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Database News: View Recent Database Changes Trial Access: Databases for Review (UM only, on-campus only) Databases by Academic Area or Category Library Database Training Top of List A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Multisearch Multidisciplinary Databases Available!! ResearchPro, or Article QuickSearch, is a multisearcher that is part of the Library Catalog. It lets you search multiple databases at one time: either in pre-selected groups such as Business, Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, All Full Text, or "Most Popular"; or in groups of favorite databases that you create yourself. UM/RODP Only PowerSearch Searches 16 databases simultaneously, including Academic OneFile, General OneFile (formerly InfoTrac), and Expanded Academic . UM/RODP Only Description Wilson Omnifile Mega Full Text Searches 11 databases simultaneously. UM/RODP Only Description Guide A ABI:Inform, a business database (includes Dateline, Global, Trade & Industry) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Academic OneFile UM/RODP Only Description Help Accounting (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description ACS Web Editions ) (American Chemical Society Journals) UM/RODP Only Description Guide African American Song UM/RODP Only Description Guide AGRICOLA Open Access Description Guide AIDS subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals Open Access Description Guide Algology Mycology and Protozoology Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description AltPressIndex (the alternative press) UM/RODP Only Description Guide American Factfinder: Your Source for Population, Housing, Economic, and Geographic Data Open Access Description Guide American Literature, Oxford Encyclopedia of the (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide American Memory: Collections at the Library of Congress Open Access Description Guide American Religions, Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP only Description American Slavery : A Composite Autobiography UM/RODP Only Description Guide Ancient Egypt, Oxford Encyclopedia of the (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Animal Behavior Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide Applied Science & Technology Full Text (Part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide APS (American Physical Society) Journals and PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) UM Only Description Guide Art Index Retrospective See also: Art Full Text (Part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Art Full Text See also: Art Index Retrospective (Part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective Search both together. UM/RODP Only Description Guide ArticleFirst UM/RODP Only Description Guide Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Part of Web of Science, part of Web of Knowledge (formerly AHSearch) UM Only Description ArXiv.org: e-Prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology Open Access Description Guide ASCE Research Libraries (search American Society of Civil Engineering online journals, 1995-present) UM Only Description ASFA Biological Science and Living Resources UM/RODP Only Description Guide ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide B, Back to Top Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Baseball (Biographical Dictionary of American Sports) UM/RODP Only Description Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art UM/RODP Only Description BioDigest (CSA) UM/RODP Only Description Guide BioDigest (FirstSearch) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Bioethics subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide Biological Abstracts, Part of Web of Knowledge UM Only Description Help Biological & Agricultural Index Plus (Part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Biology (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description Books in Print UM/RODP Only Description Guide British Literature, Oxford Encyclopedia of the (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide BRB Public Record Resource Center Open Access Description Business Dateline UM/RODP Only Description Guide Business and Industry UM/RODP Only Description Guide Business Source Premier (BSP) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Byzantium, Oxford Dictonary of (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide C, Back to Top CCH Tax Research Network NOTE: you must first authenticate using your Spectrum ID(even from on campus); and then login using your full university email address. UM Only Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Illumina UM/RODP Only Description Guide Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description Cancer subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide Census.gov Open Access Description Guide CenStats Open Access Description ChemEssentials (from Knovel) Open Access Description Guide Chemical Abstracts (See SciFinder Scholar) In Library Only Description Guide ChemIDPlus Open Access Description Guide Chemoreception Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide The Chronicle of Higher Education UM/RODP Only Description Guide CINAHL with Full Text(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) UM/RODP Only Description Guide See also: Nursing and Allied Health: Comprehensive UM/RODP Only Description Guide ClasePeriodica: Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities UM/RODP Only Description Guide Classical Music Online UM/RODP Only Description Guide CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive Open Access Description Guide College Source Online UM/RODP Only Description CommSearch In Library Only Description Commercial Appeal UM/RODP Only Description Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) UM/RODP Only Description Company Dossier (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description Company Profiles (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description Complementary Medicine subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide Composer Index Open Access Description CompPile Open Access Description Computer Database UM/RODP Only Description Guide Conference Papers Index UM/RODP Only Description Guide Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science, Part of Web of Science, Part of Web of Knowledge UM Only Description Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science & Humanities, Part of Web of Science, Part of Web of Knowledge UM Only Description Congressional Research Service In Library Only Description Congressional (LexisNexis Congressional) UM/RODP Only Description Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select see Literature Resource Center (LRC) UM/RODP Only Description Contemporary Women's Issues UM/RODP Only Description Guide Core Clinical Journals subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide CrossRef (use references to find DOIs) Open Access Description CQ Press for the CQ Encyclopedia of American Government, CQ Researcher and CQ Weekly UM/RODP Only Description Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers UM/RODP Only Description CSA: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Illumina (all CSA biological sciences databases available here) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Current Contents Connect (CCC), Part of Web of Knowledge UM Only Description Tutorial Current Research at University of Memphis (dissertations) UM Only Description Custom News UM/RODP Only Description D, Back to Top Daily Life through History UM/RODP Only Description Dance, International Encyclopedia of the (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Dental Journals subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide Department of Energy Information Bridge Open Access Description Guide DOAJ: Directory of Open-Access Journals Open access Description Guide DOI Resolver (use DOIs to find online articles) Open access Description Dissertation Abstracts (see also Current Research at University of Memphis) UM/RODP Only Description Guide DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music UM/RODP Only Description Guide E Back to Top EBSCOhost Research Databases UM Only Description Guide Ecology Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide E-Commerce, Gale Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description EconLit: Economic Literature UM/RODP Only Description Guide Economic History, Oxford Encyclopedia of UM/RODP Only Description Guide EDGAR: SEC Filings & Forms Open Access Description Guide Education Full Text (Also part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide English Short Title Catalog (ESTC) Open Access Description Guide Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) For information about changes in ERIC see: ERIC Development News Open Access Description Educator's Reference Desk Open Access Description Guide EJS: Electronic Journals Service UM Only Description Guide Emerald Insight Database UM Only Description Guide Energy Citations Database Open Access Description Guide Enlightenment, Encyclopedia of the (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Entomology Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine Open Access Description ERIC (FirstSearch) For the Open Access version of ERIC see: Education Resources Information Center UM/RODP Only Description Guide Essential Science Indicators (ESI), Part of Web of Knowledge UM Only Description Tutorial Evolution, Encyclopedia of (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Expanded Academic Index ASAP UM/RODP Only Description Guide F, Back to Top Federal and State Cases (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description Federal and State Codes (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description FindArticles.com Open Access Description FindLaw Open Access Description FirstGov: the U.S. Government's Official Web Portal Open Access Description Guide Folktales, Greenwood Library of American in four volumes: Volume 1 The Northeast, The Midwest, The Mid-Atlantic; Volume 2 The South and The Caribbean; Volume 3 The Southwest, The Plains, The West; and Volume 4 The Northwest and Cyberspace UM/RODP Only Description Food and Drink in America, Oxford Encyclopedia of (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide G, Back to Top Gale Virtual Reference Library UM/RODP Only Description Gartner, Inc. (Market Research in Information Technology; log in with your UUID and password) UM Only Description General Business File International UM/RODP Only Description General Reference Center Gold UM/RODP Only Description Guide General Science Full Text (Also part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Genetic Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description Genetics Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide GeoBase UM Only Description Guide GeoRefS UM/RODP Only Description Guide Global Change, Encyclopedia of the (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Global Sound See Smithsonian Global Sound UM/RODP Only Description Guide Google Books Open Access Description Help Google CrossRef, SEE: IEEE Explore UM Only Description Government Publications Index (Marcive) UM Only Description Guide GPO Access Open Access Description Guide Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians UM/RODP Only Description Guide H, Back to Top HarpWeek: Electronic Access to Harper's Weekly UM/RODP Only Description Guide Health and Safety Science Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide Health and Wellness Resource Center UM/RODP Only Description Guide Health Reference Center -- Academic UM/RODP Only Description Guide HeritageQuest UM/RODP Only Description Guide HighWire Press Free Scientific Journals Open Access Description Help History of Medicine subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide Home Economics Archive Open Access Description Guide Human Genome Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide Humanities Full Text (Also part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide I, Back to Top ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Data Archive Open Access Description Guide IEEE Explore (TIP: use Advanced Search) UM Only Description Guide Image QuickView Collection (EbscoHost) UM/RODP Only Description Immunology Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narratives Open Access Description Guide Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) UM/RODP Only Description Guide InfoPlease Open Access Description ¡Informe! ( Revistas en Español) UM/RODP Only Description InfoTrac OneFile New name: General OneFile. UM/RODP Only Description InfoTrac Religion and Philosophy UM/RODP Only Description IngentaConnect Open Access Description Guide InterDok's Directory of Published Proceedings (DoPP) Open Access Description InterDok's MInd: the Meeting Index Open Access Description International Index to Music Periodicals UM/RODP Only Description Guide IPM: Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series UM/RODP Only Description Guide Irish Literature, Studies in UM/RODP Only Description ISI Proceedings: see Conference Proceedings Citation Index UM Only Description J, Back to Top Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Part of Web of Knowledge UM Only Description Tutorial JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive UM/RODP Only Description Guide Journals @ OVID, Your (LWW Nursing Journals) (Click CONTINUE to proceed to the databases) UM Only Description Guide K L, Back to Top Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Oxford Encyclopedia of (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide LearningExpress Library UM/RODP Only Description Legal Periodicals, Index to (Part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide LexisNexis Academic (news, legal, and business information) UM/RODP Only Description Guide LexisNexis Congressional UM/RODP Only Description Guide Library of Congress Catalog Open Access Description Guide Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide LISTA: Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Library Literature and Information Science FullText UM/RODP Only Description Guide Linguistics, International Encyclopedia of (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Literature in Context UM/RODP Only Description Literature Resource Center Plus UM/RODP Only Description Guide LocatorPlus: the National Library of Medicine's Catalog Open Access Description Guide LWW Nursing Journals (Your Journals @ OVID) (Click CONTINUE to proceed to the databases) UM Only Description Guide M, Back to Top Making of America (Cornell), primary source material in American social history Open Access Description Guide Making of America (Michigan), primary source material in American social history Open Access Description Guide MathSciNet: Mathematical Reviews on the Web UM/RODP Only Description Guide MARCIVE see: Government Publications Index UM Only Description Memphis Appeal Indexes Open Access Description Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description Medline (FirstSearch platform) UM/RODP Only Description See Also: PubMed Open Access Description Guide MEDLINE (OVIDSP platform--Click CONTINUE to proceed to the databases)) UM Only Description Guide MEDLINEplus Open Access Description Guide Mergent Online UM Only Description MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Open Access Description Guide Middle Ages, Encyclopedia of the (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Military and Intelligence Database UM/RODP Only Description MLA (Modern Language Association)International Bibliography UM/RODP Only Description Guide Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications Open Access Description Guide Multicultural America, Gale Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description Music Index UM/RODP Only Description Guide N, Back to Top National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)Abstracts Database Open Access Description Guide National Newspaper Index UM/RODP Only Description Naxos Music Library and Naxos Music Library (Jazz) UM/RODP Only Description National Technical Information Service Open Access Description NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers UM Only Description netLibrary, a collection 55,000+ online books UM/RODP Only Description Guide New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians See: Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Guide NEWS (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description NewsBank UM/RODP Only Description Nucleic Acids Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive UM/RODP Only Description Nursing Journals subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide Nursing Journals @ OVID --the LWW Nursing Journals (Click CONTINUE to proceed to the databases) UM Only Description Guide Nursing STAT!Ref (See STAT!Ref) UM/RODP Only Description O, Back to Top OAISTER (open access index to digital repository collections) Open Access Description Guide Omnifile (See Wilson OmniFile) UM/RODP Only Description Guide OMIA: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals Open Access Description OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man Open Access Description Guide Oncogenes and Growth Factors Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories Open Access Description Guide OvidSP (Click CONTINUE to proceed to the databases) UM Only Description Guide Oxford English Dictionary (OED) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Oxford Music Online (ORO) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Oxford Reference Online (ORO) Searches 100+ reference books simultaneously (covers all subjects). UM/RODP Only Description Guide P, Back to Top Papers First UM/RODP Only Description Patent and Trademark Database Open Access Description Guide PATENTS (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description Philosopher's Index UM/RODP Only Description Guide PILOTS (PSTD index) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Plant Science UM/RODP Only Description Guide Plants National Database Open Access Description Guide Poiesis: Philosophy Serials Online UM/RODP Only Description Points of View UM/RODP Only Description Popular Culture, Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description PowerSearch Searches the 12 InfoTrac databases simultaneously. UM/RODP Only Description Presidential Papers In Library Only Description Proceedings UM/RODP Only Description Guide Professional Collection UM/RODP Only Description PROLA see: APS (American Physical Society) Journals and PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online UM/RODP Only Description Guide PsycArticles UM/RODP Only Description PsycINFO, 1806-Present UM/RODP Only Description Public Records, BRB Open Access Description PubChem BioAssay Open Access Description Guide PubChem Compound Open Access Description Guide PubChem Substance Open Access Description Guide PubMed (includes Medline) Open Access Description Guide PubMed Central: a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature Open Access Description Guide Q R, Back to Top Rand Corporation Publications Open Access Description Readers' Guide Full Text (Also part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Recital Recordings Database UM Only Description Renaissance, Oxford Dictionary of the (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Refworks, bibliographic citation management UM Only Description Guide Reformation, Oxford Encyclopedia of the (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Regional Business News UM/RODP Only Description Religion and Philosophy See: InfoTrac Religion and Philosophy RePEC: Research Papers in Economics Open Access Description Guide Reviews--Books, Movies, Music, Plays, and Videos (from LexisNexis) UM/RODP Only Description RILM Abstracts of Music Literature UM/RODP Only Description RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals UM/RODP Only Description Guide RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 UM/RODP Only Description Guide S, Back to Top Safari Technical Books UM/RODP Only Description Guide Science Citation Index , Part of Web of Science, Part of Web of Knowledge UM Only Description ScienceDirect, scientific journal archive UM Only Description Guide Science.gov Open Access Description Guide Science Database UM/RODP Only Description SciFinder Scholar 2000 (Chemical Abstracts) In Library Only Description Guide SCIRUS: For Scientific Information Only Open Access Description Guide Scitopia Open Access Description FAQ Scribner Writers Online UM/RODP Only Description SEC Filings (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description The Serials Directory UM Only Description Sheperd's Legal Citations (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description Small Business, Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP only Description Smithsonian Global Sound UM/RODP Only Description Guide Social Sciences Citation Index, Part of Web of Science UM Only Description Social Sciences Full Text (Also part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Sociological Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide Southern Life UM/RODP Only Description Space Life Sciences subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide STAT!Ref (nursing e-books) UM/RODP Only Description STAT-USA In Government Publications Only Description T, Back to Top Tax Law (part of LexisNexis Academic) UM/RODP Only Description Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture Open Access Description Tennessee Newspapers UM/RODP Only Description Theatre and Performance, Oxford Encyclopedia of (For off-campus access, link through Oxford Reference Online.) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Theatre in Video, Alexander Street UM/RODP Only Description Help Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet Open Access Description Guide Toxicology Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide Toxicology subset of PubMed Open Access Description Guide ToxNet: Toxicology Data Network Open Access Description Guide TranStats: The Intermodal Transportation Database Open Access Description Guide Twayne's Authors Online UM/RODP Only Description U, Back to Top U.S. Economic History, Gale Encyclopedia of (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description Urban Studies Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description V, Back to Top Virology and AIDS Abstracts UM/RODP Only Description Guide W, Back to Top Web of Knowledge (WOK) UM Only Description Tutorial Web of Science (WOS), Part of Web of Knowledge UM Only Description Tutorial What Do I Read Next? UM/RODP Only Description Guide Wilson Business Full Text (Also part of Wilson Omnifile Mega) UM/RODP Only Description Guide Wilson Omnifile Mega Full Text Searches 11 databases simultaneously. UM/RODP Only Description Guide Women's Studies Encyclopedia UM/RODP Only Description Guide World Bank Open Access Description Guide WorldCat: OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide UM/RODP Only Description Guide WorldCat Dissertations and Theses Database UM/RODP Only Description Guide World of Earth Sciences (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library) UM/RODP Only Description Zoological Record, Part of Web of Knowledge UM Only Description Help X Y Z