T E L Tennessee Electronic Library www.tntel.info

Tennessee Electronic Library -- Free resources for all Tennesseans, including college students.    

Introduction to TEL (by Diane R. Morris)     

Resources for college students

The Search on the Home page searches over 40,000 different publications available through Gale including newspapers, magazines, scholarly academic journals, and audio and video collections. It does not include World Book entries, the genealogy records found in HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com, archival newspapers, or Transparent Language activities.

  • College students will find articles for a research project on nearly any topic. TEL's databases have tools for in-depth research!.
  • They can also get help finding current issues in the news which will help the with topic ideas.
  • Gives citation help. 
  • Lots of ways to narrow or "filter" your results. 
  • One way to filter results is by looking at the suggested subjects listed in the "Filter" area. 


Academic Onefile

This database contains peer-reviewed articles from academic journals and magazines. All topics are covered. 

Business databases

Entrepreneurship -- Articles about business topics from academic journals. 

Entrepreneurship:Gale Business  -- Covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, taxes and more. 

Transparent Language

Learn over 110 different languages with Transparent Language Online. You can learn English from 30 different languages. Lessons for kids too!

College: Gale in Context

For Argumentative research papers

Opposing Viewpoints

Gale ebooks

Newspaper databases

Health Databases

Health and Medicine

Health and Wellness