business & company resource center gale’s premium business database

Business & Company Resource CenterGale’s Premium Business Database

What’s in BCRC?• 440,000 company profiles from a wide array of Gale business directory titles

American Wholesalers & Distributors, Brands & Their Companies, Consultants & Consulting Organizations, Graham & Whiteside Major Companies of the World Series; Publishers Directory, Telecommunications Directory, and Ward’s 

• 10,000+ company histories from International Directory of Company Histories and Notable Corporate Chronologies

• 2M Investment Reports from Reuters Research on Demand (formerly Multex)

• Financials Dashboard from FinancialContent.com

» Including detailed quotes, charting, historical stock prices, company press releases, conference calls, podcasts, SEC reports, and views into world markets, industries, currencies, bank rates, treasury rates, and more

• Rankings from Market Share Reporter and Business Rankings Annual

• 365,000 products from over 80,000 companies from Gale’s Brand’s & Their Companies

What’s in BCRC? (con’d)• Industry Overviews from Gale’s Encyclopedia of American Industries, Encyclopedia

of Global Industries and Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries

• Market Research from Datamonitor

• Business associations listings from Gale’s Encyclopedia of Associations

• More than 4,750 journals/magazines/news outlets

– Of which 3,396 are fulltext (over 2,100 active fulltext with no embargo)

– Includes 825 peer-reviewed journals

– Only 154 embargoed titles (3%)

Content Updating Frequency• Company profiles – Daily• News/magazines – Daily• Company Histories and Chronologies – 8x a year• Investment Reports – Daily• Financials Dashboard – Daily

» Including detailed quotes, charting, historical stock prices, company press releases, conference calls, podcasts, SEC reports, and views into world markets, industries, currencies, bank rates, treasury rates, and more

• Rankings from Market Share Reporter and Business Rankings Annual – Twice annually

• Products/Brands from Gale’s Brands & their Companies/Companies & their Brands – Annual

• Industry Overviews from Gale’s Encyclopedia of American Industries, Encyclopedia of Global Industries and Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries – Quarterly

• Market Research from Datamonitor – Monthly• Business associations listings from Gale’s Encyclopedia of Associations – Daily

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Home Page

TYPE of search

Company Search• Search for

a company, or its products/brands

• All fields canbe combinedin any combination

Industry Search• Search for specific

industry data• Fully supported

NAICS / SIC code searching

• Use Browse featureto teach users aboutindustry classifications

Articles Search

• Search for a specific journal/magazine/news article

• Limit by publication name, full-text, peer-reviewed, news or magazines, date

Advanced Search• Search each data

set individually• Provides greatest

uniquenumber of access points

Tabular Search Results• Results are

organized by tabs:• Company Profile

• News/Magazines

• Histories

• Investment Reports

• Financials

• Rankings

• Suits or Claims

• Products

• Industry Overview

• Associations

Financial Dashboard

SEC Filings View provides access to company financials like balance sheets and cash flow statements, plus insider trading activity

Fundamentals Analysis• Located under the "Financials" tab in BCRC, the new Fundamentals Analysis

Tool allows users to:

Compare a company's financials (choose from Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Ratios Reports) to prior periods

Review annual or interim financial information - looking back up to 6 years or 5 interim periods

Compare a company's financials to their competitors – or choose specific companies to compare

Export the data to Excel to analyze it further

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S.W.O.T. analyses

Investment ReportsActivated by clicking on

“Investment Reports” in the tabbed results list.

• Provides 2 million investment reports from 72 sources in PDF format

• Provided by Reuters Research on Demand (formerly Multex)

• 3-year rolling backfile• (Mostly) No Embargo!

Month 00, 0000Get information about People, living and historical!

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Gale’s “In Context” Line of Products

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Biography in Context – in a Nutshell•Biography in Context (BIC) delivers outstanding research support with: •More than 654,000 biographical entries on more than 380,000 people

• From all countries and regions, covering all time periods• From all areas of study, including science and technology, arts and

entertainment, literature, sports, history, popular culture, politics, and more

•More than 725 portal pages on the most notable figures• Featured individuals include Barack Obama, Hu Jintao, Steve Jobs, Aung

San Suu Kyi, Leonardo da Vinci, Lady Gaga, and many more.

•More than 15.6 million full-text articles from more than 350 periodicals and newspapers •More than 160,000 videos, 88,000 images, and 95,000 audio files.•Links to more than 12,000 vetted websites•New entries added and existing entries updated continually!

Biography in Context – Based on Reliable Sources

– Biography in Context (BIC)’s biographies are based on:– More than 82 biographical reference titles published by Gale,

including:• Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., 30 vols.

• Contemporary Authors, 300+ vols. (incorporating CA New Revision Series)

• Contemporary Musicians, 70+ vols.

• Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, 110+ vols.

• Newsmakers, 20+ vols.

• International Directory of Business Biographies, 4 vols.

• And many more!

– Plus biographical entries selected from an additional 94 titles.• Encyclopedia of Modern Asia

• Encyclopedia of Modern China

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Contemporary Fashion

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Biography in Context – Home Page

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Search BoxSearch Box

Portals Pages by

major groups – max

3 per group

Portals Pages by

major groups – max

3 per group

Featured People with

links to portal pages

Featured People with

links to portal pages

Featured VideoFeatured Video

Featured News articlesFeatured News articles

Biography in Context – Portal Page for Notable People

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OverviewOverview

Featured ContentFeatured Content

VideoVideo

ImagesImages

AudioAudio

Reference Reference

MagazinesMagazinesNewsNews

Academic Journals

Academic Journals

Biography in Context – Search Assist

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Automatically

shows names

within the

database

Automatically

shows names

within the

database

Can Search by:- Name- Occupation- Nationality- Birth Place- Death Place

Can Search by:- Name- Occupation- Nationality- Birth Place- Death Place

Biography in Context – Person Search

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Can Search by:- Name- Birth Place- Death Place - Occupation- Nationality- Ethnicity- Gender- Birth Year- Death Year

Can Search by:- Name- Birth Place- Death Place - Occupation- Nationality- Ethnicity- Gender- Birth Year- Death Year

Biography in Context – Mouse-Over Dictionary

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Biography in Context – Readspeaker

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Welcome to Cengage Learning

Delivering Results Through Engagement

Cengage Learning is a leading provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide.  The company’s products and services are designed to foster academic excellence and professional development, increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes.

CENGAGE Learning -- at a glance

• HQ: Stamford, Connecticut

• Number of Employees: 5,600

• Location: 42 countries

• Formerly called: Thomson Learning

• July 2007 separated from the Thomson Corporation

• Sept 2007 changed its name to CENGAGE Learning(Coined from the phrase “Center of Engagement”)

Library Reference (Gale)

ELT

Academic & Professional Group

• Today’s presentation is on products from the Library Reference division

Gale (Library Reference)

HQ in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA

One of the foremost library reference publishers

Has many well-established imprints, including:• Gale

• Charles Scribner’s Sons

• Macmillan Reference USA

• UXL

Publishing formats include:• Print library reference such as thematic encyclopedias,

annual directories, literary biographies/criticisms, etc.

• eBook versions of print publications and an eBook platform

• Aggregated Journal databases

• Subject Portals and Databases combining various content together

• Microform collections and serials

• Digital Archives of primary source material

Product Types: What Are They?

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Winner of 23% of all major reference awards since 1998

•Dartmouth Medals

•ALA Outstanding Reference Source

•Library Journal Best Reference Source

•CILIP/Nielsen BookData Reference Awards (e.g. Early Printed Book)

References: Encyclopedias & Directories

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Display results by article

E-books: Gale Virtual Reference Library

Digital Archives: Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Databases: Business & Company Resource Center, Literature Resource Center

Portals: GREENR, World History in Context

Gale Cengage Learning

Literature Resource Literature Resource

CenterCenter

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What is the Literature Resource Center?

An online database of Secondary Material on literature• Critical biographies of authors, bibliographies of works• Literary reviews, critical writings, topical essays• Explanations of notable works, themes, characters• Links to related websites, author interviews, etc.• Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature • MLA International Bibliography (optional)

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Critical Biographies• Taken from flagship Gale series such as CA or DLB• 127,000 people, 140,000 articles• International coverage – not just UK and US• Not just novelists/poets – nonfiction writers, journalists,

essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers, politicians, celebrities – anyone who has written a notable work is covered

• From ancient times to active contemporary writers• Bibliography of works, major studies• New works, awards, deaths updated continually

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Criticisms, Reviews, Journal Articles• More than 650,000 fulltext articles from 440 journals• 70,000 Critical writings from Gale’s Literary Criticism

Series (CLC, NCLC, NCLC, CMLC, etc.) • Other topical essays about literary movements, trends,

important events, etc.

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Work/Character overviews• Plot summaries, analyses and commentary

on famous works most studied in classrooms• Analyses of major characters• More than 7,000 of these

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Multimedia• Links to audio files of National Public Radio programs

– All Things Considered, Weekend All Things Considered, Day to Day, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition

• Full transcripts of the same (usually not free!)• Websites, Pictures

Primary Sources / Literary Works• Interviews with contemporary authors (from CA)• Short stories & poems (mainly from literary magazines)

New content added in 2010

More than 4,100 new and updated

biographies – from Contemporary

Authors, Contemporary Authors New

Revisions, and Dictionary of Literary

Biography.

More than 3,200 selected, reprinted

critical essays – from books, journals

and other sources, from various Gale

Literature Criticism series.

Current journals – new content from

nearly 450 full-text journals flows into

the product continually, as soon as it is

released by the publishers.

More than 90 new full text journals – 76 of them peer-reviewed, were added in 2010, including:

• The AnaChronist (Hungary)• Babel (Australia)• Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de

Cultura y Literatura (U.S.A.)• Dalhousie Review (Canada)• East-West Connections (U.S.A.)• English in Africa (S. Africa)• Fu Jen Studies: Literature & Linguistics

(China)• Lenguaje (Colombia)• Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (S. Africa)• Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

(Germany)

Continuous updating of existing biographical information

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Literature Resources from Gale: Easy-to-Use Interface

• Search Results organized into tabs by type of material

Literature Criticism

Biographies

Topic & Work Overviews

Reviews & News

Primary Sources & Literary Works

Multimedia

MLA Int‘l Bibliography (Subscribers only)

Literary research starts here:

The MLA International The MLA International

BibliographyBibliography

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What is the MLA International Bibliography?– Authoritative index of articles, books, and other materials on literature,

linguistics and folklore

– The best place to begin your research on a topic

– Edited by the MLA （ Modern Language Association)

– 190 milliion entries, 66,000 added every year

• Coverage: 1926-present (Some journal articles go back to the 1880’s)

• Geographical coverage: no restriction

• Language: no restriction

• Indexes non-print materials such as video and audio publications as well

• Updated 10 times a year

– Used to be published in print format

– Can be searched simultaneously in the same interface as LRC!

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MLA Directory of Periodicals (part of MLA Int’l Bibliography)– Directory of 4,400 periodicals on literature, linguistics & folklore

– Lists addresses, contacts, publication frequency, descriptions, circulation, prices, advertising information, peer review, and submission guidelines.

– Can be linked from an article entry in the bibliography

Possible links from MLA to your library’s fulltextFulltext in Literature Resource Center (subscribers)

Fulltext in JSTOR (subscribers)

Fulltext from publisher’s e-journal (subscribers – DOI-compliant publishers only)

Open URL linking (requires link solver)

MLACitation DOI

Open URL

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World History in Context – in a Nutshell•World History in Context (WHIC) delivers outstanding research support with: •More than 255,000 reference articles, including 60,000 topic overviews and 63,300 biographies, on all countries and regions, covering all time periods•More than 245 portal pages on the most notable events, topics and people

• Featured topics include Renaissance, Victorian Era, French Revolution, World War II, Israeli-Arab Conflict, Globalization, Islam, Industrial Revolution, Ancient Egypt, Mayas, United Nations, and more.

•More than 12 million full-text articles from more than 440periodicals and newspapers •Thousands of primary documents from our microfilm collections and other archival sources.•More than 5,800 videos, 33,000 images, and 81,000 audio files.•Links to more than 12,000 vetted websites•New entries added and existing entries updated continually!

World History in Context – Based on Reliable Sources

– World History in Context (BIC)’s biographies are based on:– More than 138 reference titles published by Gale, including:

• Ancient Europe: 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000

• Encyclopedia of Modern Asia

• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

• The Cold War: 1945-1991

• Gale Encyclopedia of World History

• Dictionary of the Middle Ages

• History of World Trade since 1450

• The Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students

• Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society

• Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students

• Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security

• Encyclopedia of Russian History

• And many more!

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Thank you!Thank you!