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ABI/INFORM Global ProQuest
contains topics on business and management and information on 60,000+ companies.

Academic OneFile InfoTrac/Tel
is a premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. It includes full-text coverage of the New York Times since 1995. Updated daily. Start searching this collection.

Academic Search Premier EBSCO
is a large multi-disciplinary, database that supports nearly all academic areas of study. It contains indexing for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for nearly 4,500 of those titles.

Access Science 
contains the online encyclopedia of the sciences, medicine, computing and technology. Research essays and biographies of scientists are included.

ACM Digital Library 
features electronic publication of the Association for Computing Machinery magazines, journals and proceedings.

Alcohol Studies Database 
A database of citations related to alcohol use/abuse.

American Chemical Society Publications 
contains access to a number of journals and magazines in several areas of chemistry.

American National Biography 
offers portraits of men and women, who are no longer living, from all decades and all walks of life whose lives have shaped the nation.

Annals of American History Online Encyclopedia Britannica
explores the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, essays, biographies, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images and multimedia.

Annual Review of Biochemistry 
offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists.

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 
authoritative, analytic reviews in focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature.

Annual Review of Genetics 
presents critical reviews, synthesis of primary research literature in the field of genetics.

Annual Review of Microbiology 
Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in the field of Microbiology.

Annual Review of Physiology 
offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews in physiology written by leading scientists.

Annual Review of Plant Biology 
features comprehensive, analytic reviews dealing with plants

ArticleFirst FirstSearch
is an index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals. The only full text will be links to articles from the WilsonSelect database.

ArtStor 
A wonderful collection of digital images that spans a variety of disciplines.

ATLA Religion Database/ATLASerials EBSCO
is a full text version of the American Theological Assocation Religion Database.

 

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Biological Abstracts Thomson Scientific
The most complete index of resources in the field of Biology.

BioOne  
A core collection of Biology journals with research in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

BioOne Abstracts + Indexes 
BioOne indexes and abstracts.

Business Source Elite EBSCO
offers full text for nearly 1,100 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). 10,000 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.

 

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Charles Darwin Online 
This site contains primary source documents relating to Darwin's life and work. These include original correspondence, 1st editions of major works, and commentary.

CINAHL EBSCO
full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 550 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL, and of those, more than 230 are not available with full text from any other EBSCO database. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1982.

CiteSeerX 
is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature. It provides algorithms, techniques and software that can be used in other digital libraries.

Communication & Mass Media Complete EBSCO
provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. It offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources.

Computer Database InfoTrac/Tel
find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communication and the application of technology.

CountryWatch 
covers up-to-date information on the 191 countries of the world. Included are political and economic surveys of the countries and news from the nations.

CQ Researcher Congressional Quarterly
covers the most current controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of bibliographies and more.

Custom Newspapers Thomson Gale
a collection of more than 140 cover-to-cover newspapers from around the world.

 

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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences Knovel
This book was written by Galileo Galilei and orginally translated in 1914. Now this classic Crew and Salvio English translation is available in a special electronic version.

Dissertations and Theses ProQuest
represents the work of authors dissertations and masters theses. They range from the first U.S. dissertation in 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Titles published from 1997 forward may be accessed full text through PDF files.

 

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EBSCO Animals EBSCO
provides entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals from the Encyclopedia of Animals.

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service EBSCO
links to the full text available for print journals subscribed to by McKee Library.

ECO/Electronic Collection Online FirstSearch
shows citations and abstracts of scholarly journals.

Education Research Complete EBSCO
covers scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,780 journals, as well as full text for more than 870 journals. This database also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

E G White Writings Ellen G White Estate
This is the official Ellen G. White website. Searches can be done by topic, searching the full text of the published writings, or by going to a particular book, periodical or pamphlet.

Encyclopedia Britannica 
Encyclopedia Britannica is the world’s most comprehensive reference work and includes the complete encyclopedia as well as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and Britannica Book of the Year.

Encyclopedia Britannica Spanish Reference Center Encyclopedia Britannica
offers resources in Spanish for all ages in two unique interfaces, each with its own comprehensive encyclopedia: Gran Enciclopedia Planeta for high school ages and up and Enciclopedia Juvenil for ages 6-12.

Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences Elsevier
maps the social and behavioral sciences on a "grand scale." It is a comprehensive work of academic research alphabetically organized.

Engineering Problem Solving - A Classical Perspective Knovel
This book fills in many of the gaps in engineering education by showing students and professionals, the historical background of problem solving.

ERIC EBSCO
furnishes access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.

Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards Knovel
This book, useful for safety managers, chemists, and engineers alike, helps both small and large companies identify, address, and manage chemical reactivity hazards.

Expanded Academic ASAP InfoTrac/Tel
a database for research in all disciplines, allows access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, many with full text and images.

 

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Facts On File Online 
brings together complete content from the Facts on File World News Digest since 1940. Also included are features such as The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Issues and Controversies on File, Today's Science on File and Reuters On-Line News Service.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO
This encyclopedia, for students and adults alike, indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.

 

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Gale Virtual Reference Library InfoTrac/Tel
is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

General Business File ASAP InfoTrac/Tel
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

General Business File International InfoTrac/Tel
In one multi-source database, General BusinessFile ASAP International provides indexing, abstracts and full text for research on a truly global range of business and management topics, industries and companies.

General OneFile InfoTrac/Tel
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

General Reference Center Gold InfoTrac/Tel
Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

GPO FirstSearch
includes bibliographic citations of all types of government documents.

Guide to Social Science and Religion  
Provided by the National Periodical Library, every item in this Guide is indexed by subject and each entry includes the name of the periodical in which it was published, date, volume and issue numbers, page number, author, and the approximate number of words in the article.

 

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Handbook of Mathematical Functions  Knovel
This handbook has been designed to provide scientific investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems.

Health and Wellness Resource Center InfoTrac/Tel
covers research topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Included are encyclopedias, directories, a medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Health Reference Center-Academic InfoTrac/Tel
focuses on fitness, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, pregnancy, etc.

Historical Newspapers ProQuest
A collection of 19th and early 20th century newspapers -- The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Washington Post.

Hoovers Online 
Top quality market and financial information on thousands of American businesses.

 

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IBISWorld 
A complete collection of strategic industry reports by NAICS codes.

IEEE Computer Society 
IEEE Computer software and hardware journals

Industry Information Resources 
Industry research reports by NAIC codes.

Informe (Revistas en Español)  InfoTrac/Tel
gives online information in Spanish that investigates news, current events, health, popular culture and many other topics.

International Critical Tables of Numerical Data Knovel
offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical and other key properties and is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics and engineering. Many tables are interactive. The work consists of seven volumes and an index.

 

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JSTOR 
The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 117 titles in 15 disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Junior Edition InfoTrac/Tel
a database designed for junior and high school students with magazines, newspapers and reference books in various subjects. It could be a valuable tool for education majors.

 

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Kids InfoBits InfoTrac/Tel
meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Knovel Critical Tables Knovel
a new reference featuring tables of properties for commonly used chemical compounds in the physical properties tables. kCT contains the most up-to-date chemical properties information available online.

Knovel Science & Engineering Units Converter Knovel
Knovel's free online Science & Engineering Units Converter enables you to convert 864 scientific and engineering units for 82 properties - from Acceleration to Volume - to other units as appropriate. It rounds results to the desired number of significant digits selected by you. Start using the Knovel Science & Engineering Unit Converter now - it's free and does not require registration! No special plug-ins or downloads are needed.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library 
is a searchable database that provides curriculum information on a variety of subjects covered in pre K-12 and Adult Basic Education.

 

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Large Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, v.1-2 Knovel
This book presents a unified, up-to-date development of operating methods used for large-scale adsorption and chromatography.

LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis
is divided into five areas: news, business, legal research, medical and reference. Each of these five areas offer information for specific research needs.

LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History LexisNexis
gives access to primary and secondary materials covering African American studies from the colonial era to the present day.

LexisNexis Statistical LexisNexis
offers comprehensive access to statistical information of all types.

Library, Information Science, Abstracts EBSCO
An Ebsco database of Library and Information Science Abstracts

Literary Index InfoTrac/Tel
is a master index to the major literature products published by the Gale Group. The directory will give locations in a variety of print sources for authors and critical essays.

Literature Resource Center InfoTrac/Tel
Literature and Author database.

 

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MAS Ultra - School Edition EBSCO
a database for high-school students, it provides full text from over 460 periodicals covering general reference, health, science, and other areas.

MEDLINE EBSCO
maintains authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the healthcare system, pre-clinical sciences and more.

Metallic Materials Properties Development & Standardization Knovel
The 2003 Metallic Material Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS) Handbook is the replacement document for MILHDBK- 5. It is recognized internationally as a reliable source of aircraft materials data for aerospace materials selection and analysis.

Military & Government Collection EBSCO
is focused to meet the needs of its users in military and non-military government libraries. There is an emphasis on engineering.

Military Handbook Knovel
This Knovelized handbook contains standardized design values and related design information for metallic materials and structural elements used in aerospace vehicle structures.

Military & Intelligence Database InfoTrac/Tel
contains over 10 million articles (80% full-text) from more than 500 titles and basic reference materials.

 

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National Newspaper Index InfoTrac/Tel
allows researchers to locate citations from five top newspapers 24 hours a day. Indexed titles are: The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

NetLibrary 
is a collection of electronic books. Books may be previewed for about 15 minutes. They may be checked out for four hours at a time, giving the user sole access to the book for that time period.

 

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Opposing Viewpoints 
features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites on today's hottest social issues.

Ovid Nursing 
A great collection of core nursing and allied health journals.

Oxford Art Online 
contains articles on every aspect of the visual arts---painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day.

Oxford English Dictionary 
Oxford English Dictionary Online contains two separate texts, the complete 20 volume Second Edition published in 1989, together with a three volume Additions Series published in 1993, and the New Edition in progress.

Oxford Music Online 
comprises the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music. It also includes the New Grove Dictionary of Opera.

Oxford Reference Online - Premium 
a collection of 100+ reference books where you can find a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations. The Premium collection adds scholarly articles from titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series.

 

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PapersFirst FirstSearch
consists of an index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Points of View 
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 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).

Pre-CINAHL EBSCO
a companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

Primary Search EBSCO
is designed for elementary school libraries and contains full text for 60 popular, elementary magazines. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator.

Proceedings FirstSearch
provides citations of the proceedings of every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference.

Pro & Con 
is an online database of issues and teaching resources consisting of three components Congressional Digest (political debate on the latest topics), Supreme Court Debates (spotlights a current case before the U.S. Supreme Court), International Debates, (analyzes current issues before the United Nations and other international forums.)

Professional Collection InfoTrac/Tel
provides articles from more than 300 full-text periodicals covering a variety of topics for teachers/educators, including: health and fitness, school law, drug and alcohol abuse, learning disabilities, sports, arts and humanities, social sciences, and psychology.

Proquest Religion ProQuest
A comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues and perspectives, including religious news and information, commentary on topics of general interest from the perspective of a particular religion, and formal theological studies.

PsycARTICLES EBSCO
provides full-text articles on current issues in psychology from 1987 to the present. Articles from 60 journals are published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations.

PsycBOOKS EBSCO
A comprehensive collection of full-text Psychology books, recommended by the APA.

PsycINFO EBSCO
is an index containing citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports in psychology and psychological aspects of many other fields. Coverage spans from 1887 to the present.

PubMed 
gives free access to search MEDLINE. PubMed links to over 700 journals for full text (some may require a subscription). PubMed also links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.

 

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Religion & Philosophy Database InfoTrac/Tel
has articles from more than 250 magazines and Journals on religion, philosophy, archaeology, and anthropolog, and covers the impact of religion on culture. Many articles are full-text.

RIA Checkpoint (See Jon Wentworth for password)  
is a complete and authoritative tax research tool. It incorporates complete tax law, expert RIA analysis, practitioner insights in WG&L treatises and journals, tax-related news, cases, rulings and more.

 

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Science Database Thomson Gale
over 1600 science journals in PDF and HTML format. It includes the content of the General Science Collection.

SciFinder Scholar Library Computer #6 
This chemistry database is available at the library on computer station six.

Scribner Writers Series InfoTrac/Tel


SDA Obituary Index 
Obituaries in this Index are found in a number of Seventh-day Adventist Church sponsored and published periodicals. The Index covers 1850 to the current year.

SDA Periodical Index 
leads users to citations from Seventh-day Adventist periodicals from 1978 to the present. An accompanying Obituary Index may also be searched.

Smithsonian Physical Tables Knovel
is comprised of 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data that is of interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics.

Social Work Abstracts EBSCO
maintains over 35,000 records of citations and abstracts from 1977 to the present in social work and other related journals.

SocIndex + Fulltext EBSCO
A comprehensive database of Sociology abstracts and core journals in full-text. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,743 conference papers.

Southern Life Thomson Gale
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.

Student Edition InfoTrac/Tel
is designed for high school students to search magazines, newspapers, and reference books in a variety of disciplines. This database could be useful for education majors.

 

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Teacher Reference Center EBSCO
A free database from EBSCO of teacher reference materials including 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books.

Teaching Engineering Knovel
Written mainly for Ph.D. students and professors in all areas of engineering, this book may be used as a text for a graduate-level class or by professionals who wish to read it on their own.

Tennessee Electronic Library InfoTrac/Tel
The TEL databases provide free access to selected electronic resources for all libraries serving the citizens of the state of Tennessee.

Tennessee Newspaper Collection 
An electronic collection of local and regional Tennessee newspapers. All in full-text.

Twayne's Author Series Thomson Gale
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

 

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Ulrich's Serials 
A comprehensive database of journals and where they can be sourced from.

 

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What Do I Read Next? InfoTrac/Tel
includes recommended titles, plot summaries, and awards information. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more.

WilsonSelect Plus FirstSearch
provides full text articles in the sciences, humanities, education, and business.

WorldCat FirstSearch
contains the records of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.