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Based on extensive customer feedback, market research and our usability experts, the Gale Virtual Reference Library, the most comprehensive eBook platform of its kind,is now getting even better!
WHAT’S NEW: • A vibrant and more engaging user interface • Improved, user-focused navigation and organization • Article-level eReader download capabilities • User interface language options expand to more than 35 languages* • Multi-page viewing capability, recreates the book experience • Dynamic subject tree GVRL Logo * See slide 11
Brings users closer to the eReference titles that best fits their search parameters by narrowing results • Book covers in the search results • New toolbox features: sending articles to your eReader, view html or PDF, and on-demand content translation expands to 13 languages* • Enhanced relevance search & filtering GVRL logo * See slide 11
‘Related Subjects’ allows researchers to dig deeper into content
Navigate through the entire book using the Table of Contents, or showing results at the article level • Improvements on results relevancy
GVRL logo As you can see, the multi-page viewer allows the option to choose either a one or two page view – recreating the book experience within the context it was intended it to be viewed.
Easily browse and search across series pages, such as Business Plans Handbook and Contemporary Authors
STILL RETAINS THE SAME FUNCTIONS: • Single-source unlimited and simultaneous access to thousands of full-text authoritative reference works • Hundreds of award-winning titles • Over 70 leading publishing partners and growing • Toolbox allows email, download, ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology in 19 languages*, print, send articles to eReader, and MP3 download, and machine translation in 13 languages* • Seamlessly cross-search your collection within PowerSearch, InfoTrac and other digital resources from Gale GVRL logo
GVRL Logo on top • ABC-CLIO • ASCD (Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development) • CQ Press • Cambridge University Press • Charles Scribner’s Sons • Columbia University Press • Dorling Kindersley • Elsevier Inc. • Encyclopedia Britannica • Facts On File • Gale • Greenhaven Press • Greenwood Publishing Group • Grey House Publishing With one resource, access thousands of full-text eReference titles from Gale and more than 80 leading publishing partners on virtually any subject. • IGI Global (formerly Idea Group, Inc.) • John Wiley & Sons, Inc. • Kogan Page • Linworth Publishing, Inc. • Lucent Books • Macmillan Reference USA • Omnigraphics • Oxford University Press • Peterson’s • Rough Guides • SAGE Publications • Salem Press • Schirmer • Springer • St. James Press • U∙X∙L • Dozens of others and growing
GVRL Logo on top • Afrikaans • Bengali • Chinese, Simplified • Chinese, Traditional • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dutch • English • Finnish • French • German • Greek • Hindi • Hungarian • Indonesian, Bahasa • Indonesian, Malay • Italian • Japanese • Korean • Polish • Portuguese • Romanian • Russian • Slovak • Slovenian • Spanish • Swedish • Tagalog • Tamil • Thai • Turkish • Vietnamese • Welsh In December 2011 adding (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Urdu) for a total of 38 user interface languages. 19 ReadSpeaker Text-to-speech Languages: 38 User Interface Languages: 13 Machine Translations: • English ⇔ Arabic • English ⇔ Chinese • English ⇔ Dutch • English ⇔ French • English ⇔ German • English ⇔ Italian • English ⇔ Japanese • English ⇔ Korean • English ⇔ PortugueseEnglish ⇔ Russian • English ⇔ Spanish • English ⇔ Greek • English ⇔ Polish • Arabic • Chinese, Cantonese • Chinese, Mandarin • Czech • Dutch • English • French • German • Greek • Italian • Japanese • Korean • Polish • Portuguese, Brazilian • Romanian • Russian • Spanish, (Americas) • Swedish • Welsh