Fu Jen Catholic Univ. – User Training

April 2005

Hyonjoo Yang

Electronic Product Manager

Gale, Thomson Learning Asia

Agenda

• Literature Resource Center with MLA

• Biography Resource Center

• Testing and Education Reference Center

• Q&A

• Demo

Literature Resource Center - Content

• Thomson Gale Literary Databases – Contemporary Authors Online

Biographies on more than 110,000 authors since 1900– Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Online

Nearly 600 biographies and more than 5,600 critical articles on 600 authors 

– Dictionary of Literary Biography OnlineNearly 10,000 biocritical essays on 7,000 authors

Literature Resource Center – Content

• Focus on more than  2,500 most-studied authors • 38,000 critical essays • 4,329 work overviews, plot summaries and explications • 285,000 full-text articles from  more than 260 literary journals  • Add 3,000 to 4,000 new authors each year • More than 5,000 links to authoritative related Web sites • More than 122,000 author biographies • 2,500 author portraits • Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring

10,000 definitions of literary terms

Literature Resource Center

• New content developing – Positioning at interdisciplinary– Provide wish list for Asian authors

MLA Int’l Bibliography – LRC Add On Module

• premiere tool for researchers in the humanities, particularly in literature, language, and linguistics

• More than 44,000 periodicals - more than 1.4 million bibliographic citations

• 1963 - present • International in scope - scholarship in English, French, Spanish,

German, Italian and other languages

• Benefits from LRC– Fulltext articles linked to LRC

Biography Resource Center

• Total biographies (without optional Marquis Who’s Who module) – Nearly 414,000 biographies– Covers 320,000+ different people

• Types of biographies – Narratives: 205,000+ – Thumbnails: 208,000+

• New/revised biographies – 100,000-140,000 new and revised added annually

Biography Resource Center

• Reference titles (without optional Marquis Who’s Who module) – 140+ total titles (842 total volumes)– 135+ Gale proprietary (836 total volumes)– 6 licensed

• All entries from licensed volumes are included. • Gale cannot update or change the content in the 6 licens

ed titles. – Reference content value = $125,000+

• 18,000+ Web site links• 24,000+ images

Biography Resource Center : 2003-2004 new content

• 2003– 97 published volumes– 162,000 new/updated biographies– Nearly 950 new bios written specifically for BioRC

• 2004– 63 published volumes– Nearly 91,000 new/updated biographies (including bios in

“World of” titles and American Eras volumes)– Nearly 580 new biographies, written specifically for BioRC

Biography Resource Center 2004 Enhancements

• New “Updates section added to biographies• More dynamic “Spotlight On” feature• Redesigned “Spotlight On Archive”• More descriptors – nationality and occupation – in

results lists• More targeted periodical results• Search by reference sources

Testing and Education Resource Center

• Publications and Value in TERC : 81 titles = $1,995

Value of College Search : 4 titles = $112

Value of Graduate Search : 10 titles = $357

Value of Specialty & Career Program Search : 18 titles = $542

Value of Test Preparation : 49 titles = $984

• 62 Tests in TERC

High School Equivalency # of Test # of Handbook • General Educational Development (GED) battery 1 1 • Cooperative Entrance Exam (COOP) 1 1 • High School Placement Test (HSPT) 1 1 • Independent School Entrance Examination (ISEE) 1 2 • New York City Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) 1 0 • Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT) 1 2

State Assessments • Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) 2 0 • Texas Assessment of Know ledge and Skills (TAKS) 2 0

College Entrance • PSAT 1 1 • ACT Assessment® 1 2 • SAT 1 1 • SAT II 10 7

College Credit • Advanced Placement (AP) 9 5 • College Level Examination Program (CLEP) 25 1 • Dantes Subject Standardized Test (DSST) 0 1 • Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) 1 2

Graduate Entrance • Graduate Record Examination (GRE CAT) 1 2 • Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT CAT) 1 2 • Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) 1 1 • Miller Analogies Test (MAT) 1 0 • Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) 1 2Nursing • NCLEX-PN 0 1

Civil Service and Licensing • Civil Service Exams 0 3 • Law Enforcement Exams 0 1 • State Trooper Exam 0 1 • Firefighter Exams 0 1 • EMT Exams 0 1 • Clerical Exams 0 1 • Postal Exams 0 1 • Praxis I 1 2 • American Foreign Service Officer Exam 0 1 • U.S. Citizenship Test 1 1

Military Entrance and Career Placement • Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) 1 1 • Off icer Candidate Tests 0 1 • Military Flight Aptitude Tests 0 1 • Air Force Officer Qualifying Test 1 2

New Tests in 2005ComingTOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) MiscellaneousSAT 2005 Updates Academic EntranceAP Physics B/C Academic EntranceCLEP Spanish Academic EntranceCorrections Officer Civil ServiceCourt/Senior Court Officer Civil ServicePostal Worker 460/470 Civil ServiceProbation Officer (Junior/Senior) Civil ServiceFirefighter Civil ServiceAmerican Foreign Service Officer Civil ServiceCivil Service Caseworker Civil ServicePolice Civil ServicePolice Promotion Civil ServiceState Trooper Civil ServiceSAT 2005 - NEW Academic EntranceTAKS (exit level high stakes exam for Texas) – Social Studies &ELA

Academic High Stakes

ACT version – NEW Academic EntranceTOEFL (correction for IE v6 Browser) VocationalASVAB (correction for IE v6 Browser) VocationalReal Estate AMP VocationalReal Estate Appraisal VocationalReal Estate ASI VocationalReal Estate PSI Vocational

Q&A - DemoAccess to DB

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