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. You will need USJ's user name and password. (Username: usjbruins; password: jetufeno)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
This is a paid subscription database and will need USJ's password.
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
• 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
