Databases &  Online Books

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online offers Oxford's high-quality bilingual language reference content in an expanding range of languages.  Launching with French, German, Spanish, and Italian, this innovative website features essential language resources never before available online - fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.

TeachingBooks.net provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, and a wealth of multimedia resources on K–12 books to support reading and library activities for all grades and content areas.

 The database World Folklore and Folklife can be found through Greenwood Press' Daily Life Online.  This resource provides users with not only full-text of folk tales, but also information on celebrations and rituals, food and drink, holidays and festivals, music and dance, religion, myths, urban legends, and traditional arts and crafts.

Learn about the history of some of our favorite people, places, and things, and about the influence popular culture has on today's world.

In Daily Life through History, students and researchers discover the everyday details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful.

Recently revised, improved and expanded, this user-friendly database is an invaluable online resource that presents comprehensive information and unique insights into the military conflicts that have defined our world's identity from its beginning to today.

SGC subscribes to 7 Facts on File databases: American History Online, African-American History Online, Modern World History, Ancient & Medieval History Online, Science Online, Today's Science Online, and Bloom's Literary Reference Online.  Click the icon above to search one or all of these titles.

Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history.

Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.

Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present.

Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.

Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.

TEL provides free access for all Tennessee citizens to full text periodical and reference source information. From the link listed above, students can search Contemporary Literary Criticism, Literature Resource Center, Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold, Gale Virtual Reference Library, National Newspaper Index, Twayne's Author Series,  Scribner's Writers Series  and several other useful databases. 

A key feature of World Book Advanced is its integrated content, allowing students to search across a vast collection of primary source documents, e-books, and encyclopedia articles as well as multimedia elements, editor-selected Web sites, current magazine selections, and more. Additionally, customizable interfaces and personalized content allow users to create and save information on World Book Advanced, including research notes, compilations, citations, and timelines.

EBSCO offers access to Academic Search Elite, Religion and Philosophy, Literary Reference, and Points of View.  If you are on the SGC campus, click the above link for access to EBSCO.  If you wish to access these databases off campus, please contact the librarians for username and password.

NetLibrary provides access to your library’s e-Books collection. These e-sources are digital print versions of books, journals, and database content. All of NetLibrary's content is searchable and accessible in Alexandria, your school's online library catalog.  The first time users log in to NetLibrary will have to be while on campus so that the company  may set up usernames and passwords.  

JSTOR provides access to full-text articles from refereed, academic journals.  JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections.

 ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). 

 "The OED is the "ultimate authority on the English language."   It not only provides the definition of a word, but also pronunciations, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations in which the word has been used.  

Naxos is a music database containing more than 38,000 CDs and over 552,000 tracks of music. 

If you wish to use any of these databases off campus, be sure to stop by the library and visit with Mr. Covington or Mrs. Allison and get the remote access passwords.