Research Guide for Students
CBHS subscribes to several Research Databases to provide controlled content that includes published, edited, scholarly and substantive documents. This includes newspapers, magazines, journals and reference books.
Your best bet when doing any type of research for course assignments is to use library databases. They were built with you--the researcher--in mind, and include many tools to help you organize, cite, and save the resources you find.
The video tutorials in the right column of this page will guide you through the process of finding research topics within GALE resources. GALE provides many of the databases in the CBHS Library collection.
The additional videos below demonstrate the use of Gale Tools that will help you annotate, save, and organize your research articles.
Gale Tools - Highlights and Notes (1:08) This tutorial shows you how to use Highlights and Notes to keep track of key concepts and document sections within many Gale resources.
Gale Tools: Get Link (:46) This tutorial shows you how to use the Get Link tool found in many Gale resources to create persistent links back to documents, searches, and more.
Gale Tools: Cite (:59) This tutorial shows you how to use Citation Tools found in many Gale resources to simplify the research process.
Gale Tools - Downloading and Sending to Google Drive and OneDrive (:54) This tutorial shows you how to download results or use the Send to tool to add documents to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive from many Gale resources.
This is a link to a menu of all GALE video tutorials. Gale Resources: Video Tutorials
The following links are tutorials for some of the other databases in the CBHS Library collection:
Intro to Salem Press
Getting the most out of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Infobase: World Religions overview
Infobase: Bloom's Literature overview
Infobase: Classroom Video On Demand intro
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 includes many GALE databases as well as World Book, HeritageQuest, the Tennessean, State Library resources, R.E.A.D.S. ebooks and audiobooks, and Transparent Language. .TEL resources are available free to the public from any computer with Internet access in Tennessee.