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TEXSHARE UPDATE from Gale
April 12-13, 2007
Texas Library Association
Today’s Objectives
 Review Updates to Gale Products Available
Through TexShare
 Literature
 Health
 InfoTrac
 Overview Gale’s Technology Vision
 Gale Advocacy Initiatives
What’s 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 330—Nobel 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.
What can you do with LRC?
 Get a broad understanding of an author’s 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
author’s 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 author’s 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
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”
What we’ve learned
 “For students, if it’s 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 don’t provide that
guidance
 Many students don’t go to library
and/or don’t consult librarians
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?
New Gale Literature Experience—
User-friendly Features
Same look and feel as Gale’s PowerSearch
New Gale Literature Experience—
Home Page
Search by Author name, Title, Keyword, or
Full Text, from the home page
New Gale Literature Experience—
Home Page
Available content types are clear from the
start—and are browsable
New Gale Literature Experience—
Home Page
Limit by publication title
… and browse search
indexes
New Gale Literature Experience—
Home Page
If you prefer, you can default to a
simpler search screen…
New Gale Literature Experience—
Home Page
. . . or, to the Advanced Search screen
New Gale Literature Experience—
Search 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
New Gale Literature Experience—
Search Results
You can search within results
New Gale Literature Experience—
Search Results
You can also narrow by Source,
Author, Topic, or Document type
New Gale Literature Experience—
Search Results
Multiple sort options are available
New Gale Literature Experience—
Document Display
Easy-to-read document
format
New Gale Literature Experience—
Document Display
Concise persistent URL
New Gale Literature Experience—
Document Display
Convenient, highly visible
document tools
New Gale Literature Experience—
Document Display
Citation feature supports EndNote,
ProCite, RefWorks, and other
citation management tools
New Gale Literature Experience—
Document Display
Linked subject terms encourage
further exploration of related
subjects
New Gale Literature Experience—
User-friendly Features
More great enhancements
 Seamless searching of literary works,
criticism, multimedia and reference,
including e-book content
 Alerts
 Person Search
 Works Search
 And much more
Health Updates
 Thomson Gale is proud to announce that its Health & Wellness
Resource Center now features two significant sets of Spanishlanguage 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
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 HWRC’s 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
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.
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Will include licensed video animations.
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Will include medical images.
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Plus, audio versions of:
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
Gale Virtual Reference Library
 Circulate your Reference Content
 Availability only through Thomson Gale
 Accessibility and Customization
 Seamlessly cross-search periodicals and e-books
simultaneously
It’s Not Your Traditional eBook
 Full flexibility with your collection
 No readers, no check-outs, no barriers
 Unlimited usage
 You own the content forever
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
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
Now… Equal Access to All
Dorm
MAIN
Other Libraries
Religion Department
Classroom
Political Science
Student Center
Hillel
Parent’s Home
Computer Labs
Starbucks
Course Reserves
Literature Department
Catalog
Faculty Research
Campus via Laptop
And Multiple Ways to Access
DIRECT LINK
OPAC
INDEX
UNIQUE COLLECTONS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ALL TITLES
POWERSEARCH
24 hours a day… 7 days a week… with unlimited usage…
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
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.
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
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
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.
Build Your Own
You can also
build your own
collections…
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.
And Now on to PowerSearch…
Nearly 100,000,000
articles from the
world’s leading
periodicals
More than 1,000 of the
world’s leading
reference books
In 2007,
expect a research experience
unlike any other…
Cross-search all databases at once
or
Search databases by subject – with functionality specific to that subject.
Literature Search
Business Search
Biography Search
The Launch of “PowerSearch Plus”
Search all Gale
Databases
Search All Other
Databases
Search Library
Catalog
Search Open
Web
PowerSearch Now
PowerSearch Plus
Access All Your Resources at Once
Add a search box
to your web pages
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”
Visual Search
New Results Display
Choose tab order
Search within results
Narrow by subject
New Document Display
Hyperlinked Fields
Email, Print, Cite, Translate
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
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

Rolls out during National Library Week (April 15-21)
 Open access to Thomson Gale databases
 Press releases about database access and campaign
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Videos due for Friday, May 25 by midnight EST

May 28 – June 1 Thomson Gale judges narrow field to five entries
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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
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Winner announced at reception; all finalist videos shown at reception
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All videos (that fit criteria!) will be shown in the booth throughout ALA
We appreciate your time
and welcome your questions.