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Last Updated: July 12, 2023

Explore Gale Literature

Gale Literature is a cross-search platform designed to search all your library’s Gale literary databases in one simple landing point. Users will discover authors, literary works and movements, book reviews, and more. Join this session to explore the tools and features available in this valuable resource to optimize literature research.

Duration: 30 Minutes
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thank you again everyone for being on the line

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today. We're talking about gale

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literature today. My name is

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Amber Winters and I am your gale training

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consultant

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So I have a quick agenda here for everyone. So first

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I'm gonna talk a little bit about what

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gale literature is to be more specific.

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Today. We're talking about the cross

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search platform as opposed to one specific

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resource. So we'll talk about that

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today. We'll spend the majority of the time actually

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walking through the resource though. So you can get a feel

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of some of the different work flows.

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that your users are going to be experiencing

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and I will save time at the very end for any questions

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that you may have and I do have some closing

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information for you as well. if you do

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have questions before the end of the session,

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feel free to go ahead and ask those in the Q.

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And A. And I should be able to keep up with that

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as we're moving along today. If

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it does get a little bit jammed up in the Q. And A. You

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notice your question hasn't been answered?

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Don't worry about it, it will be answered

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at the very latest at the end of the session

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today, So

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let's go ahead and get started talking about

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gale literature again, this is the cross search

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platform that we're talking about today.

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before we get started, if you're looking for

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a webinar that's specifically about one

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of the different resources, we do already

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have those pre created

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on the support site for you to take a look

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at you get the support site information at the very

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end of this session. But again today we're talking

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about our cross search platform and this is going

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to cross cross search

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through all of the gale literature resources.

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You here, see here on the screen now

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you may or may not have access to all of these,

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you're

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Your institution could certainly vary. You may

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have access to maybe two

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or three, Maybe you have three or four, maybe you do have

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all of them. But all of these will be cross

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search on the gale literature. Cross search

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platform and I will note here

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that the platform is only going to search through

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the resources you currently currently have access

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to. So you don't need to worry about your patrons

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or your students. searching

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and then maybe hitting a wall because we found something

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in, let's say they alerted her lip finder

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and you don't have access to it. It's only going

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to search through the resources that you currently

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have access to.

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and a couple of key features of the platform

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before we just dive right in the first I want to

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mention are our person and our work searches.

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these are really helpful to narrow down contents

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because scale literature. Again, you saw how many

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resources it's searching through all at once

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is going to pull back a huge amount of content.

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So if your users are going in, Oftentimes

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it's better to have something specific in mind

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that they want to search for that way.

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They're not in inundated with a

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huge amount of results. So the person in

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work search is a really nice way to do that

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if they have a specific individual or work

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in mind that they can search just for that

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and really narrow down what they're looking for

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in addition to that we include related resources

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on the the home page of gale literature.

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So we'll take a look at that and that's going

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to give related resources that

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your institution currently has access

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to. So it's going to be resources that aren't

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searched within gale literature but

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that might be helpful or might be supplemental for

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your users. So they'll see that here

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on this platform as well.

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And finally a new feature that we've just

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added are some really great topic pages.

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So again, these are helping your users filter

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down to content they're looking for as

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simply as possible because again, this

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is a huge cross search. They're going to pull

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a lot of content so we have these nice

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topic pages that are going to curate results

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related to some of the most search,

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some of the most used topics

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that are currently in research, both

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for the secondary level students

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as well as

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excuse me, post secondary

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and your kind of general researchers that you're going to find

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maybe in a public library setting.

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So we do have those topic pages prec

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created where we organize all of our results

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nice and easily so users can access

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that really. Similarly,

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now. I just want to start to click through this resource

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here. I think we don't need to spend too much time talking

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about it while I'm switching over

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to my other screen. Do we have any questions?

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I haven't seen any pop into the Q and A. But

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I do want to make sure I hit those.

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Ok, I don't see any, so give me one

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quick second here. I got logged

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out of my instant. Let me sign back in.

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There we go.

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So this is the gale literature home page and

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I want to go over kind of the layout of

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the land a little bit before I really dig in. So

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we do of course have our basic

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and advanced searches up here in the

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the banner up top here but down

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underneath we have some other really nice goodies

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that are found on this page here. So we'll talk

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about our toolbar in one second.

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But underneath that

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it's giving you just a little bit about what this resource

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is, it will certainly be helpful

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for your users so they understand exactly

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what they're alert looking through

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and then down underneath. Again, as I mentioned,

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you have access to this nice

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related from gale feature

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so yours will most likely look different than

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mine. This is only showing what your institution

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has access to. So one

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great feature, I like to point out gale book and books

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and authors is not cross searched.

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through good literature, but it's oftentimes handy

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as your users are starting to look for different books

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to read. So we do include that here under

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the related literature. Resources, you'll

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see often times quite a few different

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archives and things are found here as well. So if

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you do have access to those we

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may include them here at the bottom. Your users will be able

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to see that

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They can click into any of these and it's

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going to pull them forward into that resource

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so they can kind of move their research forward.

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They won't need to authenticate into that resource

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because they're already signed in with

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Gil literature. So it'll automatically log

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them into whatever resource they clicked

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into here

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now scrolling back up, I want to go into

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these tools we have in this toolbar here because

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even without running our basic search,

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we've got some really powerful tools right here that

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are going to help us out. So the first one is this

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what's inside button with this little

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box icon?

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And this is going to show me what exactly is

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being searched within gil literature.

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So you notice my list is a little bit smaller

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than what I showed you on my slides because this is

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all my instance has access to

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but I can actually click on one of these.

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and I can search within this resource. So even

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though I'm on gay literature which is our cross search

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platform, if I decided I really

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just wanted to take a look at what we have available

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within gale Literature Resource Center,

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I can click on that and search and

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it's just going to pull forward content from that resource.

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So if they did click into gale literature but

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they are actually looking for information just

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from one resource they

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can do that right here on this platform. Of course they can

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certainly just sign directly into

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gay literature Resource center.

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but they can do it this way if they already clicked

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into gale literature and don't want to kind of take

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that step back, they can click into the what's

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inside and run their search for through

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one specific resource here.

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Now I'm going to jump back to the home page just

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so we kind of have one landing spot as

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we go through today. So I just clicked

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on my banner up top and it's pulled me back

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forward here

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So next to my what's inside button,

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I have a browse topics option. And this

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is where those topic pages I mentioned are

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going to be found.

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and this is a new feature that we've just added.

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Again, just another layer of organization

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for your users.

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So they can click into that browse topics

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and they're pulled forward to the screen. That's showing all

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of the different topic pages we have

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created here on this platform.

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So you'll see they have the option to filter their topics

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here. We have them all

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listed down underneath and I can click into any

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of these topics

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on the left hand side. We also have the different

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topic categories that we can click into.

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I could choose to narrow down what I'm looking at

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with this drop down here. So it defaults

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to showing topics which is going to be all of our topics.

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But I can change it to just showing works

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or I can change it to showing authors

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but we'll leave it as topics today.

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And let's take a look over our left hand side

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here. So let's say I really want to narrow it down specifically

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to cultural identity. Maybe I'm doing

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a research project on that or something

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similar to that. You'll see when I click now

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into just cultural identity. It's

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pulling up all of the topic pages we

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have created relating to

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that topic. Now I do want to mention.

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These are not all of the topics we

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have within our resources about

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cultural identity. These are some of

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the top searched in the tap used

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topics. So we've created this information

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to help individuals who may be starting

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to kind of take a look at, Excuse me,

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some of the the most popular

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topics we've pulled that forward, so I can

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click into any of these let's

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say, brazil, Brazilian literature

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today, when I do that.

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This is our topic page here. So at the top

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I have an overview about my topic

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down underneath?

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I have all of my related results. So

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instead of seeing just the basic search results

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page,

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I see all of this nice and organized. I see

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I have a lot of biographies related to this

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topic, some news reports, a

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lot of primary sources and literary

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works. You're going to see a lot of literary

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works if you have access to Gale

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literature lip finder, it's going to have a lot

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of full texts. So again, your

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results are most likely going to be different than mine

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based on what resources you have access

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to. But you'll start to see all of this content

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and as I scroll down,

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you'll see. I've got these different content buckets

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that I've really completely organized my

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results here. So I'll be able to scroll through

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find exactly what I'm looking for

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and then at the very bottom of our topic pages, we

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do include a related topics section

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here. So if I want to move forward. just

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strictly using my topic pages, I don't even

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want to run a search. Maybe I just want to click through that

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way. I can do that by using these related

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topics down below.

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Now, are there any questions about these

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topic pages, how they're formatted? Anything

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like that

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Ok, No questions. So we'll go ahead and keep

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going again. I'm going to bounce

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back to the home page as we kind of click

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through these different features just so we have

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one landing point. So next to our

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browse topics, we have our person

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search and our work search.

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They both have their own button. They're also found under

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the advanced search option, but

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we have pulled them forward here just because they are

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so powerful and they are used

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fairly frequently. We want to make sure they're

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clear and easy to find.

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So I wanna click into person search today

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just so we can take a quick look here.

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And this this feature is really

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handy if your your

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users has someone that's specific in

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mind. Of course they'll be able to just run for that

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run a search for that person. But

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it's also really nice if they're maybe looking for

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a specific category of individual

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maybe there um

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doing a project on, let's say women

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authors or maybe hispanic women authors

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or african american

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authors or whomever. they

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can narrow that down here underneath using these search

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limiters. So I can click in

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maybe again, I do want to click into female.

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maybe I want to change my ethnicity here.

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See I can scroll down. So let's say hispanic american.

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So we're running a project on hispanic

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american. Female authors.

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So I'm going to put that in there.

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run my search here.

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and now it pulls me forward to this really nice

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list of individuals here. So you're going

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to see as I start to scroll down

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all of these individuals I can actually click

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into and this is going to pull me forward results

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related to these people.

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And on the right hand side here you'll see the number

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of results I have for each individual. So some

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individuals will have more content

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than others, but you'll be able to see here

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exactly what's available and then you can really

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easily just click through and find content that

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way. The

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work search looks very similar to that.

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I will click into that

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right here in my toolbar

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So you'll see the same formatting here

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You'll see I can't choose my type of work

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here. I can also use it, choose

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a time frame. So if I just want to look through

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a specific century, I have that option

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here as well.

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but I want to point out our full text

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limiter option.

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So if I click into that and run my search,

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I'll be able to see all of the full text content

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we have in here. Again, depending

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on the resources that

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you have available. Many of them do

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have full text poems, short

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stories, plays, even

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some speeches, things like that.

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So you do have the option to limit that right

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here within the cross search option.

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Um I do have access right now to 190,000

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full text pieces of information.

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again, that will most likely be different for you

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depending on what you have access to.

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and I'm going to jump back home for the

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last time here

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You see we have a couple more tools listed here

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on this right hand side. I'll take a look

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at those in a second, but I do first just want to run

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a search. So if you have users coming

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in who are just planning on running that basic

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search, they don't know exactly what they're looking

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for.they maybe they don't really want

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to browse, they can just start off

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with a search here. So today I'm going to search one

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flew over the cue's nest.

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And you'll see as I start to type here,

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I have a few options that are bolded up top

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Any predictive text that's bolded

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is actually a topic page. So just

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like we took a look at what just like

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we saw when we clicked into this browse topic

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section, if you run a search and there's

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a topic page, it's going to pull that forward as

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well. So I'll click into my topic

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page here.

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Now when I do that I will pull

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that full topic page experience forward.

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Since this is a work

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a lot of times you'll get these quick facts about

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the author when it was published,

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all that good stuff on this left

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hand side. Again we have a nice overview

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of the specific topic. so of course

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this is going to be an overview of both

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the work and the author.

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now, down underneath. Again we have all of

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our different bits of information,

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pre organ for us. So we can really

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easily just start to click through

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again at the very bottom, we do have a related

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topics page here,

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Well, let's go ahead and click into one

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of these little content buckets here today. I'm going

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to click into topic and work overviews

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now when I do that it's going to pull forward but looks like

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a basic search. So if I were to

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search for something that didn't have a topic

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page

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It would look like this with all of my

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results pulled here, it does default

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to sorting by relevance

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if they want to, they can drop this down

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and choose to sort by newest or by oldest

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or by document title if they want to.

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But it does again default to showing

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relevance first.

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Now, once I'm in this here, I do want to point

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out if your users are interested

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in where exactly this content is being pulled,

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we're going to show them down underneath the

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entry where they're found. So this particular

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entry is found within Gil literature lit finder.

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If I scroll down, you'll see there's one here from

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Literature Resource Center

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and I can just start to scroll down to see where all of this

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content is pulled from.

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on this right hand side here, I also have some

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great filters that are going to help me out as I start

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to research the one I really like to point

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out is the subjects here. So this is going

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to narrow it down even further than

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my basic search. Remember my search was just

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for the work itself, but now

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I can narrow it down a bit further here

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Maybe I want to talk specifically about

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freedom related to this book,

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pessimism. You'll see all that great stuff. I

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can click and navigate through here,

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I also have the option to narrow down just

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to peer review journals.

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when I do that, you'll see it's pulling forward my

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literature criticism first

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and I'll be able to click through this

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and what's great is our peer reviewed bits

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of information are listed as

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peer reviewed. You'll see this nice little checkmark

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here. So if your users are looking for peer

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reviewed content, they'll always just want to find that checkmark

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and they'll be ready to go.

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But I want all of my information today. Not just

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my peer review journal. So I'm

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going to jump back to topic and work overview

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since that's where I was previously.

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underneath this, I also have the option

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to click into a topic finder or

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a term frequency chart. So I can start to

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see the frequency of this

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work being talked about. If

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I decided to click into my topic finder here,

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that search that it already ran

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is going to pull forward here and I'm going to get

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some related topics

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and I can click into any of these

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and it's going to narrow down my results. So just

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three results here as opposed to

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everything I saw on the previous page.

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So this is a nice way to both

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narrow down results but also to make

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different interconnections between different

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topics here.

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I'm gonna hit the back button because I want to stay

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on my results page.

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And I'm just going to click into my first one here,

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an explanation.

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And when I do that, this page is going

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to look exactly how it looks and whatever resource.

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this was pulled from.

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Excuse me. So this one is pulled from lip finder.

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so it would look exactly like this if I were to

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have run the search within the native resource

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as well. And what's great is now that I'm

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on this page. I have all of the same

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tools that I would have had within

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gay literature lit finder. I have it here on

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my gay literature platform. So if I wanted

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to, if I found some great content that

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I either want to save for myself or maybe

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I want to forward along to colleagues or to

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group members. If I'm a student,

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I can hit my send to button up top here

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This is going to let me send this bit of information

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over to my drives or I can choose to

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email it maybe to myself or

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to again maybe a colleague or a group

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member.

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I can also download this bit of content

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or print it out to save it for later if that works

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well and

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I have this great get link feature here and this

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button actually follows me along throughout the full

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session. So as I'm finding different bits

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of content, I want to save for later. If

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I don't want to put it in my drive, I don't

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want to email it, I can just pull this nice

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quick get link. It is a persistent

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URL that's going to pull me back to this

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exact page so I can copy and paste this

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and put it wherever I want to go.

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And you'll also find that get link option on

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our topic pages and our search

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results pages. So if I ran a search

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and find a lot of great stuff that I want to save,

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I can't right now click through every single article,

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but I do want to look at them later,

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I can use my get link and I'll be pulled to that page

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So this is another really powerful tool that

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we have available within all of

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our literature resources.

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now, scrolling down a little bit, I will point out you

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have those same features down here underneath.

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So these do the same as these buttons,

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we just like to add it in two different places

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just for a little bit of redundancy to make sure

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everyone can find what they're looking for.

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We also have a citation feature. So if

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you do have students clicking through these resources,

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they'll be able to cite it directly.

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You'll see it is showing that it came from

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Gale literature lit finder, even though they've

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searched it through gil literature

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since it's just considered a cross search,

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that's not exactly what we're going to put in our citation.

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We're going to put the actual resource. So

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that's already pre created for

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your users

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In addition to that, they can choose to edit how

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they're seeing this text as well. So

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they have the ability to translate. If I hit

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my translate button under here, they can choose

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whatever language they need

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they can increase or decrease the the font size

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again as needed.

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They have the option to change their display

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right here, so I could change the color that I'm

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seeing.

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I can also change the font

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to make it whichever font I prefer,

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we do have a dyslexia fonts available

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here and then I can also change the line, letter

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and word spacing

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so this is again just trying to increase

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the accessibility as much as possible.

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So every user or whatever

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needs they have, we want to make sure they can access this

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content. And this is one way we do that

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I'm gonna pull this back to the default settings today

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though and

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finally they can listen to this as well. I'm just

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going to pause it because I didn't hit um

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I didn't share my audio with you, but

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they do have the option to listen to this.

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You'll see when I hit that list. And but it opens

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up this little tool bar here

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and you'll see. I have a a few different settings

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options to make sure this is being read to me as

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best it can be. I can choose

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to have text highlighted as it's

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being read. I can choose the different colors.

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I can also choose things like the read speed.

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So it defaults to a medium speed.

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If I need a slower option, I have that

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here. If I want to listen to it quickly, I have

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a fast option here as well, but it does default

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to that medium there.

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So again, these tools are found within the

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native literature resources, so

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that finder Literature Resource Center.

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Excuse me.

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but we've included them here within gil literature

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as well to keep that same formatting

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and to make sure your users always have access

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to these different tools that definitely come in handy

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as they're starting to kind of run

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through their research

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One final feature, I'll point out is our Explorer

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panel, you'll find this on all of our entries

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as well. So this is going to help move

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their research forward. They can start to click through

[00:21:44.180]
more articles like this one or

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you'll see. We do include related topics here.

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So maybe if we want to take a look at the author now, as

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opposed to just the work,

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we can certainly do that. Or maybe we want to take a look

[00:21:55.528]
at the movie. Maybe we want to kind

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of compare that to the book or maybe

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we're working through something like that. We can also take

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a look at that right here on this platform

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I'm going to click back to the home page. I still

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haven't seen any questions pull forward.

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but I do want to ask, we have about

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five minutes and I do have some wrap up information

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to give you but I do want to make sure

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everyone knows. If you have questions, type

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those into the Q and A. And I'll be able to answer

[00:22:24.239]
them. So let me switch back here

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to my slides and again

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if anyone has questions go ahead and type them in. But

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I do have some contact info for

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you. So moving forward, if you want to learn more,

[00:22:37.357]
um if you want to learn about one of the specific

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literature resources as opposed to the cross

[00:22:41.660]
search or maybe you just want to dive deeper into the cross

[00:22:43.788]
search, you have access to a customer

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success manager through who can really help

[00:22:48.038]
you out with that. They worked with Les

[00:22:50.357]
and with schools across the nation. So they have

[00:22:52.380]
a lot of great best practices that can

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help you.

[00:22:57.130]
really target exactly how you want to

[00:22:59.150]
use this resource. If you don't know who

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your customer success manager is, you can

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just send a quick email to gil at customer success

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at dot com. You're going to be forwarded to

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the correct individual who can help you?

[00:23:10.587]
You also of course have access to your wonderful,

[00:23:12.930]
Sales consultant. So if you want to discuss

[00:23:15.959]
accessing any of the different Gale literature

[00:23:18.317]
resources, feel free to

[00:23:20.660]
reach out to them. If you don't know who your sales consultant

[00:23:23.009]
is, you can just go to support the

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dot com forward slash

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rainer and you'll be able to find that individual

[00:23:30.058]
and you'll also have access to a support site.

[00:23:32.097]
So I mentioned at the very beginning of this session,

[00:23:34.439]
if you're looking for webinars or other training

[00:23:36.719]
tools related to any of your gale literature

[00:23:38.930]
resources, you're going to find them on our

[00:23:40.959]
support site which is support dot

[00:23:43.058]
Gale dot com. We also have

[00:23:45.344]
Pre created tips sheets, resource guides.

[00:23:48.005]
if you're at a school we have have

[00:23:50.015]
lesson plans, activities, all that

[00:23:52.074]
good stuff. posters flyers,

[00:23:54.462]
you'll find all of that on our support site, which

[00:23:56.535]
again is support deck deal dot com. So if you're looking

[00:23:58.824]
to promote this resource,

[00:24:00.923]
don't reinvent the wheel, go to that support

[00:24:03.324]
site. Most likely we have things created

[00:24:05.403]
for you

[00:24:06.719]
and I do have a training survey.

[00:24:09.140]
If you have the time to take it, it's going to pop

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up on your browser when we close out

[00:24:13.410]
of the session today, but I've also put it here as

[00:24:15.577]
a QR code, so if you have your phone handy,

[00:24:17.650]
feel free to scan that and fill that out

[00:24:19.680]
for us. it's always appreciated.

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So we can make sure we're covering exactly

[00:24:24.077]
what you're looking for when we do run these sessions.

[00:24:28.400]
now. I haven't seen any other

[00:24:30.558]
questions come in any questions at all,

[00:24:32.930]
so I'm going to go ahead and end the session today

[00:24:35.219]
and hopefully we'll see you on sessions

[00:24:37.298]
in the future and please enjoy the rest

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of your day.
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