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Additional subject material found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
African-American History Online provides users with access to thousands of cross-referenced entries on African-American history. Users can search for entries by keyword or phrase. They can browse by topic and by time period—from eight historical periods relevant specifically to African-American history. In addition, Biographies can be browsed by Occupation, and Primary Sources by Type.
HeritageQuest ™ Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. HeritageQuest™ Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more.
From ProQuest: Search the multicultural module to research ethnic minority. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Global Issues in Context
Designed by information professionals and subject experts to support global awareness and the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills, Global Issues in Context empowers users with the tools they need to understand today’s world issues from a global perspective. Issues and countries form the core of this dynamic product, which uses a wealth of resources to explain the historical and contemporary conditions necessary to understand global issues, conflicts and events. Global Issues in Context supports research in virtually every corner of the library and in a wide variety of subject areas, including sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, human rights, English composition and many more.
Women's Interests Module
From ProQuest: Search periodicals on women's interest subjects such as feminism, history, political science, social science, and general interest as they relate to women's issues.
Business
Additional general subject material may be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
Additional IT or computer resources found in the Information Technology Databases
Databases are in order by strength of content
Provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals [including Harvard Business Review] dating as far back as 1922.
This link searches ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry databases and provides news coverage-local, regional and global, information on industries as well as in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Includes The Wall Street Journal.
Business Module
From ProQuest. Search all business titles on subjects such as economics, personal finance, marketing and more.
General Business File ASAP
From Gale Cengage Learning. Analyzes international company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics on a global scale. Broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images are available.
General Business File International
From Gale Cengage Learning. Analyzes international company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics on a global scale. Broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images are available.
Small Business Collection
From Gale Cengage Learning. Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find 250 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
From ProQuest. National and international in scope, key publications focus on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management, as well as profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting firms.
Banking Information Source
From ProQuest. Search essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.
Business Economics and Theory
From Gale Cengage Learning. This collection provides topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.
CBCA Complete [Canadian Business & Current Affairs]
From ProQuest. Comprehensive information including: current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, academia, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus.
GreenFILE
From EBSCO. 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.
LexisNexis® Academic
LexisNexis® Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. Includes Tenn. Code Annotated.
ProQuest Asian Business & Reference
Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek.
ProQuest European Business
The latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many more.
Regional Business News
From EBSCO. Incorporates daily coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Industry Studies, Marketing: Databases in order of strength of content
Hoover's, Inc. a D &B , widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. The database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises, is at the core of business tools and services that customers find vital to their business operations.
Hoover's Company Records
ProQuest provides limited content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives.
Snapshot Series
The Snapshot International Group Series of 4,600 reports is designed to provide an instant overview of a market, and the data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis.
Books of Lists
From bizjournals. The interactive Book of Lists is a compilation of the names and addresses of companies and people from a selected market, in this case, Nashville only.
Company profiles include specialty information like executive biographies and proprietary eight-digit SIC codes with unlimited searching, viewing and printing of detailed, location-specific company profiles with contact information. A Corporate Family Linkage option lets shows relationships with customers and suppliers by linking corporate headquarters locations with their branches, divisions and subsidiaries.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
From ProQuest. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics.
This collection provides current 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.
Humanities Module
From ProQuest: Search all humanities titles on subjects such as communication, history, journalism, literature, philosophy, religion and more.
ProQuest Telecommunications
Search the full text of top telecommunications industry publications. The sources include magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry. This database covers topics such as data communications and transmission systems as well as radio and television.
Custom Newspapers
From Gale Cengage Learning: A customized selection of newspapers provided by TEL -Tennessee Electronic Library. Search a collection of more then 650 national and international publications.
LexisNexis® Academic
LexisNexis® Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
Points of View Reference Center™
From CSA/ProQuest: PsycINFO® contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences CollectionTM
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences CollectionTM is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
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.
From ProQuest - Search a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
From ProQuest Search periodicals on legal subjects such as business law, civil law, criminal law, and more.
LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - Free Resource
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
PAIS International
The PAIS International database from CSA contains citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 12,665 titles, with over 9,745 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
ProQuest Social Science Journals
Search full-text periodicals covering the social sciences.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences CollectionTM
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences CollectionTM is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Social Sciences Full Text
From EBSCO: Covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
School of Education
Assessment and Testing Undergraduate Education Graduate Education Library & Information Science
ASCD Education Collection (eBooks)
From Gale Cengage: The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is one of the largest professional development organizations for educators. It provides world-class education information services and cutting-edge professional development, and supports activities designed to foster educational equity for all students. eBooks from the ASCD span a wide range of popular titles and new favorites that address the ongoing professional development needs of today's educators.
From Behavioral Measurement Database Services: HaPI is a database that provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
The full-text of the instruments are not included in the database; however, HaPI can be used to:
- Discover what instrument exists;
- Determine the availability of reliability and validity evidence;
- Track the history of an instrument over time;
- See what other instruments have already developed in your field of study;
- Locate ordering information for a known instrument.
Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included.
LearningExpress Library
From Learning Express, LLC-LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons & students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. Several Praxis II tests are a part of this collection.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
From the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska: Mental Measurements Yearbook(tm) (MMY) 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. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts.
Testing and Education Reference Center
From Gale--Prepare for the GED; CLEP; Dantes; civil service and military entrance exams; licensing tests for law enforcement, real estate, the postal service, and many other fields; plus college and graduate school admissions exams. Several Praxis practice tests are also available here.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database(CLCD)
From Children's Literature: The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers 900,000 MARC records and more than 130,000 reviews of children's books-all full text searchable from 24 sources is now available.
Children's Module
From ProQuest: Search for information for or about children.
Educator's Reference Complete
From Gale Cengage Learning --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.
Education Module and ProQuest Education Journals
From ProQuest: Search all education titles on subjects such as administration, policy, teaching practices and more. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
ERIC Plus Text
From ProQuest: The world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles, compiled by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).
Professional Collection
From Gale Cengage Learning: Full-text periodicals for teachers and school administrators. Excellent for research in education issues.
Teacher Reference Center
From EBSCO: This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books offered via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Tennessee Electronic Library
The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a collection of 40+ databases that provide access to over 400,000 magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, essays, podcasts, videos, e-books, primary source materials, and more!
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database(CLCD)
From Children's Literature: The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers 900,000 MARC records and more than 130,000 reviews of children's books-all full text searchable from 24 sources is now available.
Children's Module
From ProQuest: Search for information for or about children. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
Educator's Reference Complete
From Gale Cengage Learning --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.
Educator's 200
From Gale Cengage Learning: Perfect for educating future teachers and administrators, this set covers the latest technologies, developments, instruction and coaching breakthroughs.
Education Module and ProQuest Education Journals
From ProQuest: Search all education titles on subjects such as administration, policy, teaching practices and more. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
Dissesrtations and Theses Full-Text
From ProQuest --Dissertations and Theses is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 600,000 are available in native or image PDF formats for immediate free download. Coverage: 1861 to Current
ERIC Plus Text
From ProQuest: The world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles, compiled by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).
LexisNexis® Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference international publications with a variety of flexible search options.
Professional Collection
From Gale Cengage Learning: Full-text periodicals for teachers and school administrators. Excellent for research in education issues.
Teacher Reference Center
From EBSCO: This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books offered via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Health-related topics:
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
A custom collection including 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. From Gale Cengage Learning.
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. From Gale Cengage Learning.
Health Module
From ProQuest: Search all health related titles for information on physical or mental health. Includes coverage of medical conditions, substance abuse, insurance, health policy and more. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
Health Reference Center Academic
Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, the material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. From Gale Cengage Learning.
Medical Library
Combines MEDLINE indexing with full images for more than 200 key medical titles. Offers coverage of all the major healthcare specialties, including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy, and others. From ProQuest
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only. From Gale Cengage Learning.
Education-related topics:
Educator's Reference Complete
From Gale Cengage Learning. 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.
ERIC Plus Text
From ProQuest: The world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles, compiled by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).
Education Journals
This link will search the ProQuest databases Education Module and ProQuest Education Journals. It provides access to over 760 top educational publications, including more than 600 titles in full text. It covers literature on primary, secondary, and higher education, and also special education, home schooling, adult education, administration, policy, teaching practices and hundreds of related topics.
Business-related topics
Psychology-related topics:
PsycARTICLES®
Search the premier database from the American Psychological Association. Access nearly 50 top full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more.
PsycINFO®
PsycINFO (R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
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. From Gale Cengage Learning
Ministry-related topics:
Christian Periodical Index
Indexes more than 136 publications, offers a broad spectrum of knowledge base, and covers major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity. Published by the Association of Christian Librarians, CPI provides access to English language articles and reviews from an evangelical perspective. From EBSCO.
Humanities Module
From ProQuest: Search all humanities titles on subjects such as communication, history, journalism, literature, philosophy, religion and more. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
ProQuest Religion
From ProQuest: Coverage of religious affairs and religious thinking from the top periodicals.
Religion & Philosophy Custom Database
Features a custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion, philosophy, and the related areas of archaeology and anthropology. Use this database not only to study theological approaches to social issues, but also to learn about the impact that religion and philosophy have had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Coverage begins as early as 1980 for indexing and 1983 for full-text of some of the periodicals. With InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy, your research is focused to provide quick answers and reliable search results. From Gale Cengage Learning.
Additional general subject material may be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
This multidisciplinary database contains over 12,000 titles, with over 9,700 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subject areas are covered extensively in this product including US and World History, social sciences, news and world affairs and much more.
US History Collection
From Gale Cenage Learning: This collection of over 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thoughts and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.
World History Collection
From Gale Cenage Learning: This collection of over 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thoughts and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.
African-American History Online
From Facts on File: African-American History Online provides users with access to thousands of cross-referenced entries on African-American history. Users can search for entries by keyword or phrase. They can browse by topic and by time period—from eight historical periods relevant specifically to African-American history. In addition, biographies can be browsed by occupation, and primary sources by type.
American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
HeritageQuest™ Online
Humanities Module
From ProQuest: Search all humanities titles on subjects such as history, communication, journalism, literature, philosophy, religion and more.
Southern Life
From Gale Cenage Learning: This database 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.
Tennessee's Landmark Documents - Free Resource
Significant records in the formation and early history of Tennessee are presented here for the first time in digital form taken directly from the originals, with full transcription and accompanying historical text. These Landmark Documents are available for citizens and students to search, study, and download. .
Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA) - Free Resource
A digital repository of Tennessee history and culture created by the Tennessee State Library and Archives. The mission is to bring electronic versions of the state’s rich collections to a wider audience. TeVA provides a searchable array of historical records, photographs, documents, maps, postcards, film, audio and other original materials of enduring value.
War and Terrorrism Collection
From Gale Cenage Learning: 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.
Additional general subject material may be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
Additional broad business related resources can be found in the Business Databases
Databases are in order by strength of content
Contains a virtual library of clearly-written industry reports covering such key technology areas as IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and World Wide Web. Plus, FAITS has convenient links to major online technology and business news resources like Nando Net, The New York Times, Financial Times, NewsBytes, and the BBC.
ProQuest Computing
Search top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
Computer Database
From Gale Cengage Learning. Computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
Information Science & Library Issues Collection
From Gale Cengage Learning. From nearly 100 leading industry journals with appropriate and useful information in IT areas of expertise, including such topics as information infrastructure, data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.
Virtual Training Online Tutorials - VTC
Contact the Reference Desk at: 615-248-1570 for login information - Restricted to TNU users only.
In-depth training on hundreds of today's most sought-after applications, with over 81,350 narrated QuickTime or Flash tutorials. Tutorials can be streamed over any Internet connection directly to your computer. Applications include Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Photoshop, Linux, Sony, and others.
Business Source Complete
DOAJ - [Directory of Open Access Journals]
Open access journals are published under an agreement that the journal must be freely accessible to anyone. The DOAJ is simply an online index to this content.
Multidisciplinary Databases
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a 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. Updated daily.
Dissertations and Theses Full-Text
With more than 2 million entries, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 600,000 are available in native or image PDF formats for immediate free download. Coverage: 1861 - Current.
Films On Demand
Films on Demand's Master Academic Collection offers streaming video of over 7,000 full-length titles in the humanities, social sciences, business, economics, health, medicine, science and mathematics. These videos are made available by Films Media Group from producers such as Films for the Humanities, Cambridge Educational, NOVA, A&E, and PBS. Unlimited, simultaneous, 24/7 access, in class or off site, is provided.
DOAJ - [Directory of Open Access Journals]
Open access journals are published under an agreement that the journal must be freely accessible to anyone. The DOAJ is simply an online index to this content and it aims to cover all subjects and language. There are over 4700 journals in the directory.
Ebrary (ebooks)
The Academic Complete eBook collection from ebrary contains over 40,000 titles from institutions such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale University Press spanning all academic subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference resources for multidisciplinary research.
Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.
LexisNexis® Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference international publications with a variety of flexible search options.
Points of View 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. Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,200 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
ProQuest Central
This multidisciplinary database contains over 12,000 titles, with over 9,700 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, education, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
WorldCat
WorldCat is a global catalog of library collections. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at a library near you and around the world.
Electronic Journals Service (EJS)
EJS allows searches for specific journals that have been acquired by the library at the request of Trevecca faculty. Additional coverage for full text journals available on this site can also be found in the library print and/or microfilm collection.
Library and Information Sciences
Additional subject material can be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
Additional educational relate material can be found in the Education Databases
From EBSCO. A unique working and teaching tool created by librarians for librarians. 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.
Information Science and Library Issues Collection
From Gale Cengage. Full text articles about libraries and information science.
Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
From CSA: international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
From EBSCO: Provides abstracted coverage on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Teacher Reference Center
From EBSCO: This index of over 260 titles providing coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Review Sources
Books & Authors
Books & Authors from Gale Cengage Learning combines over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorite's lists; Books & Authors helps bring leaders 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.
Booklist Online
Book and media reviews from the American Library Association. Readers can subscribe to blogs about genres, books, authors and get the most update reviews on new resources for all types of libraries.
Additional subject material found in the Mulitdisciplinary Databases
The fifty-eight titles in the Language & Literature Collection span the literary cultures of many different countries. Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, this collection includes PMLA and a range of core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years. JSTOR® is a back file collection with recent coverage made available on a moving wall system.
Literature Resource Center
From Gale Cengage Learning: Literature Resource Center [LRC] is a current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world. Includes full-text scholarly articles from more than 360 academic journals and literary magazines, scholarly monographs, literary correspondence and diaries. Searching [LRC] includes content from Scribner Writers Series and Twayne’s Authors Series.
Humanities Module
From ProQuest: Search all humanities titles on subjects such as communication, history, journalism, literature, philosophy, religion and more. A valuable resource for information on authors and literary criticism.
Literature Criticism Online (LCO)
From Gale Cengage Learning: Literature Criticism Online [LCO] provides complete full text coverage for the following Gale Literary Criticism series beginning with the 2007 editions: Classical and Medieval Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism.
Literary Index
From Gale Cengage Learning: Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source. Some titles are part of the Waggoner Library online or print collections.
The Oxford English Dictionary is 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.
Scribner Writers Series
From Gale Cengage Learning: 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.
Twayne's Author Series
From Gale Cengage Learning: Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.
From Gale Cengage Learning: Books & 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 favorites 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.
Medical Databases
Additional science material can be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
UpToDate is an evidence-based, peer reviewed information resource. With UpToDate, you can answer questions quickly, increase your clinical knowledge, and improve patient care. Independent studies confirm these benefits. The UpToDate community includes faculty of more than 4,000 leading physicians, peer reviewers, and editors and over 360,000 users. Faculty writes topic reviews that include a synthesis of the literature, the latest evidence, and specific recommendations for patient care. UpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 14 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references, and a drug database. Physician editors and authors review and update the content continuously.
MEDLINE
Search the premier bibliographic database in biomedicine and the life sciences. Contains more than 11 million references to journal articles, compiled by The National Library of Medicine and searchable through ProQuest which provides some full text for journal titles indexed by the database.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
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. From Gale Cengage Learning.
Health & Medical
This link will search two ProQuest databases: 1) Health & Medical Complete, which is designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information -- from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers. The database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties. 2) Health Module provides information on physical and mental health. Includes coverage of medical conditions, substance abuse, insurance, health policy and more.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
From Gale Cengage Learning. 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 Reference Center Academic
From Gale Cengage Learning. 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.
Pharmaceutical News Index
Search the definitive database of pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information. Covers the most important specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries. From ProQuest.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
From Gale Cengage Learning. A custom collection including 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.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
From Behavioral Measurement Database Services: HaPI is a database that provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
The full-text of the instruments are not included in the database; however, HaPI can be used to:
- Discover what instrument exists;
- Determine the availability of reliability and validity evidence;
- Track the history of an instrument over time;
- See what other instruments have already developed in your field of study;
- Locate ordering information for a known instrument.
Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included.
PsycARTICLES®
Search the premier database from the American Psychological Association. Access nearly 50 top full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more.
PsycINFO®
PsycINFO (R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Additional general subject material may be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
Subscription includes: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev. 2006. Grove Music Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music, and has been the leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001. This compendium of music scholarship offers the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicisians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictinoary of Jazz, including more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the world’s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 40,290 CDs with more than 577,000 t racks. Resources offered by NML include synopses of over 700 operas, a pronunciation guide to composer and artist names and a glossary of musical terms.
Arts Module
From ProQuest. Search periodicals on subjects such as arts, dance, theater, cinema, and more
Music and Fine Arts Collection
From Gale Cengage Learning. With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection provides resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Commercial Music
Business Source Complete
From EBSCOhost. BSP provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals. This resource covers virtually all subject areas related to business, including extensive coverage on topics related to the music industry, such as music technology, songwriting, and copyright. Articles from trade publications as well as academic journals are available.
Additional business related topics can be found in the Business Subject Databases.
Additional Information available in the Multidisciplinary Databases
LexisNexis® Academic
LexisNexis® Academic provides full-text coverage from more than 1800 national and international newspapers.
ProQuest Newsstand
Regional Business News
From EBSCO: Regional Business News incorporates coverage of over 120 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. In addition, this database covers news magazines and TV & Radio transcripts.
Tennessee Newspaper Collection
From Newsbank: Full text coverage is available from the Chattanooga Times-Free Press, Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the Knoxville News Sentinel
National Newspaper Index
From Gale Cengage Learning: 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.
Canadian Newsstand™
From ProQuest: Canadian Newsstand™ offers unparalleled access to the full text of nearly 300 newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. The core of the database is the Canadian Major Dailies collection which includes national and leading regional newspapers such as The Globe and Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times Colonist.
PsycARTICLES®
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences CollectionTM is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
PsycINFO®
Psychology Collection
Social Science Module
From Behavioral Measurement Database Services: HaPI is a database that provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
The full-text of the instruments are not included in the database; however, HaPI can be used to:
- Discover what instrument exists;
- Determine the availability of reliability and validity evidence;
- Track the history of an instrument over time;
- See what other instruments have already developed in your field of study;
- Locate ordering information for a known instrument.
Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included.
Health & Medical Complete
Designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers. The database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties.
PAIS International
The PAIS International database from CSA contains citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.
LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 12,665 titles, with over 9,745 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
Additional subject material may be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
iPreach Bible Reference
From Cokesbury: iPreach offers the finest in contemporary biblical study and preaching resources to pastors and teachers. This extensive collection of commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and other reference works provides a breadth of substantial, searchable materials with which to prepare sermons and lessons--all in one place.
Humanities Module
From ProQuest: Search all humanities titles on subjects such as communication, history, journalism, literature, philosophy, religion and more. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
ProQuest Religion
From ProQuest: Coverage of religious affairs and religious thinking from the top periodicals.
From Gale: Features a custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion, philosophy, and the related areas of archaeology and anthropology. Deals with the impact that religion and philosophy have had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Coverage begins as early as 1980 for indexing and 1983 for full-text of some of the periodicals.
From Tennessee Electronic Library: This database 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.
CDRI: Free Resources for the Study of Religion [images]
From ATLA: The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries. Provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, sermons, shape-note tune books, plus other forms of Christian art, architecture and iconongraphy.
Additional science material can be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
See also Medical Databases
Search full-text periodicals on science subjects such as agriculture, biology, chemistry, computers, engineering, physics, and more. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, telecommunications, and transportation. This link includes two ProQuest databases: Sciences Module and ProQuest Science Journals.
ProQuest Biology Journals
Search full-text journals in the life sciences.
General Science Collection
Millions of articles from over 1,600 magazines, journals and reference materials on all aspects of the sciences. From Gale-Cengage Learning.
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. From Gale-Cengage Learning.
GreenFILE
From EBSCO: GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
PAIS International
The PAIS International database from CSA contains citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world..
Pharmaceutical News Index
Search the definitive database of pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information. Covers the most important specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries. From ProQuest.
Additional subject material may be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
Designed by information professionals and subject experts to support global awareness and the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills, Global Issues in Context empowers users with the tools they need to understand today’s world issues from a global perspective. Issues and countries form the core of this dynamic product, which uses a wealth of resources to explain the historical and contemporary conditions necessary to understand global issues, conflicts and events. Global Issues in Context supports research in virtually every corner of the library and in a wide variety of subject areas, including sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, human rights, English composition and many more.
GreenFILE
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. An EBSCO database.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
Providing robust coverage of the filed of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 200 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile filed of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
Women's Interest Module
Search periodicals on social science subjects such as feminism, history, political science, social science, and general interest as they relate to women's issues.
Humanities Module
LexisNexis® Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference international publications with a variety of flexible search options.
Multicultural Module
From ProQuest: Search the multicultural module to research ethnic minority. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 12,665 titles, with over 9,745 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
Social Sciences Full Text
American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries
CDRI: Free Resources for the Study of Religion [images]
The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries. Provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, sermons, shape-note tune books, plus other forms of Christian art, architecture and iconongraphy.
Additional subject material may be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US.
American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
ATLA Religion Database
Education Module
Search all education titles on subjects such as administration, policy, teaching practices and more. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
ERIC Plus Text
From Behavioral Measurement Database Services: HaPI is a database that provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
The full-text of the instruments are not included in the database; however, HaPI can be used to:
- Discover what instrument exists;
- Determine the availability of reliability and validity evidence;
- Track the history of an instrument over time;
- See what other instruments have already developed in your field of study;
- Locate ordering information for a known instrument.
Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included.
Health and Wellness Resource CenterHeritageQuest™ Online
HeritageQuest ™Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. HeritageQuest™ Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more.
LexisNexis® Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
Multicultural Module
PAIS International
The PAIS International database from CSA contains citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 12,665 titles, with over 9,745 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
Professional Collection
PsycARTICLES®
Southern Life
This database 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.
Social Work Databases
Additional subject material may be found in the Multidisciplinary Databases
Search full-text periodicals covering the social sciences.
Social Sciences Full Text
Covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
Current Events, Public Policy, Law
The PAIS International database from CSA contains citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.
LexisNexis® Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from more than 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference international publications with a variety of flexible search options. .
Custom Newspapers
From Gale Cengage Learning: A customized selection of newspapers provided by TEL -Tennessee Electronic Library. Search a collection of more then 650 national and international publications.
ProQuest Newsstand
This collection includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times, the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires found in ProQuest NewsstandTM. Additionally, there is full text coverage for some of the nation's larger city papers such as The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun.
Tennessee Newspaper Collection
From Newsbank: Full text coverage is available from the Chattanooga Times-Free Press, Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the Knoxville News Sentinel.
National Newspaper Index
From Gale Cengage Learning: 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.
Physical and Mental Health Databases
PsycINFO®
PsycINFO® contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
PsycArticles®
Search the premier database from the American Psychological Association. Access nearly 50 top full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook(tm) (MMY) 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. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences CollectionTM
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences CollectionTM is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Health & Medical
This link will search two ProQuest databases: 1) Health & Medical Complete, which is designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information -- from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers. The database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties. 2) Health Module provides information on physical and mental health. Includes coverage of medical conditions, substance abuse, insurance, health policy and more.
From Behavioral Measurement Database Services: HaPI is a database that provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
The full-text of the instruments are not included in the database; however, HaPI can be used to:
- Discover what instrument exists;
- Determine the availability of reliability and validity evidence;
- Track the history of an instrument over time;
- See what other instruments have already developed in your field of study;
- Locate ordering information for a known instrument.
Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included.
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.
Multicultural/International/Historical
African American History online
African-American History Online provides users with access to thousands of cross-referenced entries on African-American history. Users can search for entries by keyword or phrase. They can browse by topic and by time period—from eight historical periods relevant specifically to African-American history. In addition, Biographies can be browsed by Occupation, and Primary Sources by Type.
American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.
Multicultural Module
Search the multicultural module to research ethnic minority. This module is a part of the ProQuest General Reference.
Women's Interest Module
HeritageQuest™ Online (Genealogy)
From ProQuest: HeritageQuest ™ Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. HeritageQuest ™ Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more.
Tests and Testing Databases
From Behavioral Measurement Database Services: HaPI is a database that provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
The full-text of the instruments are not included in the database; however, HaPI can be used to:
- Discover what instrument exists;
- Determine the availability of reliability and validity evidence;
- Track the history of an instrument over time;
- See what other instruments have already developed in your field of study;
- Locate ordering information for a known instrument.
Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included.
LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons & students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. Several Praxis II tests are a part of this collection.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook(tm) (MMY) 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. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts.
Testing and Education Reference Center
Prepare for the GED; CLEP; Dantes; civil service and military entrance exams; licensing tests for law enforcement, real estate, the postal service, and many other fields; plus college and graduate school admissions exams. Several Praxis I practice tests are also available here.