data.
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Small Business Collection (InfoTrac) This link opens in a new window
This compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find 250 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
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