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Agenda

• What is Discover GALILEO?• What’s in Discover GALILEO?• Demonstration of Discover GALILEO• Coming Soon!• A Few Resources to Access Outside of Discover

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What is Discover GALILEO?

A search of GALILEO’sresources and digital collections

Discover GALILEO includesMagazine articles,scholarly journal articles, newspaper articles,reviews, and…

Primary source documents,encyclopedia entries,book chapters, images, videos, and more

Discover GALILEO also includes

Discover GALILEO also includes

For more details…

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Demonstration

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Coming Soon

A Discover GALILEO search boxthat you can put on

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A Few Caveats

• Multimedia– Britannica articles are included in Discover GALILEO,

but it may still be helpful to go to Britannica directly to see images, videos, editorially-selected websites, and features

– SIRS Discoverer includes images, maps, editorially-selected websites that don’t appear in Discover GALILEO

– See Images, Maps, and Flags in GALILEO High School Browse by Type or Pictures, Maps, and Flags in GALILEO Teen By Type

A Few Caveats

• Primary Sources– Annals of American History is not in Discover

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Primary Source Documents in High School Browse by Type or Primary Source Documents in Teen By Type

A Few Caveats

• Georgia resources– GeorgiaInfo is not in Discover GALILEO– See Georgia in Teen By Topic or

Georgia History and Culture in High School Browse by Subject

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