Research

Online Reference Resources

Tennessee Electronic Library

The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a virtual library that you can access from your home pc, your school library computer lab, or your iPhone – 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!

Arts and Humanities

• Academic OneFile (Gale)
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
• Gale PowerSearch
• Junior Edition (Gale)
• Kids InfoBits (Gale)
• Literature Resources from Gale
• Religion & Philosophy Database (Gale)
• Student Edition (Gale)

Business, Economics, and Legal

• Academic OneFile (Gale)
• Business, Economics, and Theory Collection (Gale)
• Criminal Justice Collection (Gale)
• General Business File ASAP (Gale)
• General Buisness File International (Gale)
• General OneFile (Gale)
• General Reference Center Gold (Gale)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (e-books) (Gale)
•  Encyclopedia of Small Business
• InfoTrac Small Business Collection (Gale)
• Insurance and Liability Collection (Gale)

Current Events

• Gale PowerSearch
• Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO)

Education & Library Science

• Educators Reference Complete (Gale)
• InfoTrac Educators 200 (Gale)
• InfoTrac Information Science and Library Issues Collection (Gale)
• Professional Collection (Gale)

Encyclopedias

• World Book Encyclopedia
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture

Foreign Language

• Informe! (Gale) (Spanish Language)
• Student Edition (Gale)

Genealogy

• HeritageQuest Online (ProQuest)

General Reference

• World Book Encyclopedia
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• General Reference Center Gold (Gale)
• Academic OneFile (Gale)
• Junior Edition (Gale)
• Student Edition (Gale)

Health and Nutrition

• Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
• Health Reference Center Academic (Gale)

History & Social Studies

• Gale Virtual Reference Library(e-books) (Gale)
  • Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
  • St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
• HeritageQuest Online – U.S. Serial Set (ProQuest)
• Tennessee Landmark Documents   (Tennessee History)
• Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA) (Tennessee History)
• U.S. History Collection (Gale)
• Volunteer Voices (Tennessee History)
• World History Collection (Gale)
• Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO)
• Student Edition (Gale)

Jobs & Careers

• InfoTrac Vocations, Careers, and Technical Education Collection (Gale)
• LearningExpress Job Search & Workplace Skills Learning Center
• LearningExpress Jobs & Careers Learning Center
• LearningExpress Library eBooks

Language Arts & Literature

• Literature Resource Center (Gale)
• Books and Authors (Gale)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library(Gale)
  • Scribners Writer’s Online
  • Twayne’s Authors Online
• Academic OneFile (Gale)
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
• Student Edition (Gale)

Lifestyle and Personal Interest

• Culinary Arts Collection (Gale)
• Gardening, Landscape and Horticulutre Collection (Gale)
• Home Improvement Collection (Gale)
• Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection (Gale)
• Pop Culture Collection (Gale)

Magazines & Newspapers

• America’s News Magainzes (NewsBank)
• InfoTrac NewsStand (Gale)
• Gale PowerSearch
• National Newspaper Index (Gale)
• Popular Magazines (Gale)
• Tennessee Newspaper Collection (NewsBank)

Mathematics

• Academic OneFile (Gale)
• Junior Edition (Gale)
• Student Edition (Gale)

Podcasts

• Gale PowerSearch

Reader’s Advisory

• Books and Authors (Gale)

Science & Medicine

• Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (Gale)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (e-books) (Gale)
• Beecham’s Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
• Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
• World of Earth Science
• Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
• Health Reference Center Academic  (Gale)
• Nursing and Allied Health Collection (Gale)
• Psychology Collection (Gale)
• Science Database (Gale)
• Academic OneFile (Gale)
• General OneFile (Gale)
• Kids InfoBits
• Student Edition (Gale

Social Sciences

• Communications and Mass Media Collection (Gale)
• Diversity Studies Collection (Gale)
• Pop Culture Collection (Gale)
• Religion & Philosophy Database (Gale)
• War and Terrorism Collection (Gale)

Technology

• Academic OneFile (Gale)
• Computer Database (Gale)

Test Preparation

• LearningExpress Library
  • ACT Test Preparation/College Preparation Learning Center
  • Licensing Exams Practice Tests/Jobs & Careers Learning Center

Videos

• Gale PowerSearch
• Health and Wellness Resource Center   (Gale)
• Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO)