Cengage Gale Product Overview
Krzysztof Szymanski
Library Resources
November 2013
Agenda
• 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
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Introduction to Cengage Gale
• 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
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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
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
• 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.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (cont’d)
•
ASCD (Association of
Supervision and Curriculum
Developments)
•
Lucent Books
•
Macmillan Reference USA
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Blackbirch
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McGraw Hill
•
Cambridge University Press
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Oxford University Press
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Charles Scribner’s Sons
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SAGE Publications
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Columbia University Press
•
Salem Press
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Dorling Kindersley
•
Schirmer
•
Greenhaven Press
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Springer
•
Greenwood Publishing
Group
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St James’ Press
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UXL
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And dozens of others
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Grey House Publishing
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Idea Group Inc.
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Linworth Publishing
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (cont’d)
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Digital Archives
• 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
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Digital Archives – Archives Unbound
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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.
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The Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation
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, 1995present.
• 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.
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The Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation
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Digital Archives (cont’d)
Making of the
Western World
Eighteenth Century
Collection Online
Making of the Modern
World
Making of Modern Law
State Papers Online
American History
&
Culture Online
History & Culture
though Media
Sabin Americana
Times Digital Archive
Supreme Court
Records & Briefs
19thC US Newspapers
Sources of US History
Online
19thC UK Periodicals
17-18thC Burney
Collection Newspapers
19thC British Library
Newspapers
The Economist Historical
Archive
20th Century
Political &
Cultural Change
Declassified Document
Reference System
Arab-Israeli Relations
Testaments to the
Holocaust
Post War Europe
Conditions & Politics
Northern Ireland
Women, War & Society
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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
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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 2
Stock Exchange, Pricing and Foreign Exchange Tables from 19 October 2006
Classified Advert
from 22 April 1960
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
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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
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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
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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…
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…to Francis Fukuyama and Richard Dawkins
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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
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Book Reviews
Over 300,000
book reviews
covering:
Literature
History
Politics
Science
Religion
And more…
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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
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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.
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Titles
AcademicMore
OneFile
InfoTrac is, hands down,
the largest aggregation of
serial content.
Active,
Total
Total
Full-Text
Titles
Average
Titles
with no
with an
Embargo
Embargo
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
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Academic OneFile
Around 95% of the retrieved and used content in
products is published less than 8 months ago.
Retrievals By Age - 2009
(non-Gale)
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1974
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2268
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2646
2688
3258
3596
3744
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3926
4056
4188
4328
4565
4737
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6396
Count of Retrievals
100000
Cumulative %
70.00%
70%
Age
(months)
So how good is your content with a one year embargo?
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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
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Looking at Gale Literature
British Literary
manuscripts; materials
in other primary source
products
From LitFinder and
primary source
databases
Literary
works
Dictionary of
Literary
Biography &
other sources
in Literature
Resource
Center
Primary
sources
Literature
Literature
Resource Center
& Literature
Criticism Online
Criticism,
reviews
Resources
From Gale
Work & topic
overviews
Biographies
Photos & audio in
Literature Resource
Center
Multimedia
Literature Resource
Center, Literature
Criticism Online,
GVRL ebooks
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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GREENR (cont’d)
Contextual
Multimedia
Browseable
Refereed Case
Topics and
Studies
Organizations
Customizable
Journals and News
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GREENR (cont’d)
Web 2.0 Tools to
facilitate content
portability.
Continue your
search with related
Link to websites
portals
and blogs
Ability to take
Link to conference
presentations and
action and get
involved
reports
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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
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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
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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.
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Thank you
Krzysztof Szymanski
Library Resources
November 2013