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Last Updated: April 06, 2023

Explore Gale Resources to Support Libraries from WSL

Your collection of Gale resources available through the Washington State Library provides rich authoritative content to support all users, from students at all levels, to teachers and faculty, to general researchers, and the business community. In addition to the reputable and reliable content, Gale has integrated research tools to aid in organized discovery, including Google/Microsoft Integrations, Highlights and Notes and translation tools. Gale has also developed a large support system to help you master the resources, get the word out to your users, and pull usage. Customer Success Managers and pre-developed written and recorded training materials are available to support you and your users with your Gale resources. View this session, designed for all libraries and library support staff.

Duration: 60 Minutes
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Hello, everyone, and thank you for choosing today's virtual session.

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This session, this training session today is in partnership with the Washington State Library.

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My name is Tammi Burke, and I am your Gale trainer, and this session today we will be talking about Gil resources.

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We'll be exploring the gale resources that you have available from the Washington State level to support your library.

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We are going to talk about the individual resources and also the tools and features that you have available.

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My goal for this training. Today, we are going to focus on a high level overview of all of your gale resources that you have available for K.

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12, public and academic libraries from the Washington State Library.

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In this training we will also cover content tools and features available within the resources, and you have a large scale support system and I will share some information of folks.

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You may want to contact for that one-on-one support, I will be turning off the video because it does block a lot of our tools and features when I go live into the resources.

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So I just wanted to jump on here first and say Hello, and thank you again for choosing this session, and we are thrilled at Gale to be a part.

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Our partnership with the Washington State Library. So let's get started.

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Everyone.

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I have a brief agenda that we're going to go over first as we get started here today, we are starting with, as I mentioned, a high level overview of all of your gale resources.

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We will explore content tools and features, and then I will leave you at the end of the session, where you can go for training support and also contact information.

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Remember you have those Gale customer success managers.

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There are part of that large support group I mentioned, and they are there to support you and all things, Gale. So I will share their information at the end of today's training.

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To access your Washington State Library resources. You can go to this link that is, on the screen.

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Now, if you go to this link, and you do not see your library listed, and let me go to the next slide. Here.

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So if you access that link, and you do not see your library listed, that's okay.

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I'm going to leave you today. At the end of the session.

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I'll provide you with a form it's a you have the URL for the form, and you can reach out and connect with the one State Library to make sure that your school is or your library school public library. Higher Ed.

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Library is set up and able to subscribe to these resources through the Washington State Library.

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Once you find your library name you will be taken to the product list, and these product Urls are specific to your location.

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You have the ability to export all of the links, as you can see on the right hand side, and add them directly to your library website.

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There are a few other you can see other tabs here.

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Navigation at the top to help you get started, and to keep you learning, and all of the documents that you may need so you're going to find ebook information.

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All of our trainings, both upcoming sessions, training sessions, and recordings. Also, there's additional training materials.

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There too, such as projects and tip sheets, marketing.

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You'll find all of your marketing materials to promote your Gale resources available, and we have everything you can think of and I'll share a little bit more about that.

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At the end of today's session. Technical documents.

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So if you're looking for your higher, Ed, and you need technical documents, your discovery services, or if you have a proxy that you're using, you'll find those documents and so many more available and technical documents. And then of course, we have Vpad information and this website.

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button will take you directly to the Washington State Library site.

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So let's start talking about your guilt resources. And this is where I'm going to give you that high level level overview of all you have available, and then we are going to explore some of those individual resources.

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So. And this is kind of a what to use one idea.

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So for K. 12 classrooms for homework, help for h schoolers that are coming into your public library, and for higher.

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Ed, we have an in context, suite of resources. So our gale and context resources are designed for our students.

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But I wanna talk a little bit, too, about 2 of these resources that I think are really great for our public library patrons, too.

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So what you're going to find is you're in context, resources.

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You can see Gale in context, elementary middle school and high school.

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These we call our 3 building blocks, and we start our students young with Gale in context, elementary.

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They are cross-curricular. General reference, and you will find content available in elementary for kindergarten through fifth grade.

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Middle school is sixth through eighth grade, and high school is ninth through twelfth grade.

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Now we know our students don't fit into a box.

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So you may have middle schoolers that need gal in context, elementary.

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They need that lower reading, level or high school, or that may need middle school, or maybe elementary students that are ready for that next step in middle school.

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So just keep that in mind that you do have access to all 3 of them.

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So you can meet the varying needs of your students Gale and context global issues.

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Now Gaelic context, again, it's in our in context, product, family.

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So we have multimedia. You're going to find periodical content, reference, content.

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There's great images and videos and audio files available here in global issues, you will find that this is covering our hot social topics.

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But it has a global viewpoint. So we're covering again around the world.

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If so, if you're doing a search, say on climate change, you're going to get the viewpoint from not only the Us.

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But globally. Our high school addition. I just wanna mention this only before I talk about the last 2.

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So Gale one file high school edition. This is actually from our one file product, family.

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So a little different than our in context, anything with one file in the title is going to be periodical content.

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You're going to see a lot of magazines, newspapers, academic journals, a little less multimedia.

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Here in this resource, and it is organized a little differently, but it is focused more on the periodicals now, our Gale in contact.

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I'm sorry. Our gale in context, college is a great resource for your beginning.

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Students first, second year. We even have older students that prefer this room because, especially if they've been using your other in context resources when they were in kindergarten through twelfth grade, they'll feel very comfortable in the another another resource designed for our college students.

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But in the in context, product family, because it's going to feel very similar with topic pages and a lot of the features that you find the multimedia feature available in your other in context, resources.

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And then lip finder is available for, and we have some middle schoolers that use it.

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But it's high school, college we'll use lit finder more often than our middle school, but we do have middle schoolers that use that resource and you're going to find original literary works with over 130,000 poems.

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650,000 poetry, citations. There's short stories, novels, essays, speeches, plays, and so much more available, and Gale literature.

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Lipfinder. So keep these resources in mind for your K. 12.

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Classrooms, students meeting homework, help your higher Ed students, and also any home schoolers that are coming into your library.

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To support research. We have a variety of resources available. The way at the top.

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You're going to see our periodical and academic journals, and those are general.

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One file academic, one file, and then you also have G, one file news below are few others from our one file product, family and for my academical and educators.

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Reference complete, and then what we like to call research starters.

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You have a collection of ebooks that live in Gale ebooks, and then your Gale. One file collections.

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These are subject specific, one file resources. So you're going.

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There's quite a few of available from the Washington State Library.

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So let's talk a little bit more about some of these resources, and I wanted to just mention a few items about them before we go on to the next group of resources.

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So Gale, general, one file. This is going to be your largest interest or largest general interest periodical database.

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This one here what you're going to find. It provides access to more than 200 million articles from over 14,000 magazines and newspapers.

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There's some reference book information and some multimedia.

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It is updated daily. Our academic one file right here to the right of it.

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Is a premiere resource for peer reviewed full text articles for academic research.

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There's over a 100 million articles across 19,000 publications you're going to find full text.

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And this is also updated data to round out this 3 or what we like to call the Big 3.

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We have Gale, one file news where this resource provides access to over a 1,000.

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Major U. S. Regional, national and local newspapers, as well as 1,700, leading titles from around the world.

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So you will find publications, not only from the Us, but also from around the world.

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Again. Folks see more on that newspaper content, but it includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

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And again also updated daily your resource are updated daily all the time.

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So, but your periodical content. You're going to see continuously added throughout the day.

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And for my academic is another. From the one file resource, family.

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So remember again, anything with one file in the title is going to be periodical content.

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What makes inform democratic is this is our Spanish and Portuguese periodical publications for our future educators or our current educators.

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We have educators, reference, complete, and this is a great resource for we have a lot of educators that utilize different magazines.

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There's great lesson plans that are pulled into this resource from different publications.

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And then all of the current. What's what's trending any type of teaching processes?

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You'll find a lot of information available here. The last 2 on this page.

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I wanna mention. And let's start with Gale. One file collections.

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As I mentioned, these resources here are subject specific, so you will find, and there's a couple we're going to go over like cycology is one or nursing and allied health.

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I'm so you'll find more of those subjects specific.

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One file resources and a lot of the content is pulling from general one file and academic one file, but it also contains this collection also contain unique content as well, and the last one to round out our supporting research resources is your gale ebooks collection.

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In this collection has been created for you by the Washington State Library.

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You have a selection of ebooks available that all live on the gale, ebooks, platform.

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Looking at health and medicine, you'll find resources for patrons, health and wellness, and also resources for medical professionals and students available in your Washington State Library collection.

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The first one I'm gonna talk to you about is our one file Gale, one file, health and medicine.

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I want to talk about the difference between these 2. So you know which to suggest, and when so health and medicine, the first one here.

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This is a great resource that's designed for our medical students and medical professionals.

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You're going to find up to date content on all areas of medicine.

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And again, that's the health and wellness, skill, health, and wellness.

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This is a comprehensive consumer. Health resource that provides authoritative information on full range of health, related issues.

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You're going to find information from current disease and disorder to in-depth coverage of alternative alternative medical practices.

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It covers topics in health, and Melbourne mental our health and mental health, and if for myself, since I am not a medical student or professional, I would go into health and wellness to find exactly what I'm looking for, so it's it's more of that approach it's also a really good resource

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for k. 12 for your health classes, also your Phys. Ed.

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Teachers may use this and counselors. There's information on anxiety and depression.

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So this may be really helpful for your counselors, that social, emotional learning.

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And then we have some of our subjects specific, one file resources, such as nursing and allied health, physical therapy and sports, medicine and great resources that you're going to find again so unique content to those subjects specifically to.

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And then I like to include academic one file, because it really is a general reference cross-curricular.

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But it is at that academic level. So you're going to find great periodic journals available within the resource from scholarly journals and publications.

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So keep that one in mind, too, when you're thinking of health and medicine.

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You do have a selection of business resources, and these resources are for entrepreneurs, for business courses, for small businesses.

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You may have business students that are looking for information. So let me talk to you about these 3 resources the first one that you're seeing here is Gale.

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Business insights, and this recently had a enhancements.

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This fall so what you'll find in this resource is business information for our users following business trends, stacks, and employments.

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There's also great market reports. You'll even find swot analysis available here.

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Financial reports available within this resource on specifically companies. There's also company reports and more this is a great resource for business students and academic researchers.

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But those that also are investing. So you have your patrons coming into your library, into your public library, looking for investment information and not wanting to use Google scale business insights is a great spot to take a look for those users, too.

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The next one on the list in your business resources is Gale business, entrepreneurship, and this resource supports those budding entrepreneurs, small business those are looking to start a small business, those that owners of a small business and those that are in that so all

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stages, of their planning. So maybe they're getting ready.

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They're planning their business, or they're looking for funding, or now they're ready to start their business or then manage their business.

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Continuing to keep employees. That's a big big area of our small business.

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Owners are always talking about that information like, How do I? What can I do? How can I support them?

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What can I do to keep my employees so those managing a business is also a big part of owning a business.

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But you'll also find over a 1,000 business plans from the business plan handbook available within Gale business entrepreneurship. So maybe you have the business plan handbook on a shelf in your library.

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You have digital access and then Gale one file business. This is in our one file product, family.

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You're going to find again periodical content trade magazines up to date industry, news and also academic journals.

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A few tools. I want you to keep in mind, as we work through the resource.

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Now all of the tools and features are shared across all of your gale resources, so if I share it with you in one resource, you're going to find it in all of your resources, if it's not available like for example, one of our the tools, and features, are shared, across all of your gale, resources, so some of those are to share content, you have the get

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link, you have the ability to share the right link. You have the ability to share the right to Google classroom and send content directly to Google and Microsoft.

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So right from within the resource these are integrated into your gale resources, you'll be able to push premium results to students, to faculty, to we have great tools to support accessibility, and those are translate font size display options and listen so it really provides options for all

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of our users, to encourage, announces this highlights a note so promote deeper learning, but also it's a great way for researchers to pull out just content within the resource they can send the individual highlights and notes that they've highlighted in a document directly to Google

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Microsoft, if they choose to. They can also download and print.

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But it's also great for our higher Ed students, because hopefully, they've already developed these research skills.

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And this is a great way for them to grab information for their projects and papers.

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Dissertations, whatever they're working on. That's a great tool to utilize, to develop research skills.

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You will find top finder, which is a visual representation of your search results.

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Topic pages. Now your topic pages live primarily in your in context resources, we have something kind of organized by topics in one file and in your general, one file and academic one file only.

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But topic pages are unique to our in context resources, and they are curated collection of information.

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I'll talk more about that when we go into one of our in context resources. And then the citation tool.

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It's available across all of your resources. The citations are automatically attached to everything available within your resources, and you have the ability to change the format and also choose where you'd like to export that citation to.

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One other thing I wanna mention before we go live into the resources, and that is adding content.

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So you have the ability. We are integrated with learning management systems.

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We and the left hand side you're seeing here canvas where I have the ability to embed an article directly into an assignment.

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It could be a discussion or a page. I'm on the right hand side is schoology, where I have embedded a video from your Gil.

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One of your guill resources right into my assignment that I have created for my students.

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So there is some setup that needs to happen, and you can reach out to your Gale customer success managers to get the ball rolling, and I will share their information at the end of this training session today.

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So with that, let's go into the resources. And we're going to start with one of our one file resources. And that is.

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Still general one file. So you're one file. Resources are going to look similar to this.

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The only difference is, the browsse by topic. Section here that's available in general, one file, and also academic. One file.

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Any of your other one file resources like Gale. One file business, for example.

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You won't see this frows by topic area here. It will just.

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You'll have the search tools available at the bottom, but not these topic areas to get started.

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So keep that in mind you are in the right spot. I just wanted to share that little piece of information with you.

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So, looking at this resource, I want to point out a few things that you're going to see on the homepage.

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So in the upper right, you do have the ability to translate all the navigation on the page.

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So all of these navigational tools, we're at 34 different languages, and this is separate.

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Then the translate. When you're at the document level. So you have 2 different areas.

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You can translate content. But this does translate the interface or the navigational tool I am already signed into Google, but I could have signed into Microsoft if we have any teachers or K 12 librarians watching this, and you are using Google classroom.

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If you sign in to Google, and are set up as a teacher, you will have the ability to post content directly from the resource into Google Classroom.

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Let's take a look at some different content here today, and we're going to utilize these subject categories.

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And we're going to go into computers and technology before I do. I do.

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Wanna point out one other item or 2, I should say you do have your basic search in advanced search. Very intuitive.

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But I do want to point that out. The bandwidth is also unique to each resource.

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So the banner does change, depending on the resource you're in.

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And then I just want to point out the contextual toolbar will be talking about some of these tools today.

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Okay. Now, let's go into.

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So if I select the topic of computers and technology, you can see it takes me to some curated collections of information.

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And today we are going to go into artificial intelligence.

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And when I do, it takes me to all of my content that I have available on artificial intelligence.

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And again, this has been curated for me under that topic, and I'll talk a little bit more about curation and topic pages when we're in our in context, resource.

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So, looking at this resource or at this content, it does take me to all content types.

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Now your content types are always going to live in a banner, and you can see here we have magazines, images, academic journals, videos, books and news, and these are all of your newspapers.

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And I have this great option to filter down my results because this is a lot of content that I'm seeing a lot of information available.

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So, filtering my results is going to be a really helpful tool to really drill down and find exactly what I'm looking for.

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So because I'm in my periodical resources. I always like to filter by publication, and I like to I'm looking for the most current information.

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Then maybe I want everything from the past year, and it'll filter down not only my megazines, but everything. At one time.

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From here I can filter down further if I want to filter by subject our document type, you can see all the different we have clinical reports, industry overviews, conference notes, company overviews, viewpoint essays are available here list goes on I have publication titles.

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And I can multiply anything with this selection box next to it you can multi select.

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Sections. So this really applies to our newspapers lexile measure.

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So if we have any folks that are utilizing this resource at the middle school level, let's all measures not used. I don't think as much at the high school level anymore.

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And then that ability to search within. So search within I can put in any term I want, and it would drill down even further.

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If I utilize I'm gonna skip that and save it for later.

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Looking at this content. I do. Wanna point out a few things.

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So in my summaries I can get directly to the article by selecting it here, but I also can view that publication if I want to.

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Both are hyperlinked out. I'm going to get some information in my summary like, what type of document it is.

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The lexile measure is here. How long it is! When it was published!

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With my academic journals. Now I'm in Mexico's. I can scroll down, and it just shows me the first 3.

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But I can either view all 619 magazines here, or I can select here at the top.

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Both options are available. Something I want to point out with my academic journals is, let me view all I academic journals, real, quick.

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And I'm going to filter on the right hand side to peer reviewed.

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So if I just want peer review journals, I can make that selection, and you can see here in my summary anything that's been peer reviewed will show up in my search results.

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Let's say, I wanna share this. I wanna share this with I either wanna put it in my lesson plan.

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I wanna share it with my students, or I have some public library programming.

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I'm doing, or I'm a teacher at the High School level.

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And I wanna share this information. Couple of things I can do.

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I can use the get link, tool, get link takes you back to any spot within the resource itself, so it could be something like this where you filter down the search results and you can use the get link tool and it'll create a persistent URL back to this exact spot within the resource and it can be all the way

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down to an article, or an image, or a video. So it really is a tool that you can link out to any spot within the resource itself.

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Or I can use Google classroom and pull this content directly into my Google classroom.

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Maybe I want to create an assignment or make an announcement. I can do all of that by selecting the Google classroom Icon.

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One other thing I wanna share with you in this resource.

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And then we're gonna move on to the next one.

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And I'm gonna continue to build your tool and feed your tools and feature knowledge as we go.

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Because, remember, there's shared tools and features. I'm gonna do a quick search on climate change.

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And I wanna share with you. Why? So I did a quick search on climate change.

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There's a filter being applied where it's pulling back.

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Just all of my full text information you can see I have a lot of content available over a 1 million newspaper articles.

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So this is where filtering my results is going to be really helpful.

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But what I wanna point out to you is you also have search, alert and that's in your contextual toolbar.

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So search alert will do exactly that. It'll create a search. Alert.

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You can either have an email to yourself, or if you're using ourss feeds in your browser, you can grab that code.

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And anytime new information is added to this resource on climate change.

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I can determine when I want that email to show and create that alert.

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Another great feature is, if I have filtered this down, maybe I only want brief articles just still.

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A lot of information, and I don't want to put.

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I could put. I could put publication dates in here.

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Just make sure you push it out. Subjects.

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If I'm looking for global warming, specifically, climate change and global warming, I can add that filter.

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Now, when I create my search alert, I'll be notified when any brief articles on climate change and global warming are available within Gale. General, one file. So search alert is a great feature.

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Alright, so let's jump into another resource. And we're going to.

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Now go into Gale ebooks, let me know if you have any questions.

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I am going to. Sorry you do have someone that can answer your questions, and this is a virtual session, so you won't be technically asking me.

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But you will be asking my colleague, Hillary Fox.

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So please feel free to ask questions, and that online opportunity that you have through the Washington Library Association Conference.

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They provided that for you. The library menu. So I'm going to use my product menu it's in the upper left hand corner to switch to another resource.

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And you're gonna find that in all of your guilt, resources again, right here at the top.

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So I'm clicking view product menu. And this is how I'm going to quickly jump to another resource.

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The I does take you to online bases first, but I can jump to in context ebooks, periodicals, my literature, resources, business, and then more.

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This is where you're going to find health and wellness frost search is where you're going to find Gale power, search and Gale power search will cross.

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Search through all of your Gale resources. So let me share that with you real quick.

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And I can select them. You can see the in context resources. It does not cross.

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Search through his middle school and elementary, but it can cross, search the gale.

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One file Gale and contexts, and your e-books all, and pull back all of your search results.

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You can also select if you don't want all of them I want all the databases, I don't want all the one fil databases.

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Maybe I just want academic one file and general one file.

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I can do that too.

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Okay, so again, product, menu is where I was and you're going to find cross search here at the end.

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And the product menu will be available for all of your individual settings.

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So all of your libraries have you do have a product, menu, if you would like to post that and share that with your users, to access your resources.

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That is one of many options that you have available to you.

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So we're in the in context product suite. And my mouse sticking.

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So let me go here to middle school.

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In this resource. Oh, I'm sorry I was going to go into Gil e-books.

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I said that so we're gonna go into Gale ebooks.

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Your gale ebooks. I wanna just touch into a couple of things here again you have your basic and advanced search, but all of your collections are over here on the left hand side, and these are ebooks that are available from the Washington State library.

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Now these collections are automatically generated by Gale.

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But if you would like to customize your collection, you can do that.

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There is a library Login, the administrator at your library site will have that login information.

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If you're not sure, or it was lost or not, don't have that information handy.

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You can always reach out to our customer. Success managers, and they can help with that.

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And again, I'll share their information. At the end of the.

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So, looking at our ebooks, I can look at the different collections here, so we have, for example, business clients. Let me click into that.

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Here's the business resources I have, or business e-books, environment.

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And I do want to point out these resources that say enhanced.

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They actually have video content available. So you may see enhanced or series series is going to be a multiple volumes.

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But enhanced has video content. General reference, go to nation and world.

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So you can see some of those. So here's one that has a series.

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This is country's of the world, and their leaders. Some science ebooks.

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You can see, we have all levels here.

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And then social science.

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You have quite a collection available.

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Okay, so let's go into.

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Oh, there it is!

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Immigration in America.

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When I click into a cover, so I'm gonna take you down a couple of quick paths here when I click into the cover of an e-book, it does take me to the table of contents when I've done a basic search and click into the title, I'll share the difference between the 2 the title.

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Of that Ch or section of the ebook. Then it takes me directly into that individual article.

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So, if?

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The cover of an ebook. It does take me to this screen.

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The table of contents, which is great, because I want to point out to you that you do have book index lists of Illustrations.

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And then here's a list of the videos that are available within this ebook.

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Going back to that table of contents. We are going to go into immigration after the Civil War, so that that section or chapter you can see I have some publication information here at the top, and then I also have my article.

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So when I am at the article level, I have tools to support accessibility and there's a difference in E-s, we have text view and book views in text view.

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It's going to look very similar to all of your other gale resources when you click into an article this is what you'll see, but you also have book view, which is the Pdf version of the print book available digitally here.

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So the these tools to support accessibility are available. When you are in the text view, and let me talk through a little bit of these or these 4 5, you have translate article, and we can translate the text into over 40 languages.

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You can decrease or increase the font size. You can also change the display options.

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So if I wanted to change the color behind the text, I wanted to use open Displac as a font, I want to increase the line, letter and word spacing.

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I can do that. And the nice thing is here, too, is once I've set this up on one article, it'll continue throughout my session, so as long as I'm still in the session.

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This will stick with me and work with me throughout my session.

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If I wanna go back to my default settings. It's in the bottom left hand corner here.

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I can also listen to the text being read aloud to me.

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I also have this great explorer panel. Whenever you're at the document level and any of your gale resources, you're going to find this explore panel where you have a more like this section or related subjects listed here on the right hand, side, my contextual toolbar has changed slightly I still still have

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my table of contents. So if I wanted to jump to another or another section within my ebook, I could, and then I have my book view which we're gonna come back to in just a moment my citation tool now this is separate.

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Remember every document, article, image, whatever it is available within this resource has a citation automatically.

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But if I just want the citation, I can change the format here, and I can choose where I'd like to export it, or just copy and paste.

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Citation at the bottom of my document. Hopefully, there's there's one of the videos.

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So you can see what that looks like scrolling all the way down here.

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Oh, goodness! It's always a long one, isn't it?

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There we go. So at the bottom, my source citation is here, and I do have that ability to change that format.

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So if I do need Apa. Seventh edition, I can change that format.

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And then, when I am ready to send, maybe I wanna send this document to my Google driver or Microsoft onedrive.

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That's the next tool. My contextual toolbar. I can do so, and it'll have that Apa.

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Citation format. I can also email it from that little paper airplane in your contextual toolbar is where you're going to find Google Microsoft and email.

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I can also download this article. I can print it off.

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I can create a link to this article. All options are available.

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Now we talked about the excessive tools to support accessibility, and what you can do here in book view.

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I'm gonna change this to double page.

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Here is my book view. Now. I don't have those tools to support accessibility here, but I can zoom in, zoom out.

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I can tap or swipe here to turn the page.

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I have set it to 22 pages, I can jump to another page.

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I can make this whole screen if I want to. So all those options are available when you are in book view number book view is that Pdf version of this resource.

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Of this article. So if I wanna go back to Text view, I can simply do that here and go back to view.

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I can also download if I want to. There's unlimited download.

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So if I want to download this section on immigration application after the Civil War, I just click download and it will download this section on immigration after the Civil War, I just click download and it will download this to my device so in this format the source site the source that we have here so this

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e-book format the book view. I'll resume that.

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Okay. Right? Here, too. Real quick. I have all of my quick send options.

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Google Microsoft email, download and print. But they also live in my contextual toolbar that sticks with me as I float down the page.

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Okay, so talked about those I wanted to do a quick, basic search to share with you.

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So I went in through the title right through the cover.

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But if I'm doing a basic search and let's do one on STEM cell.

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This is how my search results are going to show up. So I have that ability to go into a collection, click into a title.

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I can even search within just that collection, that option, my basic search box, will turn to search within the collection.

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So that was the first round I took. This is another option where I sit down.

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I wanna do a quick, basic search and look at all my results.

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And I can see I have 263 different results.

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And looking at these results, you can see if I click into this title.

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Here, STEM cell therapy. It'll take me directly to that article whenever I click into the cover, though it's going to take me back to the table of contents, so keep that in mind between those 2.

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My publication is also hyperlinked out, and then I have some information.

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Summary information here on the resource around the ebook, title and article.

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That I'm looking at. I can filter down by subject.

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We've used the filters a little bit already, but if I wanted to filter by subject because I'm at 263 titles, and maybe I want to filter that down takes me to a 11 different titles.

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Now another feature. Here you can see I can export my results now, when I export my results.

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I have some options and this will give me all of the information on these umbook articles or documents.

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I can export and send them to Google or Microsoft.

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I can download or email them. Now, if I download or send them to my Google drive, they will land in anytime.

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You send any information to your Google drive, it'll land in a folder that's titled whatever resource you're in.

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So I was in Gale ebooks. So I'm going to select that one.

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And here you can see it turns it into a Google Sheet.

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I have!

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Open that up for you. This is the information when I export that entire, my search results.

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This is what I'm going to see, including a link right back to that book.

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So there are 11. I think there were 11 titles. Just go back Oops.

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There are my 11 titles. So again, that lives any tools are gonna live up.

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It's up in your contextual toolbar. Okay, so that's scale ebooks.

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Now let's switch gears. We're gonna go into our in-context resources, and the one we're going to go into is middle school.

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Let me touch and do a few things here in Gale and Context middle school right away on the homepage.

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You can see it does look different. We still have our contextual toolbar.

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We still have our basic and advanced search. But we have topics of interest scrolling at the top and then below, we have these subject categories now in elementary.

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You have what we call a topic tree. Again, you have a subject, and then it takes you through using pictures.

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And so images and words to get the students to exactly what they're looking for.

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Certain topic pages. And that's a it does that.

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Is, we start them with pictures here. But then, when they select one of these categories, then it takes them to a list in of all of the topic pages available. Now, what is a topic page a topic page is a curated collection, of information.

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And curated by our.

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Editors at Gale, and we look at all kinds of different things. We look at curriculum.

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We both national State curriculums, we look at searches so usage.

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We also hear from you all what you're studying.

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So that's how our topic pages are going.

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That's just some of the ways that are used, but the ones that I always like to mention, so that makes a little bit a sense of how this information has been collected for you and your users.

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So if I were to do something I want to share with you.

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If I were to go into science.

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You can see. Here are all of my topic pages, anything that's been new or updated. You'll see the little orange tag there and Update it means that the image and essay overview on the topic page have been updated contents being updated all day.

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Throughout the day I wanted to go to any of those topics from my home page.

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I have this dropdown menu here where I can go to the new or updated information.

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Now let's say I'm doing a basic search.

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How do I know if there's a topic Page? I don't.

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I'm not gonna search through here. I just want to know real quick.

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Is there anything on I'm looking for endangered species, and you can see right away my search assist Pops up, and endangered species is bolded.

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It's at the top of my list. So that is telling me.

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Yes, I have a topic page for endangered species. Looking at the topic.

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Page I can use the get link, tool and create a persistent URL back to this individual topic page.

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With all of this information I can also pull this entire topic page into Google classroom.

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They always start with an image and an essay overview, and then here are all my content. Types.

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Remember, I said. They're always in a banner that's what I'm seeing here.

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And then I do have the ability to search within my results, as you can see here, and then all my content types are organized in these boxes.

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Below, videos, images, magazines, newspaper. If we have any primary sources or safe vetted websites, you will find them here, too, along with additional information, depends on what content we have available.

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What content types you'll see. They're also related.

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Topic pages listed at the very bottom of this topic.

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Page so additional research. Additional exploration can happen just from one topic page.

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Let me go into a content type. We're gonna go right into reference.

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And the reason why I did wanna take you this path is because you have the ability to filter down by content level.

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So this is a little different. We talked about the filters before, but I can filter by content level levels, one through 5.

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Middle school is 3. So if you remember, Middle school's level, 3 elementary is one and 2 and 4 and 5 is high school into undergrad.

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So just remember middle schools generally level 3. So if I wanted to say, let's say I want level three's and 4.

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So I want. I have students that are ready for that next step, and they can use the listen feature and listen to the text being read aloud to them.

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So I'm not. I don't have to limit, but you can see it filters down all of my content at once, and at this point, if I wanted to use the git link tool or pull this into Google classroom, I can share that with my with my users with my students with my patrons that are

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coming into my library. Okay? And all of the content here. So here you're going to find some head images.

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And some fast facts, text features. We publish a lot of our own content, too, as you can see here.

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So we also have the ability to change the reading level. So this individual article on endangered species, I can change it to an 8, 40 lectures from a 1010.

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Okay, so let's see, I talked about content levels and Lexon measures.

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We already talked about tools to support accessibility and our workflow tools, how you can send it to Google classroom, Google drive and Microsoft on track.

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And we did a basic search. And we talked about topic pages.

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So since we've covered so many tools and features across your other resources, I actually want to go into one of your literature resources.

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So let's take a look at Gale. Let Finder.

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Gonna go back to that product menu this time. Gonna go into literature.

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Now Lip finder, you can see little different than our in context.

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We don't have those scrolling images at the top.

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We don't have the curated collections of topic pages.

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It's a so it is a little different.

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But let me show you the great, unique content you have here what you will find is some options.

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So you have person, serge, and work search available. You have right on the home page topic finder in term frequency term.

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Frequency is available in literature. It's also available in your one file resources.

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All of these always live under advanced search. So if I'm looking for topic, finder, and it is again available in your Gale resources from middle school all the way up through all the other resources, you'll always find topic finder in advanced search because in our in context, resources. It isn't does not live

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on the homepage right now. It does live in a different, but you will find it in literature in one file, right on the homepage.

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So let me, I wanna do it quick search, using topic finder.

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And I am going to do a search on poems.

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Remember, we have a very large amount of poems available within this resource.

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So, if looking at home, what I'm gonna find with topic finder.

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And again, this is a available in advanced search in your Gale resources across all of your resources.

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I'll make elementary. You will find these great keywords, and they're shown in this graphic. It's interactive.

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What the resources doing is, it's looking at the first 100 words and what you're finding really like to use this for anyone doing any kind of research or working on projects or papers.

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Because it triggers things that maybe they haven't necessarily thought about.

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There's keywords that I hadn't necessarily thought about.

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So what I'm talking about, and from here you can see I have 15 results.

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But I can click again and drill down, and I have 6 different results available on the right hand side.

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And these are poems on female Identity.

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If I want to reset that topic finder, I can, or I can go directly into one of these poems.

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So that's topic finder, and how you can utilize it within your resources.

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I want to let's do a quick search this time.

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I'm not gonna use topic finder. I'm gonna use do a search on pollen.

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Makes a difference to add. An S. Let's see. Nope, it didn't really.

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Okay, because I took you through topic finder. It was on the home page.

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It lives under advanced search, but it's also here.

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So below, all of your filter results and all of your resources, you're going to find topic finder here, too.

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So I can start topic finder this way also, even if I've done a basic search, I can pull this information into.

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Now, looking at this, these results there's a lot of information here.

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So of course I'm going to want to drill down this time.

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I'm going to use. Search within, and let's do a quick search for my angel.

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It filtered down all of my results. Primary sources and literary works.

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This is where you're going to find your full text homes short stories, novel speeches available here in this section, this content type.

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We also have some biographies and topic overviews and work overviews available.

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Now these are the content, entertaining here in the literary works and primary sources is not necessarily written by Maya Angelou, but I specifically want her poem author items by, and I can select my angel fly.

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It, and now it will take me to just her poems again.

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I can link this out. I took you through a very broad way of getting to this information, I took you through poems now.

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Could I do a quick search on my Angelou, and find this that way?

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Yes, you can, but I kinda wanted to show you all the poems available.

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What it if I click into? Still I rice great poll!

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I have that full text, pointer, but what I want to share with you is at the bottom.

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I also have related information, so I can go directly to my angel's biography or an explanation.

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And here you can see that information.

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Going back to my results. Maybe I want to click into my Arkansas.

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And again, same information. All of my text features are available, and I get some information about this work at the very top.

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Okay, so let me share with you one more thing. And we're going to do a basic search this time.

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So instead of using topic finder, let's do a basic search.

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And this time let's pick a past president and I'm gonna use search, assist.

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Barack Obama, and I chose this because there are a lot of great inaugural speeches available within this resource.

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Now how I can find that and filter down. I just did a search.

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I could scroll through 281 different documents, but why would I do that?

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I actually am going to go over here to document type I'm going to select speech just going to filter it down a little bit.

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But then I'm gonna take it one step further search within, and I am going to type in, you know, and submit.

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It takes me to 4 different speeches.

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So here's annual speech.

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And there is the speech, and if I wanted to highlight some information within this speech, I can do that highlight.

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Choose my color, add in an email.

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Save that information.

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Do another section here.

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Doing my research. I want this information. I wanna utilize it for my project.

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Now, hopefully, your users are creating better notes than I.

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I just click and drag over a chunk of text. Now my best practice is to always send this information somewhere, so I have this entire document marked up and what'll happen is I send it to my Google drive.

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It remains marked up exactly how I have it. What happens to is below my citation.

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I'll have these 2 chumps of text that I've highlighted, and the notes I've taken, so I best practice.

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Always send it. But there's also something else that's happening let me go back to my results.

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I want to click into another article here.

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And this is the same. Looks like this is same in Audio's speeches.

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I'm not sure that you so may go into another section here.

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Normally I would pick something completely different, but for the sake of time.

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Just put fax. Okay, again, send this entire document to your Google drive, or any of these other apps you have Microsoft email download print.

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What I wanna share with you is the highlights and notes section so up in your contextual toolbar on the upper, far, right your highlights and notes after you've done some highlighting on an article, you'll see that option available view, all highlights and notes in

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here are what I like to call digital numbers. You can edit these notes that you've taken, but you can send just these to Microsoft, Google email download or print my citation works the same way.

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But now here's my work, sided and bibliography.

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So from my highlights and notes. Section I can grab my works, cited Page.

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One thing to note is if you don't come into highlights and notes before you leave this session.

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This information, this section here will be lost. That's why I always say best practice.

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Send the entire document to somewhere. Google Microsoft email download.

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Okay, so just wanted to share that information with you. And we are right towards the end of our time.

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I think we have about 2 min. The only other resource I just wanted to touch in very briefly, is going to be in your more section, and that's health and wellness.

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And I just want to look at this homepage with you because you are going to find these subject categories and topic, some topic pages available here.

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With this resource, and I remember this is that concern health, health, and medicine is for your medical professionals and medical students, nurses but health and wellness is more of that consumer approach to health and wellness.

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But you are going to find great information on.

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Say anxiety. So mental health, too.

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You can see, it looks similar to our in contexts. When we have these topic pages advanced.

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Search is also a great option. Maybe I wanna do a quick and advanced search is very intuitive.

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We have a lot of helpful tools, and we have some limiters here that you can set before you do your search.

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But very intuitive. But if I wanted to do search on, say!

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Depression.

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And exercise.

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And then click, search.

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And here are my search results. I even happen to have a topic page available.

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Alright. Let me go back to my Powerpoint, and share with you.

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Where you can go for additional support. Well, actually, before I share that with you, I do have one other spot, I think, and that is, if you do not currently have access to these resources, you can.

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Interested in the program or participating in the program. You can use this link to fill out a form with the Washington State Library.

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It is a bit-l link and it is Wsl Dash Gale resources.

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So I kept it simple as possible, but this will take you to the form.

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It does live on the Washington State Library website also, but use this link.

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It will direct you exactly to that form. Fill it out and get the process started, and thank you for considering utilizing these great resources from Washington State Library for additional support.

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We have so much support material available, so this link at the top is the one I shared with you at the beginning.

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The support.Gale.com/Wsl, that'll take you to the that where you can log in and find your library site. This is the same site and what you'll also find there under the home section is access to product information.

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You'll find those product Urls I mentioned. But also you'll find title list and mark records. There's technical documents, the database icons, widgets.

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You can even contact your customer success, our marketing materials.

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And you're gonna see a few of them here like this one to the right on Gale and context elementary. But you'll also find bookmarks and posters. And there's digital assets, email templates.

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We have sample social media posts available or communication tem.

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To connect with us. You have your K. 12 and public customer success managers, or if you're from the Academic library, you have this email address for your Gale. Academic customer success managers. So K. 12 in public.

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You can use the for our academic folks. It's academic outreach at.com. Send an email.

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Let them know what site you're from, and they will get back to you and support you in all things.

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Scale you should have a training survey there at the Washington Library Association. But here's one.

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If you have time, no pressure, I just my name again is Tammi Burke. I'm your senior Gale trainer, and I thank you so much for taking the time today to view this virtual session.

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Hope to see you at sessions that we have planned coming up.

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So check us out on the support site in that training center and register for upcoming training. Thank you so much for your time today and have a great rest of your conference.
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