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SCELC Vendor Day 2005

Thomson Gale

Thomson Gale (www.gale.com), a part of The Thomson Corporation, is a world leader in e-information publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Thomson Gale includes such noted publishers as Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons, GK Hall & Company, Schirmer Books, Twayne Publishing, Primary Source Microfilm, Graham & Whiteside, The Taft Group, K.G. Saur and Blackbirch Press.

Attending SCELC Vendor Day 2005 will be Anne Clark, Vice President of Sales for Academic Libraries; Vince Vessalo, Director of Gale Digital Archive Program; Brad Edick, Sales Director for the Gale Virtual Reference Library; Nader Qaimari, Program Manager for InfoTrac; and Dawn Devine, your Account Manager based in Los Angeles. This will be a perfect opportunity to learn more about the products and ask us questions about our collections and platforms. Come by and win a free giveaway during each session!

Session 1: Gale Virtual Reference Library and xreferplus (Brad Edick) and the Shakespeare Collection (Dawn Devine): GVRL has hundreds of respected print references from Thomson Gale and other publishers, including Sage and Wiley. GVRL allows you to customize your collection to suit your library's needs while conserving on shelf space, all the while offering unlimited usage and remote, 24/7 access. Thomson Gale is the only publisher to offer xreferplus as an integrated element of its own eBook platform. Together these two resources offer you a one-stop resource with deep, authoritative content. Quite simply, the Shakespeare Collection is the subject's most comprehensive and authoritative online resource, bringing together full-text annotated works including The Arden Shakespeare, The Prompt Book collections, and The Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diary.

Session 2: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: The Making of Modern Law, The Making of the Modern Economy, and the Times Digital Archive (Vince Vessalo): From the company that brought you the celebrated Eighteenth Century Collection Online, Thomson Gale is making history- again. The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of more than 10 million pages from more than 22,000 works, derived from two essential reference collections for historical and more contemporary legal studies. Combining the strength of the Goldsmiths' and Kress' Collections, the Making of the Modern Economy contains more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, making it the single most comprehensive collection for researching the literature of economics and for the study of early economic, political and social history. And with The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, researchers have access to high-resolution digital format with searchable images of the one of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 19th century history. Also to be discussed: the Gale Digital Archive Program, demonstrating how you can invest in your library's future while saving money on current subscriptions.

Session 3: InfoTrac OneFile and PowerSearch (Nader Qamari) and CORBIS Images for Education (Brooks McMahon, CORBIS Director of Product Development): InfoTrac OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource with more than 40 million database records and an intuitive search interface, with more images than ever before. InfoTrac InfoMarks allow users to save, reuse and share search results. And with more than 5,522 full-text titles and full indexing of some of the world's greatest newspapers, over 89 wire services, and the best statistical reporting package around, InfoTrac OneFile is the largest and most respected periodical file on the market. Thomson Gale's PowerSearch provides a sophisticated yet simple solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference and primary source information utilizing a single, high-powered interface. Come see how our exciting and revolutionary new cross-searchable platform works! CORBIS Images for Education is made up of more than 70 million images and includes content from the finest photographers and filmmakers, museums, cultural institutions and public and private collections in the world.

Session 4: LitFinder (Dawn Devine) and Gale Virtual Reference Library (Brad Edick): The LitFinder database is international in scope, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder offers over 800 Spanish-language poems and coverage of more than 600 ethnicities as well as 27,000 women writers. GVRL has hundreds of respected print references from Thomson Gale and other publishers, including Sage and Wiley. GVRL allows you to customize your collection to suit your library's needs while conserving on shelf space, all the while offering unlimited usage and remote, 24/7 access. Thomson Gale is the only publisher to offer xreferplus as an integrated element of its own eBook platform. Together these two resources offer you a one-stop resource with deep, authoritative content.

Session 5: Science Resource Center (Dawn Devine) and InfoTrac and Powersearch, (Nader Qamari): Part of our growing science product line, Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database which includes over 200 full-text periodicals, over 14,000 multi-media images, links to 550 authoritative Web sites, and over 70 experiments. InfoTrac OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource with more than 40 million database records and an intuitive search interface, with more images than ever before. InfoTrac InfoMarks allow users to save, reuse and share search results. And with more than 5,522 full-text titles and full indexing of some of the world's greatest newspapers, over 89 wire services, and the best statistical reporting package around, InfoTrac OneFile is the largest and most respected periodical file on the market. Thomson Gale's PowerSearch provides a sophisticated yet simple solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference and primary source information utilizing a single, high-powered interface. Come see how our exciting and revolutionary new cross-searchable platform works!

Last updated March 15, 2005.