Did you know… the next time you munch on some potato chips they may have been processed at an environmentally friendly production plant? Watch the video report in GREENR. Check it out or call your rep for more information.
Month: March 2014
Featured Partner: Encyclopedia Britannica
An ongoing look at the partner publishers available through GVRL.
By Michelle Eickmeyer
For many of us, Encyclopedia Britannica has long represented the place to go to find information on just about everything. While the look of the book has changed, and how students and your community interact with it have changed, the standard of excellence has not. Founded nearly 250 years ago, Encyclopedia Britannica is still a trusted source of all kinds of information.
Jump in, the water is just fine!
Did you know… red eyed tree frogs (Agalyochnis Callidryas) lay their eggs on foliage on the edge of ponds so when they hatch the tadpoles can fall into the water? Read about it in Smithsonian and Air & Space Magazine Archive. Check it out or call your rep for more information.
Rats Fleeing the Sinking Ship! Saving the Daily Mail Atlantic Edition for Prosperity
By Seth Cayley
The Atlantic Edition
In 2013, Cengage Learning released the Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004, the complete archive of what the New Yorker has described as “the newspaper that rules Britain”. During our research into the project, we discovered a long-forgotten treasure of the newspaper’s history. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Daily Mail published an “Atlantic Edition”; a completely separate version of the newspaper for sale on the transatlantic liners that sailed between New York and Southampton.
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Putting the “Pub” in Public Library
By Harmony Faust
To say I’m a fan of craft beer is accurate, but perhaps doesn’t paint the full picture. The fact is, for my husband and I, it’s “our thing.” We appreciate craft beer to the point that last month, for the fourth consecutive year, we traveled to the Annual Winter Beer Festival of the Michigan Brewers Guild. That’s right, Michigan’s Brewers Guild. This places us outdoors in the middle of February at a beer festival. The high was 24 degrees but surrounded by good beer and good friends, no one seemed to notice.
Gale Artemis: Primary Sources Just Quadrupled in Size!
We just launched several collections onto Gale Artemis: Primary Sources, our groundbreaking research platform. All of these collections are now cross-searchable and feature many new tools and functionality that the older standalone collections do not.
The following list of collections are now available on Gale Artemis: Primary Sources:
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In Other News: Malaysian Airlines Diaster
By Michelle Eickmeyer
A look at a current news item through the lens of different titles available on GVRL.
March 14, 2014 – The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
It’s the worst nightmare of any traveler, their family and most regular people. An airplane takes off at 12:41 am from Kuala Lumpur headed to Beijing with 239 people on board. Just two hours later… it’s vanished. The speculation began almost immediately: How had people boarded the plane with stolen passports? Was there a bomb? Could they have turned around? How long after the last radar ping was the plane still flying? Why is the ‘black box’ orange? In 2014, how do you lose a plane? With nearly a week passing, we know little more than we did the first day. The world continues to hope for the best, fear the worst, and wait for word.
Here are five titles which look at the the disappearance from different perspectives:
Featured Partner: Elsevier Inc
An ongoing look at the partner publishers available through GVRL.
By Michelle Eickmeyer
With titles on the GVRL platform since 2007, Elsevier has offered top content in many disciplines including Math & Science, Nursing & Health, and more.
New from Gale! NCCO: Science, Technology, & Medicine, Part II
Relive the development of modern science with new offerings from NCCO!
With over three million new pages of scientific content, NCCO: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II represents a significant expansion to Gale’s nineteenth century resource family. The collection, which offers students and scholars a rare window into the development of modern science and its methods, is presented in four major parts:
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New from Gale! Associated Press Collections Online
A fantastic resource for all things 20th century!
Researchers can now look beyond the reporting from the not-for-profit news cooperative, Associated Press, and uncover its context, backstory, and logistics over the past seven decades. This fantastic resource for all things twentieth century provides rare access to an array of internal AP publications dating from the turn of the century and offers valuable insight into the AP, its staff, and the history of news coverage.