The Revolutionary Searching

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The Revolutionary Searching Technology for
Electronic Databases

• Vincent Cheah
• Gale Solutions Consultant
• Thomson Learning Asia

November 1314, 2002
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GALE

• Fully owned by The Thomson Co.
• Merger September 1998
• Gale Research Inc.
• Information Access Co.
• Primary Source Media
• Graham Whiteside
• 1999 Macmillan Library Reference, USA
• 2000 K.G. Saur
• 2001 Greenhaven

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What Does Gale Offers

• Print products - authoritative reference books,
  encyclopedia, dictionary
• Microfilm, rare archives information
• Electronic database, full-text periodical
  database, reference database, with CD-ROM option
• E-book (Nov 2002)

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What Are Gale Resource Centers?

• Bringing together three types of information
  sources in one database
• Full Text Periodical Articles

• Gale Quality Reference Resources

• Primary Source Documents

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Resource Centers
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Biography Resource Center
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Simple Powerful Search Interface
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Content overview...

• The Biography Resource Center combines more than
  80 of the most frequently consulted Gale
  biographical databases with more than 250
  full-text periodicals.
• Over 300,000 narrative biographies for
  approximately 220,000 individuals, including
  poets, politicians, philosophers, prospectors,
  physicians just about every kind of person you
  can imagine.
• Full-text periodical coverage of journals in
  biography provides currency (over 250 journals)

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...Content overview

• BioRC Marquis access to information on over
  1,000,000 individuals ...
• 33,000 thumbnail biographies from Debretts
  People of Today covering the most notable
  individuals in contemporary Great Britain
• 33 database is international
• International content updates and new
  international biographies added regularly, some
  within 24 hours
• 13,000 new images and nearly 7,000 Web links,
  including inline images within full-text
  periodical articles

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References Periodicals Integrated

• Reference Content from nearly 80 of the Gale
  Groups most frequently consulted biographical
  sources including
• Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Historic World Leaders
• Contemporary Musicians
• Notable Twentieth Century Scientists
• over 250 Periodicals sources include
• Mexican Studies Estudios Mexicanos
• Middle Eastern Studies
• East European Politics and Societies
• Philosophy East and West
• Research in African Literature, and many more!

NEWS UPDATE!!! Baker's Biographical Dictionary
of Musicians Merriam-Webster's Biographical
Dictionary 33000 entries. Added on Nov 2002
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Reference PeriodicalsIntegrated!

• Users are able to expand their research via 7,000
  links to websites around the world
• Includes over 13,000 images
• Reference and Periodical information easily
  accessible

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Resource Center - Interfaces
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Associations Unlimited
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What is Association Unlimited?

• Entire Encyclopedia of Associations Series
• National
• International
• Regional, State, and Local
• IRS Information On Non-profit Organizations
• Also brochures, logos, and membership for 2,600
  most frequently contacted national organizations
• Give a total of 460 000
  organizations

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Extensive Coverage

• U.S. National Associations 22,000
  organizations
• International Associations 20,000
  organizations
• US Regional, State Local Associations - 102
  000 organizations
• U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations, agencies and
  service programs 300,000 organizations

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What Can You Get?

• Locate national, international, and local
  associations
• Monitor association trends
• Locate related associations
• Network and make professional contacts
• Market to associations, their members and markets

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Special Features

• Easy to search interface
• Keeper List
• enable users to keep interested search results
• for sorting, printing and mailing labels
• Saving and Printing Addresses for Mailing Labels

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InfoTrac - Databases Available
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The Menu
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InfoTrac - Technology ...

• Customizable Search Interface
• Set features to be available
• Set Date format, search method
• Phrase your own sentences
• Default setting for FT, Refereed Publication
  etc
• On-line Dictionary - click and get a definition
• InfoLinks
• To link for an article to other related
  articles. No more back button
• InfoMarks
• To retrieve wanted articles after years by
  crating links. Create course pack etc
• Name Authority Linking
• A Hyperlink samples pertinent entry in other
  Gale databases in the librarys
• collection

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InfoTrac - Technology

• Library Holding
• In InfoTrac search results, a holding icon
  appears next to citation and directs user to
• location of print version in a library. Refers
  users to library holdings on the article
• level
• MARC Records
• Allow the user to search via Web OPAC and link to
  InfoTrac
• SFX
• Link from one database to another via SFX server
  to search for full text. Open
• URL standard
• Ingenta
• Searches Ingenta journals that customer
  subscribes to on the article level and
• integrates results in InfoTrac search results.
• Cross Search among Databases
• Cross-database search of Gale Products using one
  interface.

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InfoTrac - InfoMarks Technology

• An Innovative tool, just
• You create

Copy Paste Click

• Bibliographies
• Training sites
• Electronic journals directories
• More ...

• Reading lists
• Course packs
• Study guides
• Special interest sites

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InfoTrac - InfoMarks Technology

• Just A FLOPPY DISK .
• Everyone can build their
• using their OWN LANGUAGE
• their OWN WORDS
• their OWN CREATIVITY
• Only 10 Seconds to create collections and use it
  FOREVER. ??!

OWN LIBRARY
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Product Demonstration / QA
Thank You
Vincent Cheah Gale Solutions Consultant / Sales
Engineer, Asia Thomson Learning Asia (Gale
Division) vincent.cheah_at_gale.com