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I am Damian Almeida and I’m your Training Executive. I am responsible for assisting Gale’s New Zealand Schools with any training that is required across Gale’s Databases. I can be contacted via email at [email protected] or phone at +61 434 077 553 |
Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
With extensive coverage in key subject areas such as, biology, economics, environmental science, history, and psychology, students are able to find accurate information and articles in both PDF and HTML formats with ease.
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General OneFile is a comprehensive general-interest aggregsted jornal database. 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
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.
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
The "Gale In Context" suite of databases combines easily searchable, mobile-responsive functionality with essential digital content that spans core subject areas. It main context comprises of authoritative encyclopedia and reference material with supporting periodical newspaper, and multi-media content.
Gale Interactive: Science provides a comprehensive view of the most-studied science topics of biology, chemistry and earth and space science. Students can explore 3D models by zooming in, rotating, or pulling them apart. Clicking through each session displays relevant reference content related to each 3D model. Students can also print out selected 3D models.
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Gale Literature Resource Centre provides the student with unbounding literary resources to support their literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented.
Find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
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.
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. Biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary are also included.
Gale provides a selection of Gale published reference non-fiction eBooks for New Zealand schools through the EPIC Consortium. All eBooks sit on a web-based platform that can be cross-searched with other eBook on the platform. All eBooks provide unlimited simultaneous access, including remote access.
The For Students literature series on Gale eBooks provide high school and college learners plot summaries, theme discussions, historical context, and more for some of the most studied novels, short stories, poems, and dramas.
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Explore History through a New Lens
From its founding in 1888, the National Geographic Society has grown into an organization synonymous with exploration, photography, maps, and rethinking the world as we know it. From the iconic National Geographic magazine to the popular National Geographic Traveler and hundreds of books, maps, videos, and images, there’s simply no substitute for the depth and quality National Geographic Virtual Library will bring to your library.
Gale In Context: Elementary gradually lets elementary school children gain comfort with research by delivering age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of subjects taught in the classroom like animals, arts and music, social studies, and more. Gale In Context: Elementary offers young primary school students a platform with rich visuals that will encourage their natural curiosity and get them excited about learning.
Engage young students to broaden their educational horizons with reputable, special, authoritative, and age-appropriate digital content that brings them the world in a way they have never seen before. Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, wildlife, culture, geography, archaeology, and space.
Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids (also known as Nat Geo Kids) collection includes the complete run of the magazine from the first issue in 2009 to the present, as well as books, videos including Amazing Animals, images, and colorful photos. High-quality informational texts, fun features, and weird and wacky facts are available for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English Language Arts, social studies, and science classrooms.
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Gale in Context: Elementary – is designed for primary school level learners. It is a content-rich, easy-to use digital resource featuring age-appropriate, essential, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics. Content includes books, magazines, news, and multimedia content with more than 14,000 images, over 1,700 charts and graphs, and more than 600 videos.
Gale In Context: Elementary is now fully integrated with National Geographic Kids magazine, showcasing the trusted, highly visual and accessible content – perfect for supporting after school programs & younger patrons.
These videos are two minute videos explaining specific features of the Gale platforms. Thet are quick videos that can be added to your website to help students navigate around your Gale databases
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.
