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

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

2. Today’s Objectives • Review Updates to Gale Products Available Through TexShare • Literature • Health • InfoTrac • Overview Gale’s Technology Vision • Gale Advocacy Initiatives

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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”

6. 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

7. 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?

8. New Gale Literature Experience—User-friendly Features Same look and feel as Gale’s PowerSearch

9. New Gale Literature Experience—Home Page Search by Author name, Title, Keyword, or Full Text, from the home page

10. New Gale Literature Experience—Home Page Available content types are clear from the start—and are browsable

11. New Gale Literature Experience—Home Page Limit by publication title … and browse search indexes

12. New Gale Literature Experience—Home Page If you prefer, you can default to a simpler search screen…

13. New Gale Literature Experience—Home Page . . . or, to the Advanced Search screen

14. 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

15. New Gale Literature Experience—Search Results You can search within results

16. New Gale Literature Experience—Search Results You can also narrow by Source, Author, Topic, or Document type

17. New Gale Literature Experience—Search Results Multiple sort options are available

18. New Gale Literature Experience—Document Display Easy-to-read document format

19. New Gale Literature Experience—Document Display Concise persistent URL

20. New Gale Literature Experience—Document Display Convenient, highly visible document tools

21. New Gale Literature Experience—Document Display Citation feature supports EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, and other citation management tools

22. New Gale Literature Experience—Document Display Linked subject terms encourage further exploration of related subjects

23. 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

24. 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

26. 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

27. 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:

28. 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

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

30. 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

31. 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 Some current GVRL customers These libraries made a significant GVRL purchase:

32. 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

33. Now… Equal Access to All Other Libraries Classroom Political Science Student Center Hillel Parent’s Home Starbucks Literature Department Faculty Research Campus via Laptop

34. And Multiple Ways to Access OPAC DIRECT LINK UNIQUE COLLECTONS INDEX TABLE OF CONTENTS ALL TITLES POWERSEARCH 24 hours a day… 7 days a week… with unlimited usage…

35. 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

36. 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.

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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.

40. Build Your Own You can also build your own collections…

41. 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.

42. 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

43. In 2007, expect a research experience unlike any other…

44. Cross-search all databases at once or Search databases by subject – with functionality specific to that subject. Literature Search Business Search Biography Search

45. The Launch of “PowerSearch Plus” Search all Gale Databases Search All Other Databases Search Library Catalog Search Open Web

46. PowerSearch Now

47. PowerSearch Plus

48. Access All Your Resources at Once Add a search box to your web pages

49. 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”

50. Visual Search