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General Research
Click the headings below to browse our many general databases. Each of these resources covers a broad range of topics.
Gale Academic Onefile (TEL)
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Digital Public Library of America
Makes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.
Gale in Context: High School (TEL)
Provides grades 9-12 with standards-aligned content to help with papers, projects, and presentations, while empowering critical thinking and information literacy skills.
Gale eBooks
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multi-disciplinary research.
Gale General Onefile (TEL)
Provides millions of articles from thousands of magazines, journals, newspapers, and other authoritative sources. With intuitive search features, and extensive coverage across wide-ranging topics, you'll find accurate information and articles to support your interests. Click here to view a video tutorial.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints (TEL)
Database designed to support science, social studies, current events, and language arts presents each side of important issues and empowers learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills.
Worldbook eBook (TEL)
Includes highly illustrated, engaging titles that support a span of curriculum areas and reading levels.
World Book Advanced (TEL)
An online encyclopedia perfect for high school students and adults. Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links, Back in Time articles, special reports and more.
World Book Discover (TEL)
Provides reference resources for students reading below grade level with content and tools specifically developed for these students. Also ideal for reluctant readers, ELL, ESL, and adult literacy students with content tailored for ease of comprehension and vocabulary building..
World Book Encyclopedia Resources (TEL)
Want to browse all of the Library's World Book resources? Visit this page to easily navigate between them all.
World Book Timelines (TEL)
Allows students to discover and map important events in society and culture. Users can browse hundreds of ready-made, interactive timelines covering various periods in history or create their own timeline on any subject.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico
Busque en el texto completo de revistas académicas y revistas de interés general en español y portugués, publicadas en América Latina o sobre temas relacionados con América Latina. (Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.)
World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos (TEL)
Dicciionario visual, mundo de animales, actividades y otras. La herramienta de referencia ideal en español para quienes están aprendiendo el idioma y para estudiantes de inglés como segunda lengua (ELL). Las funciones de exploración ofrecen apoyos visuales, y las funciones bilingües permiten a los estudiantes alternar entre textos en español e inglés. El sitio incluye artículos concisos, videos, mapas, actividades y mucho más. (The ideal Spanish-language reference tool for those learning Spanish and ELL students. Browse features provide visual prompts, and bilingual features allow students to toggle between Spanish and English text. The site includes concise articles, videos, maps and activities more.)
Subject-Specific Research
Click the headings below to browse our many subject-specific databases. These resources can help you stay focused in your search for information.
Many of these resources are from Gale, a database company. To search all of the Gale databases at once, try Gale Power Search (TEL).
Gale Onefile: Agriculture (TEL)
Provides a comprehensive view of current and authoritative periodical content that spans the agriculture industry -- from practical aspects of farming to scientific research in horticulture.
Gale Onefile: Gardening and Horticulture (TEL)
Serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with more than 3.6 million articles from more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles.
Gale Onefile: Contemporary Women's Issues (TEL)
Offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. Users will find timely and historically relevant content on topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.
Gale Onefile: Diversity Studies (TEL)
A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes more than 150 journals.
Gale Onefile: Fine Arts
Periodical database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmaking.
Gale Onefile: Gender Studies (TEL)
Balanced coverage of topics such as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, any many more.
Gale Onefile: Pop Culture Studies (TEL)
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.
Gale Onefile: Religion and Philosophy (TEL)
Provide access to a comprehensive collection of periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.
Gale Onefile: Educator's Reference Complete
Provides periodical and journal articles on multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty-such as technology, bilingual education, health education, testing, administration and more.
ERIC (Institution of Education Sciences)
ERIC is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information. It is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education.
Gale Onefile: Information Science (TEL)
Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology. Updated daily.
Gale Onefile: Leadership and Management (TEL)
Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more.
LISTA: Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
A free research database for library and information science studies. LISTA provides indexing and abstracting for hundreds of key journals, books, research reports.
Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO)
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 200 peer-reviewed journals. Topics covered include Best Practices, Curriculum Development, Literacy Standards, Pedagogical Research, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Science & Mathematics, School Administration, and more.
Tennessee State Library & Archives: Education Outreach
Bring Tennessee history alive in the classroom! The Tennessee State Library and Archives is a great resource for educators and students seeking primary sources for use in the classroom. With extensive holdings in Tennessee, Southern, and regional history, the Library & Archives is also the official repository for the permanent records of the State of Tennessee.
Gale Onefile: Environmental Studies and Policy (TEL)
Addresses environmental concerns and research with coverage from more than 300 journals and book reference content.
Gale in Context: Environmental Studies (TEL)
Focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. Topics include ecosystems, global warming, food safety, and introductions to environmental disasters.
Greenfile (EBSCO)
GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Coronavirus Research Database (Proquest)
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.
Gale Onefile: Health and Medicine (TEL)
Discover periodicals and reference book content designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers.
Medline Plus
MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Gale Onefile: Nursing and Allied Health (TEL)
Provide access to authoritative content supporting nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students
pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Gale Onefile: Psychology (TEL)
Provide access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
Offer a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more with access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports.
Gale Onefile: U.S. History (TEL)
This collection provides well-rounded coverage of events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work being established in the field.
Gale Onefile: World History (TEL)
Provides balanced coverage of events in world history with relevant articles updated daily - both current thinking and established scholarly work.
Gale Books and Authors (TEL)
A reader's advisory database that makes finding a great read much less challenging. With fun ways to browse, an intuitive design, read-alikes, reviews, award winners and themed book lists, and more this resource answers the age-old question, "What do I read next?"
Gale Literature: LitFinder (TEL)
Provides access to literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and writers throughout history. Includes more than 150,000 full-text literary works and over 800,000 poetry citations as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Gale Literary Index (TEL)
A master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for titles of works into one source.
Gale Onefile: Popular Magazines (TEL)
Provide access to the most searched magazines focusing on current events, sports, science and health issues.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose among free ePub and Kindle books. Download them or read them online.
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Writing resources and instructional material provided as a free service of the Writing Lab of Purdue. Excellent research and citation guides.
Gale Onefile: Military and Intelligence (TEL)
A selection of titles specific to past and present military and intelligence themes.
Gale Onefile: War and Terrorism (TEL)
Library resource that provides authoritative periodical content addressing both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
Gale Onefile: Science (TEL)
Remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas.
