Gale 1-800-877-GALE manual Home Navigation, Frequently Asked Questions, Tool BOX

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Content Level indicators (details below) help students identify the most appropriate content (you may choose to disable this function)

Timeline Search (details below) places science events and discoveries in context to historical events

Spotlight articles highlight timely and interesting science topics; a new article is posted every two weeks

Expanded toolbox offers science-related documents and tools to help students

Publication Search (details below) allows you to find articles by journal title, date and issue

InfoMark Web Page Generator (details below) helps you create your on own Web page of items to post or e-mail

Re-sortable search results locates information quickly and easily

Page number estimate prior to printing helps with printing decisions

New academic journals tab helps to distinguish academic journals from general interest and trade magazines

Student Research Tools: In partnership with Merriam- Webster, Inc., Science Resource Center provides access to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. The Thomson Gale Science Glossary is also available for quickly locating defini- tions of difficult science terms and concepts.

Updates: Science Resource Center is dynamically updated throughout the course of the year. Newspapers and maga- zines are updated daily, with the core reference content mate- rials updated on a quarterly basis. Spotlights are updated bimonthly.

Document Types

 

*(As of August 4, 2004)

Academic Journal

609,096 articles

Audio

26

 

 

Biography

10,602

 

 

Experiment Activity

77

 

 

Image

9,387

 

 

Magazine

635,772 articles

 

 

Newspaper

400,841 articles

 

 

Statistical Table

522 tables

 

 

Topic Overview

20,929

 

 

Video

23

 

 

Web site Listing

555

 

 

HOME PAGE

NAVIGATION

The title banner appears at the top of every page. Global navigation tools appear on every page: Help, Gale Databases, Toolbox, Dictionary, List of Sources, Timeline and Mark List. The navigation bar appears directly below the title banner and provides easy access to the search paths: Advanced, Person, Publications and Science Standards. Once you have begun searching the database beyond the home screen, you will be able to change your type of search with- out having to return to the Home screen. The availability of sidebar buttons and icons in the left margin depends on the type of page being viewed.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Answers can be found on the home page.

TOOL BOX

The “Tool Box” offers expert help and explanations on how to get started and wrap up research. This feature is accessible from the home page and throughout the database screens.

The Tool Box includes:

Science Related Tools

Research Guide

Research Tools

Search Tips

Guided Tour

For technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, call 1-800-877-GALE (option 4)

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Contents Content Notable FeaturesTool BOX Frequently Asked QuestionsHome Navigation Content Levels Search OptionsAcademic Journals TAB Subject Search Results TabsMagazines TAB Multimedia TAB Newspapers TABMore Newspapers WEB Sites TABName Search Let’s try it …Person Search Biographical Facts SearchPublication Search Science Standards BrowseAdvanced Search Retrieval Options Search ResultsTimeline Example of a Mark List Creating and Using a Mark ListSearch History Infomark WEB page Generator Using the InfoMark Web Page GeneratorExample of Generated Web Punctuation Using an InfoMarkAdditional Help Search Strategies Search Terms Proximity Operators TruncationBoolean Search Operators Date Ranges USE of Stop Words