First-Year Composition

This guide will help students find primary and secondary sources for English 101, 102, 118, 198, 298 assignments.

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Finding Books, Articles, and More!

There are many databases available to UTK students through the library. Listed here are some of our librarians' recommended databases for finding sources.

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OneSearch
One Search finds items from UT Collections as well as journal and newspaper articles, books and book chapters, and much more from multiple library resources.
Academic Search Complete
This multidisciplinary database covers magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers and is a good place to start for any subject.
Please see this FAQ for extra instructions about accessing EBSCOhost databases or ebooks via screen reader or keyboard navigation. For more help, please contact eproblems@utk.edu.
ERIC & Education Source
Cross-search the two primary databases for education together on EBSCO's platform.
While it's convenient to search multiple databases at once, you will lose some advanced search options, and thesaurus/subject terms will be inconsistent.
Please see this FAQ for extra instructions about accessing EBSCOhost databases or ebooks via screen reader or keyboard navigation. For more help, please contact eproblems@utk.edu.
JSTOR
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Multidisciplinary collection of selected scholarly journals, books, images, and primary sources in humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
APA PsycINFO
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Provides indexing and abstracts of international psychological literature from the 1800s to present.
Gale Academic OneFile
Multidisciplinary full-text and citations database. A great place to begin your research!

Please see this FAQ for extra instructions about accessing Gale databases and ebooks via screen reader or keyboard navigation.
For more help, please contact eproblems@utk.edu.

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Tutorials

Finding Books and More

This interactive guide will walk you through using the University Libraries' OneSearch to look for books and other materials.

Finding Articles

This interactive guide will walk you through finding and accessing articles using the University Libraries' OneSearch and the database Academic Search Complete.

eJournals Search

BrowZine is a research tool that allows easy browsing through academic journals. It is a great resource if you're unsure which journal or database you should use for a research project. Search here for journals by Title, Subject, or ISSN:

Finding Statistics

You may find statistics from governmental agencies by adding site:.gov to the end of a Google search. For example, a Google search for high school graduation rates site:.gov would bring back information and statistics from the U.S. Department of Education (ed.gov) and other government agencies.

CQ Researcher is another good place to find statistics. Search by topic, then look under the "Maps/Graphs" heading on the left of each topical report.

ProQuest Statistical Insight (1973-present)

Index to statistical data of all kinds from federal, state, private, and international sources. Links to full-text when available. Previously known as LexisNexis Statistical.

Statista

Statista is a statistics portal integrating data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single platform. This also includes data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

World Bank Data

Contains World Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, and additional statistical data files from the World Bank.