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MLA 7 is now available on even more Gale products

lbusse — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:00:47 +0000

The list of Gale resources with MLA 7 keeps on growing! You’ll now find this added functionality on Global Issues in Context and GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources).

The most visible changes include:

No more underlining — publication titles and the name of the online product accessed are now italicized
No more URLs — MLA no longer requires URLs, but Gale is adding a document URL below the citation to easily lead readers back to the original 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 display denoting that fact

If you have questions, please contact Gale Technical Support at 1-800-877-4253, option 4.

Get Ready to Celebrate Read Across America Day!

lbusse — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:36:00 +0000

Take part in the largest reading event in the United States on Tuesday, March 2! Pick up a book and be part of the National Education Association’s Read Across America Day, celebrated on or around the birthday of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.

Looking for things to read other than The Cat in the Hat? Gale’s Books & Authors is the reader’s go-to site for everything from recommended similar books to author biographies, bringing ease, authority, and fun to the question — “What do I read next?”

All of the books featured in Books & Authors – more than 150,000 of them – are recommended by librarians or other experts, are award winners, or appear on bestseller lists.

New Titles added to Archives Unbound

lbusse — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:13:30 +0000

Archives Unbound, a vast new electronic resource, allows researchers to access some never-before-published collections of historical and scholarly documents sourced from institutions worldwide.

Archives Unbound was developed in response to users’ requests for online access to essential research materials.

Archives Unbound has launched three new titles this month:
Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880; James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi; and The American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism.

Click here to learn more about Archives Unbound –
www.gale.cengage.com/archivesunbound

Author Lucille Clifton Leaves a Legacy through Her Poetry

lbusse — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:02:37 +0000

Noted African American poet Lucille Clifton passed away Saturday at the age of 73. Clifton’s “pride in being black and in being a woman helps her transform difficult circumstances into a qualified affirmation about the black urban world she portrays,” stated Ronald Baughman in his Dictionary of Literary Biography entry on Clifton. Clifton was inducted into the National Literature Hall of Fame for African American Writers in 1998 and received a National Book Award for poetry in 1999, for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000.

We have extensive coverage of Clifton and her works in many Gale sources, including Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Poetry Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Poetry for Students.

New Enhancements for Grzimek’s Animal Life

lbusse — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:51:18 +0000

A major set of enhancements for Grzimek’s Animal Life, makes this comprehensive online resource even more exciting. Covering more than 4,000 species of animals, updates include the addition of new content, navigational tools and social networking capabilities.

Since its initial release in October 2009, Grzimek’s Animal Life has received a 5-star rating from Multimedia & Internet @ Schools and was named as the Top of the List Reference Source for 2009 by Booklist.

Free lesson plans, trials, webinars, interactive product previews, reviews, training videos and more information is available at www.gale.com/animallife.