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Cengage Gale Product Overview

Cengage Gale Product Overview. Krzysztof Szymanski Library Resources November 2013. Introduction to Cengage Gale Gale Virtual Reference Library - GVRL Digital Archives Financial Times Economist Times Literary Supplement Times Digital Archive Online Subscriptions Academic OneFile

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Cengage Gale Product Overview

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  1. Cengage Gale Product Overview Krzysztof Szymanski Library Resources November 2013

  2. Introduction to Cengage Gale • Gale Virtual Reference Library - GVRL • Digital Archives • Financial Times • Economist • Times Literary Supplement • Times Digital Archive • Online Subscriptions • Academic OneFile • Literature Resource Center • Knowledge Portals • Agenda

  3. Founded in 1954 • Offices in 44 countries worldwide • Cengage EMEA sells in over 52 countries throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa • We sell all major Cengage Learning and Gale brands • Cengage create and maintain over 600 databases that are published in electronic form as well as in print and microfilm • In Library Reference, we sell nearly 100 databases • Introduction to Cengage Gale

  4. Gale in the Marketplace Career transitions; Business skills for SMEs Career transitions, HE, Vocational HE Publishing, homework solutions, ebooks Library reference: Digital archives, infotrac, research tools Gale resource centers Vocational, college success Source: HEFCE 2009 & Cengage EMEA

  5. Gale Virtual Reference Library

  6. A Collection of electronic reference eBooks, with the ability to search across them all • Thousands of full-text ebooks from Gale and our publishing partners • Cross-searchable with selected periodical databases and Gales Resource Centres • 24/7 Access • No more missing/incomplete volumes for the library • Users can search or browse to read ebook like a traditional title. • Gale Virtual Reference Library

  7. ASCD (Association of Supervision and Curriculum Developments) • Blackbirch • Cambridge University Press • Charles Scribner’s Sons • Columbia University Press • Dorling Kindersley • Greenhaven Press • Greenwood Publishing Group • Grey House Publishing • Idea Group Inc. • Linworth Publishing • Lucent Books • Macmillan Reference USA • McGraw Hill • Oxford University Press • SAGE Publications • Salem Press • Schirmer • Springer • St James’ Press • UXL • And dozens of others • Gale Virtual Reference Library (cont’d)

  8. Gale Virtual Reference Library (cont’d)

  9. Online Facsimiles of collections of historical and newspaper material • A wealth of rare, formerly inaccessible historical content form the world’s most prestigious libraries has been opened up to faculty, researchers and students • Gale Digital Collections represents an extraordinary resource, covering over 500 years of international history • Digital Archives

  10. Digital Archives – Archives Unbound

  11. The Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation The Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World – primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies – and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its allies between 1946 and 1991 The Cold War featured cycles of relative calm and of high tension. Both sides sought détente to relieve political tensions and deter direct military attack, which would probably guarantee their mutual assured destruction with nuclear weapons. This collection comprises the transcripts of the interviews conducted by Jim Thebaut for his Cold War CD-Rom audio project.

  12. Consisting of 23 individual interviews, these words are a testament to the brinksmanship played-out by both the Western Allies and the Soviet Union and its satellites. • Here are a sampling of the Soviet interviewees… • Arbatov, Dr. Georgy, principal advisor to the Soviet leadership; Director, The Institute of USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1967-1995. • Berezhkov, Valentin, translator for Premier Josef Stalin in his wartime conferences with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill; vice chief editor of the Soviet foreign affairs weekly New Times; founding editor of USA Economics, Politics and Ideology, 1969. • Bessmertnykh (Besmertnik), Aleksandr, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1991. • Karaganov, Dr. Sergei, Chairman of Presidium, Deputy Director, Institute of Europe Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, 1989-2005. • Leonov, Nikolay, Deputy Chief of the First Chief Directorate of the State Security Committee (KGB), 1983-1991. • Nechiporenko, Oleg, Deputy Head, Anti-Terrorism Department, Office K, KGB, 1971-1984. • Rogov, Dr. Sergey, Director, The Institute of USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1995-present. • Rogozin, Dmitry, Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee, Russian State Duma, 1999-2002. • Timerbaev, Roland, principal Soviet arms control negotiator, 1966-1990. • There are additional interviews from American presidents, secretaries of state and defense, and a variety of nuclear weapons specialists. The Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation

  13. The Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation

  14. Digital Archives (cont’d) Making of the Western World American History & Culture Online History & Culture though Media 20th Century Political & Cultural Change Eighteenth Century Collection Online Making of the Modern World Making of Modern Law State Papers Online Sabin Americana Supreme Court Records & Briefs Sources of US History Online Times Digital Archive 19thC US Newspapers 19thC UK Periodicals 17-18thC Burney Collection Newspapers 19thC British Library Newspapers The Economist Historical Archive Declassified Document Reference System Arab-Israeli Relations Testaments to the Holocaust Post War Europe Conditions & Politics Northern Ireland Women, War & Society

  15. FT – the world’s daily business newspaper • KEY FEATURES OF • THE FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORICAL ARCHIVE • • Browse and search from cover to cover from • 1888 to 2008 • • Approximately 800,000 fully-searchable facsimile • pages • • Annual content updates • Specially commissioned essays to assist research and • teaching

  16. FT – the world’s daily business newspaper Example: Tracking the Chrysler Corporation Stock Exchange, Pricing and Foreign Exchange Tables from 2 January 1960 News Article from 5 July 1963 Business and Finance Article from 29 June 2006 Stock Exchange, Pricing and Foreign Exchange Tables from 19 October 2006 Classified Advert from 22 April 1960

  17. The Economist The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2008 • The complete online archive of every issue of the global weekly newspaper • Every page, leader, letter, news article and financial indicator available in an easy to use digital format • Unique functionality which includes Key Indicators tables post-1983 downloadable into spreadsheet applications

  18. The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2008 • An archive as gripping as it is good…The Economist has shown how backfile digitisation should be done • Information World Review, January 08

  19. Times Digital Archive The Times Digital Archive 1785-2008 • Online access to one of the most highly-regarded resources for the study of 19th & 20th Century history • Every headline, article, image, editorial, birth and death notice, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within the pages of The Times is completely accessible • Full text searching across all 7.6 million articles allows the researcher to view a specific article in the context of the news of the day • “a dream of a database” • Booklist

  20. The Times Literary Supplement • The TLS is the world’s leading newspaper for cultural studies • Over 100 years of content (1902-2008) offering over 300,000 reviews, articles and commentary • A unique record of developments, debate and discovery across all areas of the humanities and social sciences • Attracts contributions from the world’s most influential writers and critics • From Virginia Woolf and Henry James… • …to Francis Fukuyama and Richard Dawkins

  21. A truly international publication • Contributors from all over the world • e.g. Milan Kundera, Orhan Pamuk • Reviews non-English and translated books • Special issues survey specific countries

  22. Book Reviews Over 300,000 book reviews covering: Literature History Politics Science Religion And more…

  23. Online Subscriptions • Extremely large collections of existing Gale products and third party material • Varied types of materials, including journals, magazines, text books, multimedia and indexes • Designed to give users a single reference point for a complete subject area • Completely up to date

  24. Academic OneFile • Fewer than 400 titles with an embargo. • Full-text of major newspapers, with 24 years of the New York Times, updated multiple times per day. • Abstracts for full Elsevier Collection. • Linking to Google Scholar, ISI Web of Science, Scopus and JSTOR.

  25. More Titles Academic OneFile InfoTrac is, hands down, the largest aggregation of serial content. Total Titles Active, Full-Text with no Embargo Total Titles with an Embargo Average Embargo InfoTrac 18,510 10,658 357 70 days EBSCOhost 12,212 4,246 2,493 335 days ProQuest Central 11,134 3,757 1,205 377 days

  26. Academic OneFile Around 95% of the retrieved and used content in products is published less than 8 months ago. So how good is your content with a one year embargo?

  27. Academic OneFile • In addition to the unique peer-reviewed journals: • It contains foreign-language peer-reviewed material as well. • Also included is the full-text of the New York Times, Financial Times, and Times of London • Also included is the Economist Intelligence Unit series. • Also included are the following reference sources:  • Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine • Gale Encyclopedia of Science • Encyclopedia of World Biography • And the following audio components: NPR Archive with transcripts, Podcasts from major news sources • 36 Million+ Documents and it is RAPIDLY growing

  28. Looking at Gale Literature Literature Resources From Gale

  29. Literature Resource Centre – Numbers • Literature criticism and reviews • More than 600,000 critical essays and reviews • Materials dating from Classical Times to the present • Biographical information • More than 145,000 biographical entries from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and other titles • Contextual understanding • Thousands of interviews, work overviews & topic overviews supplement contextual information provided in biographies and critical essays • Contemporary works of poetry and fiction • Nearly 30,000 poems, short stories and plays published in literary magazines

  30. Literature Resource Center: best of breed • Editorially selected critical essays on authors, topics and works, from Gale’s 10 Literature Criticism series • Nearly 400 full-text scholarly journals and literary magazines • 126 titles published outside the U.S.

  31. Knowledge Portals • Gale Knowledge Portals provide image rich, dynamic, online resources. Designed to be a comprehensive multidisciplinary one-stop resource of key topics, including the environment, global issues and awareness and the animal world, Gale Knowledge Portals are essential student resources for all levels. • GREENR – Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources. • Global Issues in Context

  32. Knowledge Portal Features • Multimedia content, including video, audio, primary source documents and statistics • Highly accessible, visually appealing research areas • ‘Portals’ contain all information on specific research areas, countries, organisations or issues in one place • Multi-disciplinary – information relevant to a range of courses across the institution

  33. GREENR Meet eco-researchers’ growing needs with GREENR - a new online resource. • Delivers global news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents, statistics and more • Interactive and updated daily.

  34. GREENR (cont’d) Browseable Topics and Organizations Contextual Multimedia Refereed Case Studies Customizable Journals and News

  35. GREENR (cont’d) Continue your search with related portals Web 2.0 Tools to facilitate content portability. Link to websites and blogs Ability to take action and get involved Link to conference presentations and reports

  36. What Is Global Issues in Context? • New e-resource that offers global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance and provides background information on them, placing them in context • News, perspectives, video, reference, country information, primary source documents, and statistics present a rich analysis of critical issues, whether social, political, military, economic, scientific, health, environmental, or cultural • Helps students think critically about global connections and the interdependence of all nations

  37. Why Global Issues in Context? • Supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills by providing students with the framework they need to evaluate a variety of sources and address a myriad of 21st-century issues • Prepares students to be global citizens through critical analysis of issues and links to websites encouraging civic awareness and involvement. • Supports coursework in sociology, current events, Model UN, political science, economics, cultural/religious studies, environmental science, foreign policy, international business, women's studies, English composition, and more

  38. Global Issues in Context and Academic Libraries A resource for the academic study of global issues… • Offers international viewpoints through more than 400 full-text magazines, newspapers, and academic journals • Portal pages organize a wide range of resources for independent, self-guided study • Reference content from Macmillan and Gale subject encyclopedias provides scholarly insight into issues • Translation feature makes the content easy to use by diverse student populations • User profile functionality (i.e. My Marked Items) enables saving and sharing selected documents for individual courses, assignments, or syllabi.

  39. Thank you Krzysztof Szymanski Library Resources November 2013

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