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Last Updated: February 10, 2023

Master Gale Admin

Gale Admin provides tools to configure your Gale resource preferences including authentication, LMS integration, and individual resource functionality. In addition to these tools, you can also view usage reports, including COUNTER 5. Join us to explore the features and workflows of this valuable resource. This session is intended for those who administer or manage their library resources.

Duration: 45 Minutes
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Ok, thank you all again for joining

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today, we're going to be master in gale admin.

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My name is Amber Winters and I'm your gale training

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consultant for the day.

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So we on the first we're just going to talk about

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how you can get access to gale

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admin because of course that's always gonna be our first step.

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So we'll talk about where you can find it. We'll talk

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about how you can actually get in, where you can find

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your credentials, all that good stuff.

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We'll quickly talk about some of the different features

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you're going to find within gale admin. So what you're

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actually going to be able to do, how you're going to

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be able to manipulate how you access

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your resources. your account, all that good stuff

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and then we'll spend a good amount of time actually walking

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through gall admin. So you're gonna feel of

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where, where the all where all of

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the different tools and features are. Excuse

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me, I'm a little tongue tied today. so

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we'll walk you back and then at the very end of the session,

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I do have some wrap up information for you

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some contact information if you want to maybe take

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a deeper dive into things we didn't explore today.

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And again, if the questions start to get

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a little bit burdensome if we get a lot

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coming in, then the questions may just wait

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until the end of the session but feel free to pop

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them into the Q and A. And if I'm able

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to I'll answer them as we move along today.

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So first accessing G admin,

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so there's two main ways you can get access

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so if anyone online is familiar with

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the support site.

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Instead of remembering a whole another site, you can

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actually access the Gale admin site

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right from that support site. So if you go

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to support dot G dot com,

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you hover over tools in our little tool

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bar up top here, you'll see gale admin

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is an option right there. So this is the first

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way you can access if you are familiar with using losing

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the support site. we don't want you to have to remember

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a second website so you can do it there.

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If you just want to go directly to gale

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ain, you can just go to admin dot gale dot com.

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And then forward right there directly.

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If you don't have your credentials yet, that's completely

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fine. Stay on the line with us, we're still gonna show you

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how to use everything. But if you need

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access to those, you can reach out to our tech support

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and they can provide you with that information. All

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of this will be in your follow up email. So if

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you do need to act to reach out to them, you'll

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be able to but it's just 1 808

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774253,

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option four. Sometimes. It's just a little bit

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easier to send an email just to gale do technical

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support at dot com. Either

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way they'll be able to get you those credentials so you

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can log in. They are different than the passwords

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to get into your resources because

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they're admin credentials so they give you kind of a different

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level of access so you will need those

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as opposed to just your standard resource

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password.

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So let's talk about some of the features here, what

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gil admin is actually going to help you do. So first

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you're gonna be able to manage your authentication methods.

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So if you want to change passwords, maybe you

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need to add a password. You can do that here.

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You can also include your Ip s. So if

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you want to have Ip authentication for your

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school district or your library wherever you are,

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you can enter in all of the Ip addresses

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that are going to be related to your institution

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and you'll have automatic authentication that

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way. We can also enter in things like

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referring URL s

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in addition to those authentication methods,

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especially if we're talking about schools that having

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a K 12 folks on the line. You

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can work on your L MS integration

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right here on Gale admin. So you'll be able to get

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your key in secret. So if you're using

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canvas something like that, you'll

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be able to pull that right here from Gale admin and we'll take a look

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at that. You also have the ability

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to authenticate using either google or Microsoft

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account. So that's a great way again

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if you're at a K. 12 school and

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everyone is assigned an account. be it's

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google or Microsoft you can actually have them

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sign in that way. So by passing your

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password you don't have to worry about handing

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out a password to all of your students or all of your users.

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They can really simply just sign and use

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thing google or Microsoft

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You can also enter some preferences and we have

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some general preferences preferences that are going

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to span the entirety of your gale collection.

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And we also have some product specific specific

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preferences. So if we're talking about

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the in context suites, they have their own

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preferences that you can narrow down to or

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Gale ebooks, you'll also find separate preferences.

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So we'll take a look at all of those today. So

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you can kind of get a feel about what you're going to be seeing

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what you can do.

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and you can also view usage on Gale admin.

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So gil admin, it's really beneficial

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if you're looking for a counter four or counter five reports.

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It's also helpful if you want to schedule a report

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to be sent to you. So if you're looking for a report

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on on a monthly, quarterly, however

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long you can schedule that within gale admin

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and I will just note here this is not the same

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as usage dashboard. A lot of people

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are using usage, dash

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for now, which is just a little bit different.

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It's a little more readily

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available. You have some visuals there as well

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but if you want counter four or five you're

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going to want to use it to

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use usage on gale admin.

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So we will have that, we'll take a look at that today as

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well Now

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I just want to go ahead and dive right in. I

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haven't seen any questions pop up but as I'm

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switching over screens here,

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do we have any questions?

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Ok? I don't see these. So for the

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sake of time I already signed in here. So when

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you sign in using your admin credentials, this is

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the page you're going to be pulled to and yours

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might look a little bit different. You'll see right

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here. I just have one account that I

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can click into one location. If

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you are the admin for an entire school district

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or maybe a full public library system,

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you may see more than one location

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listed here and that's completely fine.

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You'll be able to go in and edit each of those

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locations individually right here on this

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page,

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on this left hand side, you'll see I have this little

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user administration button here as well.

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So you can add a user. So maybe you have

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a a new librarian working with you or maybe you have

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a tech person you want to be involved on

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the admin side of scale, you can actually add

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that here for yourself. So you'll be able to put in

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our user name and password. All that good stuff.

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but I'm not gonna do that today, I'm going to stick with myself

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so again I have my one location so I'm

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going to select a view at it to change

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what's going on with this specific location

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here Maybe?

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Ok, give me one second here. It looks like I might be

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signed in incorrectly.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and start

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Excuse me for that.

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There we go.

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Had myself signed in a little bit differently.

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So in your standard sign in, when you hit

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you edit, this is what you're going to see, is

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this first location summary

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here. So you have your location name,

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which you can change. It's automatically going to populate

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to whatever is attached to your account.

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So usually it's going to be your school's name,

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your district's name, your public library name.

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but you can change it. So if you want it to be maybe a little

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bit more specific or you just want to change

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the organization of it or something like that.

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You can do that here and mine just has my name because

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it's my personal account, it's not a library's

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account, You'll also see your

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location ID here. So sometimes you'll

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hear that when you're speaking with gale individuals,

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maybe if you're building out a gale page

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or something like that. If you're trying to get direct URL

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s, you may hear the term location ID,

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you'll find that here within your gale admin.

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scrolling down underneath, you'll have a customer

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class and that's going to be filled out for you. So

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K 12 Public Academic Mind

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enter company because I'm in the company.

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but you'll have that created here for you

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scrolling down, you can add in your

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contact information for gale here.

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You'll see you do you are required

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to have your city state

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all that good stuff, you can have that listed there,

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but you can enter in more if you want to keep it here

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And at the very bottom of this page you

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have this button to access your products.

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So this button is actually going to pull you to your

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full product menu here. It will take

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just a second to load because I have a lot of products on

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my account.

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And when you sign into this using just your standard

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resource sign

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in, you'd be taken to this page. So this

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is really handy if you want to take a look at all of your

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resources.or maybe you want to

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forward this to users so they can see all of your

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resources as opposed to having

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your standard direct links posted, you

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do have access to the scale product menu here,

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you'll see you have everything posted and this is going

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to be different based on what you have access to.

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So you might not see all of these, you may see,

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you know two or three, whatever you have access

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to. That's all you're going to see here.

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And on this product menu, I also pointed out, we

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include our cross searches here. So if

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you want to direct your users to our cross searches

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again, it varies what you'll see based on the resources

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you have, but that's on this product menu

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here as well.

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so let's jump back to Gale admin here.

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So again, you'll always have that at the very bottom of

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the page that's access your products.

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now sticking with this toolbar I'm kind of just gonna

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work from top to bottom here today.

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Our next option is this edit database

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subscription. So this is really just going to

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allow you to see what you currently are subscribed

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to, what you've subscribed to

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in the past. You don't see a start

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end date for me because it might set up a little bit

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differently, but you will see your start and end dates

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here, so you'll see all of the resources you have.

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and you'll have some additional information here that I don't have

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but you can take a look and just see that as

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needed. Again this is just a a visual view.

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You won't be able to renew or anything else

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like that. I'm Gale admin, this is

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just letting you see those if you do need to renew a resource

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or if you want to maybe learn a bit about

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a new resource that you notice you don't have listed

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in your current database subscriptions. I

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have some contact information for you at the very

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end of this session to some individuals

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who can help you out with that.

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But moving down from this database subscriptions

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page, you'll have your location authentication.

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This is a really powerful section and

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for a lot of people this is where they spend the majority

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of their time with gale admin is making

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sure they give their users the best

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experience as possible when they're signing

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into the resource. Of course we want to try to

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eliminate as many barriers to access

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as possible while still making sure

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that only your users are in fact getting into

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the resource. So the first option

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is our addition of Ip addresses

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click in here, you can add in as many

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as you like. You'll see, I can start to add rows here,

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and you can put in your, your Ip addresses.

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So this again is pretty beneficial for

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the K 12

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arena where you have your set list

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of Ip addresses that are kind of designated

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for your school or for your district, you

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can pop those in there and when your students click

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into different resources now, they're not going to be

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asked for a password, We're going to recognize

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their Ip address and we're going to auto

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authenticate them.

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This is a really beneficial way to do that.

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Of course, if your students are using

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a computer at home or if you're a public library

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and they're using their personal computers at home,

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we won't be

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able to recognize their Ip address because

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it's not been entered by you. So at that

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point they'll be asked to

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enter a password or however or

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else you have authentication set up

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So here underneath the Ip addresses, this

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is where you'll find your passwords, I'm not going to click

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in because my passwords in there. but

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you can add in multiple passwords if you like. You

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can also set expiration dates and passwords,

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so maybe you'll want your

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your students to have access for a specific amount

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of time and then you want to cut it off for a bit maybe

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to make edits or whatever it may be. Maybe

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you change your password yearly just to make sure

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that's no one from the outside is getting

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in. You can set it. So your passwords

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will will expire after one year and you'll

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be able to enter in a new one. You can do that here

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So so you've got a few other options here as well. I'm not

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going to go into what each of these authentication

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options are if they look familiar

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to you and you know you want to set them up with Gale

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your customer success manager can help you out with

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that. You'll have their contact information

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at the very end of the session but if

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you're looking for something like that you'll find that under

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our location authentication

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I'm gonna click here into 3rd party though.

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So this is where you're going to include your

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google authentication or your Microsoft authentication,

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What's great is you're just going to put in a domain

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name. So as an example as a send gauge

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employee, my domain is sunu

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dot com. So it's just the very end of

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your email. So my email is amber dot winters

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at sun gauge dot com. So after that

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a sign that's going to be your domain. Again,

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this is great for schools or maybe the academic

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arena where you have designated

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domains, you have designated emails you sent sent

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out to your users, you can make it. So

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any user who signed in on the platform.

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on the the browse window here with

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a Microsoft or a google account that

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has that domain, they'll automatically

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authenticate. So again they won't need a password,

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they'll be able to sign in with either google or Microsoft

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and be ready to go. So again, it's a nice way to

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skip that required password.

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It's a nice way to make sure that they're not getting frustrated

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when they don't remember their password and can't get in.

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underneath that here. You'll see we have a few other

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options. So if you're using something like class link

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or clever you can pull that right here

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underneath that. You'll see I have my L. T.

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I. Authentication here. So again this is going

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to be your learning management systems

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so school G canvas are the big

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ones I always kind of think of but also things

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like blackboard you'll be able to pull

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your consumer key so you'll see that it automatically

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populates here for me, my consumer key

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and then I can generate my secret. Again,

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if you're not familiar with how integrating into an

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L MS works and you're not quite sure what

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a secret is. Your customer success

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manager can help you out with that and I'll give you their information

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at the end.

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But for my tech individuals who are

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on the line or those of you who are going to be working with

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tech individuals for the most

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part, they're going to know that you're gonna need a secret.

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And you can generate that all on your own right here

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on this 3rd Party location

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authentication here.

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and I will pause just for a quick second.

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Are there any questions? I haven't seen any pop up

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but are there any questions about editing your

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location details or about some of our different

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location authentication options?

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Ok?

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I don't see any. So we'll go ahead and keep rolling then.

[00:14:08.750]
So moving down underneath our location

[00:14:11.190]
authentication, we have our preferences

[00:14:13.570]
section here

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and as I mentioned previously, we have both

[00:14:17.048]
general preferences that are going to span

[00:14:19.109]
your whole gale collection or

[00:14:21.349]
we have some product specific preferences.

[00:14:23.528]
So let's start off with general here.

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So scrolling down a lot of it, there's these are just going

[00:14:30.427]
to default to an and you may not even know you can

[00:14:32.479]
turn them off. but the first

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one is going to be your translation, so it's always

[00:14:36.960]
going to default to. Yes, you have

[00:14:39.119]
the ability to translate your

[00:14:41.250]
resource because generally people do

[00:14:43.658]
see that as an important feature.

[00:14:45.759]
So it is going to give the option to your users.

[00:14:47.979]
You can turn that off if you don't want that option provided.

[00:14:50.807]
but again it does default. Yes.

[00:14:53.750]
You can also decide what you want, your default

[00:14:56.210]
user interface language to be. So

[00:14:58.450]
it does default to english if you'd prefer to

[00:15:00.500]
have it in spanish, let's say. You can certainly

[00:15:02.599]
do that and that is just the platform

[00:15:05.168]
so that's all of the tools, the navigation,

[00:15:07.690]
all the good stuff. The articles themselves,

[00:15:09.875]
will still be in whatever language language

[00:15:12.052]
they were published in so many of the times english.

[00:15:14.634]
and your users will be able to translate those individually.

[00:15:17.173]
But selecting your default interface language

[00:15:19.504]
here is just going to make the navigation

[00:15:22.254]
whatever language you choose. I'm going to

[00:15:24.335]
keep mine as english here

[00:15:28.000]
scrolling down here. You see there are a few other options.

[00:15:30.298]
I'm not going to go through all of them, but you'll see you

[00:15:32.320]
have information if you want to enable

[00:15:34.500]
google scholar, all that good stuff. Your language

[00:15:36.840]
for google google scholar,

[00:15:39.599]
you'll be able to do that here. You can also

[00:15:41.840]
choose a default start page. Now,

[00:15:43.859]
I think this is pretty handy, so

[00:15:45.879]
we always defaulting your start page

[00:15:47.969]
as the home. So when your users sign in or when

[00:15:50.134]
they authenticate with their IP or their newly

[00:15:52.325]
entered google accounts,

[00:15:54.153]
they're always brought to the home page just as a

[00:15:56.163]
default. If you would prefer, they go

[00:15:58.234]
somewhere else. Maybe you want them to go to a

[00:16:00.244]
subject guide. Maybe you think that all

[00:16:02.344]
of your users should be funneled into the advanced

[00:16:04.394]
search first, because you just think that's the best

[00:16:06.504]
option for your, your um, audience,

[00:16:09.278]
You can do that here. We generally recommend

[00:16:11.719]
sticking to the home page at first, especially

[00:16:14.080]
for things like in context resources,

[00:16:16.389]
just because there's a lot of tools right there on

[00:16:18.418]
the home page that can be really handy for your users,

[00:16:20.908]
but if you think they prefer something else, you have

[00:16:22.950]
the ability to change that right here

[00:16:25.019]
under our general preferences.

[00:16:28.399]
I keep my full text limited on

[00:16:30.557]
by default. So you can turn that off.

[00:16:32.580]
The majority of our resources

[00:16:34.859]
have

[00:16:36.649]
mostly full text but there are citations

[00:16:39.200]
and other things. So if you'd prefer to turn that off, you

[00:16:41.269]
can do that here.

[00:16:43.950]
you'll see we have citation style. If you're using

[00:16:46.028]
a proxy, you can enter that information

[00:16:48.288]
here and

[00:16:50.590]
then down under here listed on login page

[00:16:52.729]
options. So when you your user

[00:16:55.009]
kind of falls right on the log in page

[00:16:57.038]
where they're going to be asked to either to

[00:16:59.307]
sign in with google or Microsoft or maybe they're going to be

[00:17:01.369]
putting in a password, you can include your

[00:17:03.479]
library information right on that page. So if

[00:17:05.630]
they don't know the password, you

[00:17:07.788]
can have them reached out to you right there. You'll see you can

[00:17:09.890]
put in your web page, your phone number

[00:17:12.269]
and your email as well to kind of help

[00:17:14.410]
direct them to the right spot here

[00:17:16.778]
and again, that's going directly on the

[00:17:18.847]
log in page.

[00:17:23.596]
Now, underneath those general preferences preference

[00:17:25.958]
here, you'll see I have my product specific

[00:17:28.137]
preferences

[00:17:29.749]
and now yours is going to look different based on what resources

[00:17:32.166]
you have available. This is my drop down.

[00:17:34.259]
So I have all of these resources, I'll be

[00:17:36.336]
able to change again, yours will most

[00:17:38.438]
likely be different here.

[00:17:45.038]
And it looks like we have a question for the default

[00:17:47.097]
start page. I don't have a dropdown menu

[00:17:50.327]
So Catherine, if you don't see a drop down menu,

[00:17:52.390]
then that would be because whatever resources you

[00:17:54.449]
have access to don't have

[00:17:56.680]
that capability. So I'm not quite

[00:17:58.699]
sure what your resource collection is, but

[00:18:00.949]
whatever it is, if you don't see an option

[00:18:03.430]
that I'm going through today, that just means it's not applicable

[00:18:05.729]
to what you have. So if anyone sees

[00:18:07.939]
something they can't do on this

[00:18:10.028]
on this webinar, it's just because

[00:18:12.048]
whatever that feature is, it doesn't it's

[00:18:14.219]
not applicable for whatever your resource collection

[00:18:16.308]
is. and Catherine

[00:18:18.519]
if you do want to discuss that further to see

[00:18:20.577]
what resource doesn't allow whatever you're

[00:18:22.640]
trying to click into. your customer success

[00:18:24.900]
manager again is a great person to reach out to

[00:18:26.910]
and they can work with you a little bit more

[00:18:29.097]
closely with your actual resource set.

[00:18:31.130]
So we'll have that information at the end of this session

[00:18:33.337]
for you.

[00:18:37.357]
so let's go ahead and click in. I'm going to click into

[00:18:39.528]
my in context suite first. I'll click into a couple

[00:18:41.788]
of these but our in context

[00:18:44.130]
products are are really popular

[00:18:46.390]
so I'm assuming a lot of you on the line most likely have

[00:18:48.548]
at least one in context product. So this

[00:18:50.769]
could certainly come in handy for you. So scrolling down

[00:18:52.939]
here, you can choose to select your market

[00:18:55.459]
and when you choose a market it's emphasize

[00:18:58.199]
emphasizes different pieces of content

[00:19:00.979]
when you click into the race source. So I have mindset

[00:19:03.479]
to K 12.

[00:19:04.719]
and what that means is you'll see, I have the option to show

[00:19:06.788]
me here. K 12. It's going to

[00:19:08.837]
emphasize the featured content that

[00:19:10.930]
we pulled forward. News and magazines

[00:19:13.019]
reference and primary sources. While

[00:19:15.117]
if I had selected academic,

[00:19:17.239]
it's going to first show academic journals

[00:19:19.558]
and primary sources and things like that. And

[00:19:21.837]
then you'll see we have public listed here as well where

[00:19:23.880]
it's going to highlight more featured content

[00:19:26.077]
and the news and magazines, general

[00:19:28.288]
reference, all that good stuff. So

[00:19:30.367]
You don't technically have to edit this but

[00:19:32.719]
sometimes it is nice to have this changed

[00:19:34.920]
a little bit. So you can make sure your

[00:19:36.969]
users are getting to the exact information they need

[00:19:39.150]
if you know, your user base really

[00:19:41.259]
needs to take a look at those academic journals first

[00:19:43.509]
and foremost. You may want to change out

[00:19:45.689]
here to this academic version so they

[00:19:47.750]
can take a look at that. They'll be kind of directed to

[00:19:49.798]
that first on our topic pages.

[00:19:53.959]
underneath that. You can change if you're displaying content

[00:19:56.500]
or lexa level. So again, this is pretty

[00:19:58.939]
K 12 focused. But

[00:20:01.107]
if you are a public library or an academic

[00:20:03.288]
library using these resources and you think maybe

[00:20:05.439]
this is not the most beneficial for my users,

[00:20:07.920]
you know, why, why muddy the water? They're not

[00:20:10.048]
going to quite understand what a lexa reading

[00:20:12.327]
a lexile

[00:20:13.380]
level is. You can turn those off

[00:20:15.719]
right here.

[00:20:18.400]
You can also select the topic

[00:20:20.880]
pick list. Again, this is giving you the

[00:20:22.920]
descriptions of what all of those are

[00:20:25.587]
So you can change that here,

[00:20:27.180]
you can choose just a full text limit

[00:20:29.410]
in in context only you saw that as a general

[00:20:31.489]
preference, you could also get more specific.

[00:20:33.769]
So if you just want it for in context,

[00:20:35.867]
you can certainly do that.

[00:20:37.410]
And curriculum standards,

[00:20:39.989]
you could choose to have the honor off in curricular standards

[00:20:42.278]
are just a button that appears

[00:20:44.317]
on the home page. So if again,

[00:20:46.357]
if you're not a K 12 institution,

[00:20:48.837]
you might not want to see that at all, it might not be

[00:20:50.969]
distracting. You don't need to worry about it, but if it is a little

[00:20:53.130]
distracting, you can turn that off

[00:20:57.308]
So this is what you're going to see for in context. And

[00:20:59.439]
it'll change based on your resources. So if instead

[00:21:02.160]
I want to come in here and take a look at gale ebooks,

[00:21:04.459]
That's another really popular collection that I'm

[00:21:06.558]
sure a lot of you have access to.

[00:21:08.430]
I can choose how I want to order my

[00:21:11.130]
ebooks if I want to order them by title or by date.

[00:21:13.969]
You'll see another great feature here

[00:21:16.250]
is defaulting to the book view just

[00:21:18.837]
standard when your users click into an

[00:21:20.920]
ebook, they're going to see a text version

[00:21:23.097]
kind of like an HTML version if

[00:21:25.430]
you prefer. They see the nice kind

[00:21:27.509]
of native ebook view where they get the

[00:21:29.548]
images, they be able to flip through the pages.

[00:21:31.939]
You can default to that being turned on.

[00:21:34.949]
Again we include content levels and leel reading

[00:21:37.449]
measures here. So if you want to take those off, you

[00:21:39.489]
certainly can right here.

[00:21:42.500]
We'll look at one more. We'll take a look at our Gale

[00:21:44.719]
Power search. So that's our cross search.

[00:21:47.199]
This is another section that oftentimes

[00:21:50.538]
as you utilize quite frequently.

[00:21:52.778]
So again, if we want to choose to include

[00:21:55.019]
Les we can but what's really

[00:21:57.170]
handy on this page is you can choose what is

[00:21:59.189]
being searched here.

[00:22:01.130]
within your power search and again you're only going to see

[00:22:03.288]
the resources here you have access to so

[00:22:05.347]
your list might not look like mine.

[00:22:08.000]
So I can choose if I only want

[00:22:10.170]
my students, let's say I'm working

[00:22:12.298]
at a K 12 school. Again I I want

[00:22:14.317]
my students to take a look at my in contact resources.

[00:22:16.750]
I don't want them searching through one file,

[00:22:18.847]
I don't want them searching through. Um

[00:22:21.630]
My business resources, I can just

[00:22:23.808]
go through here and just click my in context.

[00:22:26.479]
So now they are still power searching but they're

[00:22:28.509]
only power searching those in context.

[00:22:30.670]
Resources that you've chosen.

[00:22:34.117]
And again that is our power search. If

[00:22:36.288]
you are interested in our power search, we actually have

[00:22:38.327]
a fully created webinar for you about that

[00:22:40.709]
on our support site. I'll give you that information

[00:22:42.719]
later. But that is our cross search and you can't

[00:22:44.827]
edit that here on gale admin.

[00:22:50.180]
now. Moving down from

[00:22:51.469]
preferences, we have our discovery

[00:22:53.660]
services option right here and

[00:22:55.827]
this again just gives another little

[00:22:58.048]
bit of information for you. So if you're

[00:23:00.117]
using a specific discovery service

[00:23:02.278]
you can get that all organized here. So if you have an open

[00:23:04.479]
U. R. O. If you have an interlibrary

[00:23:06.769]
loan that you want to get entered

[00:23:09.067]
into here

[00:23:10.709]
most likely if you're doing this, you have all

[00:23:12.827]
of this content available. If

[00:23:14.837]
you know, you want to set this up, but you don't have all of

[00:23:16.890]
this information, you should be able to find

[00:23:19.009]
it from whoever handles your tech or

[00:23:21.028]
whoever handles your

[00:23:23.087]
kind of virtual resources,

[00:23:25.209]
but you'll be able to enter that here and you'll be able to run through

[00:23:27.308]
this all on your own.

[00:23:29.930]
we also have a customer links button

[00:23:33.250]
And this is really nice if you want to kind of

[00:23:35.317]
link your users back to a specific

[00:23:37.327]
area. So you'll see, I've included our support

[00:23:39.788]
site here which is support

[00:23:41.317]
dot com and this is going to

[00:23:43.347]
populate. I'm gonna jump back to that product

[00:23:46.048]
menu I opened up earlier

[00:23:49.209]
It's going to populate here where I select

[00:23:51.469]
library menu, so it's going to populate on

[00:23:53.587]
this product menu. It's also

[00:23:55.607]
going to populate in your resources. It's always

[00:23:57.769]
going to appear up top here

[00:23:59.920]
and you see I have my additional links and I've included

[00:24:02.150]
my support site links here. So if

[00:24:04.278]
you want to maybe put your library's website,

[00:24:06.500]
your library, social media platforms,

[00:24:09.117]
maybe you have a lib guide that you want to highlight.

[00:24:11.420]
You can throw all of that here on these links

[00:24:13.519]
and have that be readily available for your

[00:24:15.577]
users

[00:24:18.689]
you'll see we have the option to request to Mark records

[00:24:21.130]
but we've actually moved our Mark records to

[00:24:23.160]
the support site so they are on demand

[00:24:25.420]
ready for you to download as needed. So again

[00:24:27.479]
support G dot com, you'll be able to pull

[00:24:29.577]
those again as needed. You won't

[00:24:31.709]
need to worry about waiting for us at all. You'll be

[00:24:33.729]
able to pull those

[00:24:36.058]
if you have custom databases you do

[00:24:38.259]
find that here. So some institutions may have

[00:24:40.357]
custom news or magazine

[00:24:42.380]
databases. I don't have any attached to my account.

[00:24:44.798]
So we won't take a look at them today but

[00:24:46.837]
this will give you information. If you do have

[00:24:48.857]
them So

[00:24:54.449]
a quick question back in our

[00:24:56.528]
discovery here. So

[00:24:58.930]
a question about the interlibrary link.

[00:25:01.607]
Yeah, so if you're part of an interlibrary loan

[00:25:03.670]
system, you'll be able to enter in that information

[00:25:06.640]
so your Gil resources will flow back and

[00:25:08.650]
forth. So if a user requests um

[00:25:11.597]
a piece of content from whatever other library

[00:25:13.808]
you're working with, the Gil content

[00:25:15.959]
will flow in there and it'll be forward over to them

[00:25:18.038]
in the full text or whatever text version we have

[00:25:20.087]
available.

[00:25:22.439]
We have an ebooks tab here as well.

[00:25:24.617]
We have a sub collection manager with,

[00:25:26.949]
sub collection manager listed

[00:25:28.979]
here that you can use to build sub collections

[00:25:31.229]
of ebooks. But we've just recently

[00:25:33.630]
built in a nice tool within Gil ebooks

[00:25:35.827]
that's going to help you do that a bit more

[00:25:37.969]
dynamically. You'll be able to sign directly into Gil

[00:25:40.048]
ebooks again, using your admin credentials

[00:25:42.759]
and you'll be able to make collections for

[00:25:45.239]
maybe specific programs, you're running

[00:25:47.327]
specific classes, maybe

[00:25:49.430]
for small businesses you want to have your own collections

[00:25:51.729]
so you can actually do that within Gil ebooks now

[00:25:54.739]
So I prefer, I'd recommend using

[00:25:56.827]
that method as opposed to the ebooks but we

[00:25:59.028]
do have that option here as well.

[00:26:03.528]
Another great feature is going to be our usage

[00:26:05.650]
reports here.

[00:26:07.900]
so I'm going to go ahead and click into view usage reports.

[00:26:10.097]
It's going to pop me up into this different view here

[00:26:12.959]
and again, the best

[00:26:14.617]
um

[00:26:15.640]
bit of information you're going to find here

[00:26:17.650]
are going to be those counter four counter five

[00:26:20.140]
bits of content you'll see on the left

[00:26:22.189]
hand side here, it automatically populates those

[00:26:24.459]
for me. So whichever I need, I can

[00:26:26.729]
click into this and get as specific as I need

[00:26:29.019]
to. and

[00:26:31.699]
it will run this for me. Honestly I don't know how my

[00:26:33.769]
usage is so I can't really tell you how this is

[00:26:35.857]
gonna look but we'll take a look

[00:26:38.019]
here. so

[00:26:40.107]
I'll be able to click into this

[00:26:46.519]
and it's hopefully gonna run this for me.

[00:26:54.699]
Ok,

[00:26:56.278]
You'll see you have a few different options, you have some quick

[00:26:58.430]
links. If you're looking for something specific here then

[00:27:00.778]
it does download as a spreadsheet.

[00:27:04.347]
Let me pull this forward here

[00:27:06.317]
and Sherry, yep, I'll show you an example. So this

[00:27:08.538]
that I'm pulling up right now is platform usage.

[00:27:11.597]
I believe I clicked into counter five

[00:27:14.019]
if I'm remembering correctly

[00:27:16.199]
So it's just going to show you a quick bit of information

[00:27:20.067]
and this is different and I want to mention again than our usage

[00:27:22.380]
dashboard which is a little bit more visual.

[00:27:24.640]
We have some different charts and graphs available

[00:27:26.837]
on our usage dashboard. but this

[00:27:28.920]
is if you need those really strict counter

[00:27:31.979]
measures of course they are pretty specific.

[00:27:34.390]
You can pull those here so you'll see. All of this

[00:27:36.452]
different information on top here and

[00:27:38.525]
then you'll get the specific metric information.

[00:27:41.153]
And again, mine is small

[00:27:43.275]
because I'm not getting as much usage

[00:27:45.433]
out of my resources but you'll be able

[00:27:47.574]
to pull that content and again it is automatically

[00:27:49.644]
listed here as an excel sheet for you

[00:27:56.140]
Now let me jump back to those quick links here, because

[00:27:58.219]
again, I just want to point out as you're using this,

[00:28:00.798]
you have the ability to choose how

[00:28:02.979]
to run your reports, you can select this or

[00:28:05.337]
if you want to schedule reports, maybe you want to get

[00:28:07.469]
your counter five.

[00:28:09.308]
I don't know,

[00:28:10.439]
I get quarterly,

[00:28:11.808]
you'll be able to do that. This will show you exactly

[00:28:13.910]
how to schedule that information

[00:28:16.250]
as I mentioned before. You also have access

[00:28:18.509]
to a usage dashboard

[00:28:20.558]
and we do have that link here. So this is usually a

[00:28:22.577]
little bit quicker and it's a bit more visual.

[00:28:24.969]
So if you just want to kind of get your numbers,

[00:28:27.269]
maybe you want to see top search terms

[00:28:29.317]
in your resources or something like that usage

[00:28:31.769]
dashboard a lot of times is going to be a better

[00:28:33.989]
situation than using that.

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that other usage platform which again

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I like to prefer to just use for my counter

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reports um this usage dashboard

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is the the same

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sign in as your gale admin. So you'll see mine authenticated

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me because I'm signed into my gale admin

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already, but you'll be able to sign in if you

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your usage that way

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We won't go all the way through that today but

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you do have that available for you as well

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if I had archives listed here, this will give me

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some archival information. I don't

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if you do you have access to that.

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And my last feature is our help button.

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So of course we didn't spend a lot of time

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here today.

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so if you still have some questions that haven't been answered,

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you can take a look at these help files, they're really going to

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help you out. Our accounts have some

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different hierarchies listed. Mine is pretty

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simple. I have one location and that's it.

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Yours might look a little bit different. Yours might

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have institutions

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and location levels.

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So if you do have that, you may even have

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a consortium level if you're included in

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some sort of state consortium. So

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if that's the case, you'll see

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this is the hierarchy here. So this help

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file is going to show you how you can work throughout that

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hierarchy and what each of the levels

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mean. You

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see we have the getting started guide listed here

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as well. We have some summary information

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if you want to learn a bit more about our authentication

[00:29:57.180]
here, you'll see I wasn't able to go through

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all of this information but this will give you some additional

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details on what each of these authentication

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types are.

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and you see it goes out for all of them here.

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so you could choose any of them to kind of be launched for

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internet.

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Now, that's what I have for you guys today

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and I saved quite a bit of time for questions

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that you may have. I haven't seen any additional pop

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up but um let me go

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ahead switch out, give you some contact

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information in case you want to learn

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some more.

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Here we go.

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Um and if you do have questions, go ahead and keep popping them

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in. But If you do

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want to speak with someone a little bit more in depth

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about the admin or maybe you want

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to talk about your account, maybe how

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you could best set up authentication for

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your specific user type or for your specific

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learning community,

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you can reach out to your customer success manager. They

[00:30:54.269]
can really help you out with that. their emails

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just scale at customer success at

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dot com. If you do already know your customer

[00:31:01.087]
success manager, they'll feel free to just email them

[00:31:03.160]
directly. But if you don't know who it is, you can reach

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out there,

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You also have access to a sales consultant.

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So if you want to talk about any of your resources,

[00:31:11.778]
maybe resources, you're interested in that you noticed

[00:31:14.709]
when clicking through Gale admin that you didn't actually

[00:31:17.028]
have access to either reach out to them directly.

[00:31:19.479]
If you don't or if you don't know who they are, you can just

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go to support at dot com forward slash

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rep finder and you'll be forwarded to

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the correct individual and they can help you out.

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and I mentioned a few times. We also have a support

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site that's really beneficial. Support dot Gale

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dot com. So you'll find pre-recorded

[00:31:34.989]
webinars on things like Gale admin,

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but also on specific Gale

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resources. As I mentioned, we have one

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specifically for our power search.

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We also have some different

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Um marketing materials, training

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materials, lesson plans, activities,

[00:31:51.449]
social media posts, those goes on.

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So if you need some additional Gale support

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take a look at support dot Gale dot com.

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and then I do have here, Excuse

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me A training session

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survey. If you all have the time to take it,

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you can either scan it with your phone if you have a phone

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on you or you can just go to dot forward

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slash bill training

[00:32:15.038]
email. And

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then we've got a couple questions here. So

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First one, talking about

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interlibrary loan. Yeah, Christi

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did you have that set up set up, gel can flow just

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like your other resources.

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Ok? It looks like Catherine has a question

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about customer links. So let me just jump back

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here to make sure I understand

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your question. Let me click back into my

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account here.

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the customer links.

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And let me see here so you can set

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these. Currently I have two links but I don't see the

[00:33:00.857]
ability to add a row. So Catherine,

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you don't have the option here to use this

[00:33:05.028]
add row button, you don't see that underneath

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the the link. URL

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Hm well

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Catherine, I'm not quite sure why you don't have that

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ad row button.

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It's a little it's a little strange. Um

[00:33:22.989]
reach out to your customer success manager, they'll

[00:33:25.067]
be able to take a look at your specific account,

[00:33:27.528]
see why that's not working for you. Um

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I would assume it's not an issue related to

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your resources because you should be able to add as

[00:33:35.298]
many as needed. But um your customer

[00:33:37.788]
success manager can go through your specific instance

[00:33:40.150]
and see why yours is

[00:33:42.019]
acting a little bit differently,

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Ok.

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Well, I don't see any more questions popping

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up so I'll go ahead and leave you off for the day.

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I thank you for being on the line again, if you have

[00:34:04.617]
additional questions about Gale admin that weren't addressed

[00:34:06.959]
today, feel free to reach out to me or your

[00:34:09.099]
customer success manager.

[00:34:13.349]
Oh we have a quick question here. Um

[00:34:15.469]
Again, if you don't have any questions, feel free to hop off,

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I'll be here answering questions. So we have another one.

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Can you set power search as default?

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So Catherine, I'm assuming you mean

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just sending your users to power Search

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as opposed to sending them to any specific,

[00:34:29.320]
any other resource. Um There's not

[00:34:31.429]
an option within gale admin, but

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what I would recommend you doing is pull

[00:34:35.768]
the. Let

[00:34:38.780]
me jump back here,

[00:34:40.179]
pull the specific URL just

[00:34:42.228]
to power search and then you can post

[00:34:44.250]
that wherever you want it to go so you can find

[00:34:46.500]
your direct URL s on the support site

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or I opened up a few different tabs here.

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Um

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if I click into Gil Power Search,

[00:34:57.909]
you know, you can just pull this direct

[00:34:59.978]
URL and you can paste it so um

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instead of having individual ones

[00:35:04.208]
for, you know,

[00:35:05.829]
your biography, your environmental

[00:35:08.070]
studies, just use this instead and post

[00:35:10.268]
it to wherever you want it to go and then they'll be automatically

[00:35:12.679]
launched here

[00:35:13.938]
and they can choose what they want to search. There's no

[00:35:16.300]
feature right now in gale admin that

[00:35:18.639]
will set that up for them, but you can get that

[00:35:20.739]
direct. URL just a power search only.

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OK, well, I'll let everyone go then.

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Thank you again, everyone for being on the line

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and hopefully we'll see you in future sessions.
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