Welcome to the Training Support page for IHEA members
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I am Damian Almeida and I’m the Training Executive for Gale’s customers. Please contact me via email at [email protected] or phone at +61 434 077 553 |
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I am Damian Almeida and I’m the Training Executive for Gale’s customers. Please contact me 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 students to the main features of each database. They can be added you your library website to introduce students to each product.
For more information contact Hellen Pervushin, Gale Account Manager: [email protected]
For Technical Support and queries email us at: [email protected]
For Product Overviews, Technical Information & Marketing Resources:
The Gale Support Hub for IHEA Members: https://www.gale.com/intl/anz-ihea
The Gale Video Hub: https://www.gale.com/intl/anz-video-hub
30 Minute overview of Academic OneFile
Short overview of product
Gale’s premier periodical resource, Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including videos from BBC Worldwide Learning to thousands of podcasts and transcripts from CNN. It includes more than 11,000 peer-reviewed journal, with more than 8,000 in full text
Promotional video on Gale Academic OneFile
Short overview of the product
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
Short overview of Gale OneFile: News
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 outling the database's main features
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 OneFile collections are subject specific collections based on the most relevent journals for that subject. The journcals are gathered from the content of Academic OneFile and General OneFile.
These videos are two minute videos navigating specific features of the Gale platforms. They 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.
