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  • ABI/INFORM Complete™
    Use ABI/INFORM Complete™ for business research. It covers 4,000 journals and The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition, EIU ViewsWire, Going Global Career Guides, Market Research Reports, and 23,000 ProQuest business dissertations. This business database package has over 2,900 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information plus international coverage researchers appreciate.
  • Academic Onefile
    Academic OneFile is a premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. Includes coverage in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
  • Academic Search Premier
    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.
  • ACM Digital Library
    Allows limited searching of citations of ACM publications. ACM Membership is required to access the full-text.
  • American Chemical Society Journals
    Over 30 chemistry magazines and peer-reviewed journals.
  • American Institute of Physics Online Journals
    A collection for Mechanical Engineering and Physics.
  • Ancestry Library Edition
    This collection of more than 4,000 databases and 1.5 billion names includes census, vital, church, court, immigration, and other records.
  • ArchiveGrid
    ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
  • ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1
    This collection presents more than 15,000 titles from 13th Century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions. The historical time period of the collection reflects upon a time of great doctrinal, social, and organizational change.
  • ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2
    Series 2 consists of nearly 15,000 titles published from 1894 through 1923. It presents a comprehensive picture of religion in America at the turn of the century. Subjects addressed include the conflict between religion and science, the growing interest in Eastern religions and other world religions, and significant shifts in the religious identification of Americans.
  • ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
    The premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.
  • BAS Online Archive (Biblical Archaeology Society)
    This database offers full-text access to several publications: Archaeology Odyssey, Bible Review, and Archaeology Review. BAS Online Archive also includes some special collections such as Dead Sea Scrolls, Egypt/The Exodus, and The Temple Mount.
  • BioMed Central
    An open access publisher of peer reveiwed research in biology. Although most articles are on biomedical topics, several general biology journals are included as well. The website requires free registration.
  • Books in Print
    Includes records that describe in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos from North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers.
  • Business Source Premier
    Provides indexing and full text access to journals in all subject areas related to business.
  • Business Source Premier--Business Searching Interface
    Provides full-text with an enhanced business searching interface for over 2,300 journals, including 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Gives easy access to company profiles, industry profiles and SWOT analyses. Covers in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
  • Choice Reviews Online
    Choice Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and Choice Reviews Online for collection development and scholarly research. Choice reaches almost every undergraduate college and university library in the United States.
  • Christian Periodical Index
    An index to over 100 Evangelical journals dating from 1956 to the present.
  • CINAHL
    CINAHL provides indexing for 2,719 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. CINAHL also contains searchable cited references for 1,150 journals.
  • Clinical Pharmacology
    Provides tools for drug identification plus detailed drug product information and reports.
  • ClinicalTrials.gov
    ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. A clinical trial is a research study in human volunteers to answer specific health questions. Interventional trials determine whether experimental treatments or new ways of using known therapies are safe and effective under controlled environments. Observational trials address health issues in large groups of people in natural settings.
  • Communications and Mass Media Collection
    A specialized collection of more than 250 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field: key subjects covered include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.
  • Compounding Today
    Welcome to CompoundingToday.com! CompoundingToday.com is the heart of pharmaceutical compounding information. This interactive website is a vital resource for any practice setting that is preparing individualized medications, including a hospital, a community pharmacy, a home health care center, a compounding-only pharmacy, an infusion center, in academia, or a veterinary compounding pharmacy.
  • Computer Database
    Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
  • Credo Reference
    Credo Reference offers general reference titles in wide variety of subject areas. It also includes topic pages that link to other Union University resources, making it an excellent starting point for your research.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
    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. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
  • Dissertation Abstracts
    Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years.
  • Dissertations & Theses
    This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.
  • Drug Information Portal
    The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies. At the top of the page are links to individual resources with potential drug information, including summaries tailored to various audiences. Resources include the NLM search systems useful in searching for a drug, NLM research resources, resources organized by audience and class, and other NIH and government resources such as FDA an
  • Electronic Collections Online
    Provides access to citations in over 5,300 journals in a variety of subject areas.
  • ERIC
    The premier education index covering the journal literature and ERIC documents.
  • Facts and Comparisons
    This database is password protected. Please see a librarian or your professor for the username and password.
  • FDA Substance Registration System
    This database provides access to the FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) assigned to substances by the FDA Substance Registration System.
  • Fine Arts and Music Collection
    With more than 150 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • General BusinessFile ASAP™
    General BusinessFile ASAP™ delivers information you need for comprehensive business research: full-text journals, investment reports, directory listings and newswire releases, as well as indexing of three national newspapers. Researchers may access the world’s leading business, industry, management, economics, investment and company information, from a greater variety of sources than they’ll find in any competing database.
  • General OneFile
    Formerly called InfoTrac OneFile, this database is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics with millions of articles in full-text. It covers over 9000 periodical titles.
  • General Reference Center Gold
    A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
  • General Science Collection
    With the General Science Collection, researchers can stay current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology and hundreds of other areas. Updated daily, the General Science Collection includes more than 1.6 million articles.
  • GPO Monthly Catalog
    Consists of records publised by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments and more.
  • Health and Psychosocial Instruments
    Material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. Also presents tests used in medically related disciplines including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.
  • Health and Wellness Resource Center
    Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and 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.
  • Health Reference Center Academic
    Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. Integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.
  • Healthcare.gov
    A federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, HealthCare.gov is intended to inform citizens and enable them to better manage their health care.
  • HeritageQuest Online
    A growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture including 25,000 family and local histories, the entire U.S. Federal Census, and PERSI™.
  • Hoover's Online
    Hoover's is a business research company that offers proprietary business information through the Internet, data feeds, wireless devices, and co-branding agreements with other online services. Hoover's database features information on more than 65 million U.S. and foreign corporations and organizations, and more than 85 million people.
  • IEEE Xplore Digital Library
    IEEE, pronounced "Eye-triple-E", stands for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Access about 150 periodicals from IEEE, the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology. Union's journal package is a subset of the full IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
  • InfoTrac Newsstand
    InfoTrac Newsstand is an innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Finally, a one-stop source for the day's news and searchable archives. You can customize your online newspaper database features including search options. With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format.
  • IngentaConnect
    Search or browse the comprehensive collection of over 11,000 publications, including online content, journals and books.
  • ITER
    Gateway to bibliographies of articles and reviews from 632 Middle Ages and Renaissance journal titles.
  • JSTOR
    JStor is an archival database providing full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines.
  • Key Business Ratios
    Choose the "Key Business Ratios" link on the bottom left-hand side of the web page to examine industry benchmarks compiled from D&B’s database of public and private companies. This database features 14 key business ratios for critical areas of business performance (solvency, efficiency, & profitability). Research companies at the industry level by retrieving information in 800 lines of business.
  • Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
    Indexes periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings in areas of library and information science.
  • Literature Resource Center
    Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
  • Math Reviews
    Provides bibliographic data and reviews of the world's mathematical literature since 1940.
  • MEDLINE (First Search)
    MEDLINE® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 3,900 journals published world-wide.
  • MEDLINE (Ovid)
    Ovid MEDLINE ® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 3,900 journals published world-wide.
  • MedlinePlus
    MedlinePlus is the single best source for health information for patients, their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it provides information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. Learn the latest treatments, find information on a drug or supplement, view medical videos or illustrations. Find the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials.
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook
    Information about and reviews of standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.
  • Micromedex
    Micromedex provides referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine. Password is needed to access.
  • Military and Intelligence Database
    This collection includes content from over 400 journals, covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Key subjects covered include: socioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more.
  • MLA International Bibliography
    Provides indexing for journal articles, books and dissertations in modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
  • National Newspaper Index
    Provides quick access to the indexing of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.
  • Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
    This database seeks to provide reliable information on herbal remedies, dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, and other natural products.
  • Natural Standard
    Natural Standard was founded by healthcare providers and researchers to provide high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
  • Naxos Music Library
    Naxos Music Library is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 46,000 CDs with more than 653,000 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. It also includes classical, jazz, classic pop, rock and world music labels with more labels joining every month.
  • New Mozart Edition
    This project of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum and The Packard Humanities Institute provides access to digital editions of Mozart's works for personal study and educational use. PDF files of the works are available under the "Table of Contents" link.
  • New Testament Abstracts
    New Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and Boston College. The database is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 42,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 15,600 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.
  • Newspaper Source Plus
    Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, providing nearly than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 677,000 television and radio news transcripts.
  • Nursing Journals @ OVID
    Contains citations and abstracts from hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals. More than 65 full-text nursing journals are included. Ovid also includes full-text journals, ebooks and databases in a variety of non-nursing disciplines.
  • OCLC ArticleFirst
    A multidisciplinary database that provides citations from a broad collection of journals.
  • Old Testament Abstracts
    Old Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.
  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context
    Find balance and perspective on hundreds of topics with articles from multiple viewpoints, biographies, news, and interactive maps.
  • OVID Resources
    Ovid contains access to scientific, technical, nursing and medical journals. Provides access to journal literature, ebooks and databases in the health sciences. Ovid databases include: Medline, Social Work Abstracts, Health and Psychosocial Instruments and PsycINFO.
  • Oxford Bibliographies Online
    A library of disciplined-based subject modules. We offer Biblical Studies, Classics, Medieval and Philasopy. In each subject module, leading scholars have produced a literary guide to the most important and significant sources in an area of study they know best. The guides feature a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult.
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
  • Oxford Language Dictionaries
    The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.
  • Oxford Music Online
    Oxford Music Online , including Grove Music Online, has been the leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001, a glorious compendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (2002), as well as numerous subsequent updates and emendations.
  • PapersFirst
    Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
  • PLOS Biology
    An open access peer reviewed journal from the Public Library of Science (PLoS)
  • Points of View Resource Center
    A comprehensive resource for current and controversial topics. Includes over 600 original essays on subjects ranging from the earth & environment to health & medicine.
  • Popular Magazines
    Popular Magazines includes 1,000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac product line. All the titles were selected based on the actual publication searches performed by library patrons.
  • ProceedingsFirst
    Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
  • Professional Collection
    Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for professional educators offering balanced coverage in the following areas: Teaching arts and humanities, Child and adolescent psychology and development, Substance abuse, Health and physical fitness, Learning disabilities, Teaching literature, Education law, Science and technology in the classroom, Teaching the social sciences and Sports/Athletic Training.
  • PsycINFO
    PsycINFO® database provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Updated weekly, PsycINFO® provides access to journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations.
  • PubMed
    PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, as well as: The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE. Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing.
  • ReferenceUSA
    Provides business and marketing research. Use this database to create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds and locate people.
  • Regional Business News
    Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications including journals, newspapers and newswires.
  • Religion and Philosophy Database
    Articles from more than 300 magazines and journals. Users of this collection can research different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives.
  • Religious and Theological Abstracts
    This resource seeks to provide objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. It provides access to a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions and it provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
    Contains records in over 100 languages. Entries include original language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information and abstracts in English.
  • ScienceDirect
    ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. There are currently more than 9.5 million articles/chapters, a content base that is growing at a rate of almost 0.5 million additions per year.
  • SciFinder  
      
    SciFinder is available to Union faculty, adminstrative staff and currently registered students only. To access SciFinder, you must register for an individual account by clicking here. Registration can only be done at computer workstations on campus and you must use your uu.edu email address when registering.
  • Scitation
    Scitation is a leading online publishing platform for science and technology content, serving a broad customer base with a wide array of features and services. We host over two million articles in fields that include physics, chemistry geosciences, engineering, acoustics and more.
  • Social Work Abstracts
    The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 45,000 records, spanning from 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
  • Tennessee Newspaper Collection
    NewsBank’s Tennessee Newspaper Collection provides access to three of the major Tennessee newspapers: The Chattanooga Times-Free Press, Commercial Appeal (Memphis), and The Knoxville News Sentinel.
  • Tennessee Sanborn Maps
    These fire insurance maps for Tennessee cities are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
  • Testing and Education Reference Center
    Practice tests and resources for GMAT, GRE, LSAT, Praxis and others.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
    The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
  • TOXNET
    Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
  • Ulrichsweb (On Campus Only)
    Ulrichsweb covers more than 900 subject areas. Ulrich's records provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.
  • UpToDate
    Content is provided by a faculty of 4,400 expert clinicians who function as authors, editors and peer reviewers for UpToDate. This resource covers over 8,500 topics in 17 medical specialties.
  • Wall Street Journal Online
    Provides full text access to the Wall Street Journal back to 1984.
  • Westlaw Campus Research
    Campus Research is an online research service that provides a comprehensive collection of news, business, and law related information for students.
  • WilsonWeb OmniFile
    OmniFile is a multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts, from Wilson periodical databases in Art, Applied Science & Technology, Biology & Agriculture, Education, General Science, Humanities, Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science, Social Sciences, and Business. Coverage begins in 1994.
  • World Book Advanced
    Primary source documents and ebooks fully integrated with encyclopedia content plus timelines, citation builder, and saved research.
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