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Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Gale Academic OneFile provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in all major disciplines. Coverage from 1980's to present.
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
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CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
CountryWatch provides up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Films on Demand is a database of over 23,000 films and 240,000 film segments from producers such as BBC, TED, A&E, PBS, History Channel, NBC News, and hundreds more! Search this database for films to use in your class presentations, research projects, or to embed in online Moodle courses.
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A comprehensive list of all Gale databases provided by TEL.
General OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Gale General OneFile is a one-stop source for magazine and journal articles covering general interest topics along with reference, newspaper, and audio content. With millions of articles available, Gale General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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News (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints covers today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, and infographics that help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
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Power Search (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Gale Power Search searches multiple TEL databases to provide a comprehensive collection of popular magazines, specialized journals, newspapers, and wire services.
Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) This link opens in a new window
Virtual Reference Library (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Gale Ebooks is a collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These ebooks are available 24/7 with no checkout. Titles can be browsed, searched and downloaded anytime from any Internet-connected device. The ebooks you can access are digitally reproduced from trusted, authoritative reference works from Gale.
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World Book Advanced This link opens in a new window
Online encyclopedia that features thousands of reference articles, primary sources, and online books. It also includes up-to-the-minute access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia materials.

Online Only Journals

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Open Access Resources

Facts and Statistics

2021 Fuel Economy Guide
2020 Fuel Economy Guide Published yearly by the Dept. of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, this guide features fuel economy, annual fuel cost, and emissions information for new model year cars, SUVs, and light trucks.

Barna Group Barna Group provides spiritual influencers with credible knowledge and clear thinking, enabling them to navigate a complex and changing culture.
BBC News Country Profiles Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
CIA World Factbook The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Data.census.gov Access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau
ePodunk ePodunk provides in-depth information about more than 46,000 communities around the country, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, Pottstown to Podunk. The listings also include geocoded information about thousands of parks, museums, historic sites, colleges, schools and other places across America.
FactBites
FactCheck.org A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Gallup A definitive source for public opinion polls in the US and abroad, gathering data about citizens' views on economics, religion, ethics, politics, and society.
InfoPlease Infoplease is a free, authoritative, and respected reference for Internet users that provides a comprehensive encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary, and thesaurus. Infoplease contains facts on all subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, education, world news, and history.
Pew Research Center A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.

Statistical Resources on the Internet

US Statistical Abstract
WorldMapper Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 700 maps.

Dictionaries

Forvo The pronunciation dictionary.
Lexicool Lexicool offers a directory of "all" the online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet
NOLO Legal Dictionary Nolo's Free Dictionary Of Law Terms and Legal Definitions
OneLook

Online Archives and eBooks

Bibliomania Free online literature and study guides.
Digital Public Library of America The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Figshare
HaitiTrust Digital Library HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
Internet Archive Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 294 billion archived web pages.
ManyBooks Thousands of free ebooks, pre-formatted for reading on your computer, smartphone, iPod, or e-reading device - ePUB, Kindle, eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, RTF, Mobipocket, Newton Paperback, and zTXT ebooks ready to go!
Open Library The world's largest online repository of ebooks (over 1 million) including many classic works of literature and poetry.
Open Texts an experimental service that provides free access to digitised text collections from around the world. Think of it as a search engine for books. Every year, libraries worldwide digitise hundreds of thousands of books. Open Texts brings (some of!) those collections together, allowing you to search across a multitude of different libraries worldwide.
OSF Preprints OSF Preprints uses SHARE to aggregate search results from a variety of other preprint providers such as arXiv, biorXiv, PeerJ, CogPrints and others. Over a million preprints are indexed and can be searched by author or keywords, or filtered by subject, preprint server, and most recent contributions.
Project Gutenberg A high quality online repository of over 40,000 ebooks, searchable by subject and title.
Standard Ebooks There are plenty of sites where readers can find free electronic versions of books in the public domain, but few are as beautifully organized as this one—nor do they boast such lovely book covers. This resource cleans up typographical errors, offers a wealth of metadata for each title, and makes books available in a variety of formats.

Misc.

Bartleby.com The preeminent internet publisher of literature reference and verse providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
Bartlett’s Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.
BookFinder Find used books, rare books, textbooks, new and out-of-print books. Compare book prices, including shipping, from over 100,000 booksellers worldwide.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Google Maps
Google Scholar Google has amassed patents, scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and article abstracts in an easy-to-use platform. If the article is not available online freely, check the Journal Finder on the library website. If our library does not have a subscription to the journal, please fill out an inter-library loan form to request it from another library. Google Scholar has articles from many different disciplines.
JURN Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses.
LC Virutal Reference Shelf
Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 162 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.
Library of Congress Online Catalog Contains 17 million catalog records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources in the Library of Congress collections.
Library Spot Find the best library and reference resources at LibrarySpot.com, including top dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, quotations and much more.
Listing of Open Access Databases (LOADB)
Martindale’s The Reference Desk Business, Management, & Economics Center (Calculators, Applets, Spreadsheets, and where Applicable includes: Courses, Manuals, Handbooks, Simulations, Animations, Videos, etc.)
The Old Farmer’s Almanac Farmers Almanac, Old Farmer's Almanac long range weather forecasts, full moon dates, weather history, sun rise set times, gardening, recipes, folklore.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,165,286 theses and dissertations.
ProCon.org A 501(c)(3) nonprofit nonpartisan public charity, ProCon.org uses professional researchers and rigorous editorial standards to explore more than 80 controversial issues from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy.
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) A comprehensive guide to writing various types of academic papers/reports and citing sources in established citation styles
Scholia Scholia helps users make sense of information, focusing on data from academic citations. Doing a search for an academic institution, such as New York University, yields affiliated researchers, their research subjects, recent publications, and more.
Wolfram Library Archives Thousands of downloadable resources and references for Mathematica and other Wolfram products, collected over the full history of Wolfram Research.
WorldCat Find what you want in a library near you with WorldCat, a global catalog of library collections.

Dewey Decimal System

The Dewey Decimal System (which we use) is a system based on broad subjects that are sub-divided in narrower topics. Here is the 'skeleton' of the Dewey Decimal System. Click on the subject area to see call numbers that can be used when searching through our library's stacks.

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General Databases

Online Only Journals

American Journal of Education

New Testament Studies

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Open Access Resources

Dewey Decimal System