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Thomson GaleDatabase Overview: 

Thomson Gale Database Overview Hilde Kempenaers Mediadag i Göteborg 2005

Thomson: 

Thomson A leading provider of integrated information solutions to education, business and professional markets worldwide Four major market groups: Legal & Regulatory Financial Scientific & Healthcare Learning Thomson Learning: Higher Education Library Reference

Thomson Learning: Library Reference: 

Thomson Learning: Library Reference Research and Reference sources Print Online Microform Information sources for all library sectors Primary schools to higher education Public libraries, government and national libraries Responding to key elements of academic research Evidence: Primary Sources Opinion: Journal content Information: Reference titles

Library Reference Database Options:: 

Library Reference Database Options: InfoTrac Databases Standard platform Periodicals, Newspapers Easy to use 5 search options eBooks Purchase one book at a time Search across & within eBook collection Resource Centers Integrated databases Multiple sources: full text periodicals / reference / primary sources Flexible search and retrieval Digital Archives Reference, newspaper and Research Collections KGSaur Biographical, bibliographical and reference content Print, Online,CD-ROM, fiche

Biography Resource Center: Content: 

Biography Resource Center: Content + 1.4m biographies on over 1m people Nearly 415,000 biographical entries from + 120 respected Gale sources + 1 million thumbnail biographies from the Marquis Who’s Who® + 280 magazines containing full-text articles + 15,000 relevant Web sites + 30,000 thumbnail biographies from Debrett’s People of Today + 11,000 thumbnail biographies from Carroll’s Directories Between 100,000 and 140,000 new and/or updated biographies are added to the database each year

Recent Enhancements: 

Recent Enhancements + 66,000 descriptors added to BioRC in 2004 Descriptors: nationality, occupation, and birth/death date information in parentheses---help users scan results lists to identify more quickly the person for whom they are searching “View recent update" links now appear within most of the narrative biographies in a separate "Updates" section Between July - Dec 2004, +42 published volumes (containing nearly 73,000 new/revised biographies) added to BioRC + 450 new entries that have not appeared in any Gale print source Content from recent volumes of Gale's Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television and Gale's Contemporary Musicians

Updating BioRC: 

Most biographies have been published or substantially updated within the past five years Nearly 73,000 new/revised biographies (July-Dec 2004) Every year, more than 1,000 biographies are written specifically for BioRC Web sites are added every three months Every two weeks, updates and corrections are made to biographies already in the database Full-text periodical articles added daily Updating BioRC

Contemporary Authors: 

Contemporary Authors +112,000 modern novelists poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters All print volumes of Contemporary Authors All print volumes of Contemporary Authors New Revision Series Volumes 1-2 of Contemporary Authors Permanent Series Current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Prominent print and broadcast journalists, editors, photojournalists, syndicated cartoonists, screenwriters and more… Literary greats of the early 20th century whose works are popular in today’s school and college curriculums

Summary: 

Summary Simple-to-use interface Search by author, title, subject, genre and full text Combine criteria for complex searches - very broad or very specific Contains only the most complete and up to date entries Continuous data updates - providing the most current information on authors available anywhere Subscribers to CA can cross-search Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and/or Dictionary of Literary Biography simultaneously

Information Retrieval: 

Information Retrieval Comprehensive information on authors from all genres - includes: Author’s name and pseudonym, address, career summary, genre, nationality, ethnicity, education, political preference, religion, interests memberships, awards and honors, obituary Personal information - author’s date and place of birth and family data, including parents, spouses and children, photographs Autobiographical essays Links to recent news about the author; Contemporary Authors interviews, and biographical and critical sources.

Introduction: 

Introduction Name Search

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select: 

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

Introduction: 

Introduction CLC Select - Contains published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959. Provides subject-term accessibility and an index that extends to every volume in the extensive Contemporary Literary Criticism Series. Access to authors in ongoing volumes of Contemporary Literary Criticism, beginning with Volume 95 plus +260 most-studied authors from earlier volumes Covers a range of novelists, poets, short story writers, playwrights and other creative writers - from established authors to emerging new talent

Content: 

Content Entries provide extensive information including: Introduction to the Author - a discussion of the author’s life, works and critical importance Critical essays - essays and excerpts taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals; interviews with featured authors where available; Bibliographical citations Suggestions for further reading - an annotated bibliography of sources for further study

Search Options: 

Search Options Building on the strength of the print series, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select offers many new channels of access to the information you need: Search the database by: Author name Biographical details, such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, year of birth or death, Title Subject/Genre Critic/Critical Source Full-text (allows you to search for a word or phrase in any entry)

Author Search: 

Author Search Enter complete name or any word / combination of words Variant names & pseudonyms are also searchable

Technical Features: 

Technical Features InfoMarks & MARC records ITConfig User Statistics Links to Library Holdings Links to external Websites OpenURL / SFX linking Meta Search engines: Z39.50 / HITS Custom Branding

What is an InfoMark?: 

What is an InfoMark? A stable URL linked to your Gale database A single-click to any page of search results Using an InfoMark performs a search again - whether the result is a single article or a list of articles

Use InfoMarks to create…: 

Use InfoMarks to create… Reading lists Current awareness topic sites - links to periodical or newspaper sources Online/distance learning courses Bibliographies, reference lists e-Learning sites Electronic journals and periodical directories Teacher lesson plans Student assignments

Easy to create !: 

Easy to create ! If you can “copy and paste” you can use InfoMarks Copy the URL of a results page and paste into your electronic document – web page, word processing document, e-mail or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Once InfoMarks are incorporated into a document, the results are persistent (the URLs will not change) and are dynamic By posting an InfoMark you preset a search path that is available to all jointly subscribed users

Thomson PowerSearch: 

Thomson PowerSearch Enter search term Select the databases you want to search across Standard search limiters InfoTrac Searching

Thomson PowerSearch: 

Thomson PowerSearch Search results ‘tabbed’ into different content sets

Questions?: 

Questions? Hilde Kempenaers Benelux & Scandinavia, Thomson Gale Hilde.kempenaers@thomson.com PrioInfo: Sanna-Kaisa Berglund sanna-kaisa.berglund@infodata.se Thomson Gale Technical Support: Globaltech@thomson.com