“The demand for accurate health information is greater than ever,” said Frank Menchaca, executive vice president, publishing, Gale.  “We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with Rosen Publishing to expand access to vetted, expert information.

“Rosen’s Teen Health and Wellness is an award-winning resource that meets the unique information needs of young information-seekers,” said Menchaca.  “With a mission of providing ‘real answers,’ this resource delivers relevant health information that’s tailored to teens.”

Teen Health & Wellness provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life and more. Developed for teens, with their unique concerns and perspectives in mind, Teen Health & Wellness draws on Rosen’s award-winning series, including Coping, Need to Know and others. Thoroughly updated and revised for online use, all content is reviewed by leading professionals in medicine, mental health, nutrition, guidance and career counseling.

The agreement also allows Rosen to distribute Gale’s much-heralded Health & Wellness Resource Center.

“We’re excited to expand our e-Content offerings with such a renowned and established resource,” said Roger Rosen, president, Rosen Publishing. “We can now offer a balanced and comprehensive set of solutions to customers seeking health information,” said Rosen.  “This partnership allows greater reach of expert health information to library users across the country.”

Gale’s Health & Wellness Resource Center is a rich, comprehensive resource that offers 24/7 access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, newspapers, reference works, multimedia and much more. With easy-to-find answers via an intuitive and customizable interface, Health & Wellness Resource Center is the first-stop resource for consumers of all ages and skill sets.

Customers may purchase these resources from Gale or Rosen.

For more information about the agreement, contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com or Miriam Gilbert at miriamg@rosenpub.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world’s information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats.  Gale is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan.  For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.

About Rosen Publishing
Founded in 1950, Rosen Publishing has a long history of providing high-quality nonfiction books for children and young adults. Recognizing an urgent need for self-help material written specifically for young adults, Rosen released its flagship book on venereal disease in 1958, the first of its kind for teens. Rosen Publishing continues to enjoy a strong reputation for its sensitive treatment of difficult subjects; accurate, age-appropriate information; and reassuring tone. Rosen Publishing Online, the newest division of Rosen Publishing, continues the legacy of publishing trusted and award-winning content with database and digital offerings. To address the information needs of today’s students and the school and public library communities, Rosen Publishing Online launched Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers, in January 2007.  For more information, visit www.rosenpublishing.com.

“We understand that easy access to standards-based source citations is an important part of the eResearch workflow process,” said Gary Pollack, Gale’s vice president of product platforms. “Citations strengthen the authority of the work and provide the reader with valuable information, indicating where he or she may learn more about the topic.”

“Within our upgraded products, the MLA 7 citation appears as the Source Citation at the bottom of each document and as the MLA 7 citation option through the Citation Tools path,” said Pollack. “Additional products will see the inclusion of MLA 7 throughout this next year.”

The most visible changes found in MLA 7 include:

• No more underlining — publication titles and the names of online products accessed are now italicized

• No more URLs — MLA no longer requires URLs, but encourages writers to provide a URL if the citation information does not easily lead readers to the source

• Continuous pagination — this is no longer an issue for scholarly journal citations; both volume and issue numbers are required, regardless of pagination

• Publication medium — since all documents are accessed from an online Gale resource, the citation will always include the medium “Web.” In addition, MLA has eliminated the requirement to include the name of the service (”Gale”) and the name of the subscribing institution

• New abbreviations — when certain metadata is missing, such as publisher or page numbers, there are suggested abbreviations to denote that fact

For more information, please contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world’s information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats. For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.

Patrick C. Sommers, President, Gale, said: “The demand for books and resources in an electronic format continues to grow, and we are pleased to be in a position to meet that demand. This partnership means we can expand distribution, while allowing academic and public libraries to order, revise and renew their subscriptions, using Baker & Taylor’s leading library collection management services.”

GVRL offers nearly 3,000 reference sources from some 50 authoritative publishers on a stable, easy-to-use platform. Libraries have the flexibility to buy one e-Book or multiple e-Books and to search across a single e-Book or an entire e-Book collection. The collection grows weekly and covers a wide variety of topics and subjects — ranging from current events to classics and from arts and humanities to small business management.

Literature Criticism Online brings together 10 of the most acclaimed literary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Gale Directory Library is an online collection of crosssearchable, authoritative directories of companies, publishers, associations and more.

Public and academic libraries can purchase GVRL products from Baker & Taylor’s unique and comprehensive Title Source TM 3 ordering system. Academic and public library customers may also continue to purchase GVRL products from their Gale representative. The new partnership simply expands customers’ options for ordering and allows customers to take advantage of the numerous services Baker & Taylor provides.

Attention customers: Please note that in conjunction with this launch Title Source TM 3 will be down for maintenance this morning from 6:15 a.m. (EDT) to 8:30 a.m. (EDT).

About Baker & Taylor
Baker & Taylor, Inc. (www.baker-taylor.com) is a global information and entertainment services company that offers print and digital books and entertainment products along with value-added services to libraries, educational institutions and retailers. Based in Charlotte, N.C., the company has been in existence for more than 180 years, developing long-term relationships with major suppliers, including book publishers, movie studios
and music labels. Baker & Taylor maintains one of the largest combined in-stock book, video and music inventories in the United States, and services the broadest customer base in the industry. Baker & Taylor is majority owned by Castle Harlan Partners IV, L.P., an institutional private equity fund managed by Castle Harlan Inc., a leading private equity investment firm.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world’s information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats. Gale is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For more information, go to www.gale.cengage.com.

Based on the 17-volume print version Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, long regarded as a leading source of information on “everything animal,” this digital resource is part of the next generation of resources from Gale, designed as a new knowledge portal to bring “power to the user.”

This knowledge portal includes information on more than 4,000 species, covering topics such as evolution, habitat, behavior, ontology, conservation status and more. Continuously updated, the image-rich content provides a true educational experience, where users can find answers to specific questions, discover new details about animals they are familiar with, and learn more about little-known animals in new and exciting ways.

“Grzimek’s Animal Life is considered one of the best and most comprehensive animal reference sources available,” said Jason Bass, Gale’s associate publisher for general reference. “More than 12,000 photos, maps, videos, audio clips and interactive tools, as well as links to periodicals, real-time news and Web sites create a full learning experience. The conversion to an online resource allows for enhancements, continuous updates and special features that will make this product even more valuable in the study of animals.”

Features include:

• Articles written by scientists and subject experts, peer-reviewed by world-renowned authorities and selected for inclusion by an expert editorial board
• Search Assist, Animal Finder and Quick Facts tools allowing the user to quickly find animals by common or scientific name and provide a snapshot of the species
• ReadSpeaker technology allows for text-to-speech transfer of articles
• Translation feature includes 11 languages
• “Threatened Species Ticker” and related links encourage browsing of new topics

For a video preview, to sign up for a free trial or to register for a Webinar, visit www.gale.com/AnimalLife.

For more information, please contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world’s information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats. For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.

Librarians can install a widget (http://www.gale.cengage.com/flu/) to their library’s homepage, Facebook page or blog, allowing their community to access the information at the library or from any computer with an Internet connection.

“As children go back to school, we continue to be bombarded with information about the H1N1 virus everyday.  Rumor and misinformation are often part of the discourse,” said Nader Qaimari, Gale’s vice president of market strategy.   “Gale and its library partners want to help arm the public with accurate information.  Free access to information from our Global Issues in Context electronic resource and health-related eBooks helps library users learn what they need to know about the H1N1 virus.”

Global Issues in Context now features a swine flu portal including editorial perspectives from international publications such as Africa News Service, Chicago Tribune, and The Independent (London, England), dozens of podcasts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and thousands of news articles. Global Issues in Context also includes CDC, WHO, pandemic preparedness and influenza portals.

Through Gale Virtual Reference Library, sources like Encyclopedia of Genetics, Encyclopedia of Public Health, American Decades, and Infectious Diseases in Context provide users access to authoritative articles about the swine flu, other strains of influenza, emerging diseases, pandemic preparedness and other issues related to public health.  These resources provide content for all levels of interest, from general information to more in-depth analysis for researchers or health care professionals.

For more information, please contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats.  For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.

“Slavery and Anti-Slavery is a flagship of Gale’s expanding program of digital archives designed to serve the needs of academic researchers and students,” said Jim Draper, Gale’s vice president and publisher of Digital Collections.  “This source is the gateway into the global study of race relations, religion, education, politics, economics, and law through the lens of slavery.”

The first of the four-part series, Debates over Slavery and Abolition, explores the varying viewpoints and debates that surrounded the practice, experience and eventual abolition of slavery in the U.S., as well as in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It will be followed by Part II in 2011. Once completed, the entire four-part digital archive will comprise 5 million pages of documents.

This collection–Debates over Slavery and Abolition, Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, Institution of Slavery, Age of Emancipation–embraces the historical study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way.
 
Collections drawn from institutions such as Amistad Research Center, Oberlin College, Yale University, and Oxford University allow for unparalleled depth and breadth of content.  Scholarly reference materials are drawn from MacMillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and Gale encyclopedias, among others, and contextual commentary has been created specially for this collection.  With documents from 7,242 books and pamphlets, 80 newspapers and periodicals and over 600,000 pages of manuscripts, teachers and researchers will have access to a comprehensive array of opposing views and perspectives in one database.

A sampling of the sources represented in the series –

Books and Pamphlets

• Anti-Slavery Collection from Oberlin College
• Anti-Slavery Collection from Oxford University
• Eighteenth Century Collection
• Sabin Americana
• Slavery Tracts and Pamphlets from the West India Committee Collection
• The Slave Trade Book and Pamphlet Collection; 1680-1865 from the Royal Commonwealth Society

Manuscripts

• The American Missionary Association Archives, 1839-1882 from the Amistad Research Center
• The Slave Trade Papers: Papers of Sir Thomas Fowell-Buxton from Oxford University
• The Lewis Tappan Papers from the Library of Congress
• The Salmon Chase Papers from the Library of Congress

For more information, please contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats.  For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.

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PowerSearch 2.0 simplifies browsing through Gale’s more than 20,000 publications, providing the ability to search across more than 150 million documents.  The new interface provides users a Web-like experience and includes added features that will appeal to and empower library patrons, students and other researchers.

Key enhancements provide more customization options for the user, allowing them to create their own custom profile.  Users can modify the home page so that the topics and publications they are interested in are fed through RSS feeds directly to the page at login.  In addition, users have better navigation options such as the new Publication Browse with hover technology which allows users to see more publication details without clicking through.

Other Improvements include –

• Web 2.0 sharing tools including Del.icio.us, MySpace, Reddit, Digg, Facebook, Newsvine, Twitter and others to connect users with their community.  These tools allow users to push interesting articles out to the Web to share with others.
• ReadSpeaker (text-to-speech technology), allowing users to have all articles available from within the platform read aloud.  All articles are fully  downloadable in MP3 file format and can be played on an iPod or other audio devices.
• Addition of “named user” functionality, allowing researchers to create custom profiles, name and save any search and modify RSS feed on the product’s homepage, thus facilitating ongoing research and supporting user’s interests.
• Search results that incorporate portals of context sensitive multimedia (images, video and podcasts).
• On-demand translation of documents into 11 different languages, helping institutions support a global community of users.

Beginning in July, PowerSearch 2.0 will be fully implemented for all customers.  Current Gale customers can enable PowerSearch 2.0 now by contacting Gale Technical Support at 1-800-877-4253, option 4.  Libraries can get a head start on learning how to use the new design by clicking on the “Find Out More” link on the PowerSearch Web site: www.gale.com/powersearch.

For more information, please contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world’s information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats – books and eBooks, databases and microfilm.  For more information visit: www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.

Rough Guides publishes guidebooks and online content for hundreds of destinations worldwide. Known for its extensive coverage of travel destinations through content and photos, Rough Guides help independent-minded travelers plan entire trips with a broad range of useful information on topics such as transportation, history, cultural attractions, eating, shopping, accommodations and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library offers thousands of electronic reference books from dozens of publishers allowing libraries to provide the convenience of an online search engine with the accuracy and authority of Gale’s 50-year publishing legacy.  With Gale Virtual Reference Library, libraries can fill their virtual shelves with electronic reference sources covering a wide variety of topics and subjects – ranging from current events to classics and from arts and humanities to small business – and users can enjoy unlimited access anytime of day from anywhere with an Internet connection.

“By adding Rough Guides to Gale Virtual Reference Library we are expanding our subject offerings.  Users will now be able to access detailed travel-related content while taking advantage of cross-searchability, connecting popular updated information with historical reference,” said Jay Flynn, Gale’s vice president and publisher for social science and K-12.

“Rough Guides is really thrilled to be partnering with the Gale Virtual Reference Library on the inclusion of digital editions of our travel guides,” said Tom Hall, director of digital licensing.  “This licensing agreement will give the Rough Guides list increased exposure to anyone who is seeking up-to-the minute, thoroughly researched travel information in our brand’s signature accessible style.”

For more information, please contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com or Judi Powers at judi.powers@dk.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats.  For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.

About Rough Guides
Rough Guides, a division of Penguin Group, publishes guidebooks for independent-minded travelers to more than 200 destinations around the globe, from Alaska to Zanzibar. The guidebooks are designed for independent travelers on a range of budgets seeking the best cultural and historical coverage but who are just as interested in finding-out-of-the-way beaches and clubs. Each Rough Guide combines opinionated reviews with the most up-to-date information on accommodations, restaurants, sights, and activities. The Rough Guides list is distributed internationally and has offices in London, New York City and Delhi.

Encyclopedia.com, a free online resource with more than 500,000 entries from over 200 different encyclopedias and dictionaries, provides authoritative answers that are verifiable against multiple sources.  For example, the Encyclopedia.com page about Abraham Lincoln (http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Abraham_Lincoln.aspx) enables visitors to check their facts across multiple encyclopedias and also displays helpful links to images, videos, related reference material and recent newspaper and magazine articles. 

With more and more Web users seeking credible information, Encyclopedia.com, the largest provider of trusted, editorially verified content, has experienced a nearly 500 percent increase in traffic over the last two years.

“Gale is honored to receive this prestigious CODiE award recognizing Encyclopedia.com as a world-class product for reference content,” said Dave Guttman, General Manager, Senior Vice President of Open Web at Gale.  “Our next step is to work with our many great library customers to provide Web users greater access to more content, and to support libraries in finding new ways to engage their customers.” 

Encyclopedia.com joined Gale through the acquisition of HighBeam Research in 2008 and now provides value to both individual users and Gale’s core library partners.  Encyclopedia.com will soon enable library patrons to access millions of reference articles from Gale Virtual Reference Library with their library cards.

For more information, please contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats.  For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.

About HighBeam™ Research, Inc.
HighBeam™ Research, Inc., headquartered in Chicago, operates three online services designed to meet the needs of information hungry individuals: the award-winning subscription-based HighBeam Library (www.highbeam.com) that enables individuals to access 50 million proprietary newspaper magazine and journal articles from 3,500 sources; Encyclopedia.com (www.encyclopedia.com), an award winning provider of credible reference content from multiple authoritative reference publishers; and Smart QandA http://qanda.encyclopedia.com, the online source for verified, trusted answers.

Librarians can install a widget (http://www.gale.cengage.com/flu/) to their homepage, Facebook page or blog, allowing their community to access the information at the library or from any computer with an Internet connection.

“As we continue to be bombarded with information about the swine flu everyday, it is easy for rumor and misinformation to be widespread,” said Jay Flynn, Gale’s vice president and publisher for social science.   “Gale and its library partners can provide reliable information and want to help the public make use of authoritative and accurate data.  Effective immediately, Gale is providing free access to Global Issues in Context and health-related eBooks, helping library users to learn all they need to know about the H1N1 virus.”

Global Issues in Context now features a swine flu portal including editorial perspectives from international publications such as Africa News Service, Chicago Tribune, and The Independent (London, England), dozens of podcasts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and thousands of news articles. Global Issues in Context also includes CDC, WHO, pandemic preparedness and influenza portals.

Through Gale Virtual Reference Library, sources like Encyclopedia of Genetics, Encyclopedia of Public Health, American Decades, and Infectious Diseases in Context provide users access to authoritative articles about the swine flu, other strains of influenza, emerging diseases, pandemic preparedness and other issues related to public health. Users can also read factual, historical accounts of previous outbreaks of the swine flu in 1918 and 1976.   

These resources provide content for all levels of interest, from general information to more in-depth analysis for researchers or health care professionals.

For more information, please contact Linda Busse at linda.busse@cengage.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats.  For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.