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How Cengage Learning’s Unique Content and Unparalleled Technology can posi:vely affect Romanian Ins:tu:ons Chris Houghton – Enterprise Solu:ons Manager, EMEA
30th October 2014
Agenda
-‐ An Introduc:on to Cengage Learning
-‐ Which products will benefit Romanian Ins:tu:ons? -‐ Infotrac -‐ Gale Virtual Reference Library -‐ Literature Resources -‐ Digital Archives
-‐ Next Steps
Cengage Learning 30th October 2014
An Introduction to Cengage Learning
An Introduc:on to Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning 30th October 2014
Library Reference National Geographic Learning
Higher Education
Aggregation: Journals, Newspapers, Magazines, Reference
Publishing: Reference Titles,
Encyclopaedias, Directories
Archive Digitisation: Major Archive material
on your Desktop
Higher Education National Geographic Learning
Which Products will Benefit Romanian Institutions?
Infotrac
Infotrac: Key Facts
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- Infotrac is an aggregator platform, designed to keep students, faculty and researchers up to date with the latest information on any subject
- Different content sets aimed at most educational levels
- Contains many types of content, including Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, Video, Pictures, Podcasts and more
- Truly international product, containing information from many countries and in multiple languages
- Updated throughout the day
- Lowest embargo rate of any major aggregator
- Contains innovative tools designed to make information available to many learning styles as well as helping schools integrate research material in the classroom
- Most accurate Subject Indexing on the market
Infotrac: Academic OneFile
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Infotrac Collection aimed at Universities and Institutes
of Higher Education
Information from 16,856 Academic Sources, of which
10,967 are peer-reviewed
Information on all Academic subjects from major
European publications
17 Romanian-published titles
Infotrac: Flexible Solu:ons for Romanian Ins:tu:ons
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- Many ‘Flavours’ of Infotrac, including Subject Collections and Custom packages – only subscribe to what you need
- Cross-search with other Infotrac collections or with GVRL reference titles – save your researchers time and effort
- Search by only Romanian-published titles
- Translate the interface to aid students in using the product
- All students can set up their own user account to manage research, make notes and highlight content
- Infotrac works with most Federated Searches and Discovery services, including EDS, Summon, Ex-Libris and Primo
Infotrac: Key Technological Advances
Infotrac: Some Key func:onality -‐ Term Clusters
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Turn your Results from this:
Into this:
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Infotrac: Some Key func:onality – Term Clusters
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Infotrac: Some Key func:onality – Using Documents
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Infotrac: Some Key func:onality – User Accounts
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Infotrac: Some Key func:onality – Infotrac Mobile
Interlink: Explode the poten:al of your resources
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The Wikipedia Experience: The Infotrac Experience:
Interlink: Explode the poten:al of your resources
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• Exists now: no addi:onal set up required.
• Works with all Infotrac products, and any product available through PowerSearch, including GVRL.
• Works using document level subject indexing, u:lising Cengage’s market-‐leading indexing.
• In terms of usage, when a user clicks an Interlink through to a GVRL ar:cle, this starts a new GVRL session, and logs a GVRL retrieval.
• The more GVRL :tles you have, the more Interlinks your users will see.
Which Products will Benefit Romanian Institutions?
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
What is GVRL?
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- Cengage Learning’s eReference book platform – Library Journal 2012 product of the year
- Contains 17,000+ titles from Gale and over 100 publishing partners, including Springer, Wiley,
- Features all of Gale’s award-winning reference titles, including the Encyclopaedia Judaica, Gale Encyclopaedia of Medicine and Biotechnology in Context
- Covers all Academic subjects, including Engineering, Hard Sciences, Business and Medicine
- Has content for all academic, school, corporate and public libraries and all levels
- Cross-search your entire reference library and cross-search with Infotrac via Powersearch
- Interlinks will boost your usage and get value from your purchases
GVRL: Some Key Func:onality
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GVRL: Some Key Func:onality
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GVRL: Some Key Func:onality
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Which Products will Benefit Romanian Institutions?
Artemis Literary Sources
What is Artemis Literary Sources?
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- The new integrated platform for all of Cengage Learning’s literature products
- Integrates existing Cengage products: Literature Resource Centre, Literature Criticism Online, MLA International Bibliography, Litfinder, and eBooks from GVRL
- Allows users to engage with literature content in ways never previously possible through a range of interactive tools, enriched metadata and detailed subject indexing
- Contains materials from authors from all over the world and from all time periods
- Not just literature: material can be used in classes on philosophy, drama, history, social sciences and many more
- Over 600,000 Critical essays, 200,000 Author Biographies, 340,000 Primary Works and 500 Full-text journals
Key Features Workflow Tools/Textual Analysis Iden:fy and visualize pa_erns, trends and rela:onships with these unique tools (term cluster, graphing tool)
Subject Indexing Comprehensive subject indexing reveals important details, iden:fying rela:onships among documents.
Use on your iPad Plaborm is developed specifically for users who access the collec:on from an iPad or iPhone®.
Ar>cle Level Access LCO results return at the ar:cle level, providing pinpoint access to what students are searching for; also includes ar:cle level cita:ons
Improved Document Display Displays LCO content in the newest version of Gale’s image viewer tool, one-‐click full screen access , entry TOC
Instant Access to New LCO Titles New LCO content available in product at :me of invoice. View availability of series and volumes available from the homepage
Global Design/Global Access Supports interna:onaliza:on of the UI (34 languages for the UI). Provides LCO-‐I pre 1995 index by series.
LRG and LCO together for the First Time Allows customers to draw deeper connec:ons with content from Gale’s LRG and LCO collec:ons providing rich context to substan:ate deeper literary analysis
Ar,cle Level Access
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Other ar:cles in view allows users to navigate across the two page spread. Entry table of contents provides greater context and
highlights the editorial cura:on of the entry
Generate source
cita:ons at the ar:cle
level
Light blue shading draws users’ a_en:on to the
ar:cle that is most relevant to their search
Hit term highligh:ng
showcases where your search terms appear on the page
Term Cluster – Textual Analysis Tools
Term Clusters: ! Discover key topics
and themes in the literature you are reading, studying, analyzing
! Visual representa:on of interconnected themes
Term Frequency – Textual Analysis Tools
Term Frequency: ! Graph search
results to see trends over :me for one or more terms
! Helpful when examining literary themes and topics over :me
Instant Access & Examina,on of What’s Inside
What’s Inside: ! New volumes/:tles added to accounts instantly; upon invoice ! Lists the specific volumes/:tles available in the library, as well as what literature resources are available ! Ability to isolate your search within a specific volume or all volumes of a lit crit :tle
Which Products will Benefit Romanian Institutions?
Archives Unbound
What are Digital Archives?
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- Fully-searchable facsimiles of historical documents, major world publications and niche collections
- Most Digital Archives come integrated with tools including Term Clusters and Term Frequency
- Most Digital Archives are indexed to make discovering material easier than ever
- Provides scholars and researchers with full access to extensive archive collections on their desktops
- Helps teachers and faculty to integrate rich, valuable primary sources into the classroom
- Can raise the prestige and research potential of a University or research library
Archives Unbound: Digital Archives for Romania
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A Publishing program to Digitise specialist
collections
Free index of all AU collections included with
every AU purchase
Smaller collections and limited functionality ensures
these products are as affordable as possible
Over 190 collections, with more being added
every month
A great way to build up a collection of digital
Primary Sources if you’ve never had one before
Archives Unbound: Digital Archives for Romania
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• Alexander III and the Policy of ‘Russification’ 1883-1886
• Economy and War in the Third Reich 1933-1944
• Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement
• Czechoslovakia from Liberation to Communist State
• East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy
• Allied Propaganda in World War II
• Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe
Archives Unbound: Digital Archives for Romania
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• German Anti-Semitic Propaganda 1909-1941
• Testaments to the Holocaust
• Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons
• Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration
• SAFEHAVEN reports on Nazi Looting of Occupied Countries
• Socialism and National Unity in Yugoslavia, 1945-63
Next Steps
Next Steps
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• Please come to the stand to discuss your existing teaching and research priorities, and how Cengage Learning products can help you fulfil them
• Collect literature, discuss collections and products and have a free trial if you want to investigate further
• Talk to us about demonstrating any of our products in person or remotely so that you and your colleagues can understand them in greater depth
• Suggest journals, publications or collections that you would like to see digitised or included in our aggregated collections.
• Come and say hello!
Any Ques:ons?