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Upcoming Analytics On Demand Maintenance

December 10, 2015

On Wednesday, December 23, Analytics On Demand will be upgraded to the Alteryx 10.1 Gallery. Analytics On Demand will be unavailable from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST for this maintenance, which will result in:

Improved performance: Reports run faster.
New look and feel: Improved user interface.
Mobile accessible: New scrolling workflow works better on tablets.
Easy access to collaboration: We have added the Collaboration App to its own district for easy access.
30-day report storage: “App Results” will be renamed “Workflow Results” and reports will be saved to the gallery for a rolling 30 days.

Content Updates for Kids InfoBits (Week of 7/13/2015)

July 22, 2015July 16, 2015

Posted on July 16, 2015

New content has been released in Kids InfoBits. See what’s new and available for your classrooms and students.

New homepage content snippets, or “infobits”, have been updated in the following categories:

Animals – Includes interesting facts about dolphins.

Product Update: Gale’s In Context

July 6, 2015

Posted on July 6, 2015

Over the past several weeks we’ve added and updated content in many of your favorite Gale In Context databases. Take a look what’s now available for your studies.

Biography In Context

July has new homepage spotlights including:

Harper Lee, whose much-awaited book Go Set a Watchman debuts on July 14
Dr. Seuss the well-known children’s author has a new book What Pet Should I Get releasing during the month of July
General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and America’s highest ranking military leader
Marta, the Brazilian soccer star who made goal-scoring history in this year’s Women’s World Cup
Raven-Symoné, known for her roles on “The Cosby Show” and the Disney Channel, and now ABC’s “The View,” where she is the newest co-host
New featured homepage video: “American History: Declaration of Independence”.

New portals that have been added to Biography In Context are:

Haifaa al-Mansour, Saudi Arabian filmmaker
Sarah Vowell, American author
Sonia Manzano, actress and writer for Sesame Street
Jordan Spieth, pro golfer and winner of the 2015 U.S. Open Golf tournament.

Product Update: In Context

August 17, 2015May 26, 2015

See what’s new with some of your favorite In Context databases. With new articles, videos and learning portals, students and classrooms will have even more information to access and use in their research projects and daily classroom learning,

Here is what you’ll find:

Product Updates: New In Context content for 03/02/2015

March 5, 2015

Gale is continually updating and adding new content to our In Context products, ensuring that they offer timely, authoritative, useful information. The items below were added or updated during the week of March 2, 2015.

Product Updates: New In Context content for 01/26/2015

January 28, 2015

Product Updates: New In Context content for 01/12/2015

January 14, 2015

Gale Artemis: Literary Sources and Literature Criticism Online Update

January 7, 2015January 5, 2015

Presents came early for some of your favorite literature resources. As of December 18, the ability to browse the entire volume from ‘About this Publication’ page for all Literature Criticism Online (LCO) series in Gale Artemis: Literary Sources and LCO has been added. The default “Search within publication” will now be within the particular volume instead of the entire series. This change will yield better, more focused results.

After clicking the What’s Inside link, you can find your library’s databses within LCO to locate specific volumes:

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.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers is getting a face lift

August 17, 2015December 10, 2014

Gale is committed to providing its customers with robust and easy-to-use resources. As such, we will soon unveil a completely new interface for 19^th Century U.S. Newspapers. This new interface will look and feel similar to other historic newspaper collections from Gale such as The Independent Digital Archive and The Daily Mail Historical Archive, offering researchers the ability to: