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ABI/Inform The leading index to business and management journals, this FirstSearch database contains indexing, abstracts, and some full text to over 2,000 publications. Includes company histories and new product development. ft
Agricola Index of sources on all aspects of agriculture, animal and plant sciences, human food and nutrition, agricultural economics, and earth and environmental sciences (National Agricultural Library)
        Date Range:   1970-
America:  History and Life Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 history journals published from 1954 to the present. Articles cover all aspects of United States and Canadian history.    Date range:   1954-
American Chemical Society Journals

Full text of over 40 ACS journals such as Journal of Chemical Education, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Journal of the American Chemical Society.  Date range:  1870 – present
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, 1861 - 1865 Primary source materials: letters and diaries written during the American Civil War
        Date Range:   1855-1875
Annual Reviews Full text of 29 Annual Review Titles in biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
        Date Range:   Full text since 2000, abstracts since 1950's
ARTstor The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLAS Serials  

 		 Full text of electronic articles and book reviews from over 1,600 religion journals.

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Biography Resource Center and Marquis Who's Who Guide to biographical information on people worldwide and throughout the ages (Galenet)
        Date Range:   Varies
BioMed Central Over 100 full text open access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine
        Date Range:   2000-

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Computer Database Articles from computer journals (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors (Tennessee Electronic Library) Also part of the Literature Resource Center database.
        Date Range:   1997-
Contemporary Women's Issues Index of sources on the rights and health of women as well as other women's issues (FirstSearch)
        Date Range:   1992-
Credo Reference Full text of over 250 reference books in all subject areas

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DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals  This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. There are now 1915 journals in the directory of which 467 journals are searchable at article level.  
        Date range:  Varies

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Early Encounters in North America Primary source materials: letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts written in the early days of the settlement of North America
        Date Range:   1534-1860
Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Edition:  contains over 73,000 authoritative entries on every topic plus links to articles, web sites, video clips, photographs, and classic books.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Reference Source connecting fields of the life, biomedical, cell and molecular sciences. Links to data sources and 3,000 spcially commissioned, peer-reviewd and updated articles (Nature Publishing)
        Date Range:   2001-
ERIC The ERIC database contains nearly 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education, research, and practice.
        Date Range:   1966-
Evans Early American Imprints Contains the full text of more than 36,000 documents published in the U.S. from 1639 - 1800, including books, advertisements, diaries, songs, plays, newspapers, bibliographies, dissertations, and much more.  Requires TWC authentication to log on.
Expanded Academic ASAP Indexes about 2300 general and scholarly publications covering all subject areas, about half of which are full text. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-

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General Business File ASAP Includes business periodical, company directory listings and PR Newswire releases (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-
General Onefile Indexes more than 6,000 magazines and journals, over half of which are full text. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-
General Business File International Indexing and some full text for many business management, economics, and politics (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-
General Reference Center Gold Indexes over 2,000 magazines plus full text of over 1200 titles and 15 reference books (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-
GPO Monthly Catalog Index of U.S. Government publications (FirstSearch)
        Date Range:   1976-
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Health and Wellness Resource Center Articles from health journals plus the text of medical and drug reference books (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-
Health Reference Center Academic Indexing and full text for many professional and consumer journals in medicine and allied health (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-
Historical Abstracts Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 history journals published since 1954. Articles cover the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the U. S. and Canada (those are covered by America: History and Life)
Humanities E-Book Project  ACLS History E-book project. Full text of almost 1500 scholarly humanities books
        Date Range:   Varies

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Informe Index and full text of articles from 50 Spanish language periodicals and El Nueve Herald (Miami, FL) Spanish newspaper. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1997-
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JSTOR JSTOR- Journal Storage, full text, 600 scholarly journals in history, economics, philosophy, literature, mathematics, sociology, ecology, anthropology, political science, education and more...
        Date Range:   Sometimes 1800's up to 3-5 years ago

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LexisNexis Academic Provides business, tax, law, news, and general interest articles and reports from over 7,000 full text publications.
        Date Range:   Varies
Literature Resource Center Critical articles, books, and reference works on writers from every age and genre. Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Scribner Writers Series, Twaynes Authors Series, Gale literature reference works, and articles from 250 journals of literary criticism. (Galenet)
        Date Range:   Varies
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MLA Bibliography MLA Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America - consists of bibliographic records from 1964 to the present. Literature, linguistics and folklore - nearly 4, 000 journals and series, monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and other formats.
        Date Range:   1963-
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National Library of Medicine NLM provides a wide variety of resources related to health sciences, both past and present. Databases, bibliographic citations, full text (when available), and images
        Date Range:   1965-
National Newspaper Index Indexing for Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1977-
Naxos Music Library

Contains over 130,000 classical, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music tracks.  While listening, you can read information about the works, artists, and composers.  Teachers can create playlists for their students to listen to.  It is important to log out by clicking on the red “Log-Out” button to end your session.  Date range:  varies
NetLibrary More than 30,000 ectronic book titles, including reference, scholarly, professional, technical, computer, travel, carer and fiction titles.
        Date Range:   Varies
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 Primary source materials: letters and diaries written by women from colonial times to 1950
        Date Range:   pre-1950
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Oxford Art Online Articles on the fine and decorative arts from prehistory through the present. Searchable images in galleries and museums around the world. Biographies of artists, architects, collectors, dealer, theorists, and writers.
        Date Range:   Varies
Oxford English Dictionary Online

Oxford English Dictionary Online – The OED Online is the accepted authority on the meaning, history and pronunciation of over 500,000 English language words.  It traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period.  It offers complete etymologies and lists of variant spellings.  The Online version corresponds to the 20 volume print version.  Date range:  500 AD to the present
Oxford Music Online Full text of New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Over 29,000 articles. Increased coverage of world, Jazz, and popluar music as well as new schools of thought within musicology.
        Date Range:   Varies
Oxford Reference Full text of 100 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
        Date Range:   Varies
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Polling the Nations Survey data, opinion polls, providing primary data. What people know, what they do, and what they believe. Includes the results from over 700 polling organizations.
        Date Range:   1986-
Professional Collection Full text periodicals for teachers, faculty and administrators (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1977-
Project Muse Full text of more than 100 Scholarly Journals from 30 publishers in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
        Date Range:   Usually late 1990's on
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Provides full text for 500 of the journals indexed in PsycINFO
        Date Range:   1965-
PsycINFO Index to Psychology publications since 1887. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Full text of over 500 journals.
        Date Range:   1887-
PubMed Database of medical articles and other publications. Some links to full text articles. Same as Medline medical database. (National Library of Medicine)
        Date Range:   1965-
PubMed Central Free full text repository of peer reviewed primary research reports in the biomedical and life sciences (National Institutes of Health)
        Date Range:   2000-
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SIRS Researcher Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide (FirstSearch)
        Date Range:   1988-
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Tennessee Electronic Library Many databases including Infotrac Onefile and Expanded Academic; available to all Tennessee residents
        Date Range:   Varies
Testing and Education Reference Center
  • Search for colleges and degree programs, also take practice tests for GRE, MCAT, GMAT, LSAT, NCLEX, TOEFL, PRAXIS I and II, and many more.
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    What Do I Read Next? Over 100,000 books are dexcribed and cross-indexed to help you locate more books in your reading interests (Tennessee Electronic Library)
            Date Range:   Current
    Wiley E-Books Collection

    70 Electronic books in bioscience, chemistry, statistics, and environment.
    Wilson Select Plus Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
            Date Range:   1994-
    WorldCat Worldwide catalog of books and other materials. One of the databases available through First Search, WorldCat contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records reprsenting 400 languages.
            Date Range:   1000 BC -
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