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Art


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.

 
Oxford Art Online
Grove Art Online presents the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (published in 1996), updated and fully-indexed, searchable and browsable. 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, dealers, theorists, and writers.
    Date Range:   Varies


Oxford Reference
Full text of 128 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
    Date Range:   Varies


Project Muse
Full text of more than 100 Scholarly Journals from 30 publishers in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
    Date Range:   1996-
 

Behavioral Sciences


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


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-


ERIC
The ERIC database contains nearly 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education, research, and practice.
    Date Range:   1966-


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:   Publication Start - to 3-5 years ago
 

Oxford Reference
Full text of 128 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
    Date Range:   Varies


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-


Project Muse
Full text of more than 100 Scholarly Journals from 30 publishers in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
    Date Range:     1996-


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-


SIRS Researcher
Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide (FirstSearch)
    Date Range:   1988-


Wilson Select Plus
Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
        Date Range:   1994-

Biology

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-


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



BioMed Central
Over 100 full text open access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine
    Date Range:   2000-
 


Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Reference Source connecting fields of the life, biomedical, cell and molecular sciences. Links to data sources and 3,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and updated articles (Nature Publishing)
    Date Range:   2001-



JSTOR
JSTOR- Journal Storage, full text, journals in ecology, botany, and general science.
    Date Range:   Publication Start - to 3-5 years ago


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-
 

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-


Wiley E-Books Collections
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-

Business

  • ABI/Inform
    An 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
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    Annual Reviews
    Full text of 29 Annual Review Titles in computer science.
        Date Range:   Full text since 2000, abstracts since 1950's



    Computer Database
    Articles from computer journals (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:  1980-


    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-


    General Business File ASAP
    Includes business periodical, company directory listings and PR Newswire releases (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-



    JSTOR
    JSTOR- Journal Storage, full text, 47 scholarly journals in business & economics.
        Date Range:   Publication start - to 3-5 years ago
     
    LexisNexis Academic
    Provides business, tax, law, news, and general interest articles and reports from over 7,000 full text publications
        Date Range:  
     


    Wilson Select Plus
    Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
            Date Range:   1994-

    Chemistry

    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-


    American Chemical Society Journals

    American Chemical Society Journals –Starts in January 2006.  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
        Date Range:   Full text since 2000, abstracts since 1950

     
    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
     

    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-


    Oxford Reference

    Full text of 128 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
        Date Range:   Varies

    Wiley Interscience

    Wiley Interscience   A collection of 70 of the John Wiley & Sons scholarly electronic books and major reference works in science and mathematics.  The collection is strong in genetics, biology, chemistry, physics, and statistics.   Date range:  late 1990’s –

            Date Range:   1994-
     
    Wilson Select Plus
    Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
            Date Range:   1994-

    Education

    ERIC
    The ERIC database contains nearly 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education, research, and practice.
        Date Range:   1966-
     

    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:   Publication Start - to 3-5 years ago


    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:   1996 -


    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-
     
  • 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.

  • Wilson Select Plus
    Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
            Date Range:   1994-

    English, Literature and Languages


    JSTOR
    JSTOR- Journal Storage, full text, 58 scholarly journals in language and  literature.
        Date Range:   Publication Start - to 3-5 years ago


    Expanded Academic ASAP
    Indexes about 2300 general and scholarly publications covering all subject areas, about half of these are full text. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-


    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


    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-

     

    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

        Date Range:   Varies
     
    Oxford Reference
    Full text of 100 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
        Date Range:   Varies


    Project Muse
    Full text of more than 100 Scholarly Journals from 30 publishers in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
        Date Range:   1996 -


    What Do I Read Next?
    Over 100,000 books are described and cross-indexed to help you locate more books in your reading interests (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   Current


    Wilson Select Plus
    Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
            Date Range:   1994-

    Exercise and Sports Sciences

    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


    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-


    ERIC
    The ERIC database contains nearly 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education, research, and practice.
        Date Range:   1966-


    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-


    National Library of Medicine (including PubMed)
    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- 


    Professional Collection
    Full text periodicals for teachers, faculty and administrators (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1977-


    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-


    Wilson Select Plus
    Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
            Date Range:   1994-

    Health Sciences

    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


    BioMed Central
    Over 100 full text open access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine
        Date Range:   2000-


    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-


    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-


    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-


    National Library of Medicine (including PubMed)
    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-


    Oxford Reference
    Full text of 128 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
        Date Range:   Varies


    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-


    History and Political Science

    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 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



    Biography Resource Center and Marquis Who's Who
    Guide to biographical information on people worldwide and throughout the ages (Galenet)
        Date Range:   Varies


    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-


    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


    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)    Date range:  1954-
     
    Humanities E-Book Project 
    ACLS History E-book project. Full text of almost 1400 scholarly history books
        Date Range:   Varies


    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:   Publication Start - to 3-5 years ago


    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:   1610-1950


    Oxford Reference
    Full text of 128 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
        Date Range:   Varies


    Project Muse
    Full text of more than 100 Scholarly Journals from 30 publishers in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
        Date Range:   1996 -


    SIRS Researcher
    Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide (FirstSearch)
        Date Range:   1988-


    Wilson Select Plus
    Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
            Date Range:   1994-

    Mathematics



    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:  Publication Start - to 3-5 years ago
     
    Wiley Interscience

    Wiley Interscience   A collection of 70 of the John Wiley & Sons scholarly electronic books and major reference works in science and mathematics.  The collection is strong in genetics, biology, chemistry, physics, and statistics.  
       Date range:  late 1990’s –

    Multidisciplinary


    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

    DOAJ

    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
        Date Range:   varies by journal

     


    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:   Publication Start - to 3-5 years ago


    GPO Monthly Catalog
    Index of U.S. Government publications; includes 104th U.S.Code, 94- current Federal Register, 96-current Code of Federal Regulations, Government Manual, Public Papers of the Presidents
        Date Range:   1976-


    NetLibrary
    More than 30,000 electronic book titles, including reference, scholarly, professional, technical, computer, travel, carer and fiction titles.
        Date Range:   Varies



    Oxford English Dictionary
    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 Reference
    Full text of 128 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
        Date Range:   Varies


    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-



    Project Muse
    Full text of more than 100 Scholarly Journals from 30 publishers in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
        Date Range:   1966 -


    SIRS Researcher
    Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide (FirstSearch)
        Date Range:   1988-


    Tennessee Electronic Library
    Many databases including General Onefile and Expanded Academic; available to all Tennessee residents
        Date Range:   Varies


    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 -


    Performing Arts


    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

    Naxos Music Library

    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


    Oxford Reference
    Full text of 128 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
        Date Range:   Varies


    Project Muse
    Full text of more than 100 Scholarly Journals from 30 publishers in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
        Date Range:   1966 -


    Wilson Select Plus
    Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
            Date Range:   1994-

    Religion and Philosophy

    ATLA Religion Database with ATLAS Serials
    Full text of electronic articles and book reviews from over 1,600 religion journals.

    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-

     

    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


    Oxford Reference
    Full text of 128 Oxford language and subject dictionaries and reference works in all subject areas.
        Date Range:   Varies


    Project Muse
    Full text of more than 100 Scholarly Journals from 30 publishers in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
        Date Range:   1996 -

     
    Religion and Philosophy
    Over 250 magazines and journals in religion, philosophy, archaeology, anthropology, history, and the arts (Tennessee Electronic Library)
        Date Range:   1980-


    SIRS Researcher
    Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide (FirstSearch)
        Date Range:   1988-


    Wilson Select Plus
    Full text articles from selected journals indexed by Wilson's Education, Humanities, General Science, and Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
        Date Range:   1994-

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