Online Databases
These databases are accessible within the library as well as home. To access these databases from home, you will need to have a library card. Some of these databases are provided as part of the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL). To access them remotely you will need to use "elvis" as your password.Automotive
| Auto Repair Reference Center | This database contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954; over 10,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs; over 65,000 technical service bulletins and recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications and maintenance schedules; Labor Time & Estimator; Quick Tips, a complete guide to vehicle ownership and maintenance with unlimited remote access. |
Business
| Business Source Premier | Contains more than 2,340 full text magazines and journals covering every area of business. Additional sources include over 1,400 country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, CountryWatch, etc; 10,000 substantial company profiles; 3,148 industry reports; and 528 market research reports. |
| General Business File ASAP | Provides full text articles from 2,424 business and management journals, trade/industry publications, and national business magazines, plus indexing for 700 more. Also includes Company Profiles. Formerly Business & Company ASAP. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Regional Business News | This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
Computers
| Computer Database | Use this database to find computer related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
Education
| ERIC | ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information, citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. |
| Professional Collection | Full text articles for school faculty and administrators. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Professional Development Collection | This is a comprehensive collection of more than 550 full text education journals. The database also includes more than 200 educational reports. |
En Español
| Informe (la biblioteca electronica de Tennessee) | Una coleccion de revistas hispanicas con textos completes. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnologia, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
Genealogy
| Ancestry Library Edition (Inside Library only, remote access not allowed) | Search for information using a variety of online records including U.S. Census data, birth, marriage and death records, and the United Kingdom Census Collection. |
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The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents. In addition to hosting millions of records, Footnote supports a community of people that are passionate about a variety of topics relating to history. Research U.S. Census records (1790-1930), books and history articles, Revolutionary War records, Freedman’s Bank records (1865-1874), and more. |
| HeritageQuest Online (Remote Access) | Use your library card number as your login password. |
General Reference
| Expanded Academic ASAP | A good source for college and high school research papers. Subject coverage includes humanities, social sciences, general sciences, and current events from 1980 to the present. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| General Reference Center Gold | Search over 8 million journal articles by subject or keyword. This is a single point of access to full text periodicals, journals, reference books, investment reports, dictionaries, newsletters, pamphlets and maps. Includes 3,207 full text journals. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Infotrac OneFile | Search this index of 9,309 scholarly, trade, and general interest periodicals. Includes indexing of magazine titles from 1980 to the present with 5,163 full-text titles. Infotrac OneFile includes all the periodical titles in the Tennessee Electronic Library databases. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| MasterFILE Premier | Contains full text for nearly 2,030 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues. This database also contains full text for more than 360 reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents and an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. |
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The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.
Search abstracts of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Newspaper Source | This database provides select full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. Also included in this database are selected full texts for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. |
| TOPICsearch | This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. Included in this database are over 78,000 articles from 3,000 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets and government information. |
Health and Wellness
| Health and Reference Center Academic | Provides consumer health information from medical journals, consumer health magazines, health pamphlets, and medical reference books. Contains many articles in full text on medicine, nutrition, diseases, fitness, pregnancy, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, health insurance, prescription drugs, etc. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Health and Reference Center Academic | Full text articles on health issues from reference books and periodicals. A good resource of consumer information on alternative medicine and nutrition. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Health and Wellness Resource Center | This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source-Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
| Health Source - Consumer Edition | This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source-Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
History
| History Reference Center | The database features cover-to-cover full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, including award-winning titles from many top publishers. Also included are full text articles for 60 leading history periodicals. Further, the database contains 58,000 historical documents: 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video. |
| World History Collection | The database features cover-to-cover full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, including award-winning titles from many top publishers. Also included are full text articles for 60 leading history periodicals. Further, the database contains 58,000 historical documents: 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video. |
Literature
| Columbia Granger's Poetry Database | There are over 400,000 poem citations and more than 50,000 poems in full text (with thousands more added with each update). Also included is bibliographic information for 1,800 anthologies. Supplemental information includes over 1,100 commentaries and biographies. A glossary is also provided, giving users detailed definitions for almost 200 poetry specific terms. |
| Literature Resource Center | The LRC provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Groups core literary databases in a single online service, the LRC covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most studied authors. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| MagillOnLiterature Plus | This database is composed of approximately 35,000 critical analyses of individual works of literature, 6,500 biographical records, more than 1,000 Images and a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. Also included are editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot summaries, extended character profiles and detailed setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 authors. |
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NoveList is an online reader’s advisory service that helps readers find fiction books using books they have read and topics that interest them as criteria for locating new selections. Currently, the database contains over 125,000 fiction titles for all ages, which can be searched using 36,000 subject headings. Readers can search the books by title, author, or simply describing a book they would like to read. Novelist Plus is a readers' advisory resource for nonfiction and is an upgrade to the enormously popular fiction NoveList product Augmenting the fiction with nonfiction reading material provides patrons with a complete solution from which to answer the ubiquitous question of what to read next. |
| Scribner Writer's Series | Scribner Writers Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Twayne Author's Series | Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| What do I read next | Find reading recommendations based on favorite titles or topics. Find books in a series or by genre. Includes author biographies, awards and bestseller lists for all ages. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
Military
| Military and Intelligence Database | Selection of titles from Infotrac OneFile specific to military and intelligence themes. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
Science
| EBSCO Animals | This provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. EBSCO Animals consists of indexes, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. |
| General Science Collection | This database provides information on all aspects of the scientific world with full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications. Subject areas include the observation, description, identification, and experimental investigation of phenomena and the application of science to industrial or commercial objectives. This multi-volume encyclopedia covers 500 scientific milestones of the twentieth century, ranging from the identification of neuron cells, to the first blueprint of the human genome. Users will find an in-depth biography, complete with information about the people involved, background on the achievement and the science involved therein, and a description of the subsequent impact on modern life. |
Social Studies
| Infotrac Religion & Philosophy Custom Database | Selection of titles from Infotrac OneFile specific to religious and philosophic themes. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Points of View Reference Center | Includes eight encyclopedias that each include thousands of articles, thousands of related periodical articles, and hundreds of Images. |
Students (K-12)
| Infotrac Junior Edition | This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Infotrac Student Edition | This periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| Kid's InfoBits | Meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through grade 6. It features newspaper and magazine articles. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
| MAS Ultra (School Edition) | This comprehensive database contains full text for more than 550 popular, high school magazines, many assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 84,074 biographies and 86,135 primary source documents. Mas Ultra has 518 pamphlets, nearly 350 reference books, an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles for key magazines. Our States reference book series offers 54 titles on each of the states, commonwealths and territories in the U.S. This database is updated daily. |
| Middle Search Plus | This database contains full text for more than 160 popular middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is available for biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk &Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary. |
| NoveList K-8 | This database contains enhanced subject access for over 46,000 fiction titles aimed at the K-* population. Full text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many titles. Also provided in this database are book-talks for selected young-adult and children’s titles. NoveList K-8 allows readers to search the books by title, author, or simply describing a book they would like to read. Searches can also be geared to a users reading ability, thereby assuring reading experiences that challenge but do not frustrate emerging readers. |
| Searchasaurus (Primary Search) | This database contains full text for more than 60 popular elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. This database is accessed via Searchasaurus. Searchasaurus is a unique search experience designed specifically for elementary to middle school age users. Primary Search is updated daily. |
| Testing & Education Reference Center | This database helps users prepare for higher education and the work world. Need to practice for a specialized test for college, graduate school, the military or trade school. Want to learn more about colleges and universities that interest you. Need help writing your admissions application essay or resume. This database can help you prepare for all of these things. This is a TEL database. Please use "elvis" as your password when connecting remotely. |
Also Available
The American Heritage Dictionary is available from some EBSCO databases. Click on the dictionary button to access it.
Both TEL and EBSCO allow you to search multiple databases at once.
