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New Job Search Engine Added to Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep and Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

June 23, 2021June 24, 2021

| By Gale Staff | Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep and Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep help job seekers create resumés, get career advice, and now, make finding job opportunities easier! To help patrons more easily search job listings, access to the LinkUp job search engine has been integrated. Cited by U.S. News … Read more

Responsive Design (and more) Coming to Gale Products

March 6, 2015February 5, 2015

Have you ever muttered disparagingly about a website or app that doesn’t look or behave the way you expect it to? Does it frustrate you when icons don’t make sense to you, or when you can’t find navigation aids?

We hear you. And that’s why we’ve initiated a whole range of improvements that make a huge difference in user experience in GVRL, InfoTrac, and In Context* resources, including the PowerSearch platform as well as Genealogy Connect, Twayne’s Authors Online and Scribner Writers Online. The enhancements are coming April 2^nd.

New Parenthetical Citation Tool Now Available in GVRL

January 7, 2015December 18, 2014

At Gale we are always working to improve our products and make them more useful for our customers. Along those lines, we’re happy to announce the addition of a new Parenthetical Citation tool to GVRL. Designed to work in concert with our popular Highlights & Notes tool, it adds the ability to automatically produce a citation for highlighted text in a GVRL eBook.

Highlights and Notes tool coming to Gale’s digital resources

June 11, 2018September 10, 2014

We all know the rules – don’t take notes in your textbooks and don’t write in books you’ve checked out from the library, or else you might face a fine.

As eBooks and digital resources have become more and more popular, a similar problem has presented itself: how can a user easily take notes without opening a separate program? Gale has found the solution with our new Highlights and Notes tool, scheduled to launch on or around Tuesday, September 30, in Artemis Literary Sources, GVRL, In Context*, InfoTrac, Kids InfoBits, Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, and PowerSearch.

The New GVRL: Online eBook Browsing and More

February 23, 2018June 18, 2014

While uptake on eBooks has been phenomenally fast around the world, many users still long to see book content displayed in a traditional book format. Readers like the sense of “place” they experience on the printed page, the comfort of a familiar layout, and the reading breaks afforded by page turns.

The book-like online reading experience is prevalent across popular reading platforms, and user expectations have now translated to research eBooks as well.