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Electronic Databases

Locate full text journal and magazine articles using one of the databases below. The Southwest username and password is required for remote access.

Access Science   (Tutorial)   
Provides full search capabilities of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology to give you relevant, current, and practical information.

Accounting Research Manager
A comprehensive online database of expert-written analytical accounting, auditing, governmental and SEC information as well as primary source data. It is updated five times daily.

AccuNet AP Photo Archive   (Tutorial)      
An electronic library containing the current photos of the Associated Press and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.

African American History & Culture  (Tutorial)
Many of the Facts on File print titles have been combined with an extensive array of multimedia content to form this incredible source. The collection covers the breadth of African American history.

AGent Solution Finder
AGent federated searching provides a single login to simultaneously search several online databases and other resources.

Alt-PressWatch   (Tutorial)   
Full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

American Indian History & Culture
Covers in-depth coverage of more than 5,000 years of culture, legends and leaders for more than 500 Native American Groups.

American Women's History
Database of biographies, historical topics, speeches, maps, primary sources and photographs that are essential to understanding the experience of women throughout our nations' history.

Ancient and Medieval History Online
Provides a global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient civilizations: Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia.

Associations Unlimited   (Tutorial)
Contains information for more than 100,000 U.S. regional, state, and local nonprofit membership associations in all fields.

Automotive Repair Reference Center
Contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954.

Biographies Illustrated Plus   (Tutorial)
Wilson biographies offers the quality of Wilson editorial standards, comprehensive coverage of over 38,000 figures from antiquity to the present, plus searchability by name, profession, place of origin, gender, etc.

Biography Resource Center    (Tutorial)    
Here's in-depth coverage of current and historic people from almost every field of endeavor. You can search by name, subject, nationality, place or time period to access 142,000 biographies, 1,500 full text articles, 7000 portraits and more.

Britannica Online   (Tutorial)
The Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768.  EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.  

Business Full Text 
Coverage includes leading business magazines and trade and research journals plus the full text of selected periodicals: Accounting, Banking, Computers, Economics, Real Estate, etc.

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Career Guidance On-line  (Tutorial)
Database provides an in-depth look at salary ranges, advancement prospects, employment trends, online information, necessary experience, relevant unions and associations.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Academe's number one news resource.

CINAHL        (Tutorial)
The authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 961,000 records.

Classical Music Library
This is the largest multi label database of recording for listening and learning in libraries.

Clinical Pharmacology        (Tutorial)
Provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

Commercial Appeal   (Tutorial)
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for over 40,000 articles covering all aspects of journalism and communication studies.

Discovering Collection (Tutorial)
A comprehensive, cross-curricular reference source combining thousand of biographies, topical overviews, critical analyses, plot summaries and media elements into a single easy-to-use database.

EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service
Gateway to e-journals containing millions of articles from different publishers at one web site.

Education Full Text
Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words. Full text coverage began in 1996: Adult Education. Comparative Education, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, etc.

Encyclopedia Americana  (Tutorial)
45,000 lengthy articles, with tables of contents for longer articles; over 1,700 statistical tables; fact boxes and 3,000 images; 984 maps and 275 flags, all printable and in full color.

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Covering from the rise of Descartes' disciplines in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815.

Encyclopedia of Evolution
A comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology. Topics include: Darwin, natural selection, human origins, behavioral ecology....

Encyclopedia of Global Change
300 authoritative articles investigate all types of phenomena that change life on Earth.

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Explores art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history from the 5th to 15th century.

ERIC     Tutorial
Provides exhaustive coverage of educational journals and documents; delivering full-text information current with the latest concepts, methodologies, and findings.

Ethnic NewsWatch: A History  (Tutorial)
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. Linking the current database (1990-present) with a retrospective back file of titles (1960-1989).

Facts on File  (Tutorial)        
Search for information on the last two decades of current events, key statistics, opinions on controversial topics, developments in science, even the morning news.

FindLaw Constitutional Law Center    Tutorial
Designed with students and the general public in mind, the FindLaw Constitutional Law Center features an easy-to-read guide that leads visitors through historical documents, biographies, and Supreme Court decisions. Users can browse through the Federalist Papers, read the Constitution, or research the lives of the Founding Fathers or past and present Supreme Court Justices.

Forms on File
Contains reproducible forms and checklists for a wide range of personal, business and government forms.

GenderWatch  (Tutorial)
One hundred twenty-five international publications plus reports, pamphlets, papers and conference proceedings devoted to women and gender issues. Archival materials dating back to mid 1970’s.

General Sciences Full Text
Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals: Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Microbiology, etc.

Health and Wellness Resource  (Tutorial)
Use this database to research topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. This database is updated on a daily basis.

History Resource Center    (Tutorial)
The world's most comprehensive history database for today's libraries. This database offers full text for more than 50 leading history periodicals; 400 full text reference books and encyclopedias and over 60, 000 biographies.

Hoovers Business On-line   (Tutorial)
More than 13,500 company capsules (brief company descriptions and financials); more than 3,500 company profiles (company histories, strategies, major events and other information).

Humanities & Social Sciences Index   (Tutorial)
A bibliographic database covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. Dates coverage includes 1907 - 1984.

Humanities Full Text
Periodical coverage includes some of the best known scholarly journals: Archaeology, Art, Classical Studies, Communication, etc.

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International Encyclopedia of Dance
Covers the full spectrum of dance-theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic and social dance.

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Includes topics in linguistics, including such area as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical and sociolinguistics.

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences    (Tutorial)
The largest reference work ever published for the social and behavioral science to appear in print and electronic format.

JSTOR   (Tutorial)
Provides access to back files of scholarly journals in two major area: Economics and History

Learning Express   (Tutorial)
Offers online course series in language arts, math skills and standardized test preparation; more than 200 online practice exams and quizzes.

Legal Trac     (Tutorial)   
Find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European Union and International Law.

Library Literature & Information Science
Articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information sciences periodicals: Automation, Cataloging, Censorship; Information Brokers, etc.

LISTA ( Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)
Coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals.

Literature Resource Center   (Tutorial)
Simultaneously search three of the Gale Group's acclaimed literary databases for biographical, bibliographical and critical analyses of more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers-your results will be ranked by relevance and may include links to Web sites and other special collections.

Modern World History
Covers important civilizations and cultures of the world from prehistoric times through the modern era.

National Information Standards Organization  Tutorial
All NISO standards and technical reports are now available for free in downloadable PDF files from the NISO website.

Newsbank   (Tutorial)

• Newsbank Academic Library Collection (1992-Current).
  U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcasts, and magazines; science digests based on over 350 science and health journals from 1986 forward.
• Newsbank Newsfile (1991-Current).
  Full text news resource containing coverage of current issues and events from 500 US and Canadian newspapers, news sources and domestic and international newswires.
• Newsbank Retrospective (1970-1991).
  An information resource ideally suited for searching major issues and events throughout history. Users can access original newspaper articles covering a specific event--witnessed by people who witnessed it firsthand.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive
Provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource  (Tutorial)
Provides the content and context students need to develop and strengthen critical thinking skills that are critical to their academic success.

Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Covers 1,100 years of Byzantine history; bringing to life the important culture and empire, from the 4th century to the 15th.

Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
Provides detail on all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe.

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Provides essays on poets, playwrights, essayists and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Provides far beyond the records pf archaeology to make available what we know about the social, political, religious, cultural and artistic legacy of this civilization.

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zang covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Essays on all genres of children literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes on the traditions of children's literature throughout the world.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Contains entries on inventors, theoreticians and industry leaders, with coverage ranging from accounting and advertising to zoning and zoos.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
Covers significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare and consume food and drink.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
A to Z arrangement covers art, politics, religion, education, health and history about the fastest growing minority population in the United States.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Provides source information about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the 16th century.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
Provides up-to-date information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to latest developments in London, Paris, New York and around the Globe.

Oxford English Dictionary
Most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. Access is provided to the definitive record of the meaning, history and evolution of more than 600,000 words.

Oxford Reference
A single cross researchable resource containing over 100 dictionary language references and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

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Polk City Directory
National online directory of business and consumer.

Pre-CINAHL        (Tutorial)
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.

Professional Development Collection    (Tutorial)
This database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.

ProQuest A & P Science    (Tutorial)
Provides a comprehensive collection of more than 530 journals covering earth, life, physical, medical and applied science.

ProQuest Career & Technical Ed.   (Tutorial)
Provides web access to more periodicals than any other vo-tech database--over 330 titles, all in full text and in full image. Subjects include automobile, electronic, graphic arts, hotel management, nursing, food service and many more.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Lit.   (Tutorial)
A rich bibliographic resource, providing comprehensive abstracting and indexing for 160 periodicals indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature plus the full text coverage of 61 periodicals as far back as January 1994.
Reader's Guide Retro
A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals. Current coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982.

RIA Checkpoint
Provides primary tax documents and searching analysis for federal, state and local taxation, estate planning, pensions and benefits, international taxation and payroll taxation.

Safari Tech Books
The premier electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals.

SIRS   (Tutorial)
A general reference database consisting of 1,500 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and US Government publications. Articles are indexed from 1989 to present. Additional features include: World Almanac excerpts, Directory of Publications, Maps of the World, Today’s News and Spotlight of the Month.

Social Sciences Full Text
Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social science journals: Addiction Studies, Criminal Justice, Family Studies, Psychology, etc.

StatBank   (Tutorial)
Is a unique on-line resource offering students and researchers instant access to a wealth of statistical information covering a wide array of topics.

Taber's Medical Dictionary  (Tutorial)
Provides full text searching of over 56,000 definitions, hyperlinks to cross references, audio pronunciations and tables.

Teacher Reference Center
Indexes over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books.

TEL (TN Electronic Library)   (Tutorial)
This site provides access to nineteen databases compliments of the state: Gale Virtual Reference Library, InfoTrac OneFile, General Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, General Business File ASAP, Junior Edition, Student Edition, Health Reference Center-Academic, Computer Database, Military & Intelligence Database, Religion & Philosophy Database, Professional Collection, LegalTrac, Discovering Collection, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Health & Wellness Resource Center, Kids InfoBits, Informe, What Do I Read Next, National Newspaper Index, Junior Edition K-12, Student Edition K-12, General Business File  International

TN Encyclopedia of History and Culture  (Tutorial)
A comprehensive and definitive reference work on the Volunteer State cosponsored by the University of Tennessee Press and the Tennessee Historical Society.

Value Line
Provides timely information on stocks, mutual funds, special situations, options and convertibles.

West Law  Tutorial
This site provides access to: Cases, Statutes, Public Records, Court Dockets, Legal Periodicals, Tax, Insurance, Legal Forms. Practice-Area Treatises and Securities Resources.

Wilson OmniFile  (Tutorial)
Expand your periodicals resources with electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts and citations from thousands of sources.  The database combines full text, abstracts, and indexing from the Education Full Text; General Science Full Text; Humanities Full Text; Social Sciences Full Text; and Wilson Business Full Text

World Atlas On-line
Provides more that 1,200 clear, reproducible, full color maps and over 120 flags.

 

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