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Biography Resource Center
Award-winning biographies from respected Gale sources with related full-text articles including images and links to websites. Search for people both current and historic.

Gale’s databases link to articles in Gale Virtual Reference Library.  To login at home, click on county of residence, then click on "access your databases" link of your home library.

Heritage Quest Online provides libraries with a unique and growing collection of research materials for genealogists and historians. It includes the digitized UMI Genealogy & Local History Collection, 1790-1930 U.S. Federal Census, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, the Freedman’s Bank records and Private Relief Actions, Memorials and Petitions from the Lexis Nexis® U.S. Serial Set.

History Resource Center: US History Resource Center: U.S. provides access to historical (primary) documents, articles from reference titles, and full-text journals.

LearningExpress Library offers practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests.

Literature Resources contains literary criticism, reviews. biographical information, and literary movements and genres. Included are Literature Resource Center,
Literature Resources from Gale,
Scribner Writers Series, and The Twayne Authors Series

A database of over 30,000 commercially published e-books; search their entire contents all at once or individually. Access available through Harding’s online catalog

Tennessee Newspaper Collection provides full-text coverage of The Chattanooga Times-Free Press, The Commercial Appeal, Knoxville News-Sentinel, and The TennesseanAmerica's News Magazines covers U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology.

Opposing Viewpoints    A full-text resource for current social issues that helps students with researching, analyzing, and organizing various types of data for research assignments, persuasive essays, and debates.

Points of View Reference Center – Contains thousands of full-text sources that provide information to multiple sides of a current issue

Science Database Millions of articles from over 1,600 magazines, journals and reference materials on all aspects of the sciences.

Social Issues Resources Sirs is a general reference database containing full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues