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I am Damian Almeida and I’m your Training Executive. I am responsible for assisting Gale’s New Zealand customers with any training that is required across Gale’s Databases and historical archives. I am in Melbourne and am here to assist you with any training needs your library might have. I can be contacted via email at [email protected] or phone at +61 434 077 553 |
Our training videos include some longer videos that are designed to help introduce you and other staff members to the main features of the products outlined in the video.
There are also short videos are designed to help introduce you, other staff members and the public to the main features of each database. They can be added you your library website to introduce library patrons to each product.
Gale OneFile products include
Short overview of General OneFile. Great to add to your website
General OneFile is a comprehensive general-interest periodical resource. Most content in General OneFile is full-text with no embargo, and includes reference, newspaper, multimedia and audio content that complements the resource's robust collection of magazines and journals
General OneFile
Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Good for general research.
Gale OneFile Powerpack Subject Collections
As part of your EPIC Package you also has access to five subject specific collections that your Instituion has selected. Find out mores about these Subject colletions in this video
Short overview video - ideal to add to your website
World Newspapers & Media
This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, and many other fields. Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Includes News Limited and Fairfax newspapers.
Short video introducing the features of Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand
More in-depth video outlining Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand
Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand provides authoritative, full-text content with a regional focus, complemented by global news, reference, and multimedia coverage.
The database features a variety of magazines, journals, news, and multimedia sources across academic disciplines and areas of interest, covering important issues and current events related to Australia and New Zealand.
Gale Books and Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics.
Books and Authors offers libraries of all kinds a powerful tool that promotes the discovery of literature, and where to find it in your library.
Backed by a team of hand-picked genre experts, Books and Authors connects readers with books and provides many key functions in your library, including increase circulation of fiction and non-fiction, build and promote book clubs and programs in your library.
Powered by Gale's popular What Do I Read Next? series, Books & Authors combines both browsable menus and visual search technology to guide readers from every level of reading proficiency to books that match their interests.
An updated, easy-to-navigate interface featuring quick links to hot topics, conditions, diseases and overviews.
More than 1,000 medical journals, periodicals, and articles from more than 2,200 general-interest publications, medical newspapers, newsletters and news feeds
A broad collection of full-text reference works including The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests, The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Medical Health Information Directory, The Medical and Health Information Directory and various Thomson Healthcare and Micromedex drug guides
Hundreds of streaming videos with transcripts from medical experts via Healthology, Illumistream, NBC and ORLive.
Links to trusted health Web sites
Short 5 minute Video outlining the features
Step-by-step guidance for new entrepreneurs, experienced small business owners, and those starting or running a nonprofit.
Gale Business: Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through five areas of exploration in order to develop a business plan focused on long-term success. Areas include
Entrepreneur Profile This tool helps users explore what they can bring to the table as an entrepreneur and assess where they stand in preparing to start a business. A one-page summary of them as an entrepreneur is generated.
Business Ideation Users can employ tools such as Lean Canvas, SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, and more to plan the high-level framework in which their business will operate.
Break-Even Analysis Delivers insight to determine when a user’s business will be able to cover expenses and begin to realize a profit.
Business Plans Creates a plan that can be presented to potential investors and lenders, including Executive Summary, Lean Business Plan, Full Business Plan, and Strategic Marketing Plan.
Financial Projections A robust analysis of a company’s financial future encompassing capital expenditures, sales, equity, and inventory.
For patrons exploring the idea of small business ownership, this resource provides a gradual introduction to entrepreneurial concepts and elements. For seasoned business persons or those progressing through the recommended workflow, the focus shifts toward outcome-based activities to support the management and growth of an operation, such as getting a loan, seeking investors, buying new equipment, and opening new facilities.
Gale Business: Plan Builder is equipped with popular, proven business planning tools and templates to assist users in creating documents and other deliverables such as a Lean Canvas, Break-Even Analysis, Lean Business Plan, a variety of financial statements, and more.
Cover all areas of starting and operating a business
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.
Get Multi-Resource Support Business Plans — Gale Business: Entrepreneurship features the entire Business Plans Handbook series, which contains hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs. New plans are added monthly.
Short overview of the In Context suite of products
The Gale In Context suite combines easily searchable, mobile-responsive functionality with essential digital content that spans core subject areas. Each resource supports curriculum standards, preparing students for success in their research
Explore over a century of iconic images and fascinating narratives that capture the wonder of our planet and beyond.
As the official journal of the nonprofit National Geographic Society, National Geographic magazine built its reputation delivering the highest-quality photojournalism and cartography in the world.
As generations of researchers and fans will attest, the iconic monthly publication provides unparalleled, in-depth coverage of cultures, nature, science, technology, and more - making it an essential resource for educators and students as well as general readers. Thanks to advanced digital technology, your library can now offer unlimited access to the magazine to the mid-1990s - every article from every issue, each fully searchable through an intuitive interface.
Deliver an unparalleled National Geographic experience by subscribing to all parts of the National Geographic Virtual Library - search the vivid photographs and historical articles as well as engaging videos and detailed maps.
Short 5 minute video introducing National Geographic Kids
Engage young students and broaden their horizons with reputable, authoritative, age-appropriate digital content that brings them the world in a way they’ve never seen before. National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space
These videos are two minute videos navigating specific features of the Gale platforms. Thet are quick videos that can be added to your website.
Gale Power Search
Cross-search content from select Gale products, including Gale's OneFile periodicals, In Context products, and Gale eBooks
Topic Finder
Generate a visual representation of your search results by topic and subtopic Topic Finder organizes results based on the frequency of occurring terms, allowing you to hone in on targeted keywords, envision connections between topics, and create new research paths. Use Topic Finder if you’re having trouble coming up with a research topic, when you have an idea for a topic and want to investigate related topics, or when you want to narrow your search results.
As you click Topic Finder tiles, results on the right update dynamically, allowing for oneclick access into relevant content. Simply click an article’s title to view it
Translation features
Easy-to-use translation tools make Gale resources accessible to more people. With over 40 languages to choose from, users can translate individual articles or elements of the product interface. In addition, the ReadSpeaker tool allows the user to hear articles read aloud in a variety of languages.
Subject Guide Search
The subject guide search offers the ability to narrow a single topic by subdivisions, and to view narrower and broader related topics. If you have a broad topic in mind, this search can help you identify targeted tags to find documents fully focused on the topic. You can also use this search to specify the appropriate context for words with varied meanings or to discern between people with the same name.
Use Publication Search to enter the title of a publication of interest. Click on any matching result to view coverage details, and link to articles from individual issues. You can also use Create Journal Alert to subscribe to automatic emails or receive RSS notification when a new issue is added to that publication
You can customise your reading experience using a number of tools. These features include:
Translation tools - using a machine readable translations in many languages
Font sizes - the ability ot adjust font sizes of each article
Document customisation to assist dyslexic users- the ability to change font, page color and distances between letters and words
The first search that you come to on the Gale platforms allows you to perform a broad search across the Entire Document
Once you have performed your search; there are limiters to help narrow your results. The Filtering your results options allow you to apply limits based on Date Published, Subjects, and Document Type. Alternately can select Search Within and submit additional terms to refine your search.
Our text to speech function using ReadSpeaker converts text and streams the corresponding audio content without any software downloads or special plug-ins needed. Users can select any portion of text or an entire article to be streamed as audio. With a click of a button, any Gale online text can be read aloud via the user’s computer, making Gale content more accessible.
These audio segments can also be saved as MP3 files for use on MP3 players for listening at a later time.
Annotate important text with Highlights and Notes. Click and drag to select text within a result, choose a highlighter color, and add notes to the selection. Download, Print, or Send to… email, Google Drive, or OneDrive to retain your highlights and notes with the article.
Downloading content to Google Drive and Microsoft Onedrive
Gale databases allow you to download articles and any highlights and notes to your Google Drive or Microsoft Onedrive
Use Cite to generate a citation using MLA, APA, or Chicago style. Export the citation into a variety of tools, or simply copy and paste it into your bibliography.
