Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Ankos, 4th Annual Meeting, Istanbul
• Charles-Louis Moreau
• Thomson Gale

June 04
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Ankos Website!www.galeuk.com/trials/ankos
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Gale Websites! http//www.gale.com/ebooks
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Gale Websiteshttp//www.gale.com/gvrl/
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Introduction

• Features
• Content
• Searching GVRL
• Technical Features

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GVRL - Take the best of the eBook models

• Purchase one eBook at a time - not a
  predetermined collection
• Develop your collection at your own pace
• Remote access
• Navigation from the TOC to the entry
• Link from the index to a page
• Browse a list of illustrations
• No special readers or hardware required
• Access from OPAC via MARC records

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GVRL - Add an interface thats like a database!

• Access from the Gale common menu
• Searching across and within eBooks
• Results are delivered at the entry/article level
• Print or email an entire article, not just a page
• No checkout GVRL is always accessible
• Puts your reference content into circulation
• Mark lists
• List of sources
• Search history
• InfoMarks
• Usage statistics

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Content

• 100 encyclopedias, almanacs released in 2003
• Continuous simultaneous publication of new
  content in print/eBook formats beginning 2004
• Gales series are released in 2004
• All of Gales directories will be published early
  2004
• Future release A directory interface is planned
  to allow for granular searching of fielded
  content
• Content from our various imprints will be
  included
• St. James Press, Macmillan, Scribner, UXL,
  Schirmer, Graham Whiteside, InfoPlus, Lucent

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Basic Search - Keyword

• Search entire collection to find documents
  containing your word/s 

• Searches
• First 50 words in article
• Back-of-the-book index terms on a topic that have
  been assigned to articles. 

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Search Results

• Finds documents containing your word/s from
  within the entire collection

• Sort results

• Go directly to article/entry

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Results Article/Entry

• Hit term highlighting

• Link to related terms in this eBook

• Article links
• View entry as a PDF?
• How to cite

• Print, email or mark entry

• Use InfoMarks to save the search or embed results
  into web page or VLE

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Retrieval Options

• Print Reformats article/entry

• E-Mail

- HTML
- PDF
- Plain Text
- Z39.80 Bib citation formats MLA Z39.90 APA
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eBook Links

• About this book

• eTable of Contents

• eBook index

• List of Illustrations

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Basic Search - Title

• Search the title/headline of an article or
  document

• Finds results containing your word/s

• Go straight to article/entry

• See article links and eBook links

• Print / email / mark / infomarks

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Basic Search - Source

• Enter the eBook title

• See full results list

• View an article/entry

• View the eBook

• OR search the eBook takes you to the advanced
  search

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Advanced Search

• Use drop-down menus to locate precise information

• Select article/entry

• Hit term highlighting

• See Also - link to entries on related terms

• Print / email / mark / infomarks

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Advanced Search - Limiters

• Specify audience level

• Specify subject

• Result More hits if subject is not selected

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View Mark List

• Build up a Mark List of articles / entries as you
  search GVRL

• View all marked entries any time during your
  session

• Print or email the entries

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Search History

• Build up a search history as you search GVRL

• Click View to go back to any set of search
  results

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Technical Features

• Usage Statistics
• InfoMarks

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Usage Statistics
View Now Email Sign up Monthly
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InfoMarks Unique to Gale
A technology that enhances your research

• What is InfoMarking?
• Bookmark or copy paste links to search results.
  
• Embed eBook entries into your own web
  applications VLEs, Word documents and Emails.

Links to previously saved searches
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How do InfoMarks Work?
Simple, you can bookmark or link to any results
page that contains this icon
Highlight the URL at the top of the page when you
see the icon, and copy/paste into another
application
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Help Links

• Use Help Links

• Find out more about GVRL

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Questions?

• Thank you Charles-Louis Moreau
• Charlers.moreau_at_thomson.com