Books & Authors Late Summer Accessibility Enhancements
6/10/19
Changes are underway for Books & Authors in late August. Updates include:
- Complete design upgrade—provides a streamlined user interface aligned with upcoming July enhancements.
- Upgraded search experience—empowers improved search through Search Assist technology and search limiters.
- Integrated G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools—enable users to easily share, save, and download content including highlights and notes, bringing this product in line with Gale’s other Literature products.
- Increased Accessibility— removes elements that created barriers to accessibility and better enables site impaired users by adding alt-text to all of the books covers and a revised color palette.
- Secure product access—HTTPS protocol is used to ensure that data between a patron’s browser and Gale products is encrypted and the right to privacy for library users is protected.
- Minor Name Change—Books & Authors will now be referred to as Gale Books and Authors.
To improve Gale Books and Authors functionality, select features will be replaced:
- Named user accounts—will no longer be supported, in addition to social media elements like customizable home page, book club tools, book ratings, user book reviews, and My Reading Room within product.
- Users with saved lists from My Reading Room should access and save to another location, by August 22. If you need assistance, please contact [email protected]. We will manually assist libraries until November 1.
- In the future, users can save title information via integrated G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools
- A message will be posted within the product in early July to inform users, but we recommend you communicate to users to the best of your ability, whether that's in a newsletter or announcement to a book club. See suggested copy below.
- Who/What/Where/When Venn Diagram—users can still search by these criteria, but eliminating diagram increases accessibility to these search facets.
- Author and title browse—the inclusion of Search Assist and better Search Limiters at every stage eliminates the need for author/title browse, providing a more streamlined, straight-forward experience.
Below is suggested messaging to share with your Gale Books and Authors users:
Save Your Books & Authors Reading Lists!
As of August 23, 2019, the current version of Books & Authors will be going away to welcome a new design and functionality upgrades to provide a better user experience and maintain accessibility standards.
The "My Reading Room" feature is being discontinued and will be replaced with the ability to share, save, and download content via integrated G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools. Books & Authors users will need to download and store their saved lists in another location by August 22, 2019.
If you need assistance with this task, please contact [email protected].
Products included:
Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society,
American Fiction, 1774-1920,
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society,
Archives Unbound,
Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century,
Archives of Sexuality and Gender,
Associated Press Collections Online,
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture,
British Library Newspapers,
British Literary Manuscripts Online,
British Literary Manuscripts Online,
Cameron's Camp for Wellness,
Cameron's Collection,
Chatham House Online Archive,
ChiltonLibrary.com,
China and the Modern World,
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920,
Daily Mail Historical Archive,
Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence,
Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories,
Digital Scholar Lab,
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library,
Eighteenth Century Collections Online,
Financial Times Historical Archive,
Gale Academic OneFile,
Gale Academic OneFile Select,
Gale Analytics,
Gale Books and Authors,
Gale Business: DemographicsNow,
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship,
Gale Business: Insights,
Gale Business: Plan Builder,
Gale Case Studies,
Gale Courses,
Gale Directory Library,
Gale General OneFile,
Gale Health and Wellness,
Gale In Context: Biography,
Gale In Context: Canada,
Gale In Context: College,
Gale In Context: Elementary,
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies,
Gale In Context: For Educators,
Gale In Context: Global Issues,
Gale In Context: High School,
Gale In Context: Literature,
Gale In Context: Middle School,
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints,
Gale In Context: Science,
Gale In Context: U.S. History,
Gale In Context: World History,
Gale Interactive: Chemistry,
Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy,
Gale Interactive: Science,
Gale LegalForms,
Gale Literary Index,
Gale Literature,
Gale Literature Criticism,
Gale Literature Resource Center,
Gale Literature for Cross Search,
Gale Literature: Book Review Index,
Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors,
Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography,
Gale Literature: LitFinder,
Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series,
Gale Literature: Something About the Author,
Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series,
Gale NewsVault,
Gale OneFile: Agriculture,
Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand,
Gale OneFile: Business,
Gale OneFile: CPI.Q,
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media,
Gale OneFile: Computer Science,
Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues,
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice,
Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts,
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies,
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory,
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete,
Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship,
Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy,
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts,
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture,
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies,
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine,
Gale OneFile: High School Edition,
Gale OneFile: Home Improvement,
Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism,
Gale OneFile: Information Science,
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico,
Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability,
Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management,
Gale OneFile: LegalTrac,
Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence,
Gale OneFile: News,
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health,
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine,
Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies,
Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines,
Gale OneFile: Psychology,
Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy,
Gale OneFile: Science,
Gale OneFile: U.S. History,
Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers,
Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism,
Gale OneFile: World History,
Gale Power Search,
Gale Presents: Excel Adult High School,
Gale Presents: Imago,
Gale Presents: Peterson's Career Prep,
Gale Presents: Peterson's Test Prep,
Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep,
Gale Presents: Udemy,
Gale Primary Sources,
Gale Research Complete,
Gale Research Complete: Schools Edition – Ultimate,
Gale eBooks,
Gale eBooks: Professional Learning,
Indigenous Peoples of North America,
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013,
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950,
Literature Criticism Online (International),
Mirror Historical Archive, 1903-2000,
Miss Humblebee's Academy,
National Geographic Kids,
National Geographic Virtual Library,
Nineteenth Century Collections Online,
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers,
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals,
Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957,
Political Extremism and Radicalism,
Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970,
Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992,
Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II,
Religions of America,
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection,
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive,
Smithsonian Collections Online,
Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History,
State Papers Online,
State Papers Online Colonial,
The Economist Historical Archive,
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003,
The Independent Historical Archive,
The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991,
The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers,
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600–1970,
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600–1926,
The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals,
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800–1926,
The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources,
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600–1926,
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832–1978,
The Making of the Modern World,
The Shakespeare Collection,
The Sunday Times Historical Archive,
The Telegraph Historical Archive,
The Times Digital Archive,
The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive,
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,
U.S. Declassified Documents Online,
Women's Studies Archive,
World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean,