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Gale—Academic, Public and Special Libraries

Product Highlights

Every Gale product qualifies for special Minitex pricing, with the exception of some third party databases.

Career Transitions

This complete, self-paced application walks job-seekers through the entire process from assessing strengths and interests, to exploring new opportunities, to ultimately improving the chances of landing a job. With Career Transitions users can:

  • Prepare: build, save, retrieve and update personal career information with a career toolkit
  • Assess: explore current skills, occupational knowledge and interests and match them with fulfilling career paths
  • Explore: investigate thousands of career paths, industries, locations and companies
  • Improve: find educational opportunities and take classes to increase hiring chances
  • Apply: search job listings from around the country that meet user criteria

Career Transitions is a turnkey career resource that saves staff time and effort and provides users with an easy-to-use tool to support their job search from start to finish.

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

GREENER is a new online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more.

The content includes English-language international newspapers, magazines, and refereed journals; videos, podcasts, and images, updated daily; searchable case studies; interactive maps that facilitate browsing by country or topic; and country portals covering more than 160 nations.

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.

Historical Digital Newspaper Archives

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers features digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers as well as advanced searching capabilities. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement, and illustration.

The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, allows researchers to search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements, and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

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

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.

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.

Global Issues in Context

Global Issues in Context is a new electronic resource that offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro and con database, Global Issues in Context ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues—social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural—and headlines in world hot spots. It provides information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations.

Trials

A trial can be activated at any time and is normally valid for 30 days. To activate a trial, please complete and submit the following form.

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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.

Technical Support

General Gale Technical Support

Statistics

1. Find your library's location_id.

2. Next, browse to the InfoTrac config Web site.

3. Click on the "Reports" link in the left-hand frame.

4. Scroll down the page to the Usage Reports heading. Scan the list of Minitex location_id's; scroll down to your location_id.

5. You have four retrieval options:

  • View now
  • Email now: Gale Report
  • Email now: COUNTER Usage Reports
  • Sign up for monthly (recommended!)

Contact Information

Minitex Contact

Cooperative Purchasing & Electronic Resources Services (CPERS)
Minitex
15 Andersen Library
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439
Toll Free: 800-462-5348
Phone: 612-624-4002
Fax: 612-625-3569
Email: cpers@minitex.umn.edu

Vendor Contacts

Marta Kwiatek (Academic Libraries)
Gale Cengage Learning
Account Executive
Toll Free: 800-877-4253 ext. 2235
Cell: 248-321-4920
Email: marta.kwiatek@cengage.com

Derrek Pulliam
Gale Cengage Learning
Account Manager, Academic Library Sales
Toll Free: 800-877-4253 ext. 8197
Email: derrek.pulliam@cengage.com

Jarrod Roth (Public Libraries)
Gale Cengage Learning
Account Executive
Toll Free: 800-877-4253 ext. 8624
Email: jarrod.roth@cengage.com

Tabitha Treber
Gale Cengage Learning
Account Manager, Public Libraries
Toll Free: 800-877-4253 ext. 8616
Email: tabitha.treber@cengage.com