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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


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


-  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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Infotrac: Some Key func:onality – Term Clusters


Infotrac: Some Key func:onality – Using Documents


Infotrac: Some Key func:onality – User Accounts


Infotrac: Some Key func:onality – Infotrac Mobile

Interlink: Explode the poten:al of your resources


The Wikipedia Experience: The Infotrac Experience:

Interlink: Explode the poten:al of your resources


•  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.


Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)

What is GVRL?


-  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



Artemis Literary Sources

What is Artemis Literary Sources?


-  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


Archives Unbound

What are Digital Archives?


-  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


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



•  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



•  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


•  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?

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