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First-Year Composition
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.
Click here to check out the complete inventory of databases available to you.
- OneSearchOne 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 CompleteThis 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 SourceCross-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. - JSTORMultidisciplinary collection of selected scholarly journals, books, images, and primary sources in humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
- APA PsycINFOProvides indexing and abstracts of international psychological literature from the 1800s to present.
- Gale Academic OneFileMultidisciplinary 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.
Interactive Guide
• There is a 5-question quiz at the end of the guide.
Tutorial Information
- Tutorial completion time.
- Takes 5-10 minutes.
- Which device types will tutorial work on?
- Works best on desktop / laptop or tablet.
- Which browsers will tutorial work on?
- Works on all major browsers.
https://tiny.utk.edu/finding-books
Finding Articles
This interactive guide will walk you through finding and accessing articles using the University Libraries' OneSearch and the database Academic Search Complete.
Interactive Guide
• There is a 5-question quiz at the end of the guide.
Tutorial Information
- Tutorial completion time.
- Takes 5-10 minutes.
- Which device types will tutorial work on?
- Works best on desktop / laptop or tablet.
- Which browsers will tutorial work on?
- Works on all major browsers.
https://tiny.utk.edu/finding-articles
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.
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.
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.