Electronic Databases
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Databases
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- ABI/INFORM
- Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection
- Business (Gale OneFile)
- Business Insights: Essentials
- Business Market Research
- Culinary Arts (Gale OneFile)
- Economics and Theory (Gale OneFile)
- Entrepreneurship (Gale Business)
- Entrepreneurship (Gale OneFile)
- Hospitality and Tourism Complete
- Hospitality and Tourism (Gale OneFile)
- Insurance and Liability (Gale OneFile)
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Multimedia
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Multimedia
Also see the Newspapers and Digital Magazines sections below.- Alternative Medicine
- Architectural Digest
- Art in America
- Atlantic
- Aviation History
- Better Homes and Gardens
- Better Nutrition
- Black Enterprise
- Career Mastered
- Cocinas
- College Student Affairs Journal
- Consumer Reports
- Consumer Reports Buying Guide
- Cooking Light
- Cosmopolitan
- Counselor: The Magazine for Addiction Professionals
- Discover
- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- DIVERSEability
- Do it Yourself
- Downbeat
- Dr. Oz: the Good Life
- Eat Well
- Education Digest
- Education Week
- Entertainment Weekly
- Entrepreneur
- Essence
- Exchange
- Flight Journal
- Globe
- Good Housekeeping
- GQ: Gentlemen’s Quarterly
- Highlights High Five
- Hispanic Outlook on Education
- History Magazine
- House Beautiful
- Information Today
- Instyle
- JazzTimes
- Legend of the Mantamaji: Book One
- Legend of the Mantamaji: Book Two
- Legend of the Mantamaji: Book Three
- Legend of the Mantamaji Bloodlines
- Motor Trends
- Mystery Weekly
- National Geographic
- New Yorker
- Newsmax
- O: the Oprah Magazine
- Parents
- PCWorld
- Phi Delta Kappan
- Prevention
- Reader’s Digest
- Rolling Stone
- Southern Living
- STRONG Fitness Magazine
- Taste of Home
- Time
- U.S. Veterans Magazine
- VegNews
- YC Young Children
Databases
- Associates Programs Source Plus
Chronicle of Higher Education We maintain a subscription to view the current and archival issues. - College (Gale in Context)
- College Success Skills
- Education Database
- Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile)
- Elementary (Gale in Context)
- Faculty Select
- High School Edition (Gale OneFile)
- Leadership and Management (Gale OneFile)
- Middle School (Gale in Context)
- OpenDissertations
- Teacher Reference Center
Recommended Websites
- Algebra Math Way
- Common Sense Education
- Current College Rankings from U.S. News & World Report
- Department of Education (code list)
- Directory of Open Access Books
- Finaid
- Fast Web
- Geogebra
- Journal of Montesorri Research
- Open Educational Resources
- SACS Criteria for Accreditation
- Southern Spaces
- Southwest Bookstore | Follett Higher Education Group Bookstore Services
- Tel4U Resources K-12
- Tennessee Higher Education Commission
- Tennessee Scholarships
Multimedia
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Recommended Websites
Multimedia
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- Black Freedom, Struggle in the United States
- Contemporary Women’s Issues (Gale OnFile)
- Defining Documents in World History: Women’s Rights (1429-2017)
- Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile)
- East & South Asia Database
- East Europe, Central Europe Database
- Exploring Race in Society
- Gender Studies (Gale OneFile)
- India Database
- Latin America & Iberia Database
- LGBTQ+ Rights
- Oxford African American Studies Center
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
- Racial & Ethnic Relations in America
- UK & Ireland Database
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Multimedia
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- Academic Writing Guide for College Students
- Article Summaries, Review & Critiques
- Assignment Calculator
- BibMe
- Cambridge English Write and Improve
- Cengage Learning Exercises
- Citation Machine
- Cite this for Me
- Dictionary.com - Online Talking Dictionary
- EasyBIB
- EasyBIb Plagiarism Checker
- English Grammar Secrets
- English Mavern
- Essay Tools Citation Generator
- Essay Writing
- Grammarly Handbook
- Grammarly – Writing a Summary
- Homework Center Writing Skills
- OneLook Dictionary Search
- Purdue OWL
- Owl Excelsior
- Paragraph, Writing
- Reading, Improving
- Research Help
- Sentence Checker
- Thesaurus
- Thesis Builder
- Thesis Statement Generator
- TypeCite
- Your Dictionary
- Writing and Research Handbook
- ZoteroBib
Multimedia
- Five Paragraph Essay
- VCE: Using Grammarly
- Preparing for a Research Paper or Speech
- VCE: Researching and Outlines for Special Topics
- VCE: Steps to Complete a Writing Assignment #1 Clarifying the Assignment
- VCE: Steps to Complete a Writing Assignment #2 Selecting a Topic
- VCE: Steps to Complete a Writing Assignment #3 Brainstorming
- VCE: Steps to Complete a Writing Assignment #4 Locating Resources
- VCE: Steps to Complete a Writing Assignment #5 Evaluating Resources
- VCE: Steps to Complete a Writing Assignment #6 Develop a Thesis
- VCE: Steps to Complete a Writing Assignment #7 Draft and Revise
- VCE: Steps to Complete a Writing Assignment #8 Documentation
- VCE: Steps to Complete a Writing Assignment #9 Resource List
- VCE: Thesis Builder and Outline
Databases
- 1960's in America
- 2000's in America
- American History Online
- Civil Disobedience, Social Justice, Nationalism and Populism, Violent Demonstrations and Race Relations
- Encyclopedia of African American History
- Encyclopedia of American Immigration
- Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
- Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
- Heritage Quest Online
- Israel & Palestine
- Issues in U.S. Immigration
- Military Database
- Military and Intelligence (Gale OneFile)
- Oxford Companion to World Exploration
- Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
- Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law
- Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
- Tennessee Records (Ancestry.com)
- Treaties in the News
- Ukraine & Russia
- U.S. History (Gale OneFile)
- Volunteer Voices
- War and Terrorism (Gale OneFile)
- World History (Gale OneFile)
Recommended Websites
Multimedia
- 21st Century Turning Points in U.S. History (2000-2017)
- American History Channel
- Contributions of Women during the Civil Rights Movement
- Finding Primary Sources for History Using the InfoNet Library
- History of Civil Rights in America
- History Turning Points I
- History Turning Points II
- History Video Online
- Investigating the Role of Women and African American during the Civil War
Databases
- A to Z World Culture
- American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present
- Arts and Humanities
- Asian & European Business Collection
- Australian & New Zealand Database
- Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)
- Continental Europe Database
- Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
- Encyclopedia of Global Change
- Encyclopedia of Global Resources
- Encyclopedia of Social Work
- Fine Arts (Gale OneFile)
- Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
- Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Art
- Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
- Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- Middle East & Africa Database
- Military Database
- Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
- Political Science Database
- Pop Culture Studies (Gale OneFile)
- Psychology (Gale OneFile)
- Psychology Database
- Religion Database
- Religion and Philosophy (Gale OneFile)
- Social Science Database
- Sociology Database
- Turkey Database
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Multimedia
- Childhood
- Counseling and Therapy in Video
- Drama Notebook (Online Plays)
- Ethnographic Video Online
- Full Length Plays
- History of Western Art
- Live Theatre Plays
- Long Search
- National Theater Collection
- Psychology
- Psychology/Counseling Video Online
- Social Sciences Video Online
- Theater
- VCE: Locating Information for Psychology Assignments
Databases
- Books and Authors (Gale)
- Civil Right Literature, Past & Present
- Critical Insights: The Slave Narratives
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale Literature)
- Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
- Encyclopedia of Semiotics
- Gale Literary Sources
- Informe Academico (Gale OneFile)
- Linguistics Database
- Lit Finder (Gale Literature)
- Literary Reference Center
- Literature Criticism (Gale)
- Literature Resource Center (Gale)
- Magill's Literary Annual
- Oxford Companion to American Literature
- Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
- Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
- Transparent Language
Recommended Websites
Multimedia
- AVON Collection: Language and Literature
- Book Review: ABCs that make cent$
- BBC Shakespearean Plays
- Book Review: Blue smoke
- Book Review: Cemetery road
- Book Review: Color of family
- Book Review: Deadly deals
- Book Review: Deja vu
- Book Review: Dog days and dragonflies
- Book Review: For colored girls
- Book Review: From wrags to ritches
- Book Review: The help
- Book Review: I am number four
- Book Review: Never cast your pearls
- Book Review: Walking through mirrors
- Great American Authors Since 1650
- VCE: Discover African American Literature
Databases
Recommended Websites
- Arkansas Statutes
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Cornell
- Crime in America
- Federal Register
- Georgia Statutes
- Government Printing Office
- Hate Crime- Department of Justice
- Hate Crimes - FBI
- Help4TN
- House of Representatives
- Kentucky Statues
- Law Dictionary
- Legal Citations
- Legal Dictionary
- Legal Glossary
- Legal Research
- Memphis, City of
- Memphis Paralegal Alliance, Greater
- Merriam-Webster’s Law Dictionary
- Mississippi Statutes
- Missouri Statutes
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) A-Z Topical Index
- North Carolina Statutes
- Paralegal Association (National)
- Senate
- Shelby County Government
- Student Gateway to the Government
- Supreme Court Decisions
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Tennessee Blue Book
- Tennessee Laws
- Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct
- Tennessee Statutes (TN Code Unannotated)
- The Law dictionary
- TN Rules and Regulations
- US Code
- Virginia Statues
Recommended Websites
- Atlapedia
- City Population - Statistics and Maps of the Major Cities
- Flags of the World
- Holidays and Observances around the World
- How Far Is It
- World Fact book
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Multimedia
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- Issues and Controversies
- Opposing Viewpoints(Gale in Context)
- Points of View
Recommended Websites
Multimedia
- C.R.A.A.P. Test (Peirce College Library)
- Evaluating Information in the News
- Lateral Searching (UofL)
- Reverse Image Searching (AFP News Agency)
Databases
- Addictions, Substance Abuse and Alcoholism, Salem Health
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Consumer Health Database
- Coronavirus Research Database
- Davis's Drug Guide
- Genetics and Inherited Conditions
- Health and Medicine Collection
- Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile)
- Health and Wellness (Gale)
- Healthcare Administration Database
- Infectious Diseases and Conditions
- Magill's Medical Guide
- Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile)
- Nursing and Allied Health Database
- Nursing & Allied Health Premium
- Nursing Reference Center Plus
- OVID (LWW Nursing & Allied Health Professions Collection)
- Pandemics: the Invisible Enemy
- Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile)
- Psychology and Mental Health
- Public Health Database
- Taber's Medical Dictionary
Recommended Websites
Multimedia
- Blood Collection-Special Procedure
- Blood Collection-the Pediatric Patient
- Blood Collection Routine-Venipuncture
- Critical Thinking in the Nursing Process
- Films On Demand (FOD): Allied Health Videos
- Films on Demand (FOD): Nursing Video Collection
- Health Sciences Video Online
- IV Venipuncture Procedure: Insertion Techniques that Work
- Medical Imaging
- Nursing & Mental Health in Video: a Symptom Media Collection
- Nursing Process
- Patient Monitoring in Mechanical Ventilation
- Rehabilitation Therapy
- VCE: Health and Wellness Resources
- VCE: Highlighting Nursing Resources
- VCE: Locating and Using PT (Physical Therapy Resources)
- VCE: Locating Pharmacology Resources
- VCE: Research Techniques for RADT2210
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Recommended Websites
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- Dance Studies Collection
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
- International Encyclopedia of Dance
- Music Online: African American Music Reference
- Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library
- Music Online: Classical Scores Library
- Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century
- Music Online: Jazz
- Music Online: Music Reference Collection
Recommended Websites
- Baroque Music: a Beginner’s Guide
- Brown University Library Center for Digital Scholarship – African American Sheet Music
- Library of Congress – Digital Collections – Performing Arts
- Musician Biographies
- Mutopia Project
- Pandora
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Nineteenth Century American Sheet Music
- University of Rochester
Multimedia
- Music and Dance Online
- Music Online: American Music
- Music Online: Classical Music in Video
- Music Online: Classical Performance in Video
- Music Online: Contemporary World Music
- Music Online: Dance in Video
- Music Online: Jazz Music Library
- Music Online: Music Video Collection
- Music Online: Opera in Video
- Music Online: Performance in Video
- Music Online: Popular Music Library
- Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound Libraries
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- Acronym Finder
- Almanac
- Americas Library
- Auto101
- Daily Almanac (Old Farmer’s)
- Digital Library of Tennessee
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
- FedStats - Statistics and Statistical Agencies
- Glossary of Funeral Terms
- Howjsay - Dictionary of English Pronunciation, How to Pronounce English Words
- How Stuff Works
- Map Quest
- Real Yellow Pages
- refseek
- Telephone Directory
- Tennessee Digital Public Library
- Translation Dictionaries
- U.S. Postal
- Visual Dictionary
Databases
- Advanced Technologies and Aerospace Database
- Agriculture (Gale OneFile)
- Agriculture Science Database
- Biological & Agriculture Index Plus
- Biological Science Database
- Earth, Atmospheric and Aquatic Science
- Encyclopedia of Evolution
- Engineering Database
- Environmental Science
- Environmental Studies (Gale in Context)
- Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile)
- Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile)
- HOL Air & Space Law
- Materials Science Database
- Science Database
- Science Online Databases
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Recommended Websites
- Anatomical Images
- BioDigital
- CalTech Science Exchange
- Cells Alive
- Chem 1: Virtual textbook
- Chemical Elements
- General Chemistry Online
- Get Body Smart
- Getting Started in General Chemistry
- Gray’s Anatomy
- Human Anatomy
- Periodic Table of Elements - PubChem
- Physics4Kids
- Science: Human Body and Mind
- Zygote Body
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