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Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.
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AP Interactives
Through a partnership with Associated Press, this research database combines breaking news photos, graphics and audio into unique interactive packages on critical topics and issues. Presented in easy-to-use formats, the Interactives enable your students and patrons to gain insight on a wide range of topics ranging from historical events (including wars, battles, elections, politics, etc.), natural disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, etc), to science topics, and current events. Formats may include text, audio, video, animated graphics, photographs and/or still graphics, and initiates its non-linear content sequences in response to user interaction.
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Biography Resource Center
Now an even more dynamic resource with a new interface and enhanced functionality, this online biographical reference database is designed to meet the needs of public, school and academic libraries in the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, arts and newsmakers. Comprehensive, current, and easy to use, the Biography Resource Center contains more than 435,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people from around the world and throughout history. It combines more than 135 frequently consulted Gale biographical sources with nearly 300 full-text periodicals, more than 27,000 portraits and thousands of Recent News briefs on high-interest individuals. Whether users want to learn about past and present noteworthy figures for their own personal benefit or need a starting point for more in-depth research on a particular event, country or era, the information presented in Biography Resource Center makes it the first source to turn to.
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Books & Authors
Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. The ideal convergence of science and serendipity, this online resource leverages the Internet's unique capacity to create, build, communicate and sustain communities of readers.
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Business and Company Resource Center
Because business information is only as good as its source, provide your users with a comprehensive, single-source database they can depend on for accurate and up-to-date business, company and industry information -- Gale's Business & Company Resource Center. The first of its kind, Business & Company Resource Center brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities.
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Demographics Now Library Edition
Comprehensive yet easy-to-use tool that provides highly sought after demographic data that allows prospective entrepreneurs, long-time business owners and students building marketing plans to collect, analyze and quickly act upon that data. With demographic information including income, housing, race, age, education, consumer expenditures and more, users have immediate access to untapped opportunities that can significantly enhance their current business intelligence. Extended version includes the Basic content plus business data, consumer expenditure detail data, MOSAIC lifestyle segmentation and retail expenditure data.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
There's no better way to keep up with literary perspectives, clear shelf space and give users the familiar engaging book experience 24/7 than Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online.
For 30 years, libraries have looked to Dictionary of Literary Biography for biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world's most influential literary figures.
Now imagine this print reference -16,000 articles and thousands of images - online and digitized to match the look and feel of the print source! This award-winning content is now easy to search, retrieve and analyze.
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Gale Directory Library
Gale has long been known for publishing authoritative directories on companies, publishers, associations and more. At long last, these directories are now available digitally in the Gale Directory Library. This new platform takes these detailed references off the shelf and makes them available at the click of a mouse 24/7 to all your users, whether they're at the library or at home.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
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Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context is a new electronic resource that offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro and con database, Global Issues in Context ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues – social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural – and headlines in world hot spots. It provides information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations.
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Literature Criticism Online
Gale takes literature, history and culture to the next level with its most extensive curated compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. The 10 individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis — the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals — delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.
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Literature Resource Center with Modern Language Association International Bibliography, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writers Series
Literature Resource Center is the world's most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database. Uniquely relevant to today's curriculum, Literature Resource Center's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
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LitFinder
LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.
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Nursing Resource Center
Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Cengage Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking supplements Gale's Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center with
additional content and features that correlate with today's curriculum.
Learners interact with entries and are asked to think critically about
a specific topic. The content is comprised of reference and periodical
resources and covers broad topics such as "school violence" or "acid
rain". Each topic has three entries: an overview and two viewpoint essays.
Entries also are available in audio format. All of the content is correlated
with national and state standards.
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Price It! Antiques & Collectibles
It's like "Antique Home Show!" Price It! Antiques & Collectibles - powered by GoAntiques.com - is the most comprehensive antique and collectible pricing tool in the world. This simple-to-use online resource delivers 23 million realized prices on treasures nearly 30% of Americans collect, buy and trade everyday.
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RDS Business Suite
Finding the relevant business answers has never been easier. Business Reference Suite, an exciting Web-based subscription service gives you balanced and highly focused full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and market research information. By combining the complementary strengths of Business & Industry, Business and Management Practices, and TableBase Gale delivers a comprehensive business research package.
Acknowledged for their own distinct focuses and areas of expertise, these databases form a core business reference collection featuring more than 1,400 leading worldwide business sources, plus tens of thousands of tables with strategic data. Suite coverage is over 60% full text, and over 45% international.
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Small Business Resource Center
Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
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Something about the Author Online
The new Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive electronic access to all volumes ever printed in Something About the Author, the main series and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series - 217 volumes, more than 12,000 entries and nearly 17,000 images.
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