New information solutions from Gale Charles-Louis Moreau Regional Sales Manager.

New information solutions from Gale

Charles-Louis Moreau

Regional Sales Manager

Thomson Gale : The Leading Reference Publisher

Print format (imprints a.o. Gale Research, St.James Press, Macmillan Reference USA, Scribner, Graham & Whiteside, Greenhaven, Saur-Verlag)

Microfilm- and fiche (Primary Source Media)

Electronic format : online databases and e-books

Gale Electronic format

Periodical Databases Resource Centers Digitised Microfilm Collections E-books

Periodical Databases

InfoTrac Onefile

Gale’s largest periodical database : 8,300 titles, of which more than 4,700 full-text

Cross-discipline : general interest, Humanities, Business, Law, Health Care, etc.

Newspapers, magazines, journals and newswires – worldwide content

Back file 1980 to present, updated daily Linked with Ingenta

Resource Centers

Resource Centers : a single search, a world of information

Selection of major Gale reference material grouped by subject, searchable online

Second component of relevant full-text periodical titles

Further search results in the form of primary source material, links to websites, etc.

with MLA International Bibliography

Literature Resource Center 3.0

Over 125,000 biographies of authors worldwide, approx. 38,000 critical essays

Full content from well-known Gale series Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biographies

Over 170 literary journals, full-text Over 5,000 links to literary websites Merriam Wbster’s Enc. Of Literature Add-on module option : MLA

Business & Company Resource Center

- Over 450.000 company profiles and industry info from established Gale encyclopedia and directories (e.g. Int. Directory of Company Histories, Graham & Whiteside Major Companies Series

- Over 2,400 periodicals, 1,700 full-text

- Add-on module options : PROMT, Investext Plus and Newsletters ASAP

Biography Resource Center

Over 1.2 million biographies from 80 Gale biographical reference works (e.g Enc. Of World Biography)

Full-text articles from over 250 periodicals

Links to websites Complete Marquis Who’s Who

Other Resource Centers :

History Resource Center : Modern World

Health and Wellness Resource Center Student Resource Center

Digitised Microfilm Collections

The Times Digital Archive

Based on existing PSM microfilm collection 200 years of best known and most cited

newspaper in the world back to 1785 Full PDF of every issue, every page, every

article across sections (news, editorial, business, advertising, births & deaths, etc).

Several search options allow precise full-text searching of every article

Complete in September 2003

Eighteenth Century Collection Online

Based on existing PSM microfilm collection Over 150,000 books (approx. 33 million pages !)

published in the UK or in English during the period 1701-1800

Full-text searching by keyword, relevancy, publication date and advanced search

Citation page, e-table of contents and list of illustrations available for each title

Subjects : Fine Arts, History and Geography, Law, Literature and Language, Religion and Philosophy, Social Science, General Reference, STM

E-Books

Getting info from the Gale Online Catalogue at www.gale.com/world

Which books are available (56 at present, 170 foreseen by end ’03)

Pricing of the eBook format

Description of the content

How To Purchase Gale e-books Contact Gale or agent for full pricing

information or to place an order

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !

Charles.moreau@gale.com