"This is an
ideal product for large libraries and consortia
who need to serve users of all types,
from students, to academicians to business executives,"
said John Barnes, senior vice president of product
management for the Gale Group. "InfoTrac OneFile allows the library gateway to be more
flexible, serving a broad spectrum of needs, and more responsive by
delivering richer search results for every query."
The 6,111 magazines and journals included
run the gamut from general interest to refereed academic
journals and business publications. 2,659 of these periodicals
are full text. Inclusion of nearly 90 newswires allows users
to tap targeted information in such areas as agriculture,
government, sports and also view press
releases issued by businesses. Newspaper archives include full indexes
of the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor.
Gale Group is making the wealth of content
in OneFile easy to access by placing it within their popular InfoTrac interface. InfoTrac includes InfoMarks,
a free built-in utility, which enables users to cut
and paste dynamic links to InfoTrac searches and documents directly into
an OPAC, Web pages or e-mail messages.
 Health &
Wellness Resource Center
The Gale Group's newest Resource Center leverages Gale's
popular health databases along with those of key content
partners, creating a single Web-based product that provides authoritative health information
for every level of
user.
"The beauty of this product is its
versatility," said John Barnes, senior VP of
product development
at the Gale Group. "Health & Wellness Resource Center is
a robust, sophisticated research tool that supports the needs
of professional searchers. But the interface is so simple
and intuitive that a library can feel comfortable making it accessible at
an unattended terminal or even providing remote access. A novice searcher will
be at ease with it."
Gale Group Health Product Manager, Elaine
Proseus notes that serving a range of health information
searchers is the primary mission of the product. "The average
person looking for health information is not a
professional searcher.
He or she is a forty-something novice searcher looking for
help for a family member. Over 75 percent of
searches are to get information on a medical condition
or a drug. We created a product that will make it easy
to answer those questions, but not overlook the advanced searcher sitting behind
the reference desk," she said.
Health & Wellness Resource Center integrates such classic
health reference sources as The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine,
the PDR Family Guide for Nutrition and Health, Clinical Reference Systems along
with full-text content from hundreds of health journals, pamphlets and newspaper articles
in a single search interface.
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A single search query returns results from
reference sources - providing background and education -
periodical sources, which update the searcher on current
medical thought and breakthroughs, and pharmacy information
for
both prescription
and over-the-counter drugs. In one search, even the most novice
user gets a complete report packaged in a simple,
intuitive framework. That framework also guides experienced searchers to
advanced information and more sophisticated search paths. "We have the best of
both worlds in this product," said Ms. Proseus. "It sets a new
standard in delivering health information."
History Resource
Center: The Modern World
History Resource
Center: The Modern World is Gale's new online history
database offering a virtual library of the resources needed to
study world history within a flexible, comprehensive and convenient search tool
that supports university and school research.
History Resource Center: The Modern World
will provide a global coverage of the 20th century, starting
with China's Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and moving forward to
present
day. Thematic coverage
includes the effects of events in Europe - two World Wars, the
Cold War, mass genocide and the rise and fall
of Communism - on international relations and social history. Resources supporting Asian
history, for example Communism in China and revolutions in
South East Asia, are included. Coverage of Indian, Africa and
Latin American social and political history includes issues related to colonisation,
revolutions and nationalisation.
The Resource Center integrates 17
reference sources from Gale, Macmillan and Scribner (e.g.,
Macmillan's Encyclopedia of the Holocaust and Scribner's
Encyclopedia of European
Social History), along with full text articles from over 100 academic journals.
Over 1,500 primary source documents, including some native language
documents with new translations, from Primary Source Microfilm Collections are included, with
a high percentage that never have been available electronically
before. Historical news sources, 500 maps, 1,000 images, statistical information,
and links to the library's OPAC are also a part of
this comprehensive resource.
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