Databases Available Through Luther L. Gobbel Library
Academic OneFile is 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. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.
Academic Search Premier (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) – Academic Search Premier is the world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database. It provides full text for nearly 4,650 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
Alternative Press Index (Available in Library Only) - Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
Article First (Available in Library Only) - Index of articles from the contents pages of journals. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
Basic BIOSIS (Available in Library Only) - This database indexes the leading biology and life sciences journals. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
Biochemistry, Annual Reviews (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Provides full-text access to Annual Reviews of Biochemistry. HELP ( Annual Reviews)
Business & Industry (Available in Library Only) - Business and industry facts, figures, and key events. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
Business & Management Practices (Available in Library Only) - Practical aspects and approaches to business management. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
Business Source Premier (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full
text for more than 8,800 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Cell & Developmental Biology (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Provides full-text access to Annual Reviews of Cell & Developmental Biology. HELP (Annual Reviews)
Computer Database - (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) This database covers news and reviews in computing, electronics, engineering, and information technology. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
Contemporary Women's Issues (Available in Library Only) - Contemporary Women's Issues (health and human rights) Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
Dissertation Abstracts (Available in Library Only) - Abstracts of doctoral dissertations. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
Early American Newspapers - This database offers several hundred thousand fully searchable issues from more than 250 significant 18th- and 19th- century newspapers from every region of the United States. Based primarily on the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), which houses a vast collection of American newspapers through 1876, Series 2 also includes titles from the acclaimed newspaper collections of the Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and more than 90 other institutions.
Ecology and Systematics (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Provides full-text access to Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics. HELP (Annual Reviews)
Electronic Collections Online (Available in Library Only) - An OCLC collection of scholarly journals . Students, you will need a password; please see librarian HELP (First Search)
ERIC (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Indexes articles about education research and practice. ERIC resources are maintained by the U.S. Government - NOT full-text. Use ERIC Search Tools to search ERIC Digests. Click on the Expert Examples link under the search box in SearchERIC, and find ready-to-go sample searches - on such matters as block scheduling, bullying, peer counseling, and homework policies - developed by some of the country's best reference librarians. HELP
Expanded Academic ASAP (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Covers all academic disciplines and includes many full-text articles. (Tennessee Electronic Library).
FactSearch (Available in Library Only)- Facts and statistics on current events, social issues, and politics. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
FirstSearch (Available in Library Only) - Students must get password from librarian. FirstSearch gives the user access to over 20 databases covering all academic disciplines. Many of the articles are full-text. Along with full-text articles the user has access to conference proceedings and a collection of high quality Internet resources on all academic disciplines. FirstSearch also offers access to library catalogs worldwide. HELP
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for research in areas such as: business, environment, history, medicine, and multicultural studies.
General Business File ASAP - 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 company directory listings with full text and images available. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
General Business File International (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Resources for company and industry analysis. Access to brokerage reports, industry publications, company directories, newspapers, and scholarly journals covering business and economics. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
General Reference Center Gold (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - A general interest/Business database that includes reference books and many full-text articles. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
Genetics, Annual Reviews (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Provides full-text access to Annual Reviews of Genetics. HELP (Annual Reviews)
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - A collection of health information available in pamphlets, journals, and encyclopedias. Also provides access to key health web sites/search engines. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
Health Information Tennessee HIT provides online access to official State of Tennessee data for
births, deaths, population, nursing home and hospital facilities, featuring Data Query - that can provide users with customized tables, graphic bar or pie charts, area plots and trends from the Tennessee
Department of Health data based on user-specified selection of variables (i.e. year, age, population, ICD-10, race, sex, and county).
Health Reference Center-Academic (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Covers all areas of health. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
Informe! (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - A Spanish-language resource. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
General OneFile (Now! General OneFile) (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Contains nearly 3,000 full-text journal titles covering most disciplines. Searches Expanded Academic ASAP and other TEL databases simultaneously. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Law and Social Science - Some areas explored are law and corporate governance, transnational human
rights, plea bargaining and the eclipse of the jury, and law, race, and
education in the US. (Annual Reviews)
Lexis-Nexis (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Mostly full-text. Contains regional, national, and international newspapers. A great source for legal and business information. Also contains detailed country reports and medical information. HELP
Literary Index (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross references more than 138,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 176,000 titles into one source. This covers Literature Resource Center, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, American Writers, British Writers, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Something About the Author.
Literature Resource Center (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Gives biographical information on over 430 authors, including their lives and their works. Includes many full-text critical essays. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
Military & Intelligence Database (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - A periodical database that is designed to meet the content needs of libraries serving military personnel. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac and Book of Facts. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
Microbiology, Annual Reviews (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Provides access to full-text of Annual Reviews of Microbiology. HELP (Annual Reviews)
National Newspaper Index (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Provides citations to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times - NOT full-text. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
Naxos Music Library (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Naxos Music Library is the World’s largest Classical music listening service designed for students, instructors and patrons of public and academic libraries, as well as players and executives of orchestras. Our collection of over 140,000 tracks of music is continually growing, not only from our own label but from other leading independent labels. Our collection is benchmarked against the development suggestions outlined in the Music Library Association’s A Basic Music Library. NML has simple and advanced searching, common (non-proprietary) software requirements, and extensive background information such as complete liner notes.
netLibrary (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - Provides full-text access to over 40,000 e-books, 97% of which were published since 2000. You must create an account from a computer on the Lambuth network to gain access to the database. HELP
Oxford Reference Online (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) – A comprehensive resource that contains over 120 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.
PAIS International (Available in Library Only) - A database covering global public policy and social issues. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
Physiology, Annual Reviews (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) -This database provides access to full-text of Annual Reviews of Physiology. HELP (Annual Reviews)
Points of View Reference Center - This is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (affirmative argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument). Topics covered include affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinians, Hurricane Katrina and FEMA's response, nuclear proliferation, the separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more.
Professional Collection (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - A database of full-text periodicals for teachers and school administrators. (Tennessee Electronic Library)
PsycFIRST (Available in Library Only) - Psychology and related fields in the current and most recent three years. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (First Search)
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550
peer-reviewed titles.This database covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Psychology, Annual Reviews (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - This database provides full-text access to Psychology Annual Reviews. HELP (Annual Reviews)
Religion & Philosophy Custom Database - A database of articles from more than 250 magazines and journals on religion, philosophy, archaeology, and anthropology, and covers the impact of religion on culture. Many articles are full-text. The content in this database is also part of General OneFile. (Tennnessee Electronic Library)
Tennessee Newspapers - The electronic editions of record for valuable local and regional 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
Tenn-Share Trial Access (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - This site gives access to free trial databases available through Tenn-Share for its member libraries.
What Do I Read Next? (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - A reader's advisory service that contains over 80,000 recommended titles, (Tennessee Electronic Library)
WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) (Available in Library Only) - OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Students, you will need a password; please see librarian. HELP (FirstSearch)
Junior Edition, and Student Edition (Available Campus Wide and Off Campus) - A databse primarily of use to K-12 students and future teachers. (Tennessee Electronic Library).
Selected Free Sites Available on the WWW
Academic Info - "directory of Internet resources tailored for college"
ADAM - ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue of Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians.
Amateur Athletic Foundation - The AAF operates the largest sports research library in North America, the Paul Ziffren Sports Resource Center. The Amateur Athletic Foundation library is engaged in an ambitious project to convert selected scholarly journals and historically significant Olympic publications from paper to digital format. The back issues of several periodicals have been published on this site and are available from the Search page
American Memory Project - Historic Collections for the National Digital Library
Arts & Letters Daily - An updated report of news and reviews
Bartleby.com - Great Books online
Campaigns and elections - This Congressional Quarterly site is a useful starting point for obtaining information on American politics.
Census Bureau Subjects A to Z - A good source of statistical information on economics, business activity, and population trends. Detailed information on the U.S. population and minority groups within the United States.
Criminal justice links - A comprehensive criminal justice site maintained by Cecil Greek at Florida State University.
Critical Evaluation of Resources - A guide to evaluating information sources including web sites from UC Berkeley.
Dead People Server - This site will help you verify if a person is still alive. It is also a good site if you are not sure when the person died or the cause of death. An excellent biographical research tool.
Digital Librarian: A librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Digital Library Federation Public Access Collections - A database of Digital Library Federation members' nearly 300 public domain online digital collections. This site will allow you to search for digital collections at universities around the country.
Direct search is a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, or Hotbot.
Directory of Open Access Journals - The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. All subject areas and languages will be covered.
Documenting the American South (DAS) - This is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
Einstein Archives Online - The Einstein Archives Online web site provides the first online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to an extensive Archival Database, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era.
Encarta Encyclopedia
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Fast Facts - Author Gary Price calls this site "a guide to find fast facts like those you would find in an almanac or statistical abstract."
Federal Agencies Directory - This site will allow you to list federal agencies alphabetically or by hierarchy. This site is the result of a joint project between GPO and Louisiana State University.
FedStats - FedStats is official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Use the Internet's powerful linking and searching capabilities to track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more.
FindLaw - Source for U.S. and international laws
Firstgov - Search engine for government information
FreeBooks4Doctors - Promotes free access to medical books
Free Medical Journals - Promotes access to free medical journals
GovEngine.com - Access to federal, state, and local government web sites.
Governments on the WWW - Extensive list of world wide government agencies with web sites
HighWire, Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries - Delivers scientific and medical research online in high-quality web environments. Over 400,000 free full-text articles are available from this digital collection provided by Stanford University.
History-of-the-Holocaust.org - The web site of the Yad Vashem History of the Holocaust -- a series of multimedia tools designed for undergraduate and advanced high-school students of the Holocaust. The YV History of the Holocaust is a collaboration between the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem and Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online - An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
ibiblio - The public's library and digital archive
Index of economic freedom - Country reports and insights into the economy and business environment of a particular nation.
INFOMINE - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Intelligence theory and testing - Included are biographies of people who have influenced the development of intelligence theory and testing. You will find biographies of many famous psychologists at this web site.
Internet Public Library - The first public library of and for the Internet community
iTools (Formerly titled Research-It!: your one-stop reference desk) - A great site of basic research tools available online.
Intute: Arts and Humanities - A free online service providing you with access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. There are over 18,000 Web resources listed here that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing.
The Jewish History Resource Center - A comprehensive resource, sponsored by the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, with the goal of being an academic vehicle for fostering research in all areas of Jewish history.
Librarians' Index to the Internet - Information you can trust.
The Library of Congress - A subject index to the digital collections available on the Library of Congress web site.
Literary Criticism Collection - This is an excellent collection of Iinternet sources on literary criticism provided by the Internet Public Library at the University of Michigan.
Literary Resources on the Net - This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library composed of two sites (University of Michigan and Cornell University) that contains primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The MagPortal.com - Find free articles in magazines on the Internet. However, remember that much of this information will not be of a scholarly nature.
Marxists Internet Archive - This site's purpose is to educate people around the world about Marxism. Over the past 15 years they have continued to grow and expand a large digital library about Marxism and all things related to it.
MathWorld® - Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics (MathWorldTM) is the web's most complete mathematical resource, assembled over more than a decade by Internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the mathematics and Internet communities.
Matrix Resources - The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan
State University seeks to advance critical understanding and promote access to
knowledge through world-class research in humanities technology.
National Vital Statistics - Mortality, birth, marriage, divorce, and fetal death statistics
NationMaster.com - This site provides a handy way to graphically compare nations. You can generate graphs with ease on all kinds of statistics. What's more, you can select exactly which countries you want to include.
Nature - Search for articles in Nature a leading Scientific Journal. The library has this journal in its periodical collection beginning with year 2000. Please ask for help in finding these articles.
The On-Line Books Page - Over 15,000 English works all in full-text. This site is provided by the University of Pennsylvania.
Online Citation Examples - Examples on how to cite online, electronic, and paper sources from Dartmouth College
Perseus Digital Library - Sources for the study of the humanities
Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of
PINAKES - A subject launch pad linking to the major subject gateways on the WWW. This site links to some of the best content on the Web.
Portals to the world - Selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about nations and areas of the world.
Psychology, Classics in the history of - Articles significant to the development of modern psychology
Psychology, Encyclopedia of - The best available web sites about psychology. This site offers many professional and university web sites that cover all aspects of Psychology.
Public Agenda Online - This site gathers public opinion data from a wide variety of sources, including surveys conducted by most major opinion research organizations.
PubMed - Index of medical citations provided by the National Library of Medicine
PubMed Central - A collection of full-text life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It is not a journal publisher. Access to PubMed Central (PMC) is free and unrestricted.
Ruckus, the legal music downloading service, is now free for all college students nationwide. Every student on America’s college and university campuses now has free and legal access to the world’s first, advertising supported college-only, music download service, Ruckus, from Ruckus Network, Inc.
Rules of the Tennessee Department of Education State Board of Education - Here you will find State Board of Education Rules, Regulations, and Minimum Standards for the operation of the public school system.
Science.gov - Science.gov contains reliable information resources selected by the respective U.S. Government agencies as their best science information. Two major types of information are included—selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials. (The specific content varies by database.) The selected Web sites can be explored from the science.gov homepage. The Web pages and the databases can be searched individually or simultaneously from the search page.
Science magazine - Leading science journal, use this web page to search for articles. Once you have a list of articles, you will need to locate the volume and issue in the periodicals section of the library.
September 11.archive.org - Covering the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
Sheet Music Consortium - Searches several major collections
Social Science Data Archive - The SocioSite is designed to get access to information and resources which are relevant for sociologists and other social scientists. It has been designed from a global point of view - it gives access to the world wide scene of social sciences. The intention is to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociology resources on the Internet.
Statistical Abstract of the United States - One of the best sources for statistical information
Statistics of U.S. Business - Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) is an annual series that provides national and subnational data on the distribution of economic data by size and industry. The series excludes data on self-employed individuals, employees of private households, railroad employees, agricultural production employees, and most government employees.
Tennessee Blue Book - The Tennessee Blue Book is now being published on the WWW
Telephone directories on the Web - International coverage
Terrorism project - A site maintained by the Center for Defense Information, an independent think tank in Washington, DC
Thesaurus.com
Thomas - Legislative information on the Internet
University of California eScholarship Repository - The University of California eScholarship Repository is a central location for faculty to deposit any research or scholarly output that is deemed appropriate by the participating University of California research unit, center, or department.
Urban Legends Reference Pages - Use this page to evaluate information and find urban myths.
U.S. Census Bureau - The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the
nation's people and economy.
U. S. Department of State Foreign Press Center - The Foreign Press Centers support U.S. policies by helping foreign media cover the U.S. Their goal is to promote the depth, accuracy, and balance of foreign reporting from the U.S., by providing direct access to authoritative American information sources. This site provides access to Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs.
U.S. Government sites by topic
Virtual International Business & Economic Sources - An excellent site for finding information on doing business with other countries.
Voice of the Shuttle - An excellent site devoted to humanities research
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Online
WorldPages.com - A nationwide directory of telephone numbers and addresses.
The WWW Virtual Library - One of the best places to find links and pathfinders to creditable WWW information sources.
Your dictionary.com - Here you will find Bartlett's Quotations and other English language dictionaries.
Luther L. Gobbel Library
Lambuth University
705 Lambuth
Boulevard
Jackson, TN 38301
Phone: (731) 425-3270
Last Updated:
March 11, 1996