History Resource Center: U.S.

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History Resource Center U.S. History Resource
Center Modern World Contemporary Womens
Issues Biography Resource Center Whats
New SCELC Vendor Day March 2003 Peg Bessette,
Literature Product Manager
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History Resource Center U.S. History Resource
Center Modern World

• Gales first Resource Center Literature Resource
  Center (August 1998)
• innovative online resource
• History RCs further extended the breadth depth
  of electronic publishing with primary sources
• History Resource Center U.S. (June 2000)
• History Resource Center Modern World (June 2001)

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Gale Established Reference Publishing History

• Editorial history
• Unique primary source assets
• Proprietary content

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History Resource Center U.S. History Resource
Center Modern WorldContent from award-winning
publishing imprints

• Gale
• Charles Scribners Sons
• Macmillan Library Reference
• St. James Press
• Primary Source Microfilm

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Select Award-winning Content in Gale History
Resource Centers

• American Decades
• American Eras
• Civil Rights in America
• Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and
  History
• Encyclopedia of American Social History
• Encyclopedia of European Social History
• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
• Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War

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Gale Established Reference Publishing History

• Primary source document selections from Joseph
  Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana A Dictionary of
  Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to
  the Present Time , housed at the Huntington
  Library

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- not only military history, but social history
and gender history - this primary source refers
to two black women who served in France during
the first WW.
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History Resource Center U.S. History Resource
Center Modern World

• More than 30,000 biographies
• More than 3,000 images and maps
• 125 full-text history journals
• 2,600 original primary sources, and scholarly
  commentary (from collections such as Churchill at
  War, History of Women The Middle East from
  Rise of Islam
• Core, proprietary reference from Charles
  Scribners Sons, Macmillan Library Reference, St.
  James Press, and Gale
• 269,000 full text journal articles and reference
  entries

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Contemporary Womens Issues

• multidisciplinary, full-text database
• relevant content from mainstream periodicals,
  "gray" literature, and the alternative press
• focus on the critical issues and events that
  influence women's lives in more than 190
  countries
• English-language titles from East and West
  Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the
  Caribbean, North America and Europe
• often-overlooked and hard-to-find newsletters and
  NGO research reports to which most libraries do
  not subscribe
• ephemeral literature from leading research
  institutes and grass roots organizations that is
  rarely indexed or cataloged
• records are indexed by 17 categories, including
  subject, region, article type and publication
  type. Basic searching on the Internet is easy --
  using keywords, with options to search full-text,
  enhanced titles, author or book author. Advanced
  searching is done using convenient pull-down
  menus for selecting indexed terms

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• Thank you
• Let me know what else I can do for you
• Please contact me any time with
• feedback
• enhancement ideas
• questions
• Peg Bessette, Literature Product Manager
• peg.bessette_at_gale.com
• 1-800-347-4253, ext. 1005