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Enables you to not only research topics but to interpret your research. Delivers comprehensive international business intelligence compiled into a logical, useable context. Designed for business professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and general researchers, this resource enables you to spend less time searching and more time connecting their discoveries to practical applications.
With over 460,000 company profiles, including 2,000 with deep links to related content and Refinitiv statistical data, Gale Business Insights: Global provides daily updates to keep up with the ever-changing corporate landscape. Additionally, full-text periodicals combined with new and updated content allow researchers to gain a broader understanding of the increasingly global nature of modern business.
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An engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Organized into a user-friendly portal experience, it merges Gale's authoritative reference content, including Lives & Perspectives, with periodicals and multimedia. Users can browse to find people based on occupation, role, or historical period, or search based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.
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Provides access to biographies, bibliographic, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journlists, and other writers and includes access to the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), Contemporary Authors (CA), and Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC).
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator—from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
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* With Microsoft collaboration tools enabled, users can store, sync, and share files by downloading Gale content to OneDrive in the cloud and easily transfer content for use in other Microsoft tools like OneNote and Classroom
* The Related Resources feature recommends additional content of interest, providing a more dynamic, relevant presentation of related content
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* Topic Finder, a visual search tool that allows users to discover new facets of their topics by connecting their search results in multiple ways
* The Search Assist feature provides suggested search terms as you type
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* The interface and article translation of over 20 languages, along with Readspeaker technology (text-to-speech) allows text to be read aloud to users
* Superior search indexing, gives users the ability to search by publication date, document type, publication title, publication subject; to documents with full text, to peer-reviewed publications, to documents with images; and by Lexile reading level or Lexile score
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Covers resources in business, education, history, writing/literature, nursing, religion, science, and social science. Click the More Info button below to see the title list available.
Business:
* Business Plans Handbook
* CaseBase: Case Studyies in Global Business
* Encyclopedia of American Industries (6th 3e., 2011)
* Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society (2008)
* Encyclopedia Emerging Industries (5th ed., 2007)
* Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Strategies (2007)
* International Directory of Company Histories
Education:
* College Blue Book (v35-current)
* Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology (2010)
* Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (v.1-2, 2010)
* Encyclopedia of Education Law (2008)
* Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia (v1-2, 2009)
* Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans: A Guide to Education-Related Financial Aid Programs for Students and Professionals, 38th ed, 2021
* American Decades, 10 vols. 1900-1999, 2001.
* American Decades Primary Sources, 2004.
* American Decades: 2000-2009, 2011.
* American Decades Primary Sources, Vol. 11: 2000-2009, 2013.
* American Eras: Primary Sources
* Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, 2004.
* Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students, 1998.
* The Ancient Near East: An Encyclopedia for Students, 2000.
* Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, 2011.
* Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2002.
* Encyclopedia of European Social History, 2001.
* Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, 2007.
* Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 2004.
* Vietnam War Reference Library, 2001. 5 vols.
Writing/Literature
* Encyclopedia of Journalism, 2009.
* Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, 2002.
Nursing
* The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, 2013. 6 vols.
* NOTE: Other nursing books are outdated.
Religion
* Contemporary American Religion, 2000.
* Encyclopedia of Global Religion, 2012.
* Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006.
* Encyclopedia of Religion in America, 2010.
* Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2003.
* New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2003. 15 vols.
* New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2009.
Science
* Chemical Compounds, 2006.
* Chemical Elements, 2nd ed., 2010.
* Chemistry: Foundations and Applications, 2004.
* Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 2004.
* Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, 2005.
* Genetics, 2003.
* The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2010.
* Encyclopedia of Counseling, 2008.
Social Science
* Censorshipm Lauri S. Friedman, ed. Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2009.
* Countries and Their Cultures, 2001.
* Encyclopedia of Aging, 2002.
* Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2009.
* Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, & Recovery, 2009.
* Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Supplement, 2002.
Gale Literature: LitFinder provides access to a wealth of literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history. Including more than 132,000 full-text poems and 670,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Researchers can easily target the information they are looking for through various refine search and results limiter options. Biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary are also included.
Researchers can find everything from the sonnets of Shakespeare to the poetry of Maya Angelou, the love poetry of the 13th century to contemporary poems by African American women, the inaugural speeches of George Washington through George W. Bush, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to stories by up-and-coming writer Elizabeth Weld, or essays on such subjects as the arts, science, and religion. Quickly retrieve a particular writer or identifies authors linked by such qualities as gender, nationality, century, and genre using person search. A works search provides similar limiters and the ability to browse works by thousands of subjects, themes, genres, and movements. Basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, century, and more.
This collection consists of all volumes in the Scribner American Writers series, including: American Writers (the 4-volume base set and all supplements), American Writers Retrospective and American Writers Classics.
The American Writers Supplements include authors who have never been featured in American Writers, while the retrospective volumes re-examine some of the most important and influential writers in the American canon already covered in American Writers.
The classic volumes focus on famous works - many of which are required reading in high schools and colleges. Each Classics volume includes 20-25 accessible essays, each on a single work of American literature. Examples include Toni Morrison\'s "Beloved," J.D. Salinger\'s "Catcher in the Rye" and Stephen Crane\'s "The Red Badge of Courage."
• Contains 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world
• Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a citation and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context
• Users can go directly to an entry on a specific author, combine search criteria for a much more complex search, or explore thematic and chronological topics to make connections among writers
Ideal for business schools and entrepreneurs, Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, and more.
