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Product Highlights
Every Gale product qualifies for special Minitex pricing, with the exception of some
third party databases.
Grzimek's Animal Life
Coming Fall 2009 is this transformation of Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia into an interactive, media-rich online interface.
Based on the 17-volume encyclopedia, Grzimek's Animal Life is part of the next generation of resources from Gale, designed to bring "power to the user." This knowledge portal will include information on more than 4,000 species, covering topics such as evolution, habitat, behavior, ontology, conservation status, and more.
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.
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.
Student Resource Center—Gold
High School students will find primary documents from the American Journey series
and millions of articles from magazines and newspapers; a wealth of award-winning reference
content that includes overviews and critical essays; biographies; multimedia features and
much more.
History Resource Center—U.S.
With its unique combination of primary and secondary sources, History Resource Center:
U.S. places the tools of the historian in the hands of the student and general
researcher. Award winning encyclopedias from Charles Scribner's Sons, Gale and Macmillan
Reference USA coalesce with primary materials drawn from some of the world's most notable
libraries via Primary Source Microfilm. The product supports college students, advanced
placement high school students, community college students and students conducting history
research in a public library.
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. 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.
LitFinder for Schools
LitFinder for Schools includes all of the full-text poetry, short stories, essays,
plays and speeches contained in LitFinder, including 126,500 poems, 5,000 short
stories, 2,800 essays, 1,800 speeches, and 1,000 plays. LitFinder for Schools, which
is international in scope and covers all time periods, also includes biographies, work
summaries, photographs and a glossary. A subject navigator, including a Kid's Korner that
lists subjects of interest to students, provides over 10,000 subject headings. Basic and
advanced search modes allow students to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work
date, nationality, gender, timeline and more.
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.
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