A large part of duPont Library's ebooks, electronic journals, and databases are only available to current University students, faculty, and staff due to licensing restrictions. Most of our scholarly materials are also available to walk-in users who are on-site in the library building. Ask for a special login at the Circulation Desk.
However, some of our online resources are also available to the community remotely and this list will help you to find those resources more easily.
For all of the resources below except for the Tennessee Electronic Library, you will need a library card. You can apply for a card using the form on this page. We will email you the card number then you can pick up the physical card at the Circulation Desk after paying the one-time $10 new library card fee.
Hoopla is a digital media service that enables you to borrow a great selection of eBooks, comics, audiobooks, movies, television shows, and music albums via your browser, smartphone or tablet (iOS 6 and via select Android devices). See more information on this page.
OverDrive is a digital service that has ebooks and e-audiobooks available to view online or download to a device. Complete instructions are on this page.
Birds of the World is a resource that brings together scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology—Birds of North America and Neotropical Birds (originally published by the Cornell Lab) with Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive and Bird Families of the World (originally published by Lynx Edicions)—into one rich and colorful hub where you can find comprehensive, authoritative information on birds. With the integration of millions of bird observations from eBird and images from the Macaulay Library, Birds of the World is a powerful ornithological resource.
The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a virtual library that all Tennesseans can access from their home computer, school computer lab, or smartphone – anywhere with an Internet connection. TEL provides access to over 400,000 electronic resources including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test preparation materials, federal census records, Tennessee primary source materials, and more.
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