Business & Company Resource Center Gale’s Premium Business Database

What’s in BCRC? 440,000 company profiles from a wide array of Gale business directory titles American Wholesalers & Distributors, Brands & Their Companies, Consultants & Consulting Organizations, Graham & Whiteside Major Companies of the World Series; Publishers Directory, Telecommunications Directory, and Ward’s 10,000+ company histories from International Directory of Company Histories and Notable Corporate Chronologies 2M Investment Reports from Reuters Research on Demand (formerly Multex) Financials Dashboard from FinancialContent.com »Including detailed quotes, charting, historical stock prices, company press releases, conference calls, podcasts, SEC reports, and views into world markets, industries, currencies, bank rates, treasury rates, and more Rankings from Market Share Reporter and Business Rankings Annual 365,000 products from over 80,000 companies from Gale’s Brand’s & Their Companies

What’s in BCRC? (con’d) Industry Overviews from Gale’s Encyclopedia of American Industries, Encyclopedia of Global Industries and Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries Market Research from Datamonitor Business associations listings from Gale’s Encyclopedia of Associations More than 4,750 journals/magazines/news outlets –Of which 3,396 are fulltext (over 2,100 active fulltext with no embargo) –Includes 825 peer-reviewed journals –Only 154 embargoed titles (3%)

Content Updating Frequency Company profiles – Daily News/magazines – Daily Company Histories and Chronologies – 8x a year Investment Reports – Daily Financials Dashboard – Daily »Including detailed quotes, charting, historical stock prices, company press releases, conference calls, podcasts, SEC reports, and views into world markets, industries, currencies, bank rates, treasury rates, and more Rankings from Market Share Reporter and Business Rankings Annual – Twice annually Products/Brands from Gale’s Brands & their Companies/Companies & their Brands – Annual Industry Overviews from Gale’s Encyclopedia of American Industries, Encyclopedia of Global Industries and Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries – Quarterly Market Research from Datamonitor – Monthly Business associations listings from Gale’s Encyclopedia of Associations – Daily

5 Home Page TYPE of search

Company Search Search for a company, or its products/brands All fields can be combined in any combination

Industry Search Search for specific industry data Fully supported NAICS / SIC code searching Use Browse feature to teach users about industry classifications

Articles Search Search for a specific journal/magazine/n ews article Limit by publication name, full-text, peer-reviewed, news or magazines, date

Advanced Search Search each data set individually Provides greatest unique number of access points

Tabular Search Results Results are organized by tabs: Company Profile News/Magazines Histories Investment Reports Financials Rankings Suits or Claims Products Industry Overview Associations

Financial Dashboard

SEC Filings View provides access to company financials like balance sheets and cash flow statements, plus insider trading activity

Fundamentals Analysis Located under the "Financials" tab in BCRC, the new Fundamentals Analysis Tool allows users to: Compare a company's financials (choose from Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Ratios Reports) to prior periods Review annual or interim financial information - looking back up to 6 years or 5 interim periods Compare a company's financials to their competitors – or choose specific companies to compare Export the data to Excel to analyze it further

17 S.W.O.T. analyses

Investment Reports Activated by clicking on “Investment Reports” in the tabbed results list. Provides 2 million investment reports from 72 sources in PDF format Provided by Reuters Research on Demand (formerly Multex) 3-year rolling backfile (Mostly) No Embargo!

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22 Gale’s “In Context” Line of Products

Presentation title (Edit in View > Header and Footer)23 Biography in Context – in a Nutshell Biography in Context (BIC) delivers outstanding research support with: More than 654,000 biographical entries on more than 380,000 people From all countries and regions, covering all time periods From all areas of study, including science and technology, arts and entertainment, literature, sports, history, popular culture, politics, and more More than 725 portal pages on the most notable figures Featured individuals include Barack Obama, Hu Jintao, Steve Jobs, Aung San Suu Kyi, Leonardo da Vinci, Lady Gaga, and many more. More than 15.6 million full-text articles from more than 350 periodicals and newspapers More than 160,000 videos, 88,000 images, and 95,000 audio files. Links to more than 12,000 vetted websites New entries added and existing entries updated continually!

Biography in Context – Based on Reliable Sources –Biography in Context (BIC)’s biographies are based on: –More than 82 biographical reference titles published by Gale, including: Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2 nd ed., 30 vols. Contemporary Authors, 300+ vols. (incorporating CA New Revision Series) Contemporary Musicians, 70+ vols. Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, 110+ vols. Newsmakers, 20+ vols. International Directory of Business Biographies, 4 vols. And many more! –Plus biographical entries selected from an additional 94 titles. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia Encyclopedia of Modern China Encyclopedia of Philosophy Contemporary Fashion And many more! Presentation title (Edit in View > Header and Footer)24

Biography in Context – Home Page Presentation title (Edit in View > Header and Footer)25 Search Box Portals Pages by major groups – max 3 per group Featured People with links to portal pages Featured Video Featured News articles

Biography in Context – Portal Page for Notable People Presentation title (Edit in View > Header and Footer)26 Overview Featured Content Video Images Audio Reference Magazines News Academic Journals

Biography in Context – Search Assist Presentation title (Edit in View > Header and Footer)27 Automatically shows names within the database Can Search by: - Name - Occupation - Nationality - Birth Place - Death Place Can Search by: - Name - Occupation - Nationality - Birth Place - Death Place

Biography in Context – Person Search Presentation title (Edit in View > Header and Footer)28 Can Search by: - Name - Birth Place - Death Place - Occupation - Nationality - Ethnicity - Gender - Birth Year - Death Year Can Search by: - Name - Birth Place - Death Place - Occupation - Nationality - Ethnicity - Gender - Birth Year - Death Year

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Welcome to Cengage Learning Delivering Results Through Engagement

Cengage Learning is a leading provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide. The company’s products and services are designed to foster academic excellence and professional development, increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes.

CENGAGE Learning -- at a glance HQ: Stamford, Connecticut Number of Employees: 5,600 Location: 42 countries Formerly called: Thomson Learning July 2007 separated from the Thomson Corporation Sept 2007 changed its name to CENGAGE Learning (Coined from the phrase “Center of Engagement”)  Library Reference (Gale)  ELT  Academic & Professional Group Today’s presentation is on products from the Library Reference division

Gale (Library Reference) HQ in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA One of the foremost library reference publishers Has many well-established imprints, including: Gale Charles Scribner’s Sons Macmillan Reference USA UXL Publishing formats include: Print library reference such as thematic encyclopedias, annual directories, literary biographies/criticisms, etc. eBook versions of print publications and an eBook platform Aggregated Journal databases Subject Portals and Databases combining various content together Microform collections and serials Digital Archives of primary source material

Product Types: What Are They?

36 Winner of 23% of all major reference awards since 1998 Dartmouth Medals ALA Outstanding Reference Source Library Journal Best Reference Source CILIP/Nielsen BookData Reference Awards (e.g. Early Printed Book) References: Encyclopedias & Directories

37 Display results by article E-books: Gale Virtual Reference Library

Digital Archives: Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Databases: Business & Company Resource Center, Literature Resource Center

Portals: GREENR, World History in Context

Literature Resource Center Gale Cengage Learning Literature Resource Center

42 What is the Literature Resource Center? An online database of Secondary Material on literature Critical biographies of authors, bibliographies of works Literary reviews, critical writings, topical essays Explanations of notable works, themes, characters Links to related websites, author interviews, etc. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature MLA International Bibliography (optional)

43 Critical Biographies Taken from flagship Gale series such as CA or DLB 127,000 people, 140,000 articles International coverage – not just UK and US Not just novelists/poets – nonfiction writers, journalists, essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers, politicians, celebrities – anyone who has written a notable work is covered From ancient times to active contemporary writers Bibliography of works, major studies New works, awards, deaths updated continually

44 Criticisms, Reviews, Journal Articles More than 650,000 fulltext articles from 440 journals 70,000 Critical writings from Gale’s Literary Criticism Series (CLC, NCLC, NCLC, CMLC, etc.) Other topical essays about literary movements, trends, important events, etc.

45 Work/Character overviews Plot summaries, analyses and commentary on famous works most studied in classrooms Analyses of major characters More than 7,000 of these

46 Multimedia Links to audio files of National Public Radio programs –All Things Considered, Weekend All Things Considered, Day to Day, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Full transcripts of the same (usually not free!) Websites, Pictures Primary Sources / Literary Works Interviews with contemporary authors (from CA) Short stories & poems (mainly from literary magazines)

New content added in 2010  More than 4,100 new and updated biographies – from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.  More than 3,200 selected, reprinted critical essays – from books, journals and other sources, from various Gale Literature Criticism series.  Current journals – new content from nearly 450 full-text journals flows into the product continually, as soon as it is released by the publishers.  More than 90 new full text journals – 76 of them peer- reviewed, were added in 2010, including: The AnaChronist (Hungary) Babel (Australia) Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura (U.S.A.) Dalhousie Review (Canada) East-West Connections (U.S.A.) English in Africa (S. Africa) Fu Jen Studies: Literature & Linguistics (China) Lenguaje (Colombia) Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (S. Africa) Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (Germany)  Continuous updating of existing biographical information

48 Literature Resources from Gale: Easy-to- Use Interface Search Results organized into tabs by type of material Literature Criticism Biographies Topic & Work Overviews Reviews & News Primary Sources & Literary Works Multimedia MLA Int‘l Bibliography (Subscribers only)

The MLA International Bibliography Literary research starts here: The MLA International Bibliography

50 What is the MLA International Bibliography? –Authoritative index of articles, books, and other materials on literature, linguistics and folklore –The best place to begin your research on a topic –Edited by the MLA （ Modern Language Association) –190 milliion entries, 66,000 added every year Coverage: 1926-present (Some journal articles go back to the 1880’s) Geographical coverage: no restriction Language: no restriction Indexes non-print materials such as video and audio publications as well Updated 10 times a year –Used to be published in print format –Can be searched simultaneously in the same interface as LRC!

51 MLA Directory of Periodicals (part of MLA Int’l Bibliography) –Directory of 4,400 periodicals on literature, linguistics & folklore –Lists addresses, contacts, publication frequency, descriptions, circulation, prices, advertising information, peer review, and submission guidelines. –Can be linked from an article entry in the bibliography Possible links from MLA to your library’s fulltext Fulltext in Literature Resource Center (subscribers) Fulltext in JSTOR (subscribers) Fulltext from publisher’s e-journal (subscribers – DOI-compliant publishers only) Open URL linking (requires link solver) MLA Citation DOI Open URL

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Presentation title (Edit in View > Header and Footer)53 World History in Context – in a Nutshell World History in Context (WHIC) delivers outstanding research support with: More than 255,000 reference articles, including 60,000 topic overviews and 63,300 biographies, on all countries and regions, covering all time periods More than 245 portal pages on the most notable events, topics and people Featured topics include Renaissance, Victorian Era, French Revolution, World War II, Israeli-Arab Conflict, Globalization, Islam, Industrial Revolution, Ancient Egypt, Mayas, United Nations, and more. More than 12 million full-text articles from more than 440periodicals and newspapers Thousands of primary documents from our microfilm collections and other archival sources. More than 5,800 videos, 33,000 images, and 81,000 audio files. Links to more than 12,000 vetted websites New entries added and existing entries updated continually!

World History in Context – Based on Reliable Sources –World History in Context (BIC)’s biographies are based on: –More than 138 reference titles published by Gale, including: Ancient Europe: 8000 B.C. to A.D Encyclopedia of Modern Asia Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World The Cold War: Gale Encyclopedia of World History Dictionary of the Middle Ages History of World Trade since 1450 The Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security Encyclopedia of Russian History And many more! Presentation title (Edit in View > Header and Footer)54

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