The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is an online library that gives Tennessee residents access to magazines, journals, newspapers, essays, e-books, primary source materials, test preparation, homework help, genealogy records, career search, and more! TEL resources are available free to the public from any computer with Internet access in Tennessee.
Click on the links below to learn more about featured resources on TEL:
- General Research
- Elementary School
- Middle School
- High School
- College
- Educators
- Business Center
- Language Learning
- Health & Medical
- Test Prep
- Career Tools
- Genealogy
General Research
Tennessean (2002-Current)
Full-text articles from The Tennessean newspaper, including Nashville and Middle Tennessee regional coverage.
Newspapers.com Southeast Edition
Newspapers.com Southeast Edition provides online access to historical newspapers from the southeast United States including over 2000 historic and recent newspapers in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
General OneFile: Gale
One-stop source for magazine and journal articles covering general interest topics along with reference, newspaper, and audio content.
Academic OneFile: Gale
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in all major disciplines. Coverage from 1980’s to present.
News OneFile: Gale
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.
Popular Magazines OneFile: Gale
Provides access to more than 1,000 full-text magazines covering subjects such as current events, sports, science, health, and more.
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. Resources include elementary STEM resources to college level reference materials.
Gale Books and Authors
Gale Books and Authors is a reader’s go-to site for everything: book suggestions from experts, titles, biographies and more.
Tennessee Blue Book
The Tennessee Blue Book serves as a manual of useful information on our state and government, both past and present.
Elementary School
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. Includes homework help, Tennessee state history, coding, and eBooks.
Elementary: Gale in Context
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.
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 Kids
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 eBooks
Includes highly illustrated, engaging titles that support a span of curriculum areas and reading levels.
Gale K12 Books
Gale K12 Ebooks is a collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research for elementary, middle and high school. These eBooks are available 24/7 with no checkout.
Tennessee Blue Book: A History of Tennessee- Student Edition
The Tennessee Blue Book: A History of Tennessee- Student Edition is written for students in upper elementary and middle school who are studying the history of Tennessee.
Middle School
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.
World Book Discover
Provides reference resources for students reading below grade level with content and tools specifically developed for these students.
World Book eBooks
Includes highly illustrated, engaging titles that support a span of curriculum areas and reading levels.
Gale K12 Ebooks
Gale K12 Ebooks is a collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research for elementary, middle and high school. These eBooks are available 24/7 with no checkout.
Tennessee Blue Book: A History of Tennessee- Student Edition
The Tennessee Blue Book: A History of Tennessee- Student Edition is written for students in upper elementary and middle school who are studying the history of Tennessee.
High School
Gale: K12 Ebooks
Gale K12 Ebooks is a collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research for elementary, middle and high school. These eBooks are available 24/7 with no checkout.
High School Edition: Gale OneFile
Gale OneFile: High School Edition provides access to cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards. Students can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals.
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.
Gale: LitFinder
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Opposing Viewpoints: Gale In Context
Covers today’s social issues, from capital punishment to gun control. Includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, and infographics that help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
World Book Advanced
Online encyclopedia that features thousands of reference articles, primary sources, and online books. Also includes access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia materials.
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.
College
Academic OneFile: Gale
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in all major disciplines. Coverage from 1980’s to present.
College: Gale in Context
Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
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. Resources include elementary STEM resources to college level reference materials.
Educators
Gale Onefile: Educator’s Reference Complete
Covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college with topics such as administration, bilingual education, child development, education policy, and technology. Many of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.
Business Center
Gale Onefile: Business
Coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
Gale: Business Insights: Essentials
Provides in depth coverage of businesses, including company profiles, industry profiles, products and brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories, and full-text periodical articles.
Gale Onefile: Economics and Theory
Provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics and related fields with an emphasis on titles indexed in the American Economic Association’s EconLit bibliography.
Gale Onefile: Entrepreneurship
Get insights, tips, strategies, and success stories from academic journals and magazines.
Entrepreneurship: Gale Business
Covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, taxes and more.
Language Learning
Transparent Language Online
Learn over 110 different languages with Transparent Language Online. You can learn English from 30 different languages. Lessons for kids too! You will need to create a free account to access this database.
Health and Medical
Gale Onefile: Health and Medicine
Provides up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics for students, consumer health researchers, and health care professionals.
Gale: Health and Wellness
Provides authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative and complementary medical practices. This is a consumer health database.
Gale Onefile: Nursing and Allied Health
Covers all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing‐focused curriculum.
Gale Onefile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
Covers the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine with a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
Test Prep
Test and Career Prep
Take online practice tests and use test prep ebooks. Search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet financial needs.
Career Tools
Peterson’s Career Prep
Create a free account to start searching for careers and jobs and create resumes and cover letters with professional templates.
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep
Take online practice tests and use test prep ebooks. Search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet financial needs.
Vocations and Career
Provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career.
Genealogy
Heritage Quest
Search U.S. census records, full-text family and local books, Revolutionary War pension applications, Freedman’s Bank records and more.
Historical Tennessean (1812-2002)
Access articles from the Nashville newspaper from 1812 to 2002. The Tennessee ran a lot of articles covering Middle Tennessee communities, including Lewis County.
Tennessean (2010-Current)
Full-text articles from The Tennessean newspaper, including Nashville and Middle Tennessee regional coverage.
Newspapers.com Southeast Edition
Newspapers.com Southeast Edition provides online access to historical newspapers from the southeast United States including over 2000 historic and recent newspapers in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Tennessee Records on Ancestry.com
Tennessee records, including birth, death, and tax lists are available online thru a partnership with Ancestry.com. While other Ancestry.com resources require a subscription; these records are free for Tennesseans.
