Great Database Challenge
Great Database Challenge
The focus of this challenge is to get students to discover the world of library databases.
The A-Z list on the library website lists all of the databases.
Including some free open databases.
- Academic OneFile
- Academic Search Premier
- American History in Video (North America)
- Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
- Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
- ARTstor
- BBC Shakespeare Plays
- Books and Authors
- Business Collection
- Business Economics & Theory Collection
- Business Insights: Essentials
- Career Transitions
- Chronicle of Higher Education This is a site license for all NSCC.
- CINAHL with Full Text
- Classical Music Library
- CollegeSource Online Web site
- Culinary Arts
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Directory of Open Access Scholarly Journals in Education
- eBook Academic Collection - North America
- eBook Clinical Collection - Worldwide
- eBook EngineeringCore - Worldwide
- eBook History Collection - North America
- eBook Religion Collection - Worldwide
- eBook Subscription BusinessCore - Worldwide
- Educator's Reference Complete
- Environmental Studies & Policy
- ERIC
- Films on Demand Streaming films
- Gale Literary Sources
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- General OneFile includes newspapers
- General Science Collection
- Health & Wellness Resource Center
- Health Reference Center Academic
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- Heritage Quest Online Ancestry Discover family histories.
- Home Improvement Collection
- Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection
- Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
- IInforme Academico
- Issues & Controversies in American History
- JSTOR Arts & Sciences I - VIII
- JSTOR eBooks: Open Access
- Literature Resource Center
- Local Bound holdings -- Nashville State Community College Shelved A-Z by title, 2nd floor
- Local Current holdings -- Nashville State Community College Shelved A-Z, current shelves main floor
- MAS Ultra - School Edition
- MDPI Open Access Journals
- MERLOTx: Student learning library
- Nashville State Community College LibGuides
- Nashville State Community College Library Catalog Find books, ebooks and films that the library has for checkout.
- New York Times
- Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive
- Open Library
- Opposing Viewpoints In Context
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Reference Premium
- Professional Collection
- Professional Development Collection
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
- PsycARTICLES
- Research In Context
- Safari Technical Books
- ScienceDirect Free and Delayed Access Titles
- ScienceDirect Open Access Titles
- Scribner Writers on GVRL
- SIRS Knowledge Source
- SIRS WebSelect
- Small Business Collection
- Small Business Resource Center
- Student Resources In Context
- Taylor & Francis - WALDO
- Tennessean
- Testing & Education Reference Center: TERC Includes practice tests and study tools for Accuplacer, graduate exams, NCLEX, & more!
- Today's Science The major sources include Science, Nature, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), PLoS (Public Library of Science), New England Journal of Medicine, and numerous other scientific journals as well as a broad array of both focused and general journalistic sources, including Scientific American, Science News, New Scientist, Discover, National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.
- Twayne's Authors on GVRL
- Vocational & Career Collection
- World Book Advanced
- World Book Online Reference Center
- World History in Video (North America)
Students will be given a list of the library databases that they can check off as they discover them. The challenge for them is to not use Mr. Google when doing library research for an entire semester.
Where is the best place to find old newspaper articles?
Historical Newspapers LibGuide
What is the best database to browse current issues for topic ideas?
The current physical newspaper or magazines.
What is the best place to find pictures of works of Art?
Where is the best place to search everything the library has access to?
QuickSearch (564,749,573 items) This is the top box on the library homepage.
Academic Search Premier
General OneFile
What is the best database for peer-reviewed philosophy articles?
Philosophy and Religion LibGuide LibGuides help you find databases for some subjects. Not all subjects have a LibGuide.
What database gives you the best company information?
What database is best for articles about DNA?
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus (H.W. Wilson)
General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Where is the best place to search for open educational resources? (OER's)
MERLOTThis is like Google for education
Open Library
Where can you find the Library Database Story?
Where is the best place to search all of the library's resources?
Online Library Catalog
What results have emerged?