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Product Highlights
Every Gale product qualifies for special MINITEX pricing, with the exception of some
third party databases.
Biography Resource Center
This comprehensive online biographical reference database is designed to meet the needs
of public, school and academic libraries in the areas of literature, science,
multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history,
arts and newsmakers.
The Biography Resource Center contains nearly 414,000 biographies on more than
320,000 people from around the world and throughout history. It combines more than 135
frequently consulted Thomson Gale biographical databases with more than 265 full-text
periodicals.
Book Review Index Plus
The Book Review Index family of online products includes two distinct and
separately saleable databases, including Book Review Index Online and
Book Review Index Online Plus. They are both OpenURL compliant, allowing
subscribers to link to full-text reviews from other sources.
Book Review Index Online (index only) is a comprehensive guide to book
reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of
publications. Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index
Online, includes more than five million review citations; it also includes more
than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded
Academic, as well as full text via links to library holdings.
Science Resource Center
A curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all
science-related research needs. A standards search allows teachers to search for
correlated content they can use in lesson plans they develop to meet their specific
state standards.
Testing & Education Reference Center
This database includes information on private high schools, undergraduate and
graduate programs and executive education programs, searchable by location, major,
tuition, sports and more. Also features interactive online practice tests for
preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing
tests, including:
- ACT (American College Test)
- CLEP (College Level Examination Program)
- GED (General Education Development)
- GMAT CAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)
- GRE® CAT (Graduate Record Examination General Test)
- SAT (Scholastic Achievement Test)
- And others
Times Digital Archive
With The Times Digital Archive, researchers now have an opportunity to search
and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original
published context. Every complete page of every issue of The Times (London)
from 1785 to 1985. Every headline, article and image. Every front page, editorial,
birth and death notice, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within the pages
of The Times (London) will be easily accessible from what promises to be a
complete virtual chronicle of history for this period.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Consisting of Lucent/Greenhaven Press social issues series, periodicals and
proprietary Gale reference titles, Opposing Viewpoints is a dynamic online library
of current event topics—the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's
proponents and detractors. Exclusive electronic access to Gale's Information
Plus series of statistics, government data, information on legislation and more.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (EBooks)
Gale now offers its reference titles in EBook format so you can put your reference
collection into circulation—just like your own custom database! Every student
can access the same book at the same time from school or from home! Build your
custom database collection one reference title at a time with over 200 Gale reference
titles to choose from.
History Resource Center: World
History Resource Center: World offers students and researchers award-winning
reference content, academic and scholarly journals, and thousands of primary sources,
images and maps, integrated into a comprehensive, cross-searchable database. It
seamlessly integrates 17 reference sources from Gale, Macmillan and Scribner, along
with full-text articles from over 100 academic journals.
Over 1,500 primary source documents, including some native language documents with
new translations, from Primary Source Microfilm Collections are included, with a
high percentage that never have been available electronically in the United States
before. Historical news sources, 500 maps, 1,000 images, statistical information and
links to the library's OPAC are also a part of this comprehensive tool.
MINITEX Pricing
MINITEX libraries receive a 17% discount on all Gale databases, excluding some third
party databases. Please contact MINITEX for a price quote for your
library.
License Agreements (Terms & Conditions)
At the time your library subscribes to a Gale database, Gale will complete a customized
license agreement for your library. Please contact MINITEX to have a
customized license agreement drawn up for your library.
How to Order or Renew
Please complete the order/renewal form, and fax it along with the signed license
agreement to 612-625-3569 (except in the case of credit card payment).
To pay by credit card, please complete the credit card authorization form, order
form and license agreement (if required), and fax all documents to our secure fax
line at 612-626-5380.
Statistics
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