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Database

Subject

Coverage

Description

Source

    
Academic Onefile General

 1980-

Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. (Contains material formerly found in Expanded Academic ASAP and InfoTrac OneFile.)

Gale

Academic Search Premier General

 1984-

Full text from 4500 serials, including over 3600 peer-reviewed titles. Covers biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more.

EBSCO

ACLS Humanities
E-Book Project (HEB)
History, Humanities

E-Books 

With over 1500 titles, HEB includes most humanities disciplines and area studies.  (See title list.) Formerly the ACLS History E-Book Project, HEB adds approximately 300 books annually to the collection.

ACLS

ASCE Publications CE Database Engineering

1970-

Contains 100,000+ bibliographic and abstracted records from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Publications. Subjects include: Aerospace Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydrology, Structural Engineering, Urban Planning and more.

WWW

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Religion

1949-

Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. Offers over 488,000 article citations 1,500+ journals, more than 215,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 446,000 book review citations. Coverage begins in 1949 with indexing for some journals going back to the 19th century.   

EBSCO

B
Business Source Premier Business

1984-

Covers accounting, banking, finance, international business, management, marketing, real estate, regional studies, sales, trade, and technology. Offers more than 2300 journals including full text for over 1100 peer-reviewed titles. Also try the Business Searching Interface.

EBSCO

C
CCH Tax Research Business, Accounting

1994-

Offers tax news as well as federal and state tax information. Includes tax codes, regulations, court cases, rulings, legislative documents, treaties, and IRS publications, as well as CCH explanation and analysis.

CCH

Computer Database Computer Science

1983-

Find computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Gale

Communication & Mass Media Complete Commun-
ications

Varies

Communication & Mass Media Complete provides selective full text and references in all areas related to communication and mass media.

EBSCO

Government

 

The CQ Encyclopedia of American Government is a comprehensive overview of the American Government system. Offers over 1100 searchable topics covering the three branches of government. Usage info.: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

CQ

CQ Researcher Plus Archive Current Events

1923-

CQ Researcher Plus Archive contains more than 3,000 reports and analysis of issues in the news. CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published 44 times a year.

CQ

Credo Reference (Xreferplus) Quick Reference

 

Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus) is a giant online reference library providing access to over 250 reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations, as well as subject-specific titles covering topics from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Credo

Custom News News
Varies
Searches more than 650 national and international newspapers.
Gale
E
EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals Animals

 

Useful for Education students, EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

 EBSCO

EBSCOhost General

Varies

EBSCOhost is a collection of databases providing full-text material from journals, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, and reference books. Databases include Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, ERIC, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Regional Business News, Primary Search, MAS Ultra-School Edition,  and more.

 EBSCO

ERIC Education

1966-

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

EBSCO

F
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia Quick Reference   Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

 EBSCO

G
Gale Virtual Reference Library Quick Reference

Reference books

Gale Virtual Reference Library offers searchable full text of reference books in subjects including business, environment, history, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, and science.

Gale

General Business File ASAP Business

1980-

Analyze domestic company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directories with full text and images.

Gale

General Business File International Business

1980-

Analyze international company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.

Gale

General Reference Center Gold General

1980-

General Reference Center GOLD is a general interest database from a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, and more.

Gale

Grove Art Online Art

Varies

See Oxford Art Online

Oxford

H
Health and Wellness Resource Center Health & Medicine

1980-

Access carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, 700+ health videos from partner Healthology Inc., pamphlets, and health-related articles from 2200 general interest publications. Material is intended for informational purposes only.

Gale

Health & Medicine

1980-

Covers all aspects of health and medicine, including fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, and many other topics.

Gale

HeinOnline Political Science

Varies

HeinOnline PoliSci Basic offers the full-text of 50 influential legal journals, along with all U.S. treaties and agreements and the U.S. Presidential Library.

Hein

HeritageQuest History, Genealogy

Varies

Brought to you by the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL), HeritageQuest offers data for genealogists and historians. Includes all U.S. Censuses until 1930, an index of 6,500 local history and genealogy periodicals (PERSI), bank records of African Americans from 1865-1874, a database of Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land warrant, plus full text of 25,000 local histories and family histories.

ProQuest

Sciences

1995-

* Please note that not all articles in this database are free.*
Highwire Press is a database of over 300 academic science journals. Many journals available in Highwire provide free access to full text of some articles. Click here to see the list of free full-text HighWire journalsNote: If you find a citation for an article that is not free, be sure to check for the journal at CBU here: Find Journals or request it via Interlibrary Loan.

WWW

I
In the First Person Biography

Varies

In the First Person from Alexander Press is an index to personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories that are publicly available on the Web or held by repositories and archives.

WWW

Informe! (Revistas en espanol) General (Spanish Language)

1999-

Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

Gale

Intute: Engineering Ejournals Engineering

Varies

Search over 250 freely available full-text engineering mathematics and computing ejournals, selected for relevance and quality. Academic journals, trade publications, and society journals are covered.

WWW

J
JSTOR General

Varies up to most recent 2-5 years

JSTOR offers complete backfiles of core journals in various subjects: economics, education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science and many more. Full-text coverage begins at the first issue of each journal and usually ends within five years of the present. Current and recently published issues are not available in JSTOR.  We have access to: Arts & Sciences I (title list); Arts & Sciences II (title list), and Arts & Sciences IV (title list).

JSTOR

K
Kids InfoBits Education

Varies

Useful for Education students, Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5.

Gale

Knovel Science, Engineering

Reference

Content includes Knovel's Introductory Package, with 43 core science and engineering reference titles such as Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (7th Edition), and the Biochemistry, Biology & Biotechnology collection, which contains 68 reference titles.

Knovel

L
LearningExpress Library Reference, Test Prep

Varies

Brought to you by Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL), 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. Includes some Graduate Entrance Exams: GMAT, GRE, LSAT and MCAT.

Learning
-Express

LexisNexis Academic News, Legal, Business

Varies

LexisNexis Academic primarily covers three areas: news, business, and legal research. Includes top news, general news topics, and foreign language news sources. Business covers company industry and market news, company financial information, accounting, auditing, and tax information. Legal Research covers law reviews, federal case law, U.S. Code, and state legal research. LexisNexis also includes general medical and health topics and medical abstracts.

Lexis-
Nexis

Library Info. Science & Tech. Abstracts Information Science

1965-

LISTA's subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more.

EBSCO

Literature Online Reference Edition Literature

Varies

Literature Online is a library of literary criticism and reference, biography and bibliography. Includes 128 full-text literary journals and 6,500 essays from literary reference and textbooks covering: literary movements, world fiction, poetry, biographies of contemporary and canonical authors, and bibliographic information. Usage Info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

Pro-
quest

Literature Resource Center - LRC Literature

Varies

Offers biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers - with in-depth coverage of 2500 of the most-studied authors.

Gale

M
Mas Ultra - School Edition Education

1980-

Useful for Education students and designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text of 500 popular, high school magazines. 

 EBSCO

Mergent Online Business

1993- 

Mergent Online is a suite of global business and financial information products. It includes U.S. Company Data covering 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings; International Company Data; U.S. Annual Reports with current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U. S. public companies; and International Annual Reports. Usage info.: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.

Mergent

Military & Government Collection Military & Government

1990-

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

EBSCO

Military & Intelligence Database Military & Government

Varies

Offers over 10 million articles (80% full-text) from more than 500 titles and basic reference materials. The content in this database is also part of Academic One File. 

Gale

MLA International Bibliography Humanities

1926-

Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, it contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage includes almost 60 titles from JSTOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

 EBSCO

Morningstar Library Edition Business

Varies

Use this database to conduct company research, select mutual funds, or evaluate possible investment options. Provides access to a number of research tools: Stock/Mutual Fund Screener, Stock/Mutual Fund Reports (including analyst reports), and the Portfolio X-ray. Usage info.: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

 Morn-
ingstar

N
National Newspaper Index News

1977-

National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

Gale

NetLibrary General
 E-Books
NetLibrary offers more than 56,000 e-Book titles in all subject areas. Includes scholarly reference and professional works from leading university, academic, and professional publishers.

OCLC

Newsbank: Tennessee Newspaper Collection News

Varies

Offers full-text of the following Tennessee newspapers: Chattanooga Times-Free Press (12/14/2006 - Current), The Commercial Appeal (6/27/1990 - Current), Knoxville News Sentinel (1991 - Current), and The Tennessean (1/1/1999 - Current). 

 News-
bank

O
Oxford Art Online Art

Varies

This gateway to Grove Art Online contains the The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Includes new and updated articles, 3,000+ thumbnail art images and line drawings, and extensive image links.

Oxford

Oxford English Dictionary
(OED)
Quick Reference   The Oxford English Dictionary is the definitive historical dictionary of the English language and includes English language words from the earliest records of written language to the present day. Entries include over 2 million dated quotations from English language, history, literature, and records and facts concerning word forms, changes, and etymology.

Oxford

Oxford Reference Online Quick Reference   Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection provides the full text of over 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Includes general reference sources on language, science and medicine, humanities, Social Sciences. and business and professional topics. Usage info.: Licensed for 1 concurrent user.

Oxford

P
Philosopher's Index Philosophy

1940 -

Philosopher's Index is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Philosopher’s Index, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. Usage Info: Licensed for 1 concurrent user.  EBSCO
Primary Search Education

1990-

Offers full text from 50 children’s magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children’s reading rooms. Also contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 80 magazines.

EBSCO

Professional Collection Education

1990-

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, arts and humanities, social sciences, and psychology.

Gale

PsycARTICLES Psychology

1894-

PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), offers full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles. Contains over 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations.

EBSCO

PsycINFO Psychology

1887-

PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. 97% of this material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in over 25 languages.

 EBSCO

PubMed Health & Medicine

1950-

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

WWW

R
Business

Varies

Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Database is updated on a daily basis.

EBSCO

Religion & Philosophy Database Religion & Philosophy   Custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion and philosophy and the related areas of archaeology and anthropology. The content in this database is in Academic Onefile.

Gale

S
ScienceDirect Sciences

Varies

Free access to abstracts and tables of contents of Elsevier science journals. ScienceDirect is the largest electronic collection of science technology and medicine information in the world. Note: See librarian for assistance in obtaining full-text articles through interlibrary loan or pay-per-view purchase of articles.

WWW

Science Database Sciences
Varies
Provides a point of access to journal and magazine articles on the sciences.
Gale
Quick Reference

Directory

Up-to-date bibliographic information and current pricing structures for popular serials.

EBSCO

Southern Life General
Varies
Provides a point of access to journal and magazine articles about life in the South--people, places, historical events.
Gale
T
TEL Databases General

Varies

The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) offers a wide selection of Gale InfoTrac databases for all libraries serving the citizens of the state of Tennessee.

Gale

TEL Junior Edition Education

1999-

Useful for Education students, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school.

Gale

TEL Student Edition Education

1999-

Useful for Education students, this periodical database is designed for high-school students.

Gale

W
What Do I Read Next? Literature

Varies

Features over 80,000 recommended titles, plus thousands of award winners and best sellers. Includes contemporary mainstream fiction, classic fiction, and popular nonfiction.

Gale

Sciences

Varies

Wiley InterScience is an online journal service from John Wiley and Sons. CBU users have full-text electronic access to 219 journal titles through a partnership with TENN-SHARE. View the title list (Excel file). Wiley InterScience offers a registration option for users who want to save articles for later use.

Wiley