Thomas J. Garland Library
Research Databases
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Consult Research Databases by Subject for links to databases by subject area.
To locate a particular magazine or journal in the library collection use the Periodical Search. For assistance in using this resource click here for instructions
For online assistance in learning how to search these databases and also in searching the world wide web, click consult the online TUTORIALS.
For links to thousands of additional full text e-books, e-journals, e-zines and reports consult the Electronic Journals and Texts webpage found in the Library Links.
Alexander Street Press History Databases Access to primary source documents in American History including American Civil War: Letters & Diaries, Early Encounters in North America and North American Women's Letters & Diaries. For more information on each of these databases click on the above link.
ARTstor Access to approximately 300,000 visual images in digital format and the corresponding data. ARTstor documents artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures and is focused primarily on the arts. ARTstor is also a great resource for students, faculty and researchers in other fields. Most of the collection has been derived through collaborations with libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries and individual scholars. Sources include: The Image Gallery, The Carnegie Arts of the United States, The Huntington Archive of Asian Art, The Illustrated Bartsch, The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, and The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection. Proprietary software tools are available on ARTstor to enable users to view and analyze images through features such as panning and zooming and to save images for use in lectures and presentations. A Quick Search Guide is available for students and faculty via the Instructional Handouts.
ANNUAL REVIEWS
"Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and
scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 32 scientific
disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of
primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your
field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in
the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by
authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are
among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute
for Scientific Information® (ISI)." The Library at Tusculum
College subscribes to the following annual reviews available in paper in the
library circulating collection as well as online through the Research Databases.
Annual Review of Psychology Full-text scholarly articles from the field of psychology from 1996-2007. Indexed and abstracted 1960-1995.
CQ RESEARCHER
CQ Researcher This award-winning database explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Numerous charts and graphs are included in each objective and balanced report written by an experienced journalist and includes all sides of an issue.
CREDO Reference What used to be only available in the Reference Section of the library is now available online through this database. Over 350 Reference titles from the most reliable reference information publishers are available at your fingertips. Need to know how to pronounce a word or phrase? Check out the dictionaries with audio pronunciation. Need a visual aid of the Human Digestive system? Check out the anatomical maps available from the Illustrated Dictionary of Science. Need an historical map of the Nile River valley in Egypt. Check out the Concise Atlas of World History. This is just a sample of the wealth of credible, accurate, reliable, information you can find quicker than scanning through millions of questionable hits via a search engine like Google or on Wikipedia.
EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS
Series I. Evans
Early American Imprints "Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images. " A wealth of primary source material.
EBSCO provides several databases through EBSCOhost, via the ACA.
Business Source Elite provides full-text for nearly 1,125 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and more.
PsycARTICLES contains more than 39,000 full-text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage 1985-present.
PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), "contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages."
CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing and abstracting for over2,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 1 million records. 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 searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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.
Points of View Ebsco describes this databases as " designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. High school and undergraduate students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publication."
SPORTDiscus with Full Text "is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 490 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature."
NetLibrary Once you access the NetLibrary page, you may search for and preview over 70,000 titles employing the provided search tool. For assistance in setting up a personal account to take advantage of the special features of this database, e-mail Anne Reever Osborne. Be certain to provide your class number.
Ebrary an online library of over 30,000 full text full image books from all academic disciplines. In order to access ebrary from off campus, please use the off campus link to the research databases. Please contact Anne Reever Osborne or Mary Halliburton for assistance in using the ebrary reader which requires installation of a free Java 6 application.
Springer Behavioral Sciences Ebooks Approximately 70 book titles related to Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences. To view and read those available at Tusculum choose titles that have a green box next to them.
Greenwood e-Books Over 3,000 full text, full image book titles from an outstanding academic book publisher available for searching and downloading. Access available from off campus through the off campus research databases link. Titles include all areas of the liberal arts.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
Encyclopedia Britannica. The world's first commercial on-line encyclopedia is available to members of the Tusculum College Community.
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resources Information Center, is accessible via the World Wide Web. Beginning October 2004, ERIC will include FREE full text documents previously available on the subscription service EDRS.
ERIC MICROFORMS: For those seeking documents prior to 1996, microfiche collections of the actual ERIC documents are available, in Tennessee, at Tusculum College(use the online request form to request a specific ERIC document), as well as Austin Peay State University, Belmont University, Carson Newman College, ETSU, Freed-Hardeman University, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, MTSU, Milligan College, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Tennessee State, Trevecca Nazarene University, Union University, University of Memphis, and the UT campuses at Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Martin.
GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE COLLECTIONS
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, 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 e-Book collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). Tusculum College Library has to two different collections:
Gale Virtual Reference I available through TEL contains the
following reference books that are fully searchable and printable:
Encyclopedia of Small Business 2nd ed., 2002,
Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America 2000;
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History 1999 ;
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture 2000;
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine 2nd ed., 2005;
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2002;
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2002;
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed., 2002;
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America 2nd ed. 2000;
Biology 2002;
World of Earth Science 2003.
Gale Virtual Reference II purchased by Tusculum College and the ACA with most available in the Library's Print Reference Collection, these have been made available electronically due to high demand and are fully searchable and printable:
GREENWOOD ELECTRONIC BOOKS
Greenwood e-Books Over 3,000 full text, full image book titles available for searching and downloading. Also, see Ebrary and netLibrary.
Oxford Art Online formerly Grove Art Online provides online access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with constant additions of new material and updates, plus extensive image links and search capabilities.
Oxford Music Online formerly known as Grove Music Online, is an integrated online music resource that includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. This newly revamped database also includes links to other Oxford reference resources, links to the RILM database of Music Bibliography and external audio links and other learning resources.
HERITAGE QUEST
ProQuest's HeritageQuest Online contains over 40,000 digitized genealogy and family history resources, federal census records, Revolutionary War pension application files, and more.
INFOTRAC
Infotrac I is our gateway to the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL), a collection of full-text databases from the GaleGroup. Here you will find not only the Expanded Academic Index ASAP database to which TC previously subscribed, but several other useful collections as well. These include Infotrac Onefile, Business and Company ASAP, the National Newspaper Index, Health Reference Center-Academic, General Reference Center Gold, Informe (Revistas en Espanol), and the Kid's, Junior, and Student versions of Infotrac. Also, several subject collections are listed including: Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select, Professional Collection, Computer Resources, General Business File ASAP and International, and Health and Wellness Resource Center Literature Resource Center and Custom Newspapers.
Please
be advised that Infotrac I is also available at Tennessee Public Libraries,
where it may also be employed for free. You may quickly determine the hours
of operation and address of your public library through the
Directory
of Tennessee Public Libraries.
Infotrac II continues our subscription to the Business and Company Resource Center, which also comprises data from the former General Business File ASAP and Gale Business Resources Integrated (data on 448,000 U.S. and international companies). A nice introduction to that business resource can be found here. Also located here is the LegalTrac database. Also included are Gale databases that are designed to supplement the TEL and include Biography Resource Center: The Complete Marquis Who's Who; Health and Wellness Resource Center; and LiteratureResource Center, which covers more than 90,000 writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors History Resource Center, and, What Do I Read Next, a one-stop source of expert recommendations concerning mainstream or genre fiction and nonfiction book titles in all disciplines.
JSTOR
JSTOR,
"Journal Storage," comes to TC as the result of a grant from the
Appalachian College Association. This database allows users to examine
full-text scholarly journal titles in the areas of Economics, Mathematics,
Demography, Philosophy, Finance, Political Science, History, Sociology,
Ecology, Higher Education, and Asian Studies. Please note that;
each journal has a "rolling-wall" of currency, so be sure to check the
journals list to see dates covered. JSTOR is
currently available on the TC Network at Tate Library in Greeneville and at the
Knoxville Center.
Searching
JSTOR tutorial can answer all your questions on this tool.
Learning Express Library offers practice tests and tutorial courses series including Graduate Record Exam (GRE) practice tests, math tutorials, GMAT practice tests and PRAXIS tests in all education subjects.
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe is well known for its emphasis on business, law, and medicine and provides all manner of information from full-text periodical articles to text of cases involving local and regional courts. Also contains full text of newspaper and newswire articles.
Newsbank's Tennessee Newspaper Collection includes access to full text
Tennessee newspapers including the Chattanooga Times and Knoxville
News Sentinel and articles from national and world newswire services.
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Polling the Nation self described as the "Ultimate Survey Database", provides a compilation of data of "more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time." Sample polling organizations include Harris International and The Pew Center. Also included is the companion database Student Views which provides students the opportunity to participate in the polling process with faculty direction and supervision in conjunction with courses. For more information click on the link provided in the Student Views homepage.
Proquest/Hoover's provides full-text databases for those engaged in the study of Business, Education, Management, Economics, Banking, Accounting, Finance, and related topics. Like Infotrac and EBSCO, these are all found on a single clickable list.
First among those included is ABI/Inform Global, which has been a premier source of business information for over 30 years and which provides full-text & full image information from thousands of periodicals and other sources. The noted Hoover's Company Records are accessed via this database through a system known as "IntelliDocs." What that simply means is that once you have retrieved a full-text article, it will identify and hyperlink all mentioned company names; then, when you click on a company link, the Hoover's entry for that company is opened in a new window. You also may search Hoover's independently.
Proquest Education Journals offers complete information on hundreds of educational topics, drawing full-text articles from over700 leading journals for the period since 1988.
Access from any off campus site requires a username and password.
Self-help training for the Proquest and Hoover's databases
CREDO Reference What used to be only available in the Reference Section of the library is now available online through this database. Over 350 Reference titles from the most reliable reference information publishers are available at your fingertips. Need to know how to pronounce a word or phrase? Check out the dictionaries with audio pronunciation. Need a visual aid of the Human Digestive system? Check out the anatomical maps available from the Illustrated Dictionary of Science. Need an historical map of the Nile River valley in Egypt. Check out the Concise Atlas of World History. This is just a sample of the wealth of credible, accurate, reliable, information you can find quicker than scanning through millions of questionable hits via a search engine like Google or on Wikipedia.
NetLibrary Reference Center Search and browse electronic reference resources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, thesauri and more extracted from the Netlibrary Electronic Book Collections of Tusculum College.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (TEL) and Gale Virtual Reference Library II are collections of online reference works both general and specialized 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 e-Book collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries. Reference titles
STANDARD AND POOR'S NETADVANTAGE
Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage provides access to a broad range of business information including up to date financial information, credit ratings, analytical services, and industry surveys on financial markets from around the world. It is an independent analyst of forecasts and trends in the business world. A ready source for statistical economic information, it provides guidance in analyzing the environment of industries worldwide. It provides analysis and statistical information on 60,000 companies trading in the US markets. Provides contact information for over 100,000 public and private US and multinational companies and much more.
The Statesman's Yearbook is an excellent and current resource for country information from around the world. It is a current and reliable source of political, economic and social information.
Value Line Investment Survey is described on the website as "a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy." It provides weekly updated reports including financial and stock price forecasts, market forecasts, and current statistics to assist the investor. It is also available in paper format in the Tate Library Reference Section.
Wiley Interscience E-books(On campus access only) current electronic books of interest to students and faculty in psychology, biological, environmental, and physical sciences and mathematics.
NON FULL TEXT DATABASES
INGENTA
Tusculum GPS Master's Papers a list of recent Tusculum College GPS Master's Research papers available for browsing at the TC Greeneville or off campus sites.
The dissertation source
UMI/Proquest Digital Dissertations,
is an excellent source to review the first 24 pages of UMI dissertations published
after 1996. You have the option of purchasing the entire
dissertation in paper or digital form. Also, the University of Virginia
has a directory and short abstracts of
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
(ETDs) in the Humanities that are currently in progress or have been
recently completed.
The Networked
Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is another source that has
digital theses and dissertations available for purchase. All are excellent substitutes for Dissertation Abstracts which is
available at larger universities such as ETSU or UT.
Other sites for dissertations/masters papers include the most extensive of these retail outlets,
Dissertations.Com, which sells downloadable electronic copies.
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FindArticles at BNET This free index to full-text magazines which appear on the web (including a few not covered by the subscription databases noted above), is, surprisingly, overlooked on the recommended websites of most libraries . Not to be taken lightly, it is recommended.
Google Scholar The popular search engine's new progeny provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Take heed that much may not be available for free in full text.
PLoS: Public Library of Science Open access resource to journals in biology and medicine.
Open Vault Recommended by DeAnne Luck Tennshare Database Coordinator this database provides "access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for purchase, and resource management tools. Subjects include Science & Technology, the Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, and Social Sciences (Political Science, Women’s Studies, Sociology, and Criminal Justice, among others)."
Research Channel Gateway to programs of a television channel distributed to satellite and cable television by a consortium of higher education institutions. Contains a video library of programs under a variety of disciplines that can be downloaded and viewed free at any time. A wonderful class preparation and teaching resources that can be used in the classroom with appropriate technology and linked within Course Management Systems as online learning resources.
GOVERNMENT DATABASES
USA.gov (formerly known as FirstGov) is described on its website as: "... the official U.S. gateway to all government information, ... the catalyst for a growing electronicgovernment." All government departments, branches and agencies that have a web presence are accessible through this website.
NLM Gateway provided by the National Library of Medicine allows searching of MEDLINE, PubMed and other health databases seamlessly. Catalog information for books, serial titles, and audiovisuals, consumer health information, directory of health organizations, and various meeting abstracts are examples of what is available through this point of access.
AGRICOLA AGRICultural OnLine Access) created by the National Agriculture Library and its cooperators maintains a database of citations in agricultural literature from 1970 to the present. Topics covered in its indexes include "animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences."
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