Electronic Resources
Electronic Databases
Arts and Humanities
Expanded Academic ASAP: From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
Literature Resource Center (LRC): Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
Religion & Philosophy Collection: Articles from more than 250 magazines and Journals on religion, philosophy, archaeology, and anthropolog, and covers the impact of religion on culture. Many articles are full-text. The content in this database is also part of InfoTrac Onefile.
Business Information
General Business File International: Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and directory listings with full text and images available.
General Research
Academic OneFile: The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
eLibrary: Offers more than 2,000 full-text sources, with improved functionality, and a fun and easy-to-use search interface. Includes magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.
Expanded Academic ASAP: From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
Gale Virtual Reference Library: This database contains ebooks, including 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.
Global Issues In Context: Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.
Junior Edition (Graphic Interface): Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in 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.
OneSearch: Gale's federated search tool that provides the top results from all of the most relevant search hits. Searches all of TEL's cross searchable and non-cross searchable databases.
Points of View Reference Center: A comprehensive resource for current and controversial topics. Includes over 600 original essays on subjects ranging from the earth & environment to health & medicine.
SIRS Issue Researcher: Helps us make sense of the world by offering relevant, credible resources that tell the whole story on the major issues of the day. It helps students go in-depth into the more than 100 of our top leading issues or explore thousands of subjects covering topical issues.
Southern Life: Contains nearly 5 million full-text articles on topics that relate directly to Southern living, both past and present, including people, places, historical events and more.
Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL): The Classic menu for all of the free databases available to all residents of Tennessee.
World Book Online: A suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.
History and Social Studies
Awesome Stories: A collection of primary sources not typically found by popular search engines organized in an intersting story format. This interactive site contains both primary sources and relevant media within the context of each story.
Civil War Primary Source Materials: ProQuest's Cival War Era database.
Global Issues In Context: Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.
Points of View Reference Center: A comprehensive resource for current and controversial topics. Includes over 600 original essays on subjects ranging from the earth & environment to health & medicine.
SIRS Issue Researcher: Helps us make sense of the world by offering relevant, credible resources that tell the whole story on the major issues of the day. It helps students go in-depth into the more than 100 of our top leading issues or explore thousands of subjects covering topical issues.
Southern Life: Contains nearly 5 million full-text articles on topics that relate directly to Southern living, both past and present, including people, places, historical events and more.
Tenneesee Civil War Sourcebook: Compiled by the Tennessee Historical Commission, Tennessee Wars Commission and the Department of Environment and Conservation, this database chronicles events of the Civil War in Tennessee from September 1, 1863 - September 30, 1865.
Tenneesee Virtual Archive: This digital repository highlights the collections of the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
US History in Context: Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.
World Book Online: A suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.
World History in Context: A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
Language Arts and Reading
Books & Authors: Offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together.
Literature Resource Center (LRC): Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
Magazines and Newspapers
19th Century U.S. Newspapers: Chronicles over 200 newspapers, including seven Tennessee papers. Search by city, state, keyword, and more. Click the link on the bottom of the screen to access the database.
Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Read the paper online or in print in the Media Center.
Custom Newspapers: Search a collection of more then 650 newspapers, both national and international.
Infotrac Newsstand: A one-stop source for the day's news and searchable archives where you can search a collection of thousands of national, international, state and local newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format.
National Newspaper Index: National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
Newseum: Allows you to look at 815 front pages from 76 countries. These daily newspaper front pages are displayed in their original, unedited form. The entire newspaper can be viewed by double clicking on "Web Site."
Tennessee Newspapers: News Bank provides database access three Tennessee daily newspapers - Chattanooga Times-Free Press, The Commercial Appeal and Knoxville News Sentinal.
Science and Medicine
Health and Wellness Resource Center: Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
General Science Collection: Millions of articles from over 1,600 magazines, journals and reference materials on all aspects of the sciences.
World Languages
Informe: Unacolección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Signal Mountain Middle/High School
Media Center
Electronic databases give you 24-hour access to high-quality, edited, evaluated information from authoritative information sources. To use the databases from home, remember to pick up a copy of the passwords bookmark in the Media Center.
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- Environment
- Health and Nutrition
- Multicultural Studies
- Computers and Technology
