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Accounting & Law       Top of the page  
  • Business Source Complete - is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. It has full text back to 1886, and full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
  • Checkpoint  -provides web-based comprehensive tax research information. Resources include Federal editorial materials, state and local tax information, estate planning materials, IRS rulings and releases, federal court decisions, and pending and enacted tax legislation.  Includes three (3) libraries (Federal, State, and Local), plus the Journal of Taxation, Practical Tax Strategies, Journal of Corporate Taxation, and All States Tax Guide.
  • FindLaw -Focused on law and government, this database provides access to a comprehensive and fast growing online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers and small businesses.
  • FindLaw Constitutional Law Center - features an easy-to-read guide that leads visitors through historical documents, biographies, and Supreme Court decisions.  Users can browse through the Federalist Papers, read the Constitution, or research the lives of the Founding Fathers or past and present Supreme Court Justices.
  • Index to Legal Periodicals (H.W. Wilson) - Indexing of over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. Full text of over 325 select periodicals, as far back as 1994, many of them peer-reviewed. 
  • International Financial Statistics - provides concepts, terms, sources, and coverage areas for exchange rates, fund accounts, government finance, interest rates, international liquidity, international transactions, monetary statistics, national accounts and population, as well as prices, production and labor.
  • Taylor and Francis Online  - publishes journals in the subject areas of bioscience, communication, communication, computer science, health, humanities, literature, law, mathematics, engineering, food science, geography, physical sciences, politics, sports, tourism, and urban studies. The Brown-Daniel Library has subscription packages for the business journals and the environmental/agriculture journals.
  • WestlawNext Campus Research (Best Results: Chrome or Firefox)- provides online access to cases from all state and federal courts; statutes from all state and federal statutes published in the United States Code Annotated; federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; American Law Reports, a publication containing attorney-written articles that summarize and analyze case law on a particular legal issue; and American Jurisprudence 2d, a comprehensive encyclopedia of state and federal law.
African American Studies Databases      Top of the page     
  • African-American Biographical Database - The African American Biographical Database (AABD) brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.
  • African American Experience -  The African American Experience developed with the guidance of African American librarians and subject specialists, The African American Experience is the widest ranging and easiest-to-use online database collection on African American history and culture.
  • African American Music Reference - comprehensive coverage of black American musical expression from colonial times to the present, including blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms. It provides coverage of a wide range of material types, including discographies, biographies, anthologies, encyclopedias, critical works, photographs and other images, lyrics, sheet music, chronologies, and textbooks.
  • African American Newspapers, 1827-1998  - include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people.
  • African American Periodicals 1825-1995 - features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres. Featuring news, commentary, advertisements, literature, drawings and photographs, the titles in this remarkable collection includes African Repository, El Mulato, The Black Warrior, Pennsylvania Freedmen’s Bulletin, Colored Harvest, Voice of the Negro, Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Blue Helmet: A Magazine for the American Negro Soldier of All Wars, Harlem Pointer, African World, Black Pride Newsletter, Right On! and other titles from around the United States.
  • Black Studies Center - is a leading tool that supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion.
  • Black Thought and Culture - contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.
  • Oxford African American Studies Center  - combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
  • Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry - The name Chadwyck-Healey has been synonymous with innovation in electronic publishing since the release of the English Poetry Full-Text Database in 1992. Today, Chadwyck-Healey is the specialist humanities publishing imprint of ProQuest, and continues to be associated with a growing portfolio of electronic publications known and used the world over.
Agriculture Databases           Top of the page   
  • Access Science - gathers and synthesizes vast amounts of information, and organizes it to give you fast, easy and accurate access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology including agriculture, forestry and soils. It's easier than ever to find what you're looking for and put it to use quickly.
  • Applied Science Full Text - Look here for fast, convenient access to the most important sources in applied science and technology—much of it from peer-reviewed journals. This database features full text, graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of data in scientific and technical articles.
  • Biological & Agricultural Index Plus™ (H.W. Wilson) - provides full text of articles from over 100 journals dating back to 1997, as well as indexing and abstracts of more than 380 publications. Coverage includes agriculture & agricultural research, atmospheric science, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, environmental science, geology, marine biology microbiology, physics and other topics.
  • Career Transitions - is about accessibility and guidance: helping your users get started — and follow through — on meaningful activities to improve their chances of finding sustainable employment.
  • Environment Complete - contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals.
  • Environmental Studies and Policy Collection - provides full text information from over 700 journals. It contains over three million articles that cover global warming, climate change, alternative energy, environmental policy, going green, recycling, soil, plants, agronomy and other subjects pertaining to agriculture and the environment.
  • Food Science Source - This extensive full-text database is designed to support the informational needs of the food industry at all levels, offering unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas that are integral to the food industry.
  • Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection - Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.
  • GreenFile - offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
  • ISI Web of Knowledge - is a dynamic, fully integrated environment that provides one source for high quality content and tools to access, analyze, and manage research information through BIOSIS Previews (Biomedical and life sciences journals, patents, and meetings and conferences).  It also includes ISI HighlyCited.com that includes author biographies and bibliographies as well as Scientific (Thomson Website).
  • Plant Management Network -  is a not-for-profit, online publishing effort whose mission is to enhance the health, management, and production of agricultural and horticultural crops. PMN achieves this mission by developing science-based resources that help.
  • PolicyMap - is an online data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US. Use it for research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.
  • ProQuest Agricultural Collection - This is a comprehensive database that cover all aspects of agricultural science as well the fields of botany, nutrition, human ecology, microbiology, physiology, natural history, plant sciences, public health, rural economics, soil science, veterinary medicine, wildlife, weather and climate. It contains full text articles from over 550 publications and includes the bibliographic records from Agricola.
  • ScienceDirect  - offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business and Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics and Computer science, Microbiology and Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.
  • Taylor and Francis Online  - publishes journals in the subject areas of bioscience, communication, communication, computer science, health, humanities, literature, law, mathematics, engineering, food science, geography, physical sciences, politics, sports, tourism, and urban studies. The Brown-Daniel Library has subscription packages for the business journals and the environmental/agriculture journals.
  • Wiley Online Library - provides full text information of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and even the full text of select Wiley print books online.
Art and Images Databases          Top of the page
  • American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1-5 - a comprehensive collection of American history periodicals with coverage from 1691-1904. Includes the leading political, foreign, religious, agricultural, literary, military and business periodicals of the times.
  • Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Researchers can track the careers of artists and review their materials and methods, and find books by and about artists, as well as interviews, profiles, and much more. Indexing of art reproductions helps users find virtually any work of interest—including works by emerging artists—as well as examples of styles and movements in art.
  • Art Index Retrospective - Covering content for more than 55 years of art journalism, this retrospective resource includes articles, interviews, reviews and much more from over 600 publications.
  • Art Museum Image Gallery (H.W. Wilson) - is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world.
  • Fine Arts and Music - provides 10.4 million articles of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Includes 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.
  • New York Public Library Digital Gallery - is The New York Public Library's new image database, developed to provide free and open online access to thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of the Research Libraries. Spanning a wide range of visual media, NYPL Digital Gallery offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of the Research Libraries, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, Music and Performing Arts, and social sciences.
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition - is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
  • Oxford Art Online -is the formost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering golbal art and architecture form prehistory to present day.
  • Oxford Dictionary of Art - contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts -painting, schulpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars form around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study. 
  • SmartHistory - is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even)substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.
Biography Databases          Top of the page
  • African-American Biographical Database  - is a resource looking for biographical information on African Americans published  between 1790-1950, including photographs and illustrations. From the famous to the everyday person, AABD includes profiles and full-text sketches providing both biographical detail and illuminating narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans.
  • Biography in Context - is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives and Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
  • Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983 (H.W. Wilson) - For educators, students, media professionals, book clubs, researchers, and anyone looking for trustworthy information on notable individuals from antiquity through 1983, Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983 is an invaluable resource.   Included are entries on individuals that reflect the perspective of the time when they were written. 
  • In the First Person - is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.
  • JOVE Science Education - Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology - This Science Education video collection demonstrates how to execute basic techniques commonly used in cellular and molecular biology. It includes modules on General Laboratory Techniques, Essentials of Biology 1 (yeast, Drosophilia and elegans) and Essentials of Biology 2(mouse, zebrafish and chick)
  • Tennessee Records - The Tennessee State Library and Archives has partnered with Ancestry.com to provide genealogical data from the state’s vital records collections. Includes birth records, death records, early land records, tax lists, male voter lists, Revolutionary War land grants and the Tennessee Supreme Court Index, 1809-1950.
Business  and Economics Databases           Top of the page

  • Business Abstracts with Full Text - Offering a multitude of business magazines and scholarly journals, this comprehensive database is an ideal resource for those looking to conduct research or find information in any area of business. Business Abstracts with Full Text™ contains full-text articles from hundreds of key publications, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more.
  • Business Collection - A comprehensive business resource for the undergraduate researcher seeking company news, the public library patron making personal investment decisions, or the high school student looking to major in business administration, Business Collection provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on the state-of-the-art InfoTrac platform.
  • Business, Economics and Theory - With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.
  • Business Insights: Essentials - contains all of the content and functionality found in Business and Company Resource Center, however the information is now organized on a more intuitive, user-friendly platform. With this new resource, librarians can more effectively help faculty, students and patrons.
  • Business Source Complete - is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. It has full text back to 1886, and full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
  • Career Transitions - offers a variety of assessment tools to explore skills, interests and match to job goals, training and career paths. To assist and strengthen communities, families and individuals to become self-sufficient through workforce development, education, training and employment.
  • EconLit - is the American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economics literature throughout the world. EconLit contains abstracts, indexing, and links to full-text articles in economics journals. It abstracts books and indexes articles in books, working papers series, and dissertations. EconLit also provides the full-text of Journal of Economic Literature book reviews.
  • EDGAR - performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
  • Emerald  - provides comprehensive coverage of over 100 management journals--complete with full text archives back to 1994 and abstracts to 1989. 
  • Entrepreneurial Studies Source - provides the academic researcher as well as the student with the latest insight on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses. Entrepreneurial Studies Source offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of the world's largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs.
  • FindLaw - provides legal information, lawyer profiles and a community to help you make the best legal decisions.
  • FindLaw U.S. Supreme Court Center- is the world's leading provider of online legal information and Internet marketing solutions for law firms. FindLaw's roots go back to 1995, when two attorneys compiled a list of Internet resources for a group of law librarians in northern California. The response to the material was so positive they decided to post the information on the Internet.
  • Health Source Consumer Edition - a free business news component included with Business Source.
  • Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure - With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry - including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.
  • Insurance and Liability Collection - This collection, comprised of nearly 40 journals, takes a broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.
  • International Financial Statistics - This database is managed and produce by the International Monetary Fund, which has 187 member countries. It provides country information, policy statements, data and statistics
  • Mergent Online - provides Internet-based access to the most detailed, accurate and comprehensive global company database available, with the latest in features and functions.
  • Mintel Academic - Academic provides robust insight and recommendations based on in-depth market study.
  • MorningStar Investment Research Center - offers public, corporate, and academic libraries real-time access to comprehensive data and independent analysis on thousands of investments, spanning mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds. Customized to meet any organization’s needs, Investment Research Center serves all levels of investors with a range of dynamic tools and thoughtful perspectives to help them make more informed investment decisions.
  • Nexis Uni - Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
  • Plunkett Research - offers custom-tailored subscriber access to our industry data, competitive intelligence and technology analysis. Information available online by subscription.
  • Regional Business News - is a part of the Business Source Complete subscription. It provides comprehensive full text articles from regional business publications. Includes coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
  • Sage Management and Organizational Studies - covers such subjects as Action Research, Business and Government Relations, Business Ethics, Compensation and Benefits, Corporate Social Responsibility, Critical Theory, E-commerce, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Management, Group Processes, Hospitality, Human Resource Management, Industrial Psychology, Industrial Relations, International and Cooperative Management, Labor Economics, Leadership, Macromarketing, Management Education, Management Learning, Marketing, Marketing Education, Marketing Theory, Non-profit Management, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development, Organizational Theory, Organizational Communication, Research Design, Research Methodologies, Service Marketing, Service Organizations, Simulation, Small Business Management, Social Marketing, Sociology of Work, Strategic Management, Tourism, Training, and Travel.
  • ScienceDirect  - offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business and Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics and Computer science, Microbiology and Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.
  • Small Business Collection - Small Business Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines for business research.  Covers management, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
  • Small Business Resource Center - At the Small Business Resource Center, you will find a wealth of information about many subjects that affect your small business, from planning and financing to marketing and insurance. The Center has a large business library, plus PC-based internet access to magazines and newspapers nationwide, for your research on a variety of business topics. There are videos and cassettes for you to use, as well as literature and self-help guides. At the Small Business Resource Center you can learn more about starting your own business, preparing a business plan, getting credit, business taxes and regulatory responsibilities, networking, and much more.
  • Taylor and Francis Online - publishes journals in the subject areas of bioscience, communication, communication, computer science, health, humanities, literature, law, mathematics, engineering, food science, geography, physical sciences, politics, sports, tourism, and urban studies. The Brown-Daniel Library has subscription packages for the business journals and the environmental/agriculture journals.
  • Wiley Online Library - hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 6 million articles from over 1500 journals, over 16,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.
Career Information Databases           Top of the page
  • Career Outlook - is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years.
  • Glassdoor - is a free career community where anyone can find and anonymously share an inside look at jobs and companies. What sets us apart is that all our information comes from current and former employees, interview candidates, and even the companies themselves. Now with more than a million salaries, company reviews, interview questions, office photos, and more, you have all the information you'll need to manage your career and make more informed career decisions
  • O*Net - The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is available to the public at no cost, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The database also provides the basis for our Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers.
  • Plunkett Research - offers custom-tailored subscriber access to our industry data, competitive intelligence and technology analysis. Information available online by subscription.
  • Vocations, Careers, and Technical Education Collection - Providing content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
  • Vocational Studies Complete - Designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, this resource provides full-text, comprehensive coverage of the most relevant Associates program level content. Also available under the names  Associates Programs Source and Associates Programs Plus, this unique database covers such varied topics as: alcohol and drug abuse counseling, audiology, biotechnology, computer and data processing, CAD, cosmetology, electrical technology, fashion design, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology, interior design, law enforcement and criminal justice, paralegal studies, robotics, travel and tourism, veterinary assisting, and dozens more.
Communication Databases           Top of the page
  • Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection - will deliver, for the first time online, hundreds of important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries—are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
  • BBC Shakespeare Plays (Ambrose Videos 2.0 ) - provides film clips from many of Shakespeare’s important plays such as Hamlet, As You Like It, MacBeth, Merchant of Venice, All’s Well that Ends Well, King Lear, and Comedy of Errors. Access to this database is provided by RODP.
  • Black Drama - contains the full text of more than 1,460 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 250 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor. Over 40% of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
  • Communications and Mass Media Collection - From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.
  • Communication Source - is the premier information source for scholars studying mass media, communications theory, linguistics, organizational communication, phonetics and speech pathology. Communication Source features full text for more than 800 titles, including over 600 active full-text titles and 150 full-text titles not found in other EBSCO academic databases.
  • Naxos Music Library/Jazz - is one of the most comprehensive collections of Jazz music available online. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz along with Prophone and Proprius plus other independent labels.
  • Naxos Spoken Word Library - offers listen-on-demand access to recordings
  • Sage Communication and Media Studies Collection - covers such subjects as Business Communication, Cultural Studies, Discourse Studies, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Journalism, Literacy Studies, Mass Communication, Media Studies, Organizational/Management Communication, Political Communication, Public Opinion, Rhetoric, Television/Film Studies, and Written Communication.
  • Theatre in Video  - contains performances from an international collection of major plays and includes 258 videos, equaling approximately 304 hours.  The collection will eventually offer 500 hours of performances.
Criminal Justice Databases          Top of the page
  • Criminal Justice Collection - whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals.
  • Criminal Justice - is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for over 400 titles, with more than 170 available in full-text.
  • Index to Legal Periodicals (H.W. Wilson) - Indexing of over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. Full text of over 325 select periodicals, as far back as 1994, many of them peer-reviewed.
  • International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center - offers information on virtually every dimension of security and counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues. ISCTRC provides a comprehensive Open Source Intelligence Resource for analysts, risk management professionals, and students. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. ISCTRC also combines deep background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, agencies and publisher and timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.
  • Sage Criminal Justice Collection - peer-reviewed and published monthly, promotes scholarly evaluations of assessment, classification, prevention, intervention, and treatment programs to help the correctional professional develop successful programs based on sound and informative theoretical and research foundations.
Education Databases          Top of the page
  • Chronicle of Higher Education - is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
  • Dissertations and Theses ( Arts Business Health History Literature Science Social Science ) - A service provided to universities that actively publish their graduate students' dissertations and theses with ProQuest's UMI® Dissertation Publishing. Dissertations and Theses @ enables individual universities to access the citations and abstracts of all their student's dissertations and theses, as well as the full text in PDF format, when available.
  • Dissertations and Theses @ Tennessee State University - A service provided to universities that actively publish their graduate students' dissertations and theses with ProQuest's UMI® Dissertation Publishing. Dissertations and Theses @ enables individual universities to access the citations and abstracts of all their student's dissertations and theses, as well as the full text in PDF format, when available.
  • Educational Administration Abstracts - includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 190,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
  • Education Source - is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The extensive collection includes full text for more than 1,700 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
  • Educator's Reference Complete - is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.
  • LearningExpress Library - offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook - covers more than 2,000 commercially-available educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence test.  Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations.
  • Proquest Education (Includes ERIC) - provides access to ERIC, the leading index for education research, in combination with the full- text Education Database. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including full- text from hundreds of leading education journals
  • Professional Collection - Articles from more than 300 full-text periodicals covering a variety of topics for teachers/educators, including: health and fitness, school law, drug and alcohol abuse, learning disabilities, sports, arts and humanities, social sciences, and psychology.
  • Sage Education Collection - includes the full text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 36 years, and encompasses over 7,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Adult and Continuing Education, Assessment, Multilingual Education, Content Areas, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Educational Psychology, Elementary and Primary Education, Family and Community, High School and Secondary Education, Higher Education, International Education, Leadership, Measurement and Testing, Middle School Education, Multicultural Education and Diversity, Philosophy of Education, Professional Development, Research Methods and Evaluation, School Counseling, School Finance and Budgeting, School Funding, School Health, School Law, School Reform, Special Education and Gifted Education, Standards, Teaching and Instruction, Teaching Methods, Technology, Theory of Education, and Vocational Education.
  • Teacher Reference Center - provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science and Mathematics, and more.
Engineering Databases         Top of the page
  • Applied Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Look here for fast, convenient access to the most important sources in applied science and technology—much of it from peer-reviewed journals. This database features full text, graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of data in scientific and technical articles.
  • ArXiv.org - Open access to e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. Owned, operated and funded by Cornell University.
  • ChemCentral - Chemistry Central is an open access chemistry publisher, operated by BioMed Central and owned by Springer Science Business Media, committed to the free and widespread dissemination of chemical research. All original research articles published by, or in co-operation with, Chemistry Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. Chemistry Central levies an article-processing charge to cover the cost of the publication process and authors publishing with Chemistry Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited.
  • IEEE Xplore  - is a digital library providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.
  • ISI Web of Knowledge - is a dynamic, fully integrated environment that provides one source for high quality content and tools to access, analyze, and manage research information through BIOSIS Previews (Biomedical and life sciences journals, patents, and meetings and conferences).  It also includes ISI HighlyCited.com that includes author biographies and bibliographies as well as Scientific (Thomson Website).
  • ScienceDirect - offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business and Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics and Computer science, Microbiology and Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.
  • SciFinder (New User Registration & Instructions) - This Chemical Abstracts Service database covers a broad diversity of scientific literature and patents from 1907 to present in several major scientific subject areas.
  • The United States Patent & Trademark Office - is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. In doing this, the USPTO fulfills the mandate of Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the Constitution that the legislative branch "promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries." The USPTO registers trademarks based on the commerce clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). Under this system of protection, American industry has flourished. New products have been invented, new uses for old ones discovered, and employment opportunities created for millions of Americans. The strength and vitality of the U.S. economy depends directly on effective mechanisms that protect new ideas and investments in innovation and creativity. The continued demand for patents and trademarks underscores the ingenuity of American inventors and entrepreneurs. The USPTO is at the cutting edge of the nation's technological progress and achievement.
  • Web of Science - Web of Science is the world’s leading citation databases, with multidisciplinary information from over 12,000 high impact journals and over 160,000 conference proceedings from around the world. Includes powerful cited reference searching, the Analyze Tool, over 100 years of comprehensive back file and citation data.
  • Wiley Online Library - provides full text information of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and even the full text of select Wiley print books online.
Family & Consumer Sciences Databases          Top of the page
  • Agriculture Collection - With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
  • Berg Fashion Library - provides both text and images on the history of world fashion history and costume.
  • Culinary Arts Collection - The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
  • Education Source - is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The extensive collection includes full text for more than 1,700 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
  • Food Science Source - This extensive full-text database is designed to support the informational needs of the food industry at all levels, offering unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas that are integral to the food industry.
  • Home Improvement - Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.
  • ProQuest Agricultural Collection - This is a comprehensive database that cover all aspects of agricultural science as well the fields of botany, nutrition, human ecology, microbiology, physiology, natural history, plant sciences, public health, rural economics, soil science, veterinary medicine, wildlife, weather and climate. It contains full text articles from over 550 publications and includes the bibliographic records from Agricola.
Government Resources Databases          Top of the page
  • Agriculture Collection - With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
  • Business Source Complete  - is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. It has full text back to 1886, and full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
  • Career Outlook - is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years.  (Free Access)
  • Congress.gov - is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.
  • Congressional Quarterly Electronic Library (CQEL)   - is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are combined in CQEL (pronounced SEE´quell). It also offers researchers—whether students, scholars, professionals, or interested citizens—a range of tools for discovering, understanding, and making use of its authoritative content.
  • Congressional Quarterly Researcher - is the choice of researchers seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Published in print and online 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
  • Digital National Security Archive - Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.  Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters, and other secret material. Additionally, reference supplements including introductory material, a chronology, a glossary, an essay, and a bibliography provide context and background for each collection. Documents have been selected by leading scholars in each of the topic areas. Each item has been abstracted and indexed over 20 different fields to enable powerful searching. Full images of each document can be viewed in GIF or PDF format.
  • FDsys (formerly GPO Access) - provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. Through FDsys, you are able to:
    --Search     for documents and publications - FDsys provides advanced search capabilities and the ability to refine and narrow your search for quick access to the information you need.
    --Browse     for documents and publications - FDsys offers browsing by collection, Congressional committee, and date.
    --Access metadata about documents and publications - FDsys provides information about Government publications in standard XML formats.
    --Download documents and publications     in multiple renditions or file formats - With FDsys, users can download a single file or download content and metadata packaged together in a compressed file.
  • FindLaw -Focused on law and government, this database provides access to a comprehensive and fast growing online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers and small businesses.
  • FindLaw Constitutional Law Center - features an easy-to-read guide that leads visitors through historical documents, biographies, and Supreme Court decisions.  Users can browse through the Federalist Papers, read the Constitution, or research the lives of the Founding Fathers or past and present Supreme Court Justices.
  • Gardening, Landscaping and Horticulture - Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.
  • Glassdoor - is a free career community where anyone can find and anonymously share an inside look at jobs and companies. What sets us apart is that all our information comes from current and former employees, interview candidates, and even the companies themselves. Now with more than a million salaries, company reviews, interview questions, office photos, and more, you have all the information you'll need to manage your career and make more informed career decisions (Free Access)
  • InfoPlease - has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.infoplease.com. Many things have changed since 1938, but not our dedication to providing reliable information, in a way that engages and entertains.
  • International Relations and Security Network (ISN) - is the world’s leading open access information service for International Relations and security professionals.
  • International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center - offers information on virtually every dimension of security and counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues. ISCTRC provides a comprehensive Open Source Intelligence Resource for analysts, risk management professionals, and students. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. ISCTRC also combines deep background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, agencies and publisher and timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.
  • Lexis-Nexis - provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.
  • Marcive Web DOCS-Express Search Database - is the World Wide Web version of Marcive’s Government Printing Office record database. The records found will include the Superintendents Document number or SuDoc number, which is the GPO’s version of a call number. This is the number you will need to request a copy of a publication, if owned, from the Government Publications department at the Central Library . An exciting feature of Marcive Web DOCS is its inclusion of Web addresses in the records for those government publications you can read on the World Wide Web.
  • Military and Intelligence Database - contains over 10 million articles (80% full-text) from more than 500 titles and basic reference materials. The content in this database is also part of InfoTrac One File.
  • O*Net - The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is available to the public at no cost, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The database also provides the basis for our Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers. (Free Access)
  • Plant Management Network - is a not-for-profit, online publishing effort whose mission is to enhance the health, management, and production of agricultural and horticultural crops. PMN achieves this mission by developing science-based resources that help researchers, crop management professionals, consultants, growers, educators, and students make better plant management decisions and recommendations.
  • Tennessee Records - The Tennessee State Library and Archives has partnered with Ancestry.com to provide genealogical data from the state’s vital records collections. Includes birth records, death records, early land records, tax lists, male voter lists, Revolutionary War land grants and the Tennessee Supreme Court Index, 1809-1950.
  • Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet - was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public. (Free Access)
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set - The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, including the American State Papers, is a series of reports and documents published by Congress.  It's called the Serial Set because it was published in serial fashion... meaning that there are more than 15,000 volumes in this series now!
  • U.S History in Context (Formerly History Resource Center) - provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more than 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
  • The United States Patent & Trademark Office - is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. In doing this, the USPTO fulfills the mandate of Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the Constitution that the legislative branch "promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries." The USPTO registers trademarks based on the commerce clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). Under this system of protection, American industry has flourished. New products have been invented, new uses for old ones discovered, and employment opportunities created for millions of Americans. The strength and vitality of the U.S. economy depends directly on effective mechanisms that protect new ideas and investments in innovation and creativity. The continued demand for patents and trademarks underscores the ingenuity of American inventors and entrepreneurs. The USPTO is at the cutting edge of the nation's technological progress and achievement.
  • Voter Registration Information Lookup - This is the Department of State’s Website that will assist users with requirements for voting in elections in the State of Tennessee and more.
  • War and Terrorism Collection  is a definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events, providing insight into conflicts and their multiple causes. References include 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
Health and Nursing Databases          Top of the page
  • AHFS Consumer Medication Information  - free component included with Health Source: Consumer Edition.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - is the leading national public health institute of the United States. The CDC is a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, a few miles northeast of the Atlanta city limits.
  • CINAHL Complete - is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1982, CINAHL with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
  • ComDisDome - provides articles and other information on communication disorders, speech language pathology, and audiology.
  • Cochrane Library - A collection of databases, published on CD-ROM and the Internet and updated quarterly, containing the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, the Cochrane Methodology Register, the HTA Database, NHSEED, and information about The Cochrane Collaboration.
  • DSM-V - The new edition of the most comprehensive resource used by health professionals, social workers, and forensic and legal specialists to diagnose and classify mental disorders. It is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health.
  • Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy - Provides the ability to examine the  human anatomy with the use of visualization tools that develop spatial reasoning through 3D models.  Allows users “access to more than 4,300 structures and over 13,500 identifiable landmarks in the human body.
  • Health and Wellness Resource Center - Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
  • Health Policy Reference Center - is a comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of health policy and related issues. This collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas that are integral to health policy. It offers indexing for more than 400 publications, including journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications, all directly dealing with health policy and closely aligned topics. This database also features tens of thousands of additional highly relevant articles, selected from thousands of industry publications, and offers a wealth of information essential for anyone involved in the creation, implementation, or study of health policy and the health care system.
  • Health Reference Center - Academic  - Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
  • LLW Nursing Health Professions  -  will allow you to view the full-text content of selected books and journals. The primary medical and nursing literature databases, MEDLINE and CINAHL are available through Ovid. These literature databases contain links to the full article for only those electronic journals to which our library subscribes. Also available on OvidSP is the Books@Ovid database, which provides full-text searchable access to over 100 medical and nursing textbook
  • National Center for Biotechnology Information - The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
  • National Guidelines Clearing House - is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) External Web Site Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]).
  • Nursing and Allied Health Collection Comprehensive - Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. Nearly all full text titles included in Nursing and Allied Health: Comprehensive Edition are indexed in CINAHL.
  • Nursing and Allied Health Collection (Gale) - All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
  • Nursing Education in Video - is an online collection of 284 videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS. New videos are added to the collection each year.
  • OT Search - is not a full-text database. It is primarily a bibliographic index to help you query and identify documents related to a specific Occupational Therapy topic.
  • Pub Med Central   - is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
  • PubMed Nursing Subset - see above description.
  • Rehabilitation Reference Center - is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. RRC provides therapists and students with the best available evidence for their information needs in the areas of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and more…
  • Sage Nursing and Public Health Collection -provides full text access to over ninety journals in nursing, public health, health administration, nutrition, psychology and psychiatry.
  • ScienceDirect - is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and 26,000 books.
  • Scientific and Art Imagebase - is a collection of 20,000+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.
    SMART Imagebase users may download images for educational, non-commercial use in lectures, presentations, slide shows, web sites and more. Common types of visual presentations include PowerPoint™ shows, handouts, poster sessions, and interactive Flash animations.
  • Sigma Theta Tau International - is the website for the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) – In 1922 six nurses founded STTI at the Indiana University Training School for Nurses, now the Indiana University School of Nursing, in Indianapolis, Ind., USA. The founders chose the name from the Greek words Storgé, Tharsos and Timé meaning "love," "courage" and "honor." STTI became incorporated in 1985 as Sigma Theta Tau International Inc., a nonprofit organization with a 501(c) (3) tax status in the United States.
  • UpToDate - is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. More than 5,700 world-renowned physician authors, editors and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality. More than 850,000 clinicians in 164 countries and almost 90% of academic medical centers in the United States rely on UpToDate to provide the best care. That trust has been earned because of the integrity of our recommendations, including the fact that we never accept funding from pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers or other commercial entities.
  • Wiley Online Library - provides full text information of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and even the full text of select Wiley print books online.
History, Geography, and Political Science Databases         Top of the page
Intelligence Studies          Top of the page
  • Digital National Security Archive - Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.  Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters, and other secret material. Additionally, reference supplements including introductory material, a chronology, a glossary, an essay, and a bibliography provide context and background for each collection. Documents have been selected by leading scholars in each of the topic areas. Each item has been abstracted and indexed over 20 different fields to enable powerful searching. Full images of each document can be viewed in GIF or PDF format.
  • International Relations and Security Network (ISN) - is the world’s leading open access information service for International Relations and security professionals.
  • International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center - offers information on virtually every dimension of security and counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues. ISCTRC provides a comprehensive Open Source Intelligence Resource for analysts, risk management professionals, and students. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. ISCTRC also combines deep background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, agencies and publisher and timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.
  • Military and Intelligence Database - contains over 10 million articles (80% full-text) from more than 500 titles and basic reference materials. The content in this database is also part of InfoTrac One File.
  • War and Terrorism Collection - is a definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events, providing insight into conflicts and their multiple causes. References include 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
Interdisciplinary Databases          Top of the page
  • Academic OneFile - is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
  • Academic Search Complete - A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with comprehensive coverage of  more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
  • Artemis Literary Sources - Artemis Literary Sources integrates full-text literary content with metadata and subject indexing and provides workflow tools to analyze information. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across your library's Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
  • BiblioBoard -is an award winning App and web ecosystem that connects library patrons and consumers with digital archives from all over the world. It is a brand new multimedia experience built around primary source historical content and a growing library of contemporary publisher content focused on historical subjects. We have aligned our ecosystem with the Readers First movement which aims to improve e-book access and services for library users.
  • Books in Print - is the world's largest, unbiased and web-based bibliographic resource. Find the title you’re looking for quickly and easily, using our comprehensive database of books, ebooks, audio books, and video titles.
  • Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1908-1982 (H.W. Wilson) - provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Virtually every major idea that shaped the 20th century found expression in books. The reactions to those ideas are reflected in the reviews of those books, and this database makes it easy to search this vast record of information.
  • BrowZine - This is an application that allows TSU’s scholarly journal subscriptions to be read from tablets and smartphones. Users can create libraries of their favorite journals.  The journals are automatically updated and display the table of contents. Articles are easy to read and accessible.
  • Credo General Reference -  is a completely customizable general reference solution for librarians and their learners. Now offering 597 highly regarded titles from over 80 publishers, Credo General Reference covers every major subject. Credo Reference is an easy to use tool for research projects and homework.  A giant online collection that searches hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations and subject specific titles as well as 200,000+ images and audio files and nearly 100 videos.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals -This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2833 journals in the directory. Currently 879 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 146704 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
  • Endnote - Millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students, and librarians use EndNote to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs in any language, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly. Instead of spending hours typing bibliographies, or using index cards to organize their references, they do it the easy way—by using EndNote.
  • Gale (formerly Infotrac) - is the platform for a host of interdisciplinary databases on general and specific subjects such as Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic General Reference Gold, General Business ASAP, Educator’s Reference Complete, Military and Intelligence, Business, Economics and Theory, Informe, General Science Collection, and several others
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library - offers coverage of virtually every academic, scholarly and professional discipline, delivering titles for all kinds of research.
  • General OneFile - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
  • H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online - An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources.
  • InfoPlease - has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.infoplease.com. Many things have changed since 1938, but not our dedication to providing reliable information, in a way that engages and entertains.
  • JSTOR - is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Originally conceived as a project at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate shelf space for the long runs of back files of scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR (see JSTOR: The Moving Wall for more information).
  • International Monetary Fund  - is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
  • Learning Express Library - Provides the comprehensive academic and career-related resources that include school, college and adult level information. Has a Career Center, High School Equivalency Center, Computer Skills and a module that is in Spanish. Offers opportunity to increases reading and writing skills.
  • NoodleTools - It emerged as the leading integrated academic research platform on the Web, transforming the way that teachers provide differentiated instruction of literacy to students in upper elementary through university.
  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - With more than 2.4 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download and an average of 2,000 new PDFs are added to the database each week.
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (H.W. Wilson) - provides electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad. Users have access to information on virtually any subject.
  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context - is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
  • Points of Reference Center - is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 270 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more.
  • Pop Culture Collection -This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
  • Popular Magazines Collection - includes 1000 of the most searched magazines across our Gale/InfoTrac products. All the titles were selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons. This database is 100% full text and includes over 600 titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries". Titles like Consumer Reports, Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, NPR and even Oprah are included in this database.
  • Power Search - is an executive management portal bringing together news, featured editorials and expert resources to aid those in mid and top management positions.
  • Project Muse - is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs at academic, public, special and school libraries worldwide. Our journals are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Currently, MUSE provides full-text access to current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers.
  • ProQuest - contains platform for all available databases including ABI-INFORM, Accounting & Tax, Entrepreneurship, Asian Business, Criminal Justice, Ethnic Newswatch, Genderwatch and historical newspapers.
  • Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) - Readers' Guide Full Text is part of the Wilson OmniFile. It provides indexing and full text articles from both the popular press and peer reviewed journals. Some of the subjects covered include: Antiques, Arts, Business, Computers, Crafts, Dance, Drama, Education, Entertainment, Fashion, Fiction, Film & Television, Food, Recipes & Cooking, Gardening, Health & Medicine, History, Home Improvement, Literature, News & Current Events, Photography, Popular & Classical Music, Politics, Popular Culture, Religion, Science, Sports & Fitness, Transportation and Travel.
  • Research in Context - Combines content from the former Discovering Collection, Junior Reference Collection, Student Resource Center Jr., InfoTrac Junior Edition, and InfoTrac Junior Graphic Edition, Research In Context is cross-disciplinary in nature—spanning literature, science, social studies, and U.S. and world history.
  • Sage Research Method - is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
  • Student Resources in Context - Fully integrated to support information needs across the curriculum, Student Resource Center in Context contains award-winning content based on actual assignments and national curriculum standards. Students and educators will find thousands of biographies, criticisms, topical and overview essays, photographs and illustrations, hard-to-find primary source documents, and hours of audio and video files. Further, Student Resource Center in Context provides full-text coverage from more than 1,250 magazines and newspapers that are updated daily.
    This database has been made available through the Marion County Internet Library with support of the Library Fund of The Indianapolis Foundation. Access is restricted to Marion County residents only.
  • Tennessee Electronic Library - The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a virtual library that you can access from your home pc, your school library computer lab, or your iPhone – anywhere with an internet connection. TEL provides access to over 400,000 electronic resources, including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test preparation materials, federal census records, Tennessee primary source materials, and more!
    All types of not-for-profit libraries participate in TEL and benefit from the wide range of information TEL databases offer, including homework help to new readers, consumer health information, business resources, leisure reading suggestions, current event essays, academic and civil service test preparation help, and genealogy and family history sources.  Over 1.2 million searches are performed each month across the various TEL databases.  Since 1999, the Tennessee Electronic Library has been dedicated to providing equal access to this expansive collection of electronic resources for all Tennesseans.
  • Academic Video Online: Premium  - this is a multi-disciplinary collection of videos that cover a broad array of topics in the areas of Business, Health, Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • World Book Encyclopedia - It provides general information of many subjects and the electronic version features RSS feeds covering current events.
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  • Kids InfoBits - is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Language, Literature, and Philosophy Databases          Top of the page
  • Alexander Street Press Literature - is a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. Today, Alexander Street Literature features 8 collections. It currently has over 623,581 pages. This number is growing regularly with new content being added monthly.
  • BBC Shakespeare Plays (Ambrose Videos 2.0 ) - provides film clips from many of Shakespeare’s important plays such as Hamlet, As You Like It, MacBeth, Merchant of Venice, All’s Well that Ends Well, King Lear, and Comedy of Errors. Access to this database is provided by RODP.
  • Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online - includes a series of key Columbia poetry titles:
    • The Classic Hundred Poems -- a fully annotated anthology of the one hundred poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
    • The Top 500 Poems -- an annotated anthology of the 500 poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
    • The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Anthologies , editions 8–12 – an index to poetry in anthologies
    • The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works , editions 1-2 -- an index to poems in the other main type of poetry book found on library shelves
    • The Columbia Granger's® Index to African-American Poetry -- an index to 65 volumes of the best poetry by African Americans
  • CompPile - an inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse studies
  • Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Database indexes, abstracts and delivers full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, poetry, book reviews, ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, etc.,
  • Informe Académico - A multidisciplinary collection of over 904 publications, Full Text = 889. . The majority of the publications are in Spanish.
  • Informe Revistas en Espanol - is a Spanish language database: Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
  • JSTOR - is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Originally conceived as a project at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate shelf space for the long runs of back files of scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR (see JSTOR: The Moving Wall for more information).
  • LitFinder - covers all genres of literature from around the world and from all time periods. It indexes more than 126,000 poems and more than 850,000 poem citations and excerpts. It also indexes 5,000 full text short stories, 2,800 full text essays, 1,800 full text speeches and 1,000 full text plays. Also included are biographies, author work summaries, photos and a glossary of literary terms. In March 2004, LitFinder added 850 poems in Spanish, with English translations, and literature from more than 600 nations and ethnic groups and more than 26,000 women writers. Content is updated quarterly.
  • Literature Resource Center   - provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
  • MLA Directory of Periodicals - offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
  • MLA International Bibliography - is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
  • Project MUSE - a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs at academic, public, special and school libraries worldwide. Our journals are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Currently, MUSE provides full-text access to current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers.
  • Proquest Linguistics - Combines two collections Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), the leading index for linguistics, with full-text for many titles. It covers all aspects of the study of language  and linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse analysis, semantics and learning disabilities.
  • Oxford English Dictionary - offers the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
  • Past Masters - This database encompasses the world's largest collection of full text electronic editions in philosophy. The series also includes significant collections in political thought, religious studies, sociology, the history of science, economics, and classics. Original language texts are available in Latin, French, German, Danish and Dutch, aside from English and English translation.
  • Religion and Philosophy Collection - Articles from more than 250 magazines and Journals on religion, philosophy, archaeology, and anthropology, and covers the impact of religion on culture. Many articles are full-text. The content in this database is also part of InfoTrac Onefile.
  • Scribner Writer Series - Scribner Writers Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.
  • Transparent Languages Online - develop innovative technology and methods to enable faster and more reliable language learning outcomes for professionals in organizations with critical language requirements, for students and teachers in academic environments, and for anyone else intent on becoming more proficient in another language. We know great learning technology is engaging and satisfying, with quality content and game dynamics that maintain every learner's attention. Our systems leverage the element of fun to achieve serious results - where students and instructors see and feel real progress. We also know the tools provided to teachers matter as much as those provided to students. We provide instructors with the comprehensive reporting features needed to improve language program management.
  • Twayne Author Series - Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.
  • Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry - has features of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
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  • Books and Authors - offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorite's lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun! By leveraging our entire award-winning What Do I Read Next? Collection, patrons and students alike can be sure that their next big read comes with a BIG recommendation.
  • Books in Print - offers valuable information on more than 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and video titles, as well as 12 million international titles, making it the industry’s largest bibliographic database.
  • Choice Reviews Online - is a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and provides current reviews of academic titles by college and university faculty.
  • Credo General Reference - is a completely customizable general reference solution for librarians and their learners. Now offering 597 highly regarded titles from over 80 publishers, Credo General Reference covers every major subject. Credo Reference is an easy to use tool for research projects and homework.  A giant online collection that searches hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations and subject specific titles as well as 200,000+ images and audio files and nearly 100 videos.
  • Information Science and Library Issues Collection - Comprised of content from nearly 100 leading industry journals, this collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.
  • International Bibliography of Social Sciences -This database includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Has broad coverage of international resources and includes 100 languages and countries. Indexes 2,800 journals and includes approximately 7,000 books annually.
  • Library Literature and Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. This invaluable resource delivers full text articles cover to cover from over a hundred select publications.
  • Proquest Library and Information Science - Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), the leading index for library science is provided with full-text for many titles. Has journals in more than twenty languages and includes coverage of all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval, and more.
  • Research Guides - provides research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in CampusGuides! 
Music and Performing Arts Databases          Top of the page
  • African American Music Reference - comprehensive coverage of black American musical expression from colonial times to the present, including blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms. It provides coverage of a wide range of material types, including discographies, biographies, anthologies, encyclopedias, critical works, photographs and other images, lyrics, sheet music, chronologies, and textbooks.
  • Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection - will deliver, for the first time online, hundreds of important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries—are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
  • Black Drama, Third Edition - is now in its third edition, contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
  • Classic Music Library - provides coverage of music history, music appreciation, music performance, analysis, and theory. It covers major genres and spans choral works to symphonies and opera to avant-garde. It offers more than 400 distinct instruments, information on more than 10,000 composers and thousands of artists and ensembles.
  • Discogs - is a user-built database of music. More than 233,000 people have contributed some piece of knowledge, to build up a catalog of more than 5,900,000 recordings and 3,800,000 artists. We're far from done and you can contribute too! Discogs also offers the ability to catalog your music collection, want list, and share your ratings and reviews.
  • Byron Hoyt Sheet Music Collection - Byron Hoyt Digital features more than 9000 print-on-demand classical sheet music titles from world-renowned composers such as Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. The database also includes original titles published between 1850 and 1920 by famous composers such as Irving Berlin, Stephen Foster, Jerome Kern, and John Philip Sousa.
  • Fine Arts and Music Collection - With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
  • Library Music Source - The largest collection of Western Classical sheet music ever assembled is now available via the internet from LibraryMusicSource.com.Authorized users will have access and command of nearly 400,000 pages of sheet music from over 39,000 works including the entire piano works of Chopin, all the songs of Schubert, all the organ music of J. S. Bach, and all the orchestra parts and scores of Beethoven, to cite only a few examples. Now the complete or nearly complete published works and instructional methods of the world’s great composers for orchestra, full scores, chamber ensemble, piano, organ, voice, chorus, strings, winds, percussion and classical guitar are available online.
  • Films On Demand - These videos cover American Literature, with authors such as Alice Walker, Emily Dickinson, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty and others. It also features videos about English literature, history, religion and theater. These videos are made available via the RODP program and paid by the TBR Media Consortia.
  • Naxos Music Library - is the world’s largest classical music listening service designed for students, instructors and patrons of public and academic libraries, as well as players and executives of orchestras. Our collection of over 253,000 tracks of music is continually growing, not only from our own label but from other leading independent labels. Our collection is benchmarked against the development suggestions outlined in the Music Library Association’s A Basic Music Library. NML has simple and advanced searching, common (non-proprietary) software requirements, and extensive background information such as complete liner notes.
  • Naxos Spoken Word Library - offers listen - on-demand access to recordings from the Naxos Educational label and the entire catalog of Naxos Audiobooks.
  • Oxford Music Online - is the gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006), which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. Both of these sources are included in subscriptions to Grove Music Online.
  • Virtually Vocal (Stage Door Access) - was founded to provide performers with one-of-a-kind online tools that encourage and support ongoing career development in a supportive online environment. We recognize that being a successful performer goes beyond having a good audition and are dedicated to developing the most innovative tools and providing essential information that will take our clients beyond landing the job. Few performers have long lasting success because most don't understand the "business" side of this industry.
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  • African American Newspapers, 1827-1998  - include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people.
  • Chattanooga Times Free Press - a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is distributed in the metropolitan Chattanooga region of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. It is one of Tennessee's major newspapers.
  • Chicago Defender(1909-1975) - It provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
  • Commercial Appeal - a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by Journal Media Group; its former owner, The E.W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.
    The Commercial Appeal is a seven-day morning paper. It generally takes a liberal point of view regarding editorial positions. It is distributed primarily in Greater Memphis, including Shelby, Fayette, and Tipton counties in Tennessee and DeSoto, Tate, and Tunica counties in Mississippi. These are the contiguous counties to the city of Memphis.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch - features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating from 1990, ENW presents a comprehensive, full-text collection of more than 1.8 million articles from more than 315 publications offering both national and regional coverage. While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are decidedly unique.
  • Infotrac Newsstand - is an innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. It is a one-stop resource for current news and features searchable archives.
  • Keesing's - have produced a comprehensive world news archive since 1931. This website offers the full access 79-year archive in electronic format, with 95,000 fully searchable articles. The site allows users to build up portfolios of articles useful to their research, to tag interesting information for themselves or to share with others, and to filter results according to the names of persons or countries referenced in the text.
  • Knoxville New-Sentinel -  Local news, business, sports and entertainment from Knoxville and the East Tennessee region.
  • National Newspaper Index  - provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
  • New York Times (1851 - 2013) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
  • Newsstand - this innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.
  • Pittsburgh Courier: 1911-2002 - offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
  • Tennessean - Tennessean (November 2002-Present)-provides full text articles with national, regional, state and local coverage.
Psychology Databases          Top of the page

  • Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print - produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 1 to the present.
  • PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress   - covering the Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage
  • PsycARTICLES - provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1988 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
  • PsycBOOKS - includes digitized content of historical significance from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection, as well as thousands of classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology.  Also includes the APA Handbooks in Psychology series. It is indexed with the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® and the content includes chapters from 4078 books published 1620-Present.
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.
  • Psychology Collection  - This set explores what makes people "tick" from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time. Your library's users will have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
  • PsycINFO  - contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.
  • PsycTests - is an extensive collection of psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments essential to the research needs of professionals, students, and educators across the behavioral and social sciences.
  • Sage Psychology Collection - includes the full text of 35 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 36 years, and encompasses over 21,600 articles. It covers such subjects as Applied Psychology, Assessment, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Family Studies, Group Work, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Latin American Studies, Learning Disabilities, Measurement, Neuropsychology, Personality, Philosophical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychology of Diversity, School Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Public Administration Databases          Top of the page
  • Business Source Complete  - is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. It has full text back to 1886, and full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
  • Health Policy Reference Center - is a comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of health policy and related issues. This collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas that are integral to health policy. It offers indexing for more than 400 publications, including journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications, all directly dealing with health policy and closely aligned topics. This database also features tens of thousands of additional highly relevant articles, selected from thousands of industry publications, and offers a wealth of information essential for anyone involved in the creation, implementation, or study of health policy and the health care system.
  • PolicyMap - is an online data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US. Use it for research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.
  • Public Administration Abstracts - includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 88,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
  • Sage ResearchMethod - is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
  • Sage Urban Studies & Planning - includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Anthropology, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Science, Planning Pedagogy, Planning Practice, Planning Theory, Policy Analysis, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Regional Science, Residential and Community Development, Social, Spatial, and Cultural Dynamics, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Culture, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, Urban Politics, and Welfare Economics. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
  • Social Explorer - provides easy-to-use tools for visual exploration of demographic information, from census and economic data to election and religion data, and more. With these interactive online tools, users can visually explore change over time and understand the patterns behind the raw numbers.
Science, Mathematics and Technology Databases          Top of the page
  • Access Science (Click on "continue" to proceed) - is an authoritative and dynamic online resource that contains over 8500 articles that covers all major scientific disciplines. “An award-winning gateway to scientific knowledge, it offers links to primary research material, videos and exclusive animations.” It provides 115,000 definitions and over 3000 biographies..
  • American Chemical Society Publications - provides full text searching to more than 11,000 ACS journal issues, 500,000 articles and 2.5 million pages of original chemistry from 1879 to current ACS Web Editions subscription.
  • Applied Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Look here for fast, convenient access to the most important sources in applied science and technology—much of it from peer-reviewed journals. This database features full text, graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of data in scientific and technical articles.
  • ArXiv.org - Open access to e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. Owned, operated and funded by Cornell University.
  • Biological & Agricultural Index Plus (H.W. Wilson) - Featuring the full text of core literature in biology and agriculture, as well as podcasts, abstracts and indexing of hundreds of publications, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus is a powerful working, learning, and research tool.  
  • BioMed Central - is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 220 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology and medicine and includes broad interest titles, such as BMC Biologyand BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals, such as Retrovirologyand BMC Genomics. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central levies an article-processing charge to cover the cost of the publication process.
  • Entrez: the Life Sciences Search Engine - is a powerful federated search engine, or web portal that allows users to search a multiple of discrete health sciences databases, maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information with a single query string and user interface.
  • Environment Complete - It offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study.  This valuable database contains more than 2.5 million records from thousands of domestic and international titles dating back over 100 years  with over a thousand active core titles.  
  • Environmental Studies and Policy Collection - Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 200 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
  • General Science Collection  - Millions of articles from over 1,600 magazines, journals and reference materials on all aspects of the sciences.
  • Greenfile - offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
  • INFOTRIEVE - over 20 years, Infotrieve has provided the people, business processes, and technology needed to operate corporate libraries and information centers efficiently and effectively. Infotrieve delivers documents, provides staff and supplies technology to half the Fortune 500, and 90% of the 50 Top Pharmaceutical Companies.  Everyday, Infotrieve employees handle everything from document delivery, collection management and taxonomy to content procurement for corporate libraries and information centers around the world.       Document Delivery   Infotrieve is the leading document delivery provider for organizations around the globe. Our online order processing and fulfillment technologies provide easy access to – and copyright compliant delivery of – journal and magazine articles, conference papers, case studies and book chapters published anywhere in the world.
  • ISI Web of Knowledge - is a dynamic, fully integrated environment that provides one source for high quality content and tools to access, analyze, and manage research information through BIOSIS Previews (Biomedical and life sciences journals, patents, and meetings and conferences).  It also includes ISI HighlyCited.com that includes author biographies and bibliographies as well as Scientific (Thomson Website).
  • JOVE Science Education: Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology - features videos of experiments with specific “text protocols.” This video journal covers general laboratory techniques, basic methods in cellular and molecular biology, Biology 1: Yeast, Biology II: Mouse, laboratory animal research, and lab safety.
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments-Chemistry  - covers a wide range of  chemical disciplines. Includes fundamental and applied research that investigates molecular interactions, properties, and structure within the following fields: analytical, organic, organometallic, inorganic, bioinorganic, and biochemistry. Provides information on the design and preparation of materials and small molecules for various applications.
  • MathSciNet - is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
  • Nature - provides online access to Nature Journal.
  • PLOS - is a nonprofit open access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open-access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLOS Biology, in October 2003 and publishes seven journals, all peer reviewed, as of April 2012.
  • Project Euclid - a collaborative partnership between Cornell University Library and Duke University Press which seeks to advance scholarly communication in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics through partnerships with independent and society publishers. It was created to provide a platform for small publishers of scholarly journals to move from print to electronic in a cost-effective way. As of 2010, Project Euclid provided access to over one million pages of open-access content.
  • PROLA - is the American Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2008. Each January, another year is added to the archive. Searching and browsing abstracts are free.
  • Science (AAAS) - Founded in 1880 on $10,000 of seed money from the American inventor Thomas Edison, Science has grown to become the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research, with the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general-science journal. Through its print and online incarnations,  Science reaches an estimated worldwide readership of more than one million. In content, too, the journal is truly international in scope; some 35 to 40 percent of the corresponding authors on its papers are based outside the United States. Its articles consistently rank among world's most cited research.
  • Science-Academic One File - an interdisciplinary database of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Subjects covered are the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.
  • Scientific and Art Imagebase - is a collection of 20,000+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.
    SMART Imagebase users may download images for educational, non-commercial use in lectures, presentations, slide shows, web sites and more. Common types of visual presentations include PowerPoint™ shows, handouts, poster sessions, and interactive Flash animations.
  • ScienceDirect  - offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business and Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics and Computer science, Microbiology and Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.
  • ScienceOpen - is a Research and Publishing Network and provide a freely accessible and multidisciplinary online platform to efficiently share, discuss and evaluate scientific information. We want to make peer review as fast, transparent and fair as possible.
  • SciFinder (New User Registration) - This Chemical Abstracts Service database covers a broad diversity of scientific literature and patents from 1907 to present in several major scientific subject areas.
  • SpringerOpen - SpringerOpen, includes  200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across the spectrum of science. It replaces ChemCentral, which closed in 2015
  • Web of Science - Web of Science is the world’s leading citation databases, with multidisciplinary information from over 12,000 high impact journals and over 160,000 conference proceedings from around the world. Includes powerful cited reference searching, the Analyze Tool, over 100 years of comprehensive back file and citation data.
  • Wiley Online Library - provides full text information of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and even the full text of select Wiley print books online.
Sociology and Social Work Databases          Top of the page
  • Diversity Studies Collection - is a custom collection for the Gale suite of database products and is a must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.
  • Gender Studies -This a Gale custom collection of nearly 40 journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.
  • Proquest Social Science  -   provides full text for hundreds of academic journals, that includes coverage of many social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
  • Sage Sociology - flagship journal of the British Sociological Association, publishes peer-reviewed articles advancing theoretical understanding and reporting empirical research about the widest range of sociological topics. Sociology encourages submissions using quantitative and qualitative research methods; articles challenging conventional concepts and proposing new approaches; and accounts of methodological innovation and research process. Member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
  • Social Explorer - provides easy-to-use tools for visual exploration of demographic information, from census and economic data to election and religion data, and more. With these interactive online tools, users can visually explore change over time and understand the patterns behind the raw numbers..
  • Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Enjoy fast access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the U.S. and elsewhere with full text and page images from scores of key publications, plus abstracting and indexing of hundreds of others. An in-demand resource for a wide variety of users from students to social workers, Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
  • Social Work Abstracts - produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., this database contains more than 45,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
  • Social Work Reference Center - Social Work Reference Center™ is a turnkey information resource for social workers and mental health professionals. Created by a multi-specialty editorial team, Social Work Reference Center covers a wide array of topics such as adolescent health, aging, end-of-life care, clinical social work, and diversity.
  • SocINDEX with Full Text - is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 720 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 2,800 "selective" coverage journals
  • Sociology Collection - This collection provides access to Sociological Abstracts in combination with ProQuest’s Sociology database and the Applied Social Sciences Index. It covers international literature in sociology and social services, includes subjects such as addiction, health services, family, gerontology, social welfare, race and ethnicity. This database provides full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.
  • Southern Life - contains nearly 5 million full-text articles on topics that relate directly to Southern living, both past and present, including people, places, historical events and more.
  • World-Statistics.Org - is a new portal that gives free and easy access to data provided by International Organisations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations and Eurostat.
    Data collected by these organisations are often accessible only through their websites, or through specialized portals. Therefore, getting access to relevant data can take long and require accessing various websites and dealing with many formats.
    In addition, these websites are usually designed as a repository for the whole information produced by the organisation, and it is difficult for non-specialist users to find the information they are looking for among thousands of very detailed statistical series.
Sports and Exercise          Top of the page
  • Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy - Provides the ability to examine the  human anatomy with the use of visualization tools that develop spatial reasoning through 3D models.  Allows users “access to more than 4,300 structures and over 13,500 identifiable landmarks in the human body.
  • SPORTDiscus with Full Text - covers Sport, physical fitness, and physical education. Indexes the practical and research literature of sports medicine, exercise physiology, sports psychology, training, nutrition, coaching, sociology of sports, and related topics; also covers recreation, games, play, and dance. Includes information from journal/magazine articles, web sites, unpublished research, dissertations, books, proceedings, and audiovisual material.  
  • Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection - is a custom collection from the suite of Gale database products that includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine, providing researchers with access to many topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.
Streaming Videos          Top of the page
  • American History in Video - It lets you bring thousands of titles into your library for a fraction of what it would cost to purchase them individually. Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing makes the entire collection powerfully cross-searchable. New, powerful tools and features let you navigate, access, re-purpose, and share video as never before.
  • Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection - will deliver, for the first time online, hundreds of important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries—are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
  • BBC Shakespeare Plays (Ambrose Videos 2.0 ) - provides film clips from many of Shakespeare’s important plays such as Hamlet, As You Like It, MacBeth, Merchant of Venice, All’s Well that Ends Well, King Lear, and Comedy of Errors. Access to this database is provided by RODP.
  • Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume I & II - features the best known academic online collection of video available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling. Includes counseling sessions, consultations, teaching guides, lectures, presentations, and interviews.
  • Films on Demand  - Award-winning streaming video platform serving millions of students
  • Nursing Education in Video - an online collection of 284 videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS. New videos are added to the collection each year.
  • Theatre in Video - contains performances from an international collection of major plays and includes 258 videos, equaling approximately 304 hours.  The collection will eventually offer 500 hours of performances.
  • VAST (Academic Video online) - this is a multi-disciplinary collection of videos that cover a broad array of topics in the areas of Business, Health, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Women’s Studies          Top of the page
  • Discovering American Women's History Online   - provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s. 
  • Gender Studies - provides access to hundreds of thousands of articles with balanced coverage on such topics as gender studies, sexual behavior surveys, family and marital issues, conversion therapy, gay and lesbian rights, homophobia, health aspects and many more.
  • GenderWatch - enhances gender and women's studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) research by providing authoritative perspectives from 1970 to present. This well-established and highly reviewed resource offers over 260 titles, with more than 240 in full-text, from an array of academic, radical, community and independent presses. Researchers and teachers may access more than 219,000 full articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, healthcare, and the workplace.
  • Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000  - This Worldwide Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.
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is a new portal that gives free and easy access to data provided by International Organisations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations and Eurostat.

Data collected by these organisations are often accessible only through their websites, or through specialized portals. Therefore, getting access to relevant data can take long and require accessing various websites and dealing with many formats.

In addition, these websites are usually designed as a repository for the whole information produced by the organisation, and it is difficult for non-specialist users to find the information they are looking for among thousands of very detailed statistical series.