Academic OneFile
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in all major disciplines. Coverage from 1980's to present.
Free resources for Tennesseans
Multidisciplinary
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Books & Authors
Looking for a good book, but not sure where to start? Books & Authors explores today’s popular fiction and non-fiction titles as well as the classics of yesterday. This is a great resource for readers' advisory.
Gale Ebooks
Gale Ebooks is a collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These eBooks are available 24/7 with no checkout.
General OneFile
One-stop source for magazine and journal articles covering general interest topics along with reference, newspaper, and audio content. With millions of articles available, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.
High School: Gale In Context
Covers a broad range of topics, people, places, and events in an engaging online experience to help high school students with papers, projects, and presentations.
Kids InfoBits
Covers a broad range of elementary school topics in one accessible resource. It features a modern, graphical interface that improves navigation understanding to offer students an introduction to database searching that is in step with their skill level.
Middle School: Gale In Context
Designed for middle school students, provides access to reference works, biographies, magazine and journal articles, primary source documents, and multimedia.
News
Provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.
Opposing Viewpoints: Gale In Context
Covers today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. Includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, and infographics that help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
Power Search
Searches multiple TEL databases to provide a comprehensive collection of popular magazines, specialized journals, newspapers, and wire services.
TEL4U.org
The Tennessee Electronic Library's website for grades Pre-K‐5 provides a safe place for kids to go online for educational and fun websites.
Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA)
Digital repository of Tennessee history and culture featuring historical records, photographs, documents, maps, postcards, film, audio and other original materials of enduring value.
World Book Advanced
Online encyclopedia, perfect for high school students, that features thousands of reference articles, primary sources, and online books. It also includes up-to-the-minute access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia materials.
World Book Discover
Provides reference resources for students reading below grade level with content and tools specifically developed for these students.
World Book Early Learning
An immersive, educational experience for young learners eager to learn more about the world around them while learning to read.
World Book eBooks
Includes highly illustrated, engaging titles that support a span of curriculum areas and reading levels.
World Book Kids
World Book Kids is a general reference website developed especially for young students. The site offers image-based navigation, easy‐to‐read articles, thousands of illustrations, and a wealth of engaging games, science projects, and activities.
World Book Online
World Book Online will allow you to navigate easily to all the World Book encyclopedias included in TEL.
World Book Student
Features more than 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles, biographies, videos, images, and activities that support middle school research needs.
World Book Timelines
Allows students to discover and map important events in society and culture. Users can browse more than 400 ready-made, interactive timelines covering various periods in history or create their own timeline on any subject.
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