TEXSHARE UPDATE from Gale

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• TEXSHARE UPDATE from Gale
• April 12-13, 2007
• Texas Library Association

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Todays Objectives

• Review Updates to Gale Products Available Through
  TexShare
• Literature
• Health
• InfoTrac
• Overview Gales Technology Vision
• Gale Advocacy Initiatives

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Whats New With Literature

• Here is a summary of new content loaded in the
  first quarter of 2007
• More than 800 new and updated biographies
• Dictionary of Literature Biography, vol 330Nobel
  Prize Laureates in Literature, containing
  critical biographies on writers as diverse as
  Japanese fiction writer Yasunari Kawabata and
  Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz
• 1076 entry updates (updates are available in
  online content only, not print updates include
  simple updates such as new titles and latest
  news, as well as 137 full entry revisions)
• Nearly 1000 additional critical essays and
  reviews from 21 volumes of our Literature
  Criticism series
• 139 new web site links
• 20 new full text journals, including Renaissance
  Quarterly, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Dickens
  Review, Thomas Wolfe Review, and Journal of
  Popular Culture.

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What can you do with LRC?

• Get a broad understanding of an authors life
  works
• Up-to-date overviews of authors lives and works
  and responses to their writings
• Essays by subject experts exploring the
  historical and social context of authors lives
  and of individual works
• Research the meaning and interpretation of
  literary works
• Find a broad range of current critical responses
  from a rich selection of scholarly periodicals
  and monographs
• Trace the critical reception of an authors work
  across time
• Develop a reading list, course syllabus or
  coursepack
• Identify authors who share characteristics such
  as gender, ethnicity, nationality, time period,
  literary movement, or genre
• Create links to assigned readings in course
  management systems like Blackboard and WebCT

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New Literature Experience

• How We Learn
• Personal experience observation
• Feedback from the field
• Focus groups
• Advisory boards
• Usability studies
• Research into work-flows an anthropological
  approach

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What weve learned

• For students, if its not online, it just might
  as well not exist.
• Students are not adept at finding evaluating
  resources
• Students will use resources recommended by
  faculty, but
• Faculty often dont provide that guidance
• Many students dont go to library and/or dont
  consult librarians

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The Challenge for Libraries

• How can an institution
• Serve a community that is often working remotely
• That is not resource-savvy
• With a wide range of proficiencies
• Taking classes from the introductory level
  through undergraduate majors to graduate work
• AND help them develop information literacy and
  critical thinking skills along the way?

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New Gale Literature ExperienceUser-friendly
Features
Same look and feel as Gales PowerSearch
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New Gale Literature ExperienceHome Page
Search by Author name, Title, Keyword, or Full
Text, from the home page
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New Gale Literature ExperienceHome Page
Available content types are clear from the
startand are browsable
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New Gale Literature ExperienceHome Page
Limit by publication title
and browse search indexes
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New Gale Literature ExperienceHome Page
If you prefer, you can default to a simpler
search screen
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New Gale Literature ExperienceHome Page
. . . or, to the Advanced Search screen
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New Gale Literature ExperienceSearch Results
Tabbed results map to the terminology of
Literature assignments
Tabs are All results Literature
Criticism Biographies Topic Work
Overviews Reviews News Primary Sources/Literary
Works Multimedia MLA International Bibliography
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New Gale Literature ExperienceSearch Results
You can search within results
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New Gale Literature ExperienceSearch Results
You can also narrow by Source, Author, Topic, or
Document type
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New Gale Literature ExperienceSearch Results
Multiple sort options are available
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New Gale Literature ExperienceDocument Display
Easy-to-read document format
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New Gale Literature ExperienceDocument Display
Concise persistent URL
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New Gale Literature ExperienceDocument Display
Convenient, highly visible document tools
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New Gale Literature ExperienceDocument Display
Citation feature supports EndNote, ProCite,
RefWorks, and other citation management tools
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New Gale Literature ExperienceDocument Display
Linked subject terms encourage further
exploration of related subjects
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More great enhancements
New Gale Literature ExperienceUser-friendly
Features

• Seamless searching of literary works, criticism,
  multimedia and reference, including e-book
  content
• Alerts
• Person Search
• Works Search
• And much more

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Health Updates

• Thomson Gale is proud to announce that its Health
  Wellness Resource Center now features two
  significant sets of Spanish-language content
•  CareNotes en espanol, and
• Clinical Reference Systems en espanol
• This news marks an important expansion of the
  resources for the Health Wellness Resource
  Center and is a direct result of feedback from
  our valued customers

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Additional Updates to HWRC

• 169 new journals available
•  Many new and updated Harvard Special Health
  Reports went live in HWRC through 2006
• Library of over 700 streaming videos and
  thousands of full-text articles from Healthology
  on over 60 different hot topics in health   
• Hundreds of entries from the Gale Encyclopedia of
  Childhood and Adolescence went live in product in
  March 2007
• Updates for HWRCs three core sources for drug
  information PDR Family Guide for
  Over-the-Counter Drugs, PDR Family Guide for
  Prescription Drugs, and the USP DI, Volume II
  Advice for the Patient should be live in product
  by July 2007

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Health Reference Center Academic

• Premier resource for medical schools, hospitals
  and academic institutions.
• Vast majority of content will be peer-reviewed,
  with a primary focus on biomedicine, nursing and
  psychology.
• Will include licensed video animations.
• Will include medical images.
• Plus, audio versions of

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InfoTrac Updates

• Nearly 1,000 Newspaper Titles  
• Full collection of Small Town Newspapers
• -250 newspapers from small towns across the
  United States-Great resources for genealogy
  research
• Full collection of College Campus Newspapers
• More than 446 major newspapers, including 
• USA Today Houston Chronicle
• New York Times
• San Francisco Chronicle
• Boston Globe
• Christian Science Monitor
• London Times
• Financial Times
• Washington Times

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Circulate your Reference Content
• Availability only through Thomson Gale
• Accessibility and Customization
• Seamlessly cross-search periodicals and e-books
  simultaneously

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Its Not Your Traditional eBook

• Full flexibility with your collection
• No readers, no check-outs, no barriers
• Unlimited usage
• You own the content forever

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Some current GVRL customers
These libraries made a significant GVRL purchase

• University of Texas Austin
• State Universities of New York
• St. Louis University
• City University of New York
• Brigham Young University
• University of Kentucky
• Wright State
• Cal State Fullerton

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But you can start with one title

• Take the Encyclopedia of Religion as an example
• Traditionally, with print
• You had to purchase more than one copy
• Students could not easily find the information
• Students could not access it from home or after
  the library closed
• Multiple users was not an option

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Now Equal Access to All
Other Libraries
Classroom
Political Science
Student Center
Hillel
Parents Home
Starbucks
Literature Department
Faculty Research
Campus via Laptop
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And Multiple Ways to Access
DIRECT LINK
OPAC
UNIQUE COLLECTONS
INDEX
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ALL TITLES
POWERSEARCH
24 hours a day 7 days a week with unlimited
usage
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A Look Further Inside GVRL

• More than 1600 volumes of reference to choose
  from
• Hundreds of Award Winners
• More than 33 publishers
• Flexible pricing
• Significant discounts for titles you already own
  in print
• Special starter pricing

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Some Key Reference Works

• 2007 Dartmouth Award Winner
• Focuses on all aspects of Jewish history and
  culture.
• 22 volume set, fully searchable.

• 26 volumes available, covering major novels
  studied in undergraduate literature courses.
  Offers deep novel synopses and all the
  information students need to write their research
  papers.

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Some Key Reference Works

• 15 volume Dartmouth Winner, covering more than
  3,200 topics in religion.

• More than 850 entries covering all topics in
  education, including biographies of famous
  educators and educational philosophies.
• ALA Outstanding Reference Source

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Start with a collection

• Consider a collection focusing on Middle East and
  Asia
• 10 titles focusing on the modern Middle East and
  Asia, including religious and political movements
  in the area
• Award-winning titles from imprints such as
  MacMillan and Scribner's
• Full collection of 10 titles for 2500 for new
  customers

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Some Other Key Collections

• Medical Sciences Collection
• Large collection of multi-volume encyclopedias
  covering every health topic. Number of titles
  are award-winning titles, especially good for
  nursing programs.

• World Religions Collection
• With more Dartmouth winners than any other
  publisher, Thomson Gale owns reference in the
  area of religion New Catholic Encyclopedia,
  Encyclopedia Judaica, Encyclopedia of Buddhism,
  among others.

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Build Your Own
You can also build your own collections
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Explore our Partners

• More than 300 titles from multiple publishers in
  every subject. Award-winners from Sage, Wiley,
  Cambridge, Oxford, McGraw-Hill, Brill and others.

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And Now on to PowerSearch
Nearly 100,000,000 articles from the worlds
leading periodicals
More than 1,000 of the worlds leading reference
books
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In 2007, expect a research experience unlike any
other
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Cross-search all databases at once or Search
databases by subject with functionality
specific to that subject.
Literature Search
Business Search
Biography Search
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The Launch of PowerSearch Plus
Search all Gale Databases
Search All Other Databases
Search Library Catalog
Search Open Web
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PowerSearch Now
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PowerSearch Plus
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Access All Your Resources at Once
Add a search box to your web pages
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Additional New Features in Early 2007

• Visual Search
• Search alerts in PowerSearch, with RSS export
  capability
• Search within Results
• Cleaned up user interface, with easier access to
  limiters
• Better document display, with easier access to
  InfoMarks and tools
• Improved How-to-Cite functionality
• Tab configuration and All Results tab
• Enhanced Subject Guide with topic groupings, as
  well as limit by subject

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Visual Search
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New Results Display
Choose tab order
Search within results
Narrow by subject
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New Document Display
Hyperlinked Fields
Email, Print, Cite, Translate
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Gale Advocates for Libraries

• You use MapQuest to get directions. You use
  Google to find images. But you use the library
  to access authoritative information, discuss a
  new novel, find answers for homework assignments
  and more!
• Are these reasons you love your library? Tell us
  all about it!
• In honor of National Library Week and librarians
  everywhere, submit a two-minute video telling us
  why you love your library.
• LIBRAREO
• For more information
• www.gale.com/librareo

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LIBRAREO

• Winner receives all-expenses paid trip for two to
  ALA (airfare, hotel, expenses for two days)
• Winner announced at reception at ALA also soft
  launch of Marketing Your Library initiative
• Top five finalist videos and winning video shown
  at reception
• All video submissions fitting entry criteria will
  be shown in booth during ALA
• 10,000 cash
• 5,000 goes to library
• 5,000 to be used and/or split as the winners wish

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• Rolls out during National Library Week (April
  15-21)
• Open access to Thomson Gale databases
• Press releases about database access and campaign
• Videos due for Friday, May 25 by midnight EST
• May 28 June 1 Thomson Gale judges narrow field
  to five entries
• June 1 June 11 open public online voting
• Winner announced at ALA Annual
• All expense paid trip for two to ALA for two days
  for winner
• Winner announced at reception all finalist
  videos shown at reception
• All videos (that fit criteria!) will be shown in
  the booth throughout ALA

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We appreciate your time and welcome your
questions.