Gale Virtual Reference Library provides access to over 7,000 full-text reference titles across 18 subject areas. It offers an engaging user experience with features like two-page viewing, page flipping, and cross-searching across reference collections. The content covers all academic levels and disciplines, including titles from publishers like ABC-CLIO, Dorling Kindersley, Elsevier, and SAGE. It supports 21st century learning skills by allowing unlimited, simultaneous access to authoritative sources from any location.

1. Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Gale Virtual Reference Library is your Support 21st century learning
single source for eReference aimed High School Student: “…the book covers catch my
at the needs of students, researchers, eye... It gives me hope—makes me feel like I am going
professionals and general readers. Now to find what I am looking for.”
you can offer more than 7,000 authoritative,
full-text titles—from Gale and a host of premier With its depth of features and content, Gale Virtual
publishing partners­ within 18 subject areas
— Reference Library is a digital cross-curricular resource
researchers study most. that supports information literacy and the development
of 21st century skills and reinforcing the critical
A vibrant engaging user experience difference between authoritative resources and
consumer-published content on the web.
User-focused navigation encourages researchers to
stay longer, search deeper and find what they need Outstanding Content
faster. Features and functionalities include:
High School Librarian: “I like the sidebar navigation
n Eye-catching book covers to engage users because it helps students make the choice of what
n View your eBooks on your iPad (subject) category they should be in.”
n An interactive online book experience with Gale Virtual Reference Library offers coverage of
two-page view and page flipper virtually every academic, scholarly and professional
n Cross-search and browse within your collection discipline, delivering titles for all kinds of research:
and across series n Children will enjoy full-color pages with exciting
n Search within volumes of multi-volume sets pictures, from Dorling Kindersley and others
n User interface available in 34 languages n Timely Greenhaven titles for K-12 and beyond
n ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology in n Scholars will access the best publications from
19 languages Sage, Macmillan, and Scribner
n 24/7 unlimited and simultaneous circulation of n ducators will learn from ISTE and ASCD
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your eReference collection professional development titles
n On-demand machine-aided content translations n Chose from our extensive World Culture,
into 14 languages Health and Literature references
Users can cross-search your GVRL eReference n Readers of all levels will value the ease-of-use
collection via Gale PowerSearch as well as other and consistent approach to research
Gale holdings including InfoTrac and specific
InContext resources.
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Two-Page View
Advanced Search
s Search by title, subject, keyword, image caption, publisher,
author, full-text, publication name, ISBN and starting page.
Wide-ranging Research Publishing Partners
Academic Librarian: “(GVRL) has the look and Gale Virtual Reference Library offers you
Trial functionality people will respond to—students will thousands of full-text proprietary titles from
the New love it…gives a whole new perspective to eBooks Gale and more than 80 strategic publishing
partners. eReference titles are available from:
and reference.”
Gale Virtual n ABC-CLIO
Gale offers students, researchers and professionals
Reference Library a wide variety of full-text interdisciplinary content n ASCD
Today! on virtually any subject area to tackle their n Berkshire Publishing Group
assignments, papers, projects and presentations. n CQ Press
This depth of choice from one resource encourages
users to investigate all eReference titles in your n Dorling Kindersley
collection, to target the exact content they need. n Elsevier Inc.
n Encyclopaedia Brittannica
n Facts On File
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Smart Phone to signup for n Greenhaven Press
a free GVRL product trial. n Greenwood Publishing
“In a time of ‘Go digital or
n Grey House Publishing
go home,’ Gale Virtual Reference n IGI Global
Library (GVRL) is the perfect n John Wiley Sons Inc.
product for accomplishing just this n Kogan Page
in the reference environment. n Marshall Cavendish
n Omnigraphics
This versatile product allows an n Peterson’s
unlimited number of patrons to n ReferencePoint Press
Rourke Publishing
search reference works by keyword n
n SAGE Publications
in seconds, anyplace, anytime” n Salem Press
­— Library Journal – February 2012 n And more
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