The Hassenfeld Library offers its patrons a wide variety of electronic databases. All are directly accessible from any computer within the school building. Patrons can also access the databases from home using the USN remote passwords. The passwords are available in the Online Library Database folder in the FirstClass email desktop.

Before you Google

"This tutorial presents the substance of the web searching workshop offered by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley. The content on this site has been updated to reflect the latest trends in search engines, directories, and evaluating web pages. We call the workshop "Research-quality Web Searching" to reflect our belief that there is a lot of great material on the Web - primary sources, specialized directories and databases, statistical information, educational sites on many levels, policy, opinion of all kinds, and so much more - and tools for finding it are steadily improving." Copyright (C) 2008 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

ArtStor

ARTstor is a digital library of images, their associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. The ARTstor Digital Library contains approximately 400,000 images from a wide range of cultures and time periods, including images of architecture, painting, prints, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts, design, archeological and anthropological objects.

Culture Grams

CultureGrams goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Includes a Photo Gallery, Famous People and a Recipe Collection.

A complete reference suite of materials designed for lower school and middle school students. Includes The New Book of Knowledge Enycyclopedia, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and People, Amazing Animals of the World. and America the Beautiful. This excellent resource also provides a list for educational web sites and periodical articles.

Health Reference Center Academic

Provided through the Tennessee Electronic Library. Medical journals, newspapers, magazines, reference books, and pamphlets with scholarly articles on a wide variety of medical topics.

JStor

JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.

Library of Congress

Literature Resource Center

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. 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.

The New York Times

NewsBank

Access World News. Electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one easy-to-search database with a world map. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Includes archived The Tennessean and The New York Times.

NoodleTools

The Web's most comprehensive and accurate MLA and APA bibliography composer with a fully-integrated note-taking component. All students and staff must create a personal account. For remote access passwords please look in the FirstClass webmail Library Online Database folder.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection

This database contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including the Oxford Companion series. It is fully-indexed and cross-searchable.

Science

SIRS Knowledge Source

This multi-dimensional database provides different areas of focus. Select the database that best fits your needs.

SIRS Government Reporter® provides current and historic government documents; landmark and recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions; information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and more.

SIRS Researcher delivers article coverage, pro/con analysis, overviews, graphs, and more on thousands of issues.

SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database designed for young researchers.

Tennessee Electronic Library

The Tennessee Electronic Library provides free on-line access to selected electronic databases for all libraries serving the citizens of the State of Tennessee. Several different databases of full-text articles from a vast array of periodicals covering every subject and discipline. Known to many as Infotrac.

World Book Web