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I am Damian Almeida and I’m your Training Executive. I am responsible for assisting Gale’s Australian customers with any training that is required across Gale’s Databases in person training or online. I am in Melbourne can 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 |
These webinars focus on thematic questions and topics that are being taught in the New South Wales secondary curriculum,
Each session will explore the coverage of content in the Gale Databases that will help students find content and answer a topical question.
Researching the rise of Veganism & the growth of the Artificial Meat industry using Gale in Context: Environmental Studies
(February 2023, 21 minutes)
Exploring the rise of Fake and Fast news using Gale in Context: Global Issues
(March 2023 - 28 minutes)
Looking at the growth of social media as a tool in activism and politics using Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
(March 2023, 28 minutes)
The use and Influence of science and 3D printing using Gale In Context: Science and Gale Interactive: Science
(April 2023, 15 minutes)
How do places, people and cultures differ across the world using Gale in Context: World History
(April 2023, 20 minutes)
Looking at feminism in Australia using Gale General OneFile and Gale OneFile: News
(May 2023, 28 minutes)
(September 2023, 29 minutes)
Exploring Gale History resources for HSC Students
(November 2024 - 32 minutes)
Exploring Gale Hospitality resources for HSC Students
(November 2024 - 33 minutes)
Exploring Gale Science resources for HSC Students
(November 2024 - 30 minutes)
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.
Short overview of General OneFile. Great to add to your website
(February 2023, 7 minutes)
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
Gale OneFile Powerpack Subject Collections
As part of your New South Wale 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
(December 2022, 7 minutes)
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: Australia and New Zealand
(30 April 2024 -33 minutes)
Exploring content from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ain Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand
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 overview video - ideal to add to your website
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 overview video outlining main features
Gale Books and Authors
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.
Mastering the Literary Tapestry, A Deep Dive into Books and Authors
(28 May 2024, 26 minutes)
Short video outlining the content of Gale Literature Resource Centre
Gale Literature Resource Center provides the user 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 Literature Resource Center brings together materials that support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers with a literature, history, arts, gender studies, or cultural studies focus can use this resource to analyze authors and works
(December 2022, 6 minutes)
Gale Business: Insights includes international case studies from Gale's CaseBase as well as from our publishing partners worldwide
Thousands of global company, country and business topic overviews featuring detailed information as well as interactive rankings and statistics, with quick links to associated content.
A profile for every UN recognized country
Global Histories, SWOT Reports, Thomson Reuters Company Financials and Investment Reports, Market Share Reports, and Industry Research Essays
Full-text articles from academic journals, business periodicals, newswires and other media outlets, with PDF and HTML download options
Promotional video on Gale Busines: Insights
(July 2023, 2 minutes)
Short 5 minute overview video outling the main features of Gale Interactive: Science
(December 2022, 5 minutes)
Gale Interactive: Science provides a comprehensive view of the most-studied science topics of biology, chemistry and earth and space science. Users 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. Users can also print out selected 3D models
Promotional video for Gale Interactive: Science
(July 2023, 2 minutes)
Explore over a century of iconic images and fascinating narratives that capture the wonder of our planet and beyond.
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.
Promotional video on National Geographic Virtual Library
Short video outling the features of National Geographic Kids
Engage kids and 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.
Short overview of the In Context suite of products
(December 2022, 6 minutes)
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
(May 2024, 33 minutes)
Researching Pompeii Using Gale In Context: Biography
(July 2024, 31 minutes)
An overview of the features of Gale In Contex: Literature
(June 2024, 28 minutes)
Looking at the key arguments presented by Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints on the impact of climate change.
(June 2024, 34 minutes)
Examining ecosystems & global biodiversity using Gale In Context: Environmental Studies
(July 2024, 35 minutes)
Gale and the Smithsonian have collaborated to give libraries a unique opportunity to provide students, faculty, and researchers the chance to look behind the glass of the Smithsonian exhibits and collections.
Our Training Executive Damian Almeida takes you through the different components of the Smithsonian Collections Online availalbe to New South Wales Public Libraries
These videos are two minute videos navigating specific features of the Gale platforms. They are quick videos that can be added to your website .
(November 2022, 3 minutes)
Gale Power Search
Cross-search content from select Gale products, including Gale's OneFile periodicals, In Context products, and Gale eBooks
(November 2022, 3 minutes)
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
(November 2022, 3 minutes)
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.
(November 2022, 2 minutes)
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.
(November 2022, 3 minutes)
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
(November 2022, 3 minutes)
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
(November 2022, 2 minutes)
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.
(November 2022, 2 minutes)
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.
(November 2022, 2 minutes)
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.
(November 2022, 2 minutes)
Gale databases allow you to download articles and any highlights and notes to your Google Drive or Microsoft Onedrive
(November 2022, 1 minute)
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.
