Lund Online 2011 – Products & Platforms Gale NewsVault Unlock the wealth of history Monique Schutterop

Platforms Remember PowerSearch 2.0? Cross search Gale periodical databases, most resource centers and e-reference books - GVRL. With features such as:  The ability to create named user accounts  Web 2.0 sharing tools  Read Speaker technology  Downloadable audio versions of articles in MP3 format, etc.  Customizable startpage to display information important to your users

Remember – GVRL? A collection of encyclopedias and specialised reference sources for multidisciplinary research Reference works from over 50 publishers Allowing:  Research/Reference books online  No readers, no check-outs, no barriers  Unlimited usage, downloads and prints  Full flexibility with your collection – make your own collection  Customer owns the content forever  Different publishers, cross-searchable  Easy access for all sorts of users

Remember Academic OneFile? Database of academic journals Multidisciplinary (Humanities, Business, Art, Technology, Social Sciences, Medicine, Law, Natural Sciences)  Collection of 13,000 academic journals  8,000 Peer Reviewed  4,500 Full Text  3,500 Active (current), Full-text titles  Full-text of the New York Times from 1995, London Times to 1985  Full NPR archive with audio and transcripts  Largest collection of active full-text journals with no embargo

What is Gale NewsVault? A platform and single access point for exploring Gale’s collections of historical newspapers Cross-search over 10 million pages of newspapers More than 400 years of content Available for free with one NP archive.

Each Gale newspaper collection has its own standalone site…

…but Gale NewsVault provides a universal interface to search all Gale newspaper collections simultaneously

What collections are in Gale NewsVault? Burney Collection 19 th Century British Library Newspapers 19 th Century UK Periodicals 19 th Century US Newspapers Times Digital Archive Financial Times Historical Archive Illustrated London News Historical Archive Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive The Economist Historical Archive Picture Post Historical Archive ….and all future newspaper collections will be added

The Power of Cross-Searching

Case study: The “sea serpent mania” of the 19 th century Maryland Gazette and Political Intelligencer Thursday, August 28, th Century U.S. Newspapers A keyword search for ‘sea serpent’ returns over 1500 hits from 7 collections An unexpected pattern emerges…a wave of sightings suddenly erupts in the 19 th century First appearance of the ‘sea serpent’ is in America in 1817

Liverpool Mercury Friday, November 14, 1817 British Library Newspapers News of the “great sea serpent” travelled worldwide The Times Friday, Jul 09, 1819 Times Digital Archive

Sightings occurred periodically throughout the century… Illustrated London News Saturday, October 28, 1848 Illustrated London News Historical Archive Punch Saturday, November 27, th Century UK Periodicals: New Readerships

…and the beast was still a discussion point in the early 20 th century The Times Literary Supplement Thursday, January 08, 1931 TLS Historical Archive

But perhaps it was all just a hoax? The Times Thursday, Jun 08, 1961 Times Digital Archive

Features

Home Page Basic Searching: Full text of all documents Keyword searching Date searching

Results Page Sort your results by relevance Drill-down with limiters Refine with date boundaries Consolidated results from all searched collections

Article Display Advanced image viewer Grab, pan and zoom images View images in full screen Save, print and articles

Powerful Navigation Options Read a week of news: one-click access to previous/next issues Cross-browse – jump to other newspapers on the same day Swift navigation through every issue

Browse by Location From the United States to New Zealand, and from Europe to India, explore the news of the world

Browse by Publication Title Search a list of more than 2000 newspapers, periodicals and magazines

Conclusion Powerful cross-searching experience Intuitive interface for new and advanced users Endless research and teaching possibilities

Gale Digital Collections Where history lives online!