Gale Content Training

Carolyn Beckford, PhD

Gale Trainer

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AGENDA

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❑ About Gale

❑ Current Content❑ Academic OneFile ❑ General OneFile ❑ Custom News

❑ Gale Reference Complete ❑ trial package❑ description, content, dates❑ tools and features

❑ Additional support for our users

❑ Demonstration

WHO WE ARE

Archive Digitisation:

Major Archive material

on your Desktop

Gale National Geographic

LearningHigher Education

Aggregation:

Journals, Newspapers,

Magazines, Reference

Publishing:

Reference Titles,

Encyclopaedias, Directories

Current Gale Content

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CURRENT CONTENT

❑Gale Academic OneFile

❑ articles from databases of scholarly journals, other trusted periodicals

❑ ideal for academic research

❑Gale General OneFile

❑ general interest content

❑ ideal for general and vocational research

❑Gale Custom News

❑ select custom journal content

ACCESS

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ACADEMIC ONEFILE

❑ Aimed at Universities

❑ covers academic subjects ❑ from Archaeology to Zoology

❑ ideal for research libraries, graduate schools, universities and colleges

❑ Academic quality content for students, scholars and general researchers

❑Contains millions of articles, PDF, HTML full text

OVERVIEW

ACADEMIC ONEFILE

❑ Includes major reference sets

❑ Gale Encyclopedia of Science

❑ Encyclopedia of World Biography

❑Also includes

❑Full text of The Economist from 1988 to the present

❑Full-text of The New York Times from 1985 to present

❑Full-text of The Times and Financial Times

❑Full-text for periodicals covered in major bibliographic resources such

❑ CINAHL, BIOSIS, MLA, PsycInfo, ERIC, EconLit, and RILM

OVERVIEW

ACADEMIC ONEFILE

❑ Various media and content type❑ audio, video, images

❑ Podcasts and transcripts

❑ Browse by discipline ❑ helps users uncover content

OVERVIEW

GENERAL ONEFILE

❑ Source for general interest content

❑ Comes from news and periodical articles on a wide range of general topics: ❑vocational – art, fashion design, farming, etc.❑business, computers, economics, education, ❑environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature ❑art, politics, science, social science

❑Some academic content

❑Serves a wide audience of readers

❑Browse by topic

OVERVIEW

❑ Strojniski Vestnik - Journal of Mechanical Engineering

❑ Studia Psychologica: Journal for Basic Research in Psychological Sciences

❑ SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics

❑ Economic and Managerial Spectrum

❑ Image Analysis and Stereology

❑ E+M Ekonomie a Management

❑ Folia Zoologica

❑ Obrana a Strategie/Defence & Strategy

❑ Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business

❑ Journal of Vertebrate Biology

❑ Central European Geology

❑ Hungarian Studies: A Journal of the International Association for Hungarian Studies and Balassi Institute

❑ Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle

❑ Pollack Periodica: An International Journal for Engineering and Information Sciences

❑ Studia Musicologica

❑ Studia ScientiarumMathematicarum Hungarica

❑ Finnish Trade Review

❑ IPI Global Journalist (Austria)

❑ Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology (Denmark)

❑ Lex Localis-Journal of Local Self-Government (Slovenia)

❑ Management: Journal of Contemporary Management Issues (Czech Republic)

❑ The New Presence: The Prague Journal of Central European Affairs

❑ Report on the Austrian Economy

❑ Economic Survey Finland

REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTENT

GALE ACADEMIC AND GENERAL PERIODICALS

Technical Updates

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NEW PRODUCT MENU

NEW PRODUCT MENU

Gale Reference Complete - GRC

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Gale Reference Complete Platforms

PowerSearchGale Primary

SourcesGale Literary

Sources

Gale Academic OneFileGale General OneFile

Gale OneFile NewsGale eBooks

Archives Unbound

Gale Literature CriticismLRC and DLB

LitFinderScribner’s and Twayne’s

Something About the AuthorContemporary Authors

❑ Largest package of current journals, newspapers and magazines available❑ Includes Gale Academic and General OneFile

❑ Related content can be cross-searched to maximise time and results

❑ Literature ❑ criticisms, commentaries and essays,❑ including Dictionary of Literary Biography

❑ Gale-published reference eBooks❑ almost 2,000 full text eBooks❑ more added all the time

❑ Archives Unbound❑ Primary Source, historical archive collections

WHAT IS GRC?

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GALE REFERENCE COMPLETE - GRC

INTUITIVE PLATFORM EXPERIENCE

Key Literature Product

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Literature Criticism

Biographies

Primary WorksJournals and

Topic Overviews

FOUR TYPES OF LITERATURE CONTENT

❑Gale’s largest online collection of Literature

❑It comprises

❑Literature Criticism Online

❑Literature Resource Center

❑LitFinder

❑Scribner Writers

❑Twayne’s Authors

❑Dictionary of Literary Biography

❑Something About the Author

❑Contemporary Authors

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GALE LITERATURE SOURCE

❑The Core of the platform

❑All-round database - criticisms, biographies, reviews, literary works

❑120,000+ Essays❑155,000 complete entries from two biography series

❑488 full-text literary journals❑52 with embargoes ❑ 347 peer-reviewed❑Equates to over 1.7 Million articles❑Over 11,000 work and topic overviews❑More than 41,000 poems, plays and short stories

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LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER

❑Materials include playbills, diary entries, pamphlets, monographs and letters – primary sources

❑Gale’s Literary Criticism Series:❑Contemporary Literary Criticism ❑20th Century Literature Criticism ❑19th Century Literature Criticism ❑Literature Criticism 1400-1800 ❑Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism ❑Shakespearean Criticism ❑Children's Literature Review ❑Drama Criticism ❑Poetry Criticism ❑Short Story Criticism

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LITERATURE CRITICISM

LIT FINDER

One of the broadest collections of full-text poetry and works of fiction on the web

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❑Signed, scholarly overviews of authors, works, topics

❑Covers the world’s most influential literary figures from all eras and genres

❑Often the ONLY authoritative reference article in English on a particular author

❑Dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood while placing writers in the larger perspective of history

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DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY

❑SATA examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults

❑More than 260 volumes

❑Includes well-known and emerging talents; often the only readily available source for emerging talent

❑SATA includes the specially commissioned autobiographical essays from Something About the Author: Autobiography Series

CHILDREN / YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

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SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR

❑Collections - Scribner

❑ American Writers Collection

❑ British Writers Collection

❑ European Writers Collection

❑ World and Genre Writers Collection

❑Collections - Twayne

❑ U.S. Authors Series Classic

❑ World Authors Series Classic

❑ British Writers Series Classic

❑ Masterwork Series

❑ Short Fiction Series

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SCRIBNER WRITERS & TWAYNE’S AUTHORS

LITERATURE INTERFACE

Primary Sources Product

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ARCHIVES UNBOUND

❑300+ small unique Primary Source collections

❑Specialised digital archive collections to support research and teaching….and growing

❑Covers medieval period – new millennium

❑from 1256 to 2014

❑Documents include government documents, monographs, newspapers and correspondence sources

❑Supporting multi-disciplinary research

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❑Sourced from major research libraries❑ British Library❑ U.S. and U.K. National Archives❑ Library of Congress

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ARCHIVES UNBOUND

❑ Unique Collections:

❑ Czechoslovakia from Liberation to Communist State, 1945-63: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files

❑ East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963

❑ German Folklore and Popular Culture: Das Kloster Scheible

❑ Poland: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1963

❑ Women, War and Society, 1914-1918

❑ Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement

❑ Witchcraft in Europe and America

❑ Allied Propaganda in WWII

❑ Correspondence from German Concentration Camps

❑ Methodist Episcopal Church Archives: Missionary Activities

❑ The Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944

❑ Socialism and National Unity in Yugoslavia, 1945-63: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files

❑ Romania: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1963

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PRIMARY SOURCE

PRIMARY SOURCE PLATFORM

Periodicals

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❑Academic One File❑Current full text of The Economist (1988 to present) ❑The New York Times (1985 to present) ❑The Times and The Financial Times❑Full-text periodicals of major bibliographic resources ❑Podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN

❑General One File❑Broad curated list of general interest publications❑ Includes peer reviewed journals with insights from

mainstream press

❑ InfoTrac❑Supplements the current full text newspaper content

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PERIODICALS

❑ Strojniski Vestnik - Journal of Mechanical Engineering

❑ Studia Psychologica: Journal for Basic Research in Psychological Sciences

❑ SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics

❑ Economic and Managerial Spectrum

❑ Image Analysis and Stereology

❑ E+M Ekonomie a Management

❑ Folia Zoologica

❑ Obrana a Strategie/Defence & Strategy

❑ Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business

❑ Journal of Vertebrate Biology

❑ Central European Geology

❑ Hungarian Studies: A Journal of the International Association for Hungarian Studies and Balassi Institute

❑ Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle

❑ Pollack Periodica: An International Journal for Engineering and Information Sciences

❑ Studia Musicologica

❑ Studia ScientiarumMathematicarum Hungarica

❑ Finnish Trade Review

❑ IPI Global Journalist (Austria)

❑ Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology (Denmark)

❑ Lex Localis-Journal of Local Self-Government (Slovenia)

❑ Management: Journal of Contemporary Management Issues (Czech Republic)

❑ The New Presence: The Prague Journal of Central European Affairs

❑ Report on the Austrian Economy

❑ Economic Survey Finland

REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTENT

GALE ACADEMIC AND GENERAL PERIODICALS

❑ Daily News (Czech Republic)

❑ Business News (Czech Republic)

❑ SeeNews Czech Republic

❑ The Baltic Times (Riga, Latvia)

❑ Bulgarian Central Bank News

❑ The Sofia Echo (Sofia, Bulgaria)

❑ SeeNews South East Europe

❑ Ukrainian Government News

❑ ADP News Southeast Europe

❑ SeeNews Nordic

❑ Macedonian Press Digest

❑ Crossroads Foreign Policy Journal (Macedonia)

❑ The Times

❑ The Daily Telegraph

❑ The New York Post

❑ The Washington Post

❑ The Sydney Morning Herald

❑ The Australian

REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS / NEWS WIRE

GALE ONEFILE NEWSPAPERS

Gale eBooks

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❑Gale has been publishing Reference content since 1954

❑Gale ebooks Library❑an award-winning eBook platform

❑The Reference Collection includes❑2,000 Gale published titles❑full text eBooks❑market-leading titles from 100 publishing partners❑more added all the time, at NO extra cost

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GALE EBOOKS REFERENCE CONTENT

❑Gale reference guides such as the

❑ International Directory of Company Histories ❑ Encyclopedia of Emerging Markets❑ Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World❑ History of World Trade since 1450❑ Encyclopedia of World Biography❑ Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine❑ Gale Encyclopedia of Science❑ New Encyclopedia of Africa❑ Encyclopaedia Judaica❑ Gale Encyclopaedia of Medicine❑ Encyclopaedia of Modern China

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GALE EBOOKS

Package Tools and Features

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NEW PRODUCT MENU

TOOLS AND FEATURES

❑Cross-Searchable ❑ Integrate content from complementary products into one intuitive environment ❑Enable users to make never-before-possible research connections ❑Literature, Periodicals, Primary Sources

❑Topic Finder❑Group commonly occurring themes into a visual image❑Reveals hidden connections to search terms — helping scholars shape their

research and integrate diverse content with relevant information

❑Term Frequency❑Shows frequency of search terms within sets of content ❑Helps identify central themes ❑Assess how individuals, events, and ideas interacted and developed over time

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TOPIC FINDER INSPIRES IDEAS

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TERM FREQUENCY SUPPORTS RESEARCH

TOOLS AND FEATURES

❑Collaboration tools ❑ integrated Google, G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools ❑Enable users to share, save, and download content— including highlights and

notes

❑On-Demand Translation❑content translation is available in 23 languages❑platform translation in 34 languages ❑on-screen and read aloud

❑Citation Tools ❑ integrated directly into the user’s workflow❑ formatted citations easily imported from single or multiple documents to services

like EasyBib or NoodleTools

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INNOVATIVE FUNCTIONALITY - INTERLINK

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INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY

Support to Users

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SUPPORT

❑Gale offers unlimited user support

❑Usage reporting❑ Shows you useful usage data

❑Marketing materials❑ Helps to advertise your resources

❑Various Training options❑ Online webinars❑ Face-to-face❑ Student class sessions❑ One-to-one❑ Library or faculty team

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SUMMARY

❑Gale Reference Complete provides access to an unprecedented, unparalleled collection

❑Content includes ❑ peer-reviewed periodicals, magazines, current newspapers❑ Literature❑ primary source

❑Market-leading functionality❑helps integrate workflows❑enhances research and teaching ❑provides avenues for new discovery

QUESTIONS?

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