Databases: Remote Access Instructions

Students, faculty, and staff must log-on from off-campus locations using their username and password. If you have any questions ask a member of the library staff, or send us an email: library@mscc.edu.

To Find Articles in Journals, Magazines and Newspapers; Criticisms, eBooks, and Transcripts:

AccessScience

AccessScience is an Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology provided by McGraw-Hill.

America's News Magazines on NewsBank

Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines, with full-text articles.

An@tomy.TV

An@tomy.TV is a part of STAT!Ref and is the world's most detailed 3D model of human anatomy online. Enable Pop Ups before accessing Anatomy TV.

Article Multi-Search

Or, AGent is a versatile cross-platform application that allows simultaneous searching of up to 10 selected databases. The search summary screen summarizes the search results for each selected database.

ARTstor

ARTstor provides collections of art images for educational use, including paintings, drawings, objects, photographs, and art history. Note: ARTstor will function much better if the user will disable Pop-Up Blockers before doing their search. For instructor privileges, instructors may send an email to library@mscc.edu for the authorization code.

Chronicle of Higher Education

For complete access to the CoHE. Provided by TBR libraries.

CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing/Academic, and Nursing & Allied Health Collection Comprehensive

CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals. Health Source: Nursing/Academic This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. N&AHCC provides full-text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. There is some overlap among the three databases. Funding for these databases are provided by RODP.

Classical Music Library

Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to over the Internet. Provided by RODP.

ERIC

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.

ACLA Humanities E-Book

Over 1500 E-Books of high quality in the field of humanities. Formerly, the History E-Book Project.

InfoTrac/Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL)

All the standard InfoTrac and Thomson Gale PowerSearch databases. See these Tutorials for assistance.

InfoTrac/Additional Thomson Gale Databases

To access articles from these databases: the Biography Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, and Opposing Viewpoints.

JSTOR

JSTOR is the scholarly journal archive. Use for research of articles in journals.

Learning Express Library

Provided by TEL, Learning Express Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests. It provides immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of test results for civil service exams, GED, ACT, SAT, and many others. A username and password must be created by the user the first time they log in.

Lexis-Nexis

Use for general research of articles in periodicals, journals and newspapers. Includes transcripts of radio and television programs.

netLibrary

netLibary is a database that offers a collection of over 53,000 eBooks, and now over 1,200 eAudiobooks. You must create an account from a Motlow location to access the eBook collection.

Oxford African American Studies Center

The online authority on the African American experience.

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf

Created from Oxford's award-winning print scholarly references, these 17 individual e-reference resources can be accessed as a stand-alone resource with its own URL, and provide fast access to top-quality, authoritative information on a diversity of subjects.

Oxford English Dictionary

Online access to the Oxford English Dictionary, the accepted authority on the English language. Funding for this database is provided by RODP.

Oxford Reference Online Premium

For facts, figures, definitions, quotations, scholarly articles, and translations. Funding for this database is provided by RODP.

Points of View Reference Center by EBSCOhost

Points of View Reference Center(tm) 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 (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).

PsycARTICLES

Includes the full-text of fifty psychology journals from the American Psychological Association and other English language association journals.

SerialsSolutions

You can now search e-journals in InfoTrac, LexisNexis, and JSTOR by title; alphabetically (by browsing an A-Z list of titles); or by subject. This will assist you in locating the database holdings with full-text articles.

STAT!Ref

A collection of electronic resources for health care professionals. Funding for this database is provided by TennShare.

The Tennessean on NewsBank

Complete full-text articles of The Tennessean (1999-current), plus the Chattanooga Times-Free Press (12/14/2006-current); The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN (6/27/1990-current); and Knoxville News Sentinel (1991-current).

WilsonWeb OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition

A general database for articles, going back to 1983, about Art, Biology, Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Information Science, Legal, and Social Science all in one database. Funding for this database is provided by RODP.

Journals

To see a list of online journals that Motlow subscribes to. These online journals are a good source for articles. Some require special log-in information.

Gale Group Literary Index

This site indexes the Gale Group literary criticisms that are in print and are currently housed in the reference collections at the Main campus, McMinnville, and Fayetteville Libraries. This index is searchable by author, title and custom search, and works like a master index to the whole print collection. It does not provide the articles, but rather shows where they may be found in the print volumes.

Civil War Research Center

The Motlow College Civil War Research Center exists for the purpose of collecting material relating to all aspects of life in the area of southeastern Middle Tennessee, the area served by the college, from the period 1860-1866. These electronic archives are made available by Motlow College with the support of gifts to the Motlow College Foundation.

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FindArticles

An archive of published full-text articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. FindArticles is a content-distribution partnership between LookSmart and the Gale Group.

Magportal

A free site that indexes full-text articles from over 150 online periodicals that are not included in standard library commercial databases and some that may not be found by standard Web search engines.

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