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Gale Reference Complete
GALE – WHO WE ARE • Global leader in Education, learning, and online research resources • Materials from over 120 publishers, Thousands of newspapers and journals, and 175 million pages • One of the worlds leading publishers in literature and humanities • Offer a Vast digital archive of Primary Sources, Research databases and reference books • Leading digitiser of archive and historical materials (The Times, British Library Newspapers, State Papers, Financial Times, Chatham House International Affairs, National Geographic Magazine, The Telegraph, etc. ) 2
What is Gale Reference Complete? Power Search Gale Literature Gale Primary Sources Gale Academic One. File Gale General One. File Gale One. File News Gale e. Books Gale Literature Criticism Literature Res Centre and DLB Lit. Finder Scribner’s and Twayne’s Something About the Author Contemporary Authors Archives Unbound 3
GENERAL RESEARCH • Academic One File • 17, 000 + journals, 11, 000 + peer reviewed • Current full text of The Economist (1988 to present) • The New York Times (1985 to present) • The Times and The Financial Times • Full-text periodicals of major bibliographic resources • Podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN • General One File • Broad curated list of general interest publications • Includes peer reviewed journals with insights from mainstream press • Full text newspapers – The New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Evening Standard. Gale One. File: News • More than 2, 300 major world newspapers • Local, regional and national newspapers, in full-text 4
GALE EBOOKS • Published reference content since 1954 • 1700+ Gale published titles included • Award winning e. Books
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GALE LITERATURE • World’s largest online collection of Literature • Includes 7 of Gale’s internationally focussed literary databases in one environment; • Literature Criticism Online • Literature Resource Center • Lit. Finder • Scribner Writers • Twayne’s Authors • Dictionary of Literary Biography • Something About the Author • Contemporary Authors
GALE LITERATURE Literature Resource Center • Access to more than 175, 000 entries from award-winning series for in-depth biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on author’s lives. • Over 80, 000 full-text critical essays and reviews from proprietary Gale titles, including Gale Literature Criticism • More than 2. 6 million full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 480 scholarly journals and literary magazines • 140, 000 + audio files
GALE LITERATURE Literature Criticism 120, 000 + critical essays from Gale’s Literary Criticism Series: • • • Contemporary Literary Criticism 20 th Century Literature Criticism 19 th Century Literature Criticism 1400 -1800 Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism Shakespearean Criticism Children's Literature Review Drama Criticism Poetry Criticism Short Story Criticism
GALE LITERATURE • Dictionary of Literary Biography; Signed, scholarly overviews of authors, works, topics Covers the most influential literary figures from all eras and genres Dedicated to making Literature and its creators better understood, placing writers in larger perspective of history • • Something About the Author • • • Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults More than 260 volumes Often the only readily available source for emerging talent
GALE LITERATURE • Scribner’s Writers and Twayne’s Authors • 2000+ original scholar-signed essays • 900+ monographs Collections - Scribner • American Writers Collection • British Writers Collection • European Writers Collection • World and Genre Writers Collections - Twayne • U. S. Authors Series Classic • World Authors Series Classic • British Writers Series Classic • Masterwork Series • Short Fiction Series
GALE LITERATURE Lit. Finder
ARCHIVES UNBOUND • Roots of collection are in microfilm – scanned and photographed facsimile pages • Digital Archive programme from Gale, offering over 350 highly specialised primary source collections • 13, 000+ pages of historical documents • Rare primary documents related to international history, politics and society from 1256 to 2014 • Cross searchable • Government documents, monographs, newspapers and letters • Multiple collections added annually to provide a wide range of research support
TOOLS AND FEATURES Cross-Searchable • Integrates content from complementary products into one intuitive environment • Enable users to make never-before-possible research connections • Literature, Periodicals, Primary Sources – all on one platform Topic Finder • Group commonly occurring themes into a visual image • Reveals hidden connections to search terms — helping scholars shape their research and integrate diverse content with relevant information Term Frequency • Shows frequency of search terms within sets of content • Helps identify central themes • Assess how individuals, events, and ideas interacted and developed over time
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