The Gale Group

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The Gale Group

• Prepared by Jeff Turner, librarian
• Waltrip High School
• Houston TX

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The Gale Databases High School

• Student Resource Center GOLD
• Infotrac Student Edition
• Infotrac General Reference Center GOLD
• Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP
• Student Resource Center Health Module
• Literature Resource Center, 3.0
• Scribner Writers Series
• Twaynes Authors Series
• Infotrac Newspapers
• Infotrac Informe! Spanish language database
• Discovering Collection

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Student Resource Center Gold

• Building upon a foundation of literary,
  science, history and biographical databases, SRC
  Gold provides a premium selection of original
  reference material, overviews, critical essays,
  primary source documents/periodicals, and full
  text from newspapers that are updated daily.

• 1.7 million full-text periodical and newspaper
  articles, updated daily
• More than 20,000 biographies, 500 essays, and
  10,000 overviews
• Thousands of primary source documents, including
  diary entries, letters, interviews and more
• More than 8 hours of audio and video clips
• More than 21,000 timeline entries

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Student Edition

• Student Edition gives coverage of topics
  students most often research at school libraries
  history, current events , sports, politics and
  the environment. This multi-source, full-text
  resource offers 330 indexed and 270 full-text
  titles, more than 40,000 full-text newspaper
  articles, 14 full-text reference books, 500
  historical images and 300 full-color maps.

• Asimovs Chronology of Science and Discovery
• The Columbia Encyclopedia
• Information Please Almanac
• Information Please Sports Almanac
• Information Please Environmental Almanac
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Biographical
  Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations
• News articles from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News
  Service

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General Reference Center Gold

• General Reference Center Gold integrates a
  vast array of key business and general interest
  titles to fully answer your reference questions.
  General Reference Center Gold features hyperlinks
  between/within sources, providing point-and-click
  navigation to related topics and articles.

• 2000 general interest and business magazines
• Full text of The Washington Post and The
  Christian Science Monitor
• Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service articles
• The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
  (indexing only)
• More than 15 reference books
• Date range 1980 - Present

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Expanded Academic ASAP

• Expanded Academic ASAP is Gales premier
  database for research in all the academic
  disciplines. It offers balanced coverage of
  every academic concentration. Combining
  indexing, abstracts, full text and images, this
  comprehensive resource delivers answers for all
  types of researchers.

• Social science journals
• Humanities journals
• Science and technology journals
• National news periodicals
• General Interest magazines
• The New York Times (indexed only)
• Over 2600 periodicals in all
• Date range 1980 - Present

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Student Resource Center Heatlh Module

• Easy access to critical information on
  disorders and health issues. Diseases,
  treatments, diagnostic equipment and major
  historical figures in the fields of medicine,
  chemistry, biology and other related areas are
  among the medical and health related topics
  available.

• 60 full-text periodicals including American
  Medical News, The Journal of the American Medical
  Association, and Modern Healthcare
• 1200 topical essays and 100 issue essays
• 180 pamphlets
• 250 biographies
• 300 photographs and diagrams
• Links to 150 relevant web sites

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Literature Resource Center, 3.0

• Presents literature in all its dimensions
  and provides users with points of departure for
  the broadest possible research. Users can
  explore biographical and critical info,
  historical context, social implications and much
  more. Researchers can also access full-text
  criticism from the Contemporary Literary
  Criticism (CLC) Select database.

• 285,000 full-text journal articles from more
  than 133 literary journals
• 38,000 critical essays
• 4329 work overviews, plot summaries and
  explications
• 5000 links to authoritative web sites
• 122,000 author biographies
• 2500 author portraits
• Merriam-Websters Encyclopedia of Literature
  featuring 10,000 literary terms

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Scribner Writers Series

• The Scribner Writers Series features
  in-depth coverage of writers with 1600 extensive
  essays. Its collection of carefully selected
  writers spans a wide variety of time periods,
  geographic locations and cultures. Each entry
  averages five pages in length and includes a
  concise essay, hyperlinks, a citation, and
  biographical info that places the authors work
  in personal and historical context.

• African-American writers
• American Nature writers
• Ancient writers
• British writers
• Latin American writers
• Modern American women writers
• European writers
• Science Fiction writers
• Books of the Bible
• Writers for children

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Twaynes Authors Series

• This series supplies in-depth info on the
  lives and works of important authors as well as
  the history and influence of literary movements.
  It features the content of nearly 600 books and
  is devoted to literary critical interpretations
  and discussions. Each entry explores criticism
  with new insights and original points of view.

• Search by name browse by alphabetical listing
  or enter an authors name
• Search by genre classifies authors into 9
  literary categories
• Search by time period 8 eras, from ancient times
  to the 20th century
• Search by nationality
• Search by gender
• Search by full text for titles or keywords

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Infotrac Custom Newspapers

• Select from a growing list of important
  publications including regional, national, and
  international sources. Over 95 major national
  and international newspapers are included in this
  source of current event information.

• Search electronically by title, headline, date,
  author, section or other assigned fields
• Compare opposing viewpoints on controversial
  issues by searching editorial articles
• Study current events as they are reported
• Understand regional viewpoints on issues by
  searching multiple newspapers
• Get more accurate results using keyword indexing

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Informe!...Spanish language database

• Informe! is specifically designed to meet
  the research needs of Spanish-speaking users.
  With full-text articles from the most popular
  Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals, it
  provides quality Hispanic reference material
  not simply Spanish translations of
  English-language materials.

• Cultural and lifestyle issues
• Health and parenting
• Entertainment
• Politics and current events
• Indexing terms and a thesaurus based on the
  expressions Spanish-speakers commonly use
• A Spanish subject guide that provides a clear
  overview of topics, subdivisions and related
  subjects

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Discovering Collection

• The relevance of people, places, events and
  primary source documents to current events
  becomes clear when you can view them within their
  historical context. Thousands of overview
  essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines
  and multimedia elements are included.

• 21,000 biographies, essays and overviews
• 13,000 criticisms
• 21,000 timeline events
• 500 primary source documents
• 14,000 images
• Hours of audio and video
• Provides in-depth content for 5 core curriculum
  areas that include literature, history,
  biography, science and social studies

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In Conclusion

• The Gale Groups family of electronic
  databases is your one-stop shopping for all of
  your reference needs. Its appropriate content,
  superior title count, and ease of use make it a
  fantastic choice for all research needs.
• All material contained in this PowerPoint
  presentation is taken directly from the Gale
  Group website.