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Lund Online 17th 18th October 2007

• Hilde Kempenaers
• Cengage Learning - Gale

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Cengage Learning

• Formerly Thomson Learning
• Cen Centre gage Engagement in Learning
• CENGAGE LEARNING
• Sold in July 2007 to Apax Partners and OMERS
  Capital Partners
• Imprints remain, eg Gale

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Gale E-Book Databases

• Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
• online collection of encyclopedia
• Gale Directory Library new !
• online collection of directories
• BizEd Premier new !
• online collection of business textbooks and
  journal articles

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Topical, International, Available as Single
Titles or Build own Collection Cross-searchable
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Gale Virtual Reference Library- some key facts

• All reference titles currently over 1,600
  encyclopedia, approx. 600 from nearly 40 partner
  publishers (Sage, Elsevier, Cambridge UP, Brill,
  Wiley etc.)
• Purchase one eBook at a time - not a
  predetermined collection
• Unlimited access (site license)
• Remote access within Secure Network Environment
• No special readers or hardware required
• Access from OPAC via free MARC records
• Searching across and within eBooks
• Print or email an entire article, not just a page
• No checkout GVRL is always accessible
• InfoMarks / Bookmarks

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Gale Virtual Reference Library- New Publishing
Partners 07

• AC Black Publishers
• Brill Academic Publishers
• Columbia University Press
• David Bateman
• Dorling Kindersley
• Ediciones Akal
• Elsevier
• Greenwood Publishing
• Indiana University Press
• Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
• Princeton University Press
• Scarecrow Press

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Gale Virtual Reference Library- Subcollections

• Customise your own eBook collections to suit the
  needs of your students
• Collections will appear as a separate database
  on the menu page
• You can cross-search several different
  sub-collections rather than your entire GVRL
  database

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Gale Virtual Reference Library- Reading Lists

• Reading List
• Electronic Resources
• Longe, Jacqueline, Ed. Gale Encyclopedia of
  Alternative Medicine. 2nd ed. Detroit Gale, 2005.
   2411 pp. 4 vols. Gale Virtual Reference
  Library. Thomson Gale. GVRL Demo Site for HE. 1
  Oct. 2007  (Book Level)
• Dupler, Douglas. "Acupressure." Gale Encyclopedia
  of Alternative Medicine. Ed. Jacqueline
  Longe. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Detroit Gale, 2005. 11-15.
   4 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson
  Gale. GVRL Demo Site for HE. 1 Oct. 2007 
  (Chapter Level)
• Collection of ebooks on Social Science subject
  (Access to only the Social Science subcollection)

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Gale Directory Library
BASIC RESEARCH BEGINS WITH DIRECTORIES
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Gale Directory Library- some key facts

• In 2007 collection to start with 16 directories,
  a.o. Wards Business Directory, Encyclopedia of
  Associations, Gale Directory of Databases, etc.
• Purchase one Ebook at a time
• Cross-searchable across multiple directories, or
  each title can be searched individually in unique
  fields
• Database allows to find names or search and sort
  by keyword, and to generate mailing lists (export
  in Excel possible) and analyze trends
• Full e-mail and print functionalities
• Remote access

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Gale Directory Library- 2007 Titles

• Active Titles
• Wards Business Directory
• Encyclopedia of Associations National (U.S.)
• Encyclopedia of Associations Regional, State
  Local (U.S.)
• Encyclopedia of Associations - International
• November
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast
  Media
• Directories in Print
• Publisher's Directory
• Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources
• Consultants and Consulting Organizations
  Directory
• Directory of Special Libraries and Information
  Centers
• December
• Gale Directory of Databases
• National Directory of Non-Profit Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory
  Organizations
• Research Centers Directory
• International Research Centers Directory
• Government Research Centers Directory

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Biz/ed Premier
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Biz/ed Premier - some key facts

• Online access to 26 key higher education business
  e-textbooks (500 chapters), all curriculum-mapped
• All e-textbook searches simultaneously
  cross-search 78 equally curriculum-mapped
  journals presented as selected articles for
  critical viewpoints
• Available as subscription to institutions
• Unlimited browsing via books Table of Contents,
  and searching in the Chapter Titles
• Annotations, highlighting and bookmark facilities

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Biz/ed Premier - Textbooks

• Cole, Management Theory and Practice, 6e
• Drury, Cost and Management Accounting, 6e
• Lumby/Jones, Corporate Finance Theory and
  Practice
• Mankiw/Taylor, Economics
• Needle, Business in Context, 4e
• Thompson, Strategic Management, 5e

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Biz/ed Premier - Journals

• Business Review
• Chartered Institute of Management - Checklists
  and Thinkers
• Economist
• European Business Forum
• Financial Times
• Forbes
• Journal of Business Strategies
• Management Today

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Sample Search 1 Tourism and the environment
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Sample Search 2 Branding
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Sample Search 3 Manufacturing Data
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Thank You

• Questions?
• hilde.kempenaers_at_cengage.com