USJ's Electronic Library
Through funding from the Academic Support Group, USJ offers its students and parents access to electronic databases for doing research and other projects. The paid subscription databases are password protected. If you are off campus and do not have the password, contact your child's teacher or a school librarian.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, some dating back to 1665. JSTOR's multidisciplinary collections include six Arts and Sciences collections and the Biological Sciences collections. JSTOR's discipline-specific collections include Business, Business II, Ecology & Botany, Health & General Sciences, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, and Music. This is a paid subscription database and will need USJ's user name and password. Contact your teacher or the US/MS Library if you do not have the user name and password.
Facts on File Databases
The following databases are on a paid subscription and will need USJ's user name and password. Contact your teacher or the US/MS Library if you do not have them.
• American History Online: Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
• Modern World History Online: Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present.
• Ancient and Medieval History Online: Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
• Science Online: Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
• Health Reference Center: Provides clear and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body.
• World Atlas: Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information.
• Bloom's Literary Reference Online: Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
• Today's Science: Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.
• The World News Digest: Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print.
• Issues & Controversies: Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
• Issues & Controversies in American History: Builds a deeper understanding of how historical events have shaped our nation by exploring the key players and the battles they fought.
Tennessee Electronic Library
The Tennessee Electronic Library provides free access to selected electronic databases for school, academic, not-for-profit, and public libraries in the state of Tennessee. Search the Tennessee Electronic Library databases by subject or keywords for news content, scholarly articles, health and wellness information, literary criticism, religion and philosophy information, and many more subjects. You can access the Tennessee Electronic Library through USJ's link if you have the school password. You can bypass USJ's password, by going to access.gale.com/tel2.
More Electronic Library links
• Purdue Online Writing Lab provides an MLA Formatting and Style Guide: owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
• Grammar Girl gives you informative and fun tips on grammar. You can even download podcasts on grammar. grammar.qdnow.com
• Merriam-Webster Word of the Day: Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources. For the word of the day: www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
• Find Articles gives you access to millions of articles from thousand of top publications. www.findarticles.com
• Internet Public Library (Literary Criticism) is a omprehensive guide to literary criticism on the Internet. www.ipl.org/div/litcrit
• Mag Portal-A is a service that helps find individual magazine articles posted on the Web. Includes some literary criticism. www.magportal.com
• National Geographic Index-Search offers more than 108 years of National Geographic publications. www.nationalgeographic.com/publications
• Bartleby.com is the preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse, providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web. www.bartleby.com
• Assignment Calculator allows students to see how long it will take them on a research paper or any assignment. www.lib.umn.edu/help/calculator
